Accelerate production with the all new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine

Craft your story efficiently from script to editing through final delivery with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 software, the native 64-bit, high-performance video production solution that comes with Adobe OnLocation CS5 and Adobe Encore CS5 software.


Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is also available as a component of: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 sets a new standard in high-performance, responsive editing. Work dramatically faster thanks to the revolutionary native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine that provides rock-solid performance and stability so you can smoothly work at 4K and higher resolutions. Open projects quickly and refine multilayer, effects-rich sequences without rendering. Batch encode complex projects in the background while you continue your creative work.

Turn project plans into efficient productions using an integrated script-to-screen workflow. Start by developing your script in Adobe Story, a new Adobe CS Live online service that lets you collaboratively write scripts and create metadata-rich, production-ready assets with new efficiency. Script information is automatically transformed into relevant metadata to quickly produce shot lists in Adobe OnLocation CS5; rough cuts in Adobe Premiere Pro; and searchable, engaging experiences for the web. While youre on set, use OnLocation to calibrate, monitor, capture footage directly to disk, and-new in CS5-log footage from tapeless cameras. As you log, add metadata that increases productivity at every stage in the production process.

In post-production, get to work without delay thanks to native support for all the latest camera formats, such as RED, P2, XDCAM, AVC-Intra, and AVCHD, as well as Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras, and use innovative metadata capabilities such as enhanced Speech Search and Face Detection to find assets and speed up editing. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 lets you freely mix and match any format and create high-quality editorial effects directly in the timeline, with hundreds of nonlinear editing features optimized for creative productivity.

Tight integration with other Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Production Premium components such as Adobe After Effects CS5 and Adobe Flash CS5 Professional, along with enhanced interoperability with Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid editing software, lets you put the powerful, flexible toolset in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 to use in any production pipeline. To speed the creation of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, Adobe Dynamic Link gives you the ability to open Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 sequences directly in Adobe Encore CS5 without intermediate rendering. And with Encore you can turn your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects into searchable web DVDs, complete with motion menus, slide shows, and captions. Adobe Media Encoder, now with an enhanced user interface, makes delivering your video for broadcast, device, film, and mobile distribution efficient.

With Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, you can:

Improve your editing workflow. Edit HD as fluidly as SD, thanks to the revolutionary Mercury Playback Engine, which delivers native 64-bit operating system support, GPU acceleration, and other performance and stability enhancements. Capture and log footage from virtually any camera and save time with the industrys best native tapeless workflows, which eliminate transcoding and rewrapping, preserving the pristine quality of your footage. Boost productivity with timesaving features suggested by users. With intuitive editing tools and innovative new metadata features such as automatic face detection, you can edit even more efficiently.

Collaborate more effectively. Bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to you project and work in an open, extensible post-production environment, thanks to easy project and content exchange with other Adobe software, Apple Final Cut Pro, or Avid editing software. Develop scripts collaboratively with Adobe Story, a new CS Live online service. Manage your shoot and streamline logging by importing scripts from Adobe Story to capture metadata in Adobe OnLocation. Adobe Premiere Pro integrates with another CS Live online service, CS Review, which makes it easy for clients and teammates to review and comment on works in progress. You can upload your project from Adobe Premiere Pro, and then see your clients comments as markers right in your sequence. With another CS Live online service, Acrobat.com, you can share project data.

Deliver more engaging experiences practically anywhere. Create with confidence as you produce video optimized for distribution to practically any medium. Save time by using Adobe Media Encoder to deliver your video project in all of the major video formats in a single batch encoding operation. With Adobe Encore CS5, create a more engaging experience with web DVDs that automatically include a search interface. The same metadata that speeds editing helps audiences discover your content online.

Who uses Adobe Premiere Pro?

Video and film editors and other post-production professionals use Adobe Premiere Pro to assemble compelling stories and other types of video content from live-action video footage, still and animated images, sound, and music. The types of projects they create range from short-form commercials and videos to long-form broadcast programming, sporting and event coverage, and corporate and feature films. Adobe Premiere Pro offers a comprehensive production toolset and an innovative script-to-screen workflow that speeds every stage of production. Timesaving integration with other essential Adobe software, including Production Premium components, as well as with other NLEs (Final Cut Pro and Avid editing software), brings the creative benefits of Adobe tools to every project.

Motion graphics designers and visual effects artists turn to Adobe Premiere Pro for video ingest and editing. These creative professionals will especially appreciate being able to work in real time on footage at HD and film resolutions, thanks to the Mercury Playback Engine and broad format support including high-quality 10-bit, 4:2:2 mastering and archiving codecs. Plus, tight integration between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro saves time: when used together as part of Production Premium, the now faster Dynamic Link makes it easy to send compositions to Adobe Premiere Pro sequences, where changes made in After Effects show up immediately in the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.

