Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 / Features

Easily stabilize a bumpy camera move or lock a shot automatically with the same powerful technology as in Adobe After Effects® software. The Warp Stabilizer removes jitter, rolling shutter artifacts, and other motion-related irregularities.

Edit up to 5K footage shot from RED EPIC™ cameras without transcoding or rewrapping, and access RED parameters directly from the enhanced Source Settings dialog box. Download the RED EPIC camera importer for native support in CS5.5.

Work natively with RED footage, with support for RED Rocket, Mysterium X™, and the latest Color Science and Firmware for RED ONE™ cameras. The Source Settings dialog box gives you full control over RED parameters and allows RMD files to be imported and exported.

Eliminate time-consuming transcoding and rewrapping and maximize quality thanks to native support for P2; XDCAM EX, HD, and HD50; JVC ProHD, AVCHD, and AVCCAM; DPX; and Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras as well as enhanced support for RED R3D, Canon XF, and more.

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Easily import and edit video shot with Nikon D90, D300s, and D3000 DSLR cameras. Native format support preserves the original file's pristine quality by eliminating transcoding and rewrapping, allowing you to start working immediately.

Preview Canon XF footage in the Media Browser panel and utilize camera metadata throughout your preproduction and post-production workflows. Spanned clips are displayed as a single asset in the Media Browser, reducing clutter.

Edit all types of Sony XDCAM content natively, without rewrapping or transcoding. Browse and organize clips using the Media Browser. Edit from the SxS card via the camera or card reader (XDCAM EX only), or transfer to hard disk for best performance.

Work with DPX frame sequences that include embedded timecode as footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Full control over parameters like black point, bit depth, and log/linear space allows nondestructive changes to be made at any time.

Import, play back, and edit AVC-Intra clips natively with no transcoding or rewrapping. A true file-based workflow supports both 50Mbps and 100Mbps bitrates at all common frame rates. The Media Browser lets you view clips directly.

Edit footage shot on JVC ProHD video cameras and stored as either MOV or MP4 files. Native support eliminates time-consuming transcoding or rewrapping and preserves the original pristine quality of the source footage.

Get amazing performance from the Mercury Playback Engine on both desktops and laptops (Windows® and Mac OS). Natively 64-bit and optimized for modern CPUs, Mercury delivers astounding performance with or without GPU acceleration.

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Edit high-resolution projects on lower spec computers with the ability to adjust the playback resolution in the Source or Program Monitor. Separate Playback and Pause resolutions give you more control over monitoring.

Speed up your creative workflow by seeing the results of even more effects without having to render them first, thanks to GPU acceleration and the enhanced 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, now on workstations and laptops.

Adjust the video preview format and resolution to promote smooth playback when your computer's hardware is unable to play back the full sequence frame size in real time.

Meet demanding deadlines with powerful features that simplify the editing workflow. Mix audio with ease and use convenient, customizable keyboard shortcuts to handle a wide range of common tasks.

Finesse your editing with precision using all-new advanced trimming tools. Trim clips your way — directly in the timeline via keyboard entry or dynamically in the Program Monitor using JKL shortcuts.

Easily configure mousewheel scroll in the timeline to work just the way you want it to using new Preference settings.

Save time when dropping a clip into a sequence with different properties. A convenient dialog box asks if the sequence settings should be changed to match those of the clip.

Quickly create multicam sequences. Simply select multiple clips in the Project panel, right-click them, choose Create Multicam Source Sequence, and then select how you'd like to sync the clips.

Speed up the process of adding effects. With a clip selected in the timeline, double-clicking an effect automatically applies it to that clip.

Use automatic scene detection to create separate clips from HDV tapes.

Clean up sequences quickly with commands for finding and removing gaps between clips on the timeline.

Set the Source and Program Monitors to display the first field, second field, or both fields for interlaced footage.

Easily adjust speed, duration, and audio gain, and apply a transition or effects to multiple clips simultaneously using cut and paste.

Easily stabilize a bumpy camera move or lock a shot automatically with the same powerful technology as in Adobe After Effects® software. The Warp Stabilizer removes jitter, rolling shutter artifacts, and other motion-related irregularities.

Apply effects that span multiple clips. Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Photoshop and After Effects, to apply effects to clips on tracks below them. Easily create masks to adjust a selected area of a shot.

Quickly and easily edit multicam footage from as many cameras as you have on the shoot. Sync via timecode, switch between tracks in real time, and adjust color across multiple shots.

Control audio and video effect parameters using comprehensive keyframe controls. Get precise control using Bezier handles to finesse the shape of parameter curves.

