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OLD ARTICLE:
Since Adobe announced the new version of it’s products…
here in Krama post we’re kinda anxious of laying our hands on these sweats!

Pretty obvious you say! Well yeah cause Adobe implements several new features along with some major bug (?) fixes.

Lets talk about the new Premiere Pro CS4.

The major advantage in my opinion is the batch export or batch encoding as Adobe states (hope that we can batch export several timelines to avi not only mpg,wmv,etc). Although Premiere versions prior PRO had this feature, for a mysterious reason (only Adobe knows why) Premiere PRO versions didn’t allow to export several timelines in batch. At last we can.

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Another advantage is the full support of x64 WinXP & Vista 64. At last the barrier of 3Gb RAM is surpassed since Microsoft launched the x64 WinXp & Vista, but Premiere CS3 sometimes work sometimes don’t. Patience all you x64 enthusiasts…October 2008 is your lucky month!

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Now let’s go deeper.

Premiere CS4 implements some great new features such as:

Speech Search, where you can turn spoken dialogue into text-based, timecode-accurate, searchable metadata. The User can search for keywords within the dialogue, and then use keywords to quickly locate and display what he’s looking for ? or even cut video based on the script.

Tapeless camera support, where you can edit video natively in the latest tapeless formats, including AVCHD, P2, XDCAM EX, and XDCAM HD, without transcoding or rewrapping. The user can browse the drives and removable media from inside Adobe Premiere Pro to find, log, and import footage.

BluRay authoring support with the new version of Encore, redesigned Adobe OnLocation CS4, and more.

Both Windows and MacOS version will be available.

Below are the system requirements:

Windows

• 2GHz or faster processor for DV; 3.4GHz for HDV; dual 2.8GHz for HD
• Microsoft? Windows? XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista? Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista)
• 2GB of RAM
• 10GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,280×900 display with OpenGL 2.0?compatible graphics card
• Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
• For SD/HD workflows, an Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape
• OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
• DVD-ROM drive (DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation)
• Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray disc creation
• Microsoft Windows Driver Model? or ASIO-compatible sound card
• QuickTime 7.4.5 software required to use QuickTime features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services?

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel? processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11?10.5.4
• 2GB of RAM
• 10GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional hard-disk space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,280×900 display with OpenGL 2.0?compatible graphics card
• Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
• DVD-ROM drive (SuperDrive for DVD burning)
• Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray disc creation
• Core Audio?compatible sound card
• QuickTime 7.4.5 software required to use QuickTime features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services

The product will be available on late October 2008 but Adobe accepts preorders

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UPDATE: —BUGS and ERRORS in Premiere CS4

There are some serious bugs in the new CS4 suite.

WinXP x64 doesn’t officially supported (as I wrote in previous article) although the software runs (but crashes unexpectedly sometimes) – and the GPU acceleration doesn’t work because MicroSoft hasn’t implemented OpenGL2.0 in WinXP x64 (why?)

Another thing I have noticed is that the trial version (as stated by Adobe) don’t support mpg and avchd codecs but these are fully supported in the standard version.

Also there have been reports of bugs concerning the 4.01 patch. These say that if you install the patch you won’t hear the audio track (if it is AC3 compressed) in MPG files. I was curious about that so I tried myself and … yes it’s true. I couldn’t listen to the audio in my mpg compressed audio (AC3) footage. Some other bugs have been reported.

There are several errors and bugs in Media Encoder.

There is a major disadvantage of Premiere CS4 against previous versions…the lack of exporting to frame (where is it?)

You can read more about errors and bugs at the official Adobe CS4 forum, visit http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6da6f/

CONCLUSION
The Production Suite CS4 is a marvellous software to work with (lots of new features that REALLY make your editing life easier) but most of the time it crashes and then it crashes again. Seems to me that Premiere is a nice amateur tool that works well for a 30 sec edit and not for a 1 hour feature video.

As a 18-year of editing professionalism, I came to the conclusion that this is not what I want for my work. I won’t tolerate any deadline delays because of an expensive, full of bugs software like Premiere CS4.

Thank God, After Effects and Photoshop seems much more stabilized and lesser buggy than Premiere but what the heck, you pay a lot of money to throw them into the trash can, don’t you agree?

(We are currently leave our Premiere Pro 2 in place and won’t update until these major issues will be fixed or maybe we’ll switch to FCP soon)

Post your comments about this article and/or about Premiere CS4 and other products.

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