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New Features Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Windows adds many other new features, including an enhanced Movie Capture window to retrieve and import movies into the program. The Movie Capture window offers a VCR-like control panel that displays timecode, in and out points, an auto-record option and a log-in/out command to log clips into a batch list for digitizing. With Adobe Premiere 4.0, users can control professional and consumer video equipment. In addition, an assortment of tools in the new Title window lets users create and manipulate a variety of visual titling elements and supports both Adobe Type 1 and TrueType fonts. A wide range of motion control settings within the new Motion Settings window provides previews, distortion, time-line indicator points, rotation, zoom, delay, fill color, loading/saving motion settings and alpha channel support. Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Windows also supports subpixel processing for smooth motion as well as EDL formats CMX 3400, CMX 3600 and Generic, Grass Valley and Sony BVE EDL formats. Other formats can be added as plug-in extensions. Version 4.0 also adds many other new features, including an enhanced Project window with folders and labels for organizing clips, an improved Clip window with frame-by-frame control and playback from in and out points; new transition effects, including a Transition Factory to create unlimited custom effects; new filters, plus a Filter Factory to create unlimited custom filters. Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Windows allows users to vary filters over time; new key types offer a variety of matte and screen treatments; unlimited markers for marking audio and video and snapping edits; editing tools such as automatic insert edit, ripple and rolling edits; track locking and unlocking; predefined project preset options for optimizing specific tasks such as creating videos, films or CD-ROMs, and the ability to define custom presets that can be saved for later use. In addition, the program supports capturing and making movies at 29.97 frames per second as well as rates of 30, 25, or 24 fps; 60-field processing output to FLC/FLI formats and numbered BMP, TIFF and TGA still-image formats, and an AVI movie analysis tool to display movie characteristics. The open plug-in architecture allows third-party developers to add functionality through plug-in modules such as import, export, device control, transitions and filters. (continued in reply)