Get great precision, variety, and control with 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit floating point color.

Manage the color in your projects with the intuitive and GPU-optimized Three-Way Color Corrector for precise primary and secondary color correction. Easily export sequences to Adobe SpeedGrade™ CS6 software for a complete finishing solution.

Easily repair media with rolling shutter artifacts such as wobble and skew. Based on technology in the Warp Stabilizer, this powerful effect can be applied without stabilization and offers enhanced controls.

Create sophisticated text and graphics titles from scratch, professionally designed templates, or user-defined styles.

Instantly improve your video image quality with effects like those in Photoshop, including Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Shadows/Highlights.

Manage the color in your projects with the revamped, GPU-optimized Three-Way Color Corrector for precise primary and secondary color correction. Instantly improve video image quality with Photoshop style auto-correct functions.

Get excellent results when keying using the GPU-accelerated Ultra® keyer. Its Vector Keying™ technology excels even when working with problematic sources such as uneven lighting, wrinkled backdrops, and frizzy hair.

Quickly find assets by typing what you're looking for into the RapidFind box. Results are updated as you type. RapidFind is available in the Effects, Project, and Metadata panels.

Update assets quickly as newer versions become available by replacing files in the Project panel. When you replace assets, all clip instances are updated automatically.

Easily manage assets, quickly create multiple versions of projects, and mix content freely by nesting individual sequences with different settings in a master sequence.

Keep your focus on the timeline and get immediate playback from a clip you dragged from the Project window.

Manage projects efficiently. File location preferences are saved on a per-project basis, making it easy to set up partitions for particular projects.

Combine content from multiple projects easily by choosing any combination of sequences to import.

Avoid trimming redundant content in the Project Manager with the ability to select any combination of sequences for trimming.

Create workspace configurations using Project panel column configurations optimized for the task at hand.

Freely combine and pan mono and stereo clips. For more advanced audio workflows, Multichannel master and Adaptive track types enable total audio routing flexibility and easy export to multichannel file types.

Easily export media with up to 16 channels of embedded audio thanks to the Adaptive Audio technology in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

Use timecode from an audio master clip as the sync reference when creating a merged clip — perfect for working with footage from cameras such as DSLR that do not contain timecode.

Modify audio channels at the clip level using the Modify menu item, which provides extreme flexibility when working with clips that contain multiple audio channels.

View audio waveforms in great detail in the Source Monitor. Zoom both channels independently or together.

Easily link to externally recorded media and pass source timecode to digital audio workstations such as Pro Tools and Pyramix thanks to Broadcast WAV support.

Set and adjust audio channel mapping for offline clips at any time. Easily route source audio channels to various audio track configurations, before or after importing them.

Change recapture settings for offline clips without having to recapture them first.

Navigate with precision within the Source Monitor when working with audio-only clips. Use the playhead to scrub the waveform directly.

Customize display settings by turning video or audio keyframe, opacity, and clip volume display on or off by default.

Save time by using volume settings to normalize all the clips in a sequence track.

Easily create subclips that match high-quality audio with video shot on a separate device. The Merge Clips feature saves time and streamlines dual-system sound workflows.

Use Adobe Prelude CS6 to efficiently log footage, add comments and markers, and create rough cuts that can be brought into Adobe Premiere Pro. Comments and markers stored as metadata are associated with the media, making it easy to organize.

Explore the creative benefits of Adobe Premiere Pro and other Adobe tools in any production workflow. Adobe Premiere Pro easily fits into any workflow or facility with its deep support for standard interchange formats (XML, AAF, OMF).

Easily exchange projects with Final Cut Pro and Avid software as well as other third-party tools and applications, thanks to deep support for industry-standard XML, AAF, and OMF interchange formats.

Edit all the popular QuickTime formats natively, including Apple ProRes and MOV files captured by Canon 5D and 7D cameras, with full access to clip metadata — no transcoding, rewrapping, or logging and transferring required.

Roundtrip projects between Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro 7 and earlier versions without conversion or re-rendering, preserving commonly used effects and transitions.

Quickly and easily output your work for any screen with Adobe Media Encoder. Customize, set, and organize your favorite presets in the Preset Browser for fast export and batch encoding in the background.

Access commonly used settings immediately using the Preset Browser in Adobe Media Encoder CS6. Organize presets by category, set favorites, and customize your most frequently used encoding presets.

Quickly encode video when outputting a single source to multiple outputs with Adobe Media Encoder CS6. Get blazingly fast performance when using watch folders on a network.

Import your 5K RED EPIC and RED Scarlet-X footage directly into Adobe Media Encoder CS6 for transcoding to HD and SD formats.

