Adobe CS5.5 v5.5, Mac 65107916 User Manual

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65107916
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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 
What’s New
Top features
• Numerous productivity 
enhancements, including dual-
system sound support with merged 
clips and more intuitive keyboard-
driven editing  (Page 3)
•  More performance gains with the 
Mercury Playback Engine (Page 5)
•  Multiscreen delivery presets with 
Adobe Media Encoder (Page 5)
• Fast, efficient audio post-production 
workflows with Adobe Audition 
CS5.5 (Page 7)
• Streamlined workflow thanks to 
direct integration with Adobe 
Story*
 (Page 7)
•  Closed-captioning support (Page 8)
• Expanded native support for RED 
digital cinema workflows (Page 8)
•  Enhanced native support fo Canon 
XF video (Page 9)
• Timesaving collaboration and 
improved open workflows (Page 9)
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 offers the best file-based (tapeless) workflows in the industry, and 
Adobe continually extends and improves support for the latest formats. In this release, enhanced 
support for Canon XF media allows for simple direct access to clips right from the Media Browser. 
In post-production, true native support lets you get to work immediately—with absolutely no 
transcoding or rewrapping—retaining the original pristine quality of your footage throughout the 
editing workflow. Freely mix and match any formats and create high-quality editorial effects 
directly in the timeline, with hundreds of nonlinear editing features optimized for creative 
productivity. New support for importing closed-captioning data in 608 and 708 format offers 
flexibility when producing broadcast content, and enhanced metadata capabilities, such as 
improved Speech Analysis, help you find assets and speed up editing further.
New watch folders, customizable presets, and contextual menus in Adobe Media Encoder (a 
separate 64-bit application included with Adobe Premiere Pro) make it easier for you to output 
clips and edited sequences for delivery to the multiscreen environment. Encoding takes place in 
the background, so you can continue editing, and new audible alerts let you know when your 
encoding jobs are complete.
Tap into the audio post-production power offered in Adobe Audition CS5.5 software (available 
separately or as part of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium). Thanks to tightly 
integrated, roundtrip workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, you can use the robust tools in 
Audition to edit and sweeten your soundtracks. Seamless integration with other Production 
Premium components, along with enhanced interoperability with Apple Final Cut Pro, lets you put 
the powerful, flexible toolset in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 to use in any production pipeline.
With Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, you can:
Improve your editing workflow. Get more performance gains, thanks to the faster-than-ever 
native 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, which now supports more laptop and desktop 
computer GPUs. With industry-leading native file-based format support, you can begin editing 
virtually any video, image, or audio format as soon as you import it. True native format support lets 
you enjoy immediate, transcode-free import and render-free playback. And because you never 
have to transcode or rewrap your footage, you always work with the highest quality source 
material. Work smoothly with complex sequences at HD and film resolutions using an improved, 
highly efficient keyboard-driven workflow, and boost productivity with new dual-system sound 
support with merged clips and other timesaving features suggested by users. With intuitive editing 
tools and innovative metadata features such as newly enhanced Speech Analysis, you can edit 
even more efficiently.
Collaborate more effectively. Bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to your project and work 
in an open, extensible post-production environment. Improved roundtrip editing capabilities with 
Apple Final Cut Pro extend the easy project and content exchange with other Adobe software and 
Avid editing software, making it easier to collaborate on projects in multitool post-production 
pipelines. Develop scripts collaboratively using Adobe Story*
, and now import them straight into 
Adobe Premiere Pro, without having to first send them to OnLocation. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 
introduced integration with CS Review*
,  another CS Live online service, making it easier for clients 
and teammates to review and make frame-accurate comments on works in progress. Combine this 
helpful service with roundtrip workflows to bring in Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid NLE sequences to 
simplify the process of gathering client and team feedback on works in progress.
Deliver your finished media practically anywhere. Produce video optimized for distribution to 
practically any video or device format. Save time by using the redesigned interface, new presets, 
intuitive context menus, and dramatically improved watch folder support in Adobe Media Encoder 
to batch encode your project to multiple delivery formats, quickly,  simply, and in the background.
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