What is Adobe Premiere 4.2.1 + Dynamic Effects Vol 1?

The tiny version-number increment implies that Adobe Premiere 4.2 includes only a few tweaks, but for Premiere addicts in general, and CD-ROM producers in particular, the enhancements are significant.

Premiere 4.2 sports over a dozen minor, but welcome, interface additions: a new tool that lets you change a clip's playback speed by stretching the clip in the Construction window; an audio-dissolve tool that creates cross-fades between two clips; and new keyboard shortcuts for marking in- and out-points, inserting transitions, halting video captures, and more.

You can now organize the Transitions window, removing transitions you don't use and creating and switching between sets of transitions for different projects. New audio filters provide panning, left/right channel swapping, and enhanced downsampling. While these filters provide basic audio functions, the application continues to lack more-advanced audio tools, such as compression and equalization... New motion-control settings let you create smoother motion paths when animating clips. An added frame-blending feature yields ultrasmooth slow-motion effects.

CD-ROM producers will be most excited by Premiere’s new CD-ROM Movie Maker, a plug-in that eliminates grappling with Apple's funky MovieShop utility. CD-ROM Movie Maker provides all the basics — the ability to specify a data rate, to crop and scale movies, and to batch-compress a collection of movies — and adds several extremely useful features. A noise filter cleans up video to improve compression. You can also create an optimized color palette for use on 256-color systems.

CD-ROM Movie Maker also provides superb control over keyframes. Besides being able to create keyframes at regular intervals — something all compression utilities support — CD-ROM Movie Maker lets you specify that keyframes be generated at edit points or at markers defined in Premiere’s Construction window.

While there's a lot of good news in this upgrade, Premiere's basic operating style — having to compile previews and transitions, for example — still makes it unsuitable for time-pressured broadcast pros. Unless you use Premiere with dedicated hardware that provides transition acceleration, you'll wait each time you view the results of an edit.

The Last Word Even if you don’t make movies for CD-ROMs, there’s a lot to like in this upgrade. Video pros are likely to prefer the dedicated editors that accompany highend hardware, but Premiere remains the best general-purpose, QuickTime-based video-editing package available.

Heid, Jim. (March 1996). Adobe Premiere 4.2. Macworld. (pg. 90).

Download Adobe Premiere 4.2.1 + Dynamic Effects Vol 1 for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K (68020 CPU or newer) and PPC

System 7.x - Mac OS 9.2.2

At least 4MB of free RAM

QuickTime 2.0 + Multimedia Tuner extension (or 2.1 without it) or newer (v2.1 is included)

 

 

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