I realize I have been remiss in not mentioning this fresh development until now.\u00c2\u00a0 I do claim to run a technology website focused on PC post-production, primarily with Adobe products, after all.\u00c2\u00a0 Partially I have delayed because I have seen no official announcements from Adobe.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I was on the Beta, I was aware when\u00c2\u00a0the update\u00c2\u00a0went GM, and already had access to it.\u00c2\u00a0 I have neither seen nor heard any mention of it on the Adobe Download site, and the only indication I have seen that it is publicly available is that the Adobe Update service now automatically prompts you to install it.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, regardless of how it was released, it is here now, so let’s see what it has to offer.<\/p>\n
The most significant feature that it adds is native\u00c2\u00a0support for Panasonic’s primary recording formats, DVCPro50 and DVCProHD.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, the update does not support capture\u00c2\u00a0of these formats\u00c2\u00a0from tape, which requires purely\u00c2\u00a0a software\u00c2\u00a0solution, since Firewire is the primary I\/O mechanism.\u00c2\u00a0 It does allow DVCPro AVIs\u00c2\u00a0created elsewhere to be imported and used though.\u00c2\u00a0 The ideal workflow that Adobe is trying to support with this update is the P2 workflow, primarily from the HVX-200 camera.\u00c2\u00a0 “Capture” from P2 cards is an OS level file copy, so regular capture settings are not required.\u00c2\u00a0 The P2’s native\u00c2\u00a0wrapper is not AVI, but MXF, so this wrapper is now supported in Premiere Pro 3.1.\u00c2\u00a0 My hope is that they extend this MXF support to include native XDCam files in the next revision, whenever that may be.<\/p>\n
Other improvements from the update include fixes for the Project Trimmer, which did not handle WAV files correctly in CS3, and a bunch of random little fixes which aren’t worth noting, but that I definitely appreciate having.\u00c2\u00a0 Adobe has not added features to Premiere with an update between releases since it added HDV support in version 1.5.1 back in February of 2005.\u00c2\u00a0 At that point, their HDV solution was licensed from Cineform, very similar to their\u00c2\u00a0AspectHD, which was the most popular HDV editing solution for Premiere Pro\u00c2\u00a0at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 It bears noting that Matrox has supported P2 MXF files in Premiere for over a year with their AXIO line of products, and in a way similar to Adobe’s recently released solution.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Hopefully that\u00c2\u00a0trend increases the possibility of\u00c2\u00a0my\u00c2\u00a0desired native XDCam MXF support, similar to Matrox’s solution,\u00c2\u00a0becoming a reality\u00c2\u00a0in the near future.\u00c2\u00a0 Until then, I will be testing out the fixed project trimmer to free up lots of “extra” disk space, and playing back my P2 cards and\u00c2\u00a0DVCProHD captures\u00c2\u00a0without necessarily needing to use\u00c2\u00a0an\u00c2\u00a0AXIO system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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