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Software Review: Adobe Production
Studio Premium
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If you decide you'd like to use some stylized animation in a dream sequence or in the opening title montage, you can kick out frame captures from your footage into Illustrator and then use the new LiveTrace feature. This allows you to simply have Illustrator create a stylized Tracery of a rasterized image of your footage and this tracery can then be batch-applied to video clips with the related footage via Adobe Bridge. This makes cool vector-based tricks and pseudo-iTunes effects a very real ability for low budget filmmakers.

Later, you may run into some shots that have inappropriate backgrounds for your film. As such, you can kick some stills out to Photoshop, edit in some more desirable looking backgrounds, and then, by combining them with the newly improved Track Matting in Premiere Pro, you'll be able to much more easily rotoscope out those unwanted backgrounds and buildings in your master shots.

Finally, once you're done editing your film, you can export out a .Flash version of your film for your website using the Dynamic Link, create a rather nice DVD right in Premiere Pro, or export out an .AVI to Encore for a professional quality DVD. Encore will also allow you to use the Dynamic Link, this time to create cool backgrounds from After Effects for your new DVD. All of this adds up to a very simple, very easy to use workflow.

To simplify things even more, they include a few hours of DVD-based training from the Total Training people, which really helps you get up to speed quickly. (To read our review of the complete Total Training solution for Premiere Pro 2, click here.)

Depth of Options
The amount of options in these programs is vast, so I'm going to keep this segment related to the newest features that each program is offering, otherwise this review will be 976 pages long!

Premiere Pro 2
The primary improvements in Premiere Pro 2, outside of the redesigned layout that is shared by all of the core four program, rotate around the ability to edit HDV footage (as well as AJA streamed HD-SDI and SD-SDI footage), the ability to color correct more accurately with 7 additional color correctors and up to 32-bit color depth available, and multi-cam support for up to four cameras for live events.

Additionally, the program has much better track matting for special effects, the Dynamic Link which allows After Effects projects to be used in Premiere Pro, and an improved ability to record ADR audio into the program without having reverb. Additionally, the program has a new audio option called "Source Channel Mapping" which is very cool. It allows you to map Stereo and 5.1 audio files into separate mono files that can each be individually edited on your timeline. This makes touching up dialogue and mixing-in wild sound much easier.

Finally, if you have an editor that lives too far away working on your film, then the new Clip Notes feature will be a total life saver. This allows the creation of a video-embedded Acrobat file with a special note pad attached. Whenever you pause the embedded video, the notepad notes the time-code along with any changes you request. When the Acrobat file is emailed back and imported back into Premiere Pro 2, all the comments and changes are posted on the timeline at the appropriate spots as clip notes, to make it a breeze for your editor to go right back through and change things.


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