Quickly and easily encode video by using Adobe Media Encoder presets that help ensure your video looks great on popular devices, sites, and formats, including Android and iOS devices, YouTube, Vimeo, HDTV, and more.

Conveniently set up multiple outputs for a given source or watch folder.

Streamline your encoding workflow by automatically matching encoding settings to the original source sequence settings.

Drag and drop sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro directly into Adobe Media Encoder, which can then encode them immediately.

Set Adobe Media Encoder to watch a folder. Automatically encode files arriving in the folder to a format you specify. Multiple watch folders can encode to different formats.

Preserve metadata in encoded output to make production more efficient and enhance usability, or clear metadata before distribution to protect confidential production data.

Override automatic interpretation of the frame rate, pixel aspect ratio, field order, or alpha channel settings of items you import into Adobe Media Encoder.

Easily crop the frame size and trim the in and out points of a clip or sequence in Adobe Media Encoder.

Automatically encode a numbered sequence of still images as a video sequence with Adobe Media Encoder, which intelligently offers to encode the stills as one video sequence.

Add XMP cue points in Adobe Media Encoder read from metadata in FLV or F4V source files, as well as manually prior to encoding.

Hear alerts when Adobe Media Encoder finishes encoding, so you can work without having to watch the queue. Different alert sounds indicate when projects have been completed successfully or with errors.

Get visual feedback using the Settings Summary dialog box in Adobe Media Encoder. Show output and source content information, and use tool tips to view encoding settings.

Use Adobe Prelude CS6 to efficiently log footage, add comments and markers, and create rough cuts that can be brought into Adobe Premiere Pro. Comments and markers stored as metadata are associated with the media, making it easy to organize.

Engage viewers effectively with keyword-searchable web DVDs. Encore uses metadata from menu and button names, speech analysis, and subtitles to make web DVDs searchable.

Speed up your Blu-ray Disc and DVD authoring workflow and get rock-solid, native 64-bit performance and stability with Encore CS6. Open and save projects fast, and get dramatic performance working on demanding projects.

Get extensive functionality when authoring DVDs and Blu-ray discs. New 64-bit Encore CS6 supports 8-bit color for highlight buttons and menu color quality enhancements.

Bring MPEG assets into Encore CS6 fast as multiple import processes happen simultaneously in the background.

View the correct pixel aspect ratio when previewing DVD simulations, thanks to new pixel aspect ratio correction in Encore CS6.

Efficiently create DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and web DVDs, all from a single project using new 64-bit Encore CS6. Open sequences without rendering and use flowcharts to define and view the navigation of your project.

Send your Adobe Premiere Pro projects directly to Encore without rendering first. Changes in the timeline are reflected immediately in Encore thanks to Adobe Dynamic Link.

Define and view the navigation of your DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and web DVD projects by using a visual representation of all points and links. Variable zoom speeds up your workflow.

Create DVD and Blu-ray Disc menus in the Photoshop file format using technology built into Encore. Edit menus in Photoshop and see changes instantly in your Encore project.

Create powerful web DVD experiences that replicate all the functionality of their Blu-ray Disc counterparts, thanks to support for pop-up menus, multipage menus, and menu looping playback.

Create web DVDs that have a sleek interface, offering easy-to-use playback controls plus the option to watch HD video in full-screen mode.

Work efficiently when transcoding. Adobe Media Encoder transcodes files in the background, freeing your system for other tasks. This is particularly important with 4K workflows that normally tax your system.

Choose the right encoder for the job without sacrificing efficiency. Integrate third-party encoders with the Encore workflow to tap into advances in GPU-accelerated encoding.

Share Encore projects without worrying about platform compatibility. Encore projects can be moved between Windows and Mac platforms freely, without conversion.

Create a smoother viewing experience. Browsable multipage menus on Blu-ray projects show options across multiple menu pages without interrupting background element playback.

Maintain the 24p look all the way to output with native support for 24p frame rates for Blu-ray, DVD, and web DVD titles, with correct display of 24p timecode in the timeline.

Automatically encode multiple versions of your content using the batch features in Adobe Media Encoder. Save time by continuing to work as files encode in the background.

Make content more discoverable and the viewing experience more engaging by delivering metadata-rich assets created with components of Creative Suite Production Premium.

Import clips with markers directly from Prelude CS6, or create new temporal markers right inside Adobe Premiere Pro. Searchable markers flow through post-production, allowing you to work faster and stay organized.

Create FLV/F4V cue points with name/value pairs using markers directly in the timeline, and then incorporate the cue points in your Adobe Flash® Professional projects.