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Adobe Premiere Version 4.0 for Windows Now Available Mountain View, Calif. (December 21, 1994) (NASDAQ:ADBE) Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe Premieret Version 4.0 for Windows, a major upgrade of its widely acclaimed digital video production application. Adobe Premiere Version 4.0 for Windows incorporates powerful new features for video, film and multimedia professionals who create digital movies in the Microsoft Video for Windows Audio/Video Interleaved (AVI) or Apple QuickTime for Windows format. Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Windows provides more creative power with features such as titling, motion control, 99 audio and 99 video tracks, and unlimited filters and transitions. The new release also offers many professional-level features, such as support for capturing and making movies at 29.97 frames per second (true NTSC frame rate); Edit Decision Lists (EDLs); SMPTE timecode; 60-field video processing; a new Trimming window, and improved dynamic previewing with the ability to compile and cache only those sections of a preview that have changed. Version 4.0 for Windows comes standard with a Deluxe CD-ROM at no additional cost to users and includes Adobe Photoshop 2.5 LE software and Adobe Acrobat Reader software. The CD-ROM also includes multimedia tutorials on new features, digital audio, video and still-image clip files and electronic documentation. Also included are Adobe Type Manager software, which comes standard with 30 fonts, and an additional 23 of Adobe's Type 1 fonts via the Adobe Type On Call CD-ROM. "Overall, I am elated with Adobe Premiere with Windows," said Alan Teitel, president of Suntel, an independent film producer in New York. "I am able to do things with Premiere that until now were strictly for high-end studios. Adobe Premiere opens up a lot of areas besides straight video editing, where few dared to travel, both in time-lapse photography and stop-action animation. "Essentially, Adobe Premiere is empowering producers in all price ranges by giving them the ability to create products and projects that better communicate their ideas for selling their own products, services or affiliations much more cost effectively. And because Premiere is hardware and resolution independent, the same software can be used in a training environment all the way up through the professional finishing environment." (continued in reply)