#Premiere 4/Win Ships!
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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."
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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.
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System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for Adobe Premiere 4.0 include an Intel 386,
Intel 486 or Pentium-based PC with 8 megabytes of RAM and a 100-megabyte hard
drive running Windows 3.1 or greater, and MS-DOS 5.0 or greater. In addition, a
256-color display adapter and monitor and mouse or other pointing device are
required.
For optimal performance, Adobe recommends a 66-MHz or greater Intel 486 or
Pentium-based PC with 16 megabytes ro 32 megabytes of RAM and a 500-megabyte to
1-gigabyte hard drive running Windows 3.1 or greater and MS-DOS 5.0 or greater.
To maximize performance, a 24-bit color display adapter and monitor, Microsoft
Video for Windows-compatible video capture card, sound card, speakers and mouse
or other pointing device are highly recommended.
Price and Availability
Adobe Premiere 4.0 for windows is available immediately from Adobe authorized
resellers. Through February 15, 1995, Version 4.0 will be offered at a special
introductory price of $495, $200 less than the suggested retail price of $695.
Registered users of Adobe Premiere 1.0 or 1.1 can upgrade to Version 4.0 for a
special price of $129 until February 15, 1995. After that date, the upgrade
price will be $179. Customers who purchased and registered the retail version
of Adobe Premiere 1.1 for Windows on or after September 12, 1994, will receive
a free upgrade. For more information, customers should contact Adobe at
1-800-833-6687.
Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain View,
California. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software products and
technologies that enable users to create, display, print and communicate
electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to major computer,
printing, and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of application software
and type products for authoring visually rich documents. Additionally, the
company markets a line of powerful, but easy to use, products for home and
small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries in Europe and the Pacific Rim
serving a worldwide network of dealers and distributors. Adobe recently
completed a merger with Aldus Corporation and Adobe's 1993 revenue on a
combined basis was approximately $520 million.
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Nick,
Thanks for the post! Do you have any problem with me putting it together
as one file in our libraries for future readers?
-John
John:
No problem (and I hope I didn't void any netiquette posting as a message, but I
wasn't sure who to ask at the time). I'll upload it to the Editors section
right now.
Nick