If you’re into video editing you should check out the latest enhancements in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.1. One of the main things that I love about Premiere Pro CS4 (PR) is that it can edit the AVCHD footage from my Canon VIXIA HF10 camcorder natively! That’s right! No transcoding (converting to another format first). As far as I can tell, Premiere Pro CS4 is the only native AVCHD editor on the Mac and one of only a couple on Windows. The whole advantage of going tapeless with your camera is so that you can have immediate access to the footage. Well if you have to convert the footage first (sometimes taking longer than real-time) then you’ve lost the advantage of the tapeless workflow. Now not only can you edit all the most popular video formats out there, you can even edit footage right off a video DVD with the new .VOB file support! If you’re a Final Cut Pro or AVID user, no worries. You can bring your projects right into Premiere Pro CS4.
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A good thing just got better
Adobe just released updates to Premiere Pro CS4 4.1 (Mac | Win), After Effects CS4 9.0.2 (Mac | Win)and the Adobe Media Encoder CS4 4.1 (the direct update link wasn’t available yet, but this update should install via your Adobe Updater app):
- Additional support for REDCODE (please visit RED support for additional details).
- Performance improvements to project load time.
- Improvements to AVCHD support.
- Performance enhancements for DV/HDV playback.
- Support for Avid captured DV or IMX footage. (Please see www.adobe.com/go/kb409079 for additional information).
- Export media to a still format now bypasses the AME render queue.
- Enabled .VOB extension support. (yes this means editing the footage right off a Video DVD!)
- Third-party support
The New Adobe Media Encoder CS4 4.1 – once you’re done editing your master piece, you’ll be happy to know that the update to the Adobe Media Encoder renders out your final video about twice as fast (in my testing) than the 4.0.2 version did. Also there are new presets for YouTube HD Widescreen for sharing your video on social networking sites.
See it Live! If you’re in Michigan, see me demo the new enhancements to the Adobe Production Premium CS4 suite at the next MIVA meeting on June 3rd.
Can’t make it to my demo? If you’re not going to be in the Michigan area on June 3rd, my buddy Dave Helmly recorded an extensive video showing the new features off. You can view it here now or you can grab it from my Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast to view it later:
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Details about the After Effects update are here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/05/after_effects_902_update_red_r.html
Hi Terry have you had a look at the turbo.264 HD from elgato it converts avchd in faster than real time i.e. 120 FPS!!!!
Have a look at http://www.elgato.com
Michael R
But with Premiere Pro 4.x you don’t need to convert it *at all* until you’re ready to generate your final output.