Top new features of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

Industry-leading performance with the Mercury Playback Engine

The ability to edit HD and higher resolution footage in real time without having to first render it or lower its resolution by transcoding or rewrapping it with an intermediate codec is a post-production dream come true. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 brings that dream to the desktop with the revolutionary Mercury Playback Engine.

The Mercury Playback Engine provides native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated support for Mac and Windows, yielding dramatic improvements in performance and stability. You can open projects faster, scrub through HD and higher resolution projects fluidly, and handle long-form content and effects-heavy sequences more reliably. Play through most common transitions and effects without waiting for rendering. Plus, you can usually see results instantly when performing tasks such as keying with the new Ultra keyer, applying Gaussian blurs and blend modes to footage, applying multiple color corrections, and working with numerous other effects. The Mercury Playback Engine also makes rendering for final output much faster than before.

The Mercury Playback Engine works hand in hand with NVIDIA CUDA technology that leverages the parallel compute engine in NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to solve many complex computational problems in a fraction of the time a CPU would take to perform the same task.

In addition, the Mercury Playback Engine takes multitasking to a new level. Utilizing the GPU to accelerate effects, rendering, and other processor-intensive tasks frees your systems CPUs to handle background tasks. The enhanced, native 64-bit system architecture in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 lets you use all available system RAM (up to 128GB in todays computers), so you can run multiple software applications at the same time. This opens the door to powerful timesaving, multitasking workflows. For example, you can simultaneously edit a very complex, effects-laden project in Adobe Premiere Pro while your systems CPUs render an elaborate After Effects composition in the background.

Expanded native tapeless workflows

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 builds upon the industrys best native tapeless workflow by offering new native format support for Sony XDCAM HD 50, Panasonic AVCCAM, DPX, and AVC-Intra. Native support for RED R3D files has been enhanced, and native support for video shot with Canon, Nikon, and other DSLR cameras added. These newly supported formats expand existing support for variants of Panasonic P2; Sony XDCAM, XDCAM EX, and XDCAM HD; HDV; and AVCHD.

When you work with tapeless media in Adobe Premiere Pro, you gain two key advantages. First, you save time, because with native support youre able to start working with footage immediately - sometimes directly from the camera - and thus eliminate the time-consuming transcoding and rewrapping process typically required when you use the same media in other NLEs. Second, you maintain the pristine image quality of your source footage throughout the production process. Native support also means that the metadata coming from the camera is retained.

Open workflows with Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid editing software

Whether working solo or in a workgroup thats involved in a large multistudio production, industry professionals typically use a variety of production and post-production tools on virtually every project. Moving media and sequences between tools in complex production pipelines often requires format conversion, specialized plug-ins, tedious workarounds, or a lot of manual work to recreate elements that dont transfer. The ability to share projects and assets between Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, as well as between Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid NLEs such as Media Composer, means you can share files and timelines without conversion or rendering, preserving commonly used effects and transition.

When Adobe Premiere Pro is installed as part of Production Premium, Final Cut Pro or Avid projects can be easily exchanged between Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut and between Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid editing software - making it easy to take advantage of other Production Premium components in your workflow.

Faster editing with metadata

Metadata plays an essential role in helping efficiently manage and locate media assets throughout the production process. It lets you automatically track crucial details such as where a clip was shot, whos in it, and whether you have the rights to use it in your project. Innovative new metadata features enable the new script-to-screen workflow in Adobe Premiere Pro, bringing new efficiencies to the editing and production process.

Metadata can be created automatically and supplemented manually at any stage of production. For example, at the start of your project, a script written with Adobe Story, a new CS Live online service, captures vital information and stores it as metadata that can be imported into OnLocation. While youre recording footage directly to disk, OnLocation automatically captures all of the important metadata coming from the camera. Comments you make in the OnLocation Shot List are also stored with each clip as metadata. When clips are imported into Adobe Premiere Pro and other components of CS5 Production Premium, metadata is retained in each application.

During post-production, metadata streamlines searching for clips while you edit. With metadata, you can quickly locate media assets and clips by filename, date, time, camera setting (such as resolution or frame rate), shot location, or any information youve added to your asset or clip. And when you run Speech Search in Adobe Premiere Pro, you can transcribe spoken dialogue that is converted into metadata, making locating particular footage simple.

Speech Search metadata. Speech Search is now more accurate, because you can now import reference scripts to assist the speech-to-text analysis process. If your production started with a written script that matches the spoken dialogue in your clips, you can use Speech Search to timecode-align the written script and spoken dialogue so they match exactly. Documentary filmmakers and others whose productions dont start with a written script can use reference scripts, manuals, text books, notes, or other written materials containing words and dialogue similar to the projects recorded content or manually created transcriptions of interview sound bites. In addition, multiple processor cores in your CPU accelerate the speech-to-text process, making it faster than before.

