What’s new (cs5.5) – Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 User Manual
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What’s new (CS5.5)
For a complete list of what’s new and changed in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5,
To see the new features of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 in action,
For more information about new features in Premiere Pro,
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Merged Clips Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 features a method for synchronizing "dual-system" audio and video. This streamlines the process by
which users can synchronize audio and video recorded separately. See Synchronizing audio and video with Merge Clips (CS5.5 and later) and
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Mercury Engine Performance Gains New GPU-accelerated features include speed changes, footage interpretation options, field-order
processing, and video effects and transitions. More video cards are supported, as well.
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Usability Improvements Lot of usability improvements have been added to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5,
Keyboard customization: You can now customize your keyboard even more easily with the search field in the keyboard shortcuts dialog box.
See Find keyboard shortcuts and
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A new overlay allows you to drag clips from the Media Browser, Project panel, or Source panel into the Program panel to perform an insert
or overwrite edit. See Insert or Overwrite by dragging a clip to the Program panel.
Add keyframes directly into the timeline using the Pen or Selection tools without having to first enable keyframing. A modifier key is no longer
needed to set keyframes, as well. See
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The Unlink command now decouples the audio portion of a clip while automatically leaving the video portion selected. The Unlink command
now works on multiple clips at the same time, as well. See
Editing in Adobe Audition A new workflow allows you to interchange with Adobe Audition CS5.5 a clip, or an entire sequence worth of video and
audio data, including tracks, individual clips, and keyframes. See
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Accelerated Video Effects More video effects and transitions are now GPU-accelerated for the Mercury Playback Engine. See List of GPU
accelerated effects in Premiere Pro CS5.
Unified Audio Effects Audio effects are now combined into a single, unified effect. See Audio effects and
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Expanded native support for RED digital cinema workflows The RED R3D Source Settings dialog has been redesigned, and offers intuitive
controls to those working with RED media. Saves and loads the latest versions of RMD, creates presets, and allows you to adjust color with a
histogram or with curves. Choose a desired Color Science, and apply settings to multiple RED clips simultaneously. See
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Speech analysis improvements with