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Premiere Pro CS5

Macworld Rating

4.0 out of 5 Mice, May 5, 2010
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Pros

  • Ultra keying effect.
  • Improved speech-to-text.
  • Improved performance and stability.
  • Native support of popular formats.
  • GPU accelerated effects.
  • 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder.
  • New Adobe Story.

Cons

  • 2 GPUs qualified for hardware acceleration.
  • Encore not 64-bit.
  • Transcriptions difficult to edit.
  • No playback frame rate display.
  • High-end system needed for best performance.

Software Details

  • Adobe
  • 05.30.10
  • OS X 10.5.7 or 10.6.3 (Snow Leopard required for GPU-acceleration)
  • Intel
  • $799; upgrade, $299

Macworld's Premiere Pro CS5 Coverage

  • Premiere Pro CS5 Here's Macworld's review of Premiere Pro CS5.
  • Creative Suite 6 or Creative Cloud: Which one is best for you? Adobe sees the Creative Cloud as Creative Suite 6 with benefits. It will include new products and services, new features as they become available, and help in defining effective workflows.
  • Adobe Creative Suite's Lion limitations Adobe has published a series of tech notes on Creative Suite's compatibility issues with Apple's Lion.
  • Sorenson Media releases Squeeze 7 Sorenson Squeeze 7 features a trio key new functions: GPU acceleration, adaptive bitrate encoding, and new input and output formats.
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 starts shipping The massive overhaul to Adobe's collection of print, Web, and video applications announced earlier this month is available starting Friday, the software maker announced.
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