Best of all, by marking In and Out points in the speech analysis text and then using the Insert or Overlay button to cut the clip into the timeline, you can quickly create preliminary rough cuts - even without paying close attention to the contents details. Post-production professionals and anyone working in quick-turnaround operations, such as television news-gathering or same-day event video edits, can benefit from this time-saver.

Face Detection metadata. Save even more time with Face Detection - another content-analysis process you can run on clips in your project to quickly locate those with human faces in them. Because these clips are more likely to contain spoken dialogue, Face Detection eliminates the painstaking process of having to play through each clip in a project to find interview sound bites. (Face Detection should not be confused with facial recognition - that is, the ability to recognize a specific persons face within footage.)

New metadata templates in Adobe Media Encoder help ensure that only metadata that has been cleared for distribution gets included with your projects at final output. Finally, when your project is delivered online, the same metadata you used to edit the project more quickly makes it easier for your audience to find your content. And when you deliver your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects as web DVDs, metadata makes the web DVD content automatically searchable.

Cutting-edge storytelling with new Adobe Story (available separately)

Adobe Story, a new CS Live online service for scriptwriting, can help accelerate the process of turning screenplays into finished media. Available separately from Production Premium, the tight integration of Adobe Story with CS5 Production Premium extends the benefits of Adobe Story into broader parts of the production and post-production workflow.

As a screenwriting tool, Adobe Story enables you to craft your scripts from virtually anywhere in a safe offline or online writing environment. You and your colleagues can collaboratively co-write and edit scripts at any time and assign roles to various team members, such as read-only mode or review-only mode.

Adobe Story makes it easy to write and maintain your script in standard industry format, while also offering the option to import existing screenplays or sample scripts from Final Draft, Movie Magic Screenwriter, and Microsoft Word.Adobe Story offers a Project view to help you organize your work by displaying all of your scripts, character biographies, reference links, and free-form documents in one place, making it easy to manage several projects simultaneously. As you develop a script, Adobe Story keeps track of character names, locations, and more using the Smart Type feature.

When you find yourself inserting commonly used script elements, Smart Type automatically displays these common selections to help you populate content more efficiently. Elements used in the scripts formatting are captured as metadata to help streamline production and post-production.

Integration with CS Review

Clients, project managers, and members of production teams dont always work in the same location, in the same city, or even in the same country. CS Review, a new CS Live online service, provides a fast and simple way for teammates and clients to take part in reviewing video sequences, using just a web browser and easy-to-use annotation tools.

Thanks to its integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, unlike other services that offer online review of creative content, CS Review lets you publish a review to the web directly from within Adobe Premiere Pro. Encode sequences in the background and automatically upload them for review and collaboration. When comments are made by colleagues and clients viewing the content in a web browser, comments are dynamically captured and displayed directly in the new Review panel in Adobe Premiere Pro alongside the sequence they relate to. Jump directly to comments in the timeline to efficiently match feedback to specific elements and keep track of review comments in one location.

Efficient production and tapeless camera support in Adobe OnLocation CS5

Adobe OnLocation CS5 provides an impressive array of production tools to help you shoot better and faster while saving time and money, both on set and off. New support for tapeless cameras extend the ways you can use OnLocation in your production workflows.

Ultra keyer

Chroma keying has typically been a tedious, time-consuming process - one that Ultra, the powerful high-performance keyer now included in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 makes fast and painless. Normally, when shooting footage to be keyed, you must evenly light the background screen so it is a single, uniform shade of whatever color you are keying out of the scene. You must also take care to eliminate color spill - reflections of the background screen that “spill” back onto actors and other objects. When manually adjusting your keys, fine detail around the edges of objects - for example, hair - need to be carefully identified so they can be separated from the background in a believable manner. Using Ultra, you can achieve fast, accurate keying on even the most challenging DV and HD footage. The GPU-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine dramatically increases performance, usually resulting in real-time HD keying.

Designed to handle footage shot under real-world conditions that result in uneven lighting, wrinkled backgrounds, and frizzy hair - Ultra preserves shadows and can achieve complex keys on smoke, liquids, and transparent objects. Intuitive, easy-to-use controls make pulling accurate keys a breeze.

Streamlined encoding with revamped Adobe Media Encoder

With the explosive growth of video on the Internet, theres been a massive shift in how people consume video entertainment. Whether you produce instructional videos, trailers for your independently produced films, or music videos for viewing online or on iPods, distribute your work on YouTube, Vimeo, or Hulu, or output it to broadcast playout servers, being able to efficiently deliver your content in a variety of formats is crucial. Adobe Media Encoder, a separate, 64-bit software application included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, saves you time by streamlining the process of creating multiple encoded versions of your source files and Adobe Premiere Pro sequences. Adobe Media Encoder features a more intuitive user interface, providing more visual feedback to help you work faster. Save time with the new ability to start the encoding process directly from Adobe Premiere Pro without going to the batch list. Set up multiple items for batch encoding, manage priorities, and control advanced settings for each item individually. Batch encoding lets you use any combination of sequences and clips as sources and encode to a wide variety of video formats, including FLV, F4V, Windows Media, QuickTime, and other popular codecs such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, and - new in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 - AVC-Intra and DPX.

Searchable web DVDs and other enhancements in Adobe Encore CS5

Adobe Encore CS5 software is a versatile, interactive authoring tool for video distribution that allows you to deliver your projects beyond DVD and Blu-ray Disc. In a single operation, you can easily turn your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects into web DVDs that now include a search interface. The new interface gives viewers a more engaging experience by enabling them to search within a web DVD using keywords. During authoring, Encore automatically creates a search database using metadata from speech-analysis text, subtitles in timelines and slideshows, and menu and button names.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

Industry-leading performance with the all-new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine - Discover the native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated† Mercury Playback Engine that provides rock-solid performance and stability, at 4K resolution and beyond. Open projects rapidly, and create multilayer, effects-rich sequences without rendering.

Broad format support - Work with virtually any video, image, and audio format without transcoding or rewrapping thanks to native editing support for DV, HDV, RED, DPX, Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD 50, XDCAM EX and XDCAM HD, Panasonic P2, DVCPROHD, AVCHD, and AVC-Intra, plus Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras. Add uncompressed SD and HD acquisition with hardware cards from third-party vendors.

Efficient tools for creative editing - Create high-quality visual and editorial effects directly within the editing timeline. Edit faster with powerful editing tools that give you precise control and real-time feedback. Add color correction and other effects, audio filters, and more.

Script-to-screen workflow through integration with Adobe Story - Move from script to screen faster with Adobe Story, a new CS Live online service. Efficiently manage your shoot and streamline logging by importing scripts from Adobe Story to create complete shot lists and capture production notes in Adobe OnLocation. Use Speech Search to synchronize the script to footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and quickly produce rough cuts. With Adobe Encore, turn your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects into searchable web-DVDs, and use Adobe Media Encoder to deliver your video for broadcast, device, film, and mobile distribution.

Open workflows with Final Cut Pro, Avid editing software, and Digidesign Pro tools - Bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to the whole project, exploring new possibilities with Adobe After Effects and other Adobe software. Collaborate more efficiently by importing and exporting Final Cut Pro and Avid projects into Adobe Premiere Pro.

Unparalleled toolset integration - Work more efficiently from planning through delivery with the tightly integrated toolset in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Eliminate intermediate rendering when moving sequences into Encore, and easily hop between your edited sequence and After Effects. Paint, add text, and clone across multiple frames with new video features in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended.

Encoding and delivery for viewing everywhere - Reach audiences wherever they are, on whatever device they are watching video on. Batch encode in the background to a broad selection of web and video formats, and deliver DVDs, Blu-rays Discs, and interactive web-DVDs.

Direct-to-disk recording and on-set monitoring - Manage your shoot more efficiently with Adobe OnLocation CS5, included with Adobe Premiere Pro. Record directly to disk and maximize camera image quality. Organize shots using metadata imported from Adobe Story, a new Adobe CS Live online service, and logged during the shoot. When you import the project into Adobe Premiere Pro, metadata from Adobe OnLocation makes it easy to create a rough cut.

Efficient editing with metadata, from script to capture and delivery - Use metadata added to clips during preproduction, on set, and in the edit suite with Speech Search to easily find assets and edit faster. Export metadata to make your content more discoverable and to help unlock new revenue streams.

Native support for DSLR cameras  - Edit video from the latest DSLR cameras, such as Canon 5D Mark II and 7D; Nikon D90, D300s, and D3000; and others. New native support means you never waste valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping and always have access to the original files pristine quality.

Comprehensive production toolset - Extend your edit suite to preproduction and delivery. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 comes with Adobe OnLocation CS5 for on-set monitoring, logging, and direct-to-disk capture; Encore CS5 for authoring DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and web-DVDs; and Adobe Media Encoder for batch encoding video to virtually every format.


System Requirements

• Multicore Intel  processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance
• 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
• 10GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
• 1280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card
• Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance
• Core Audio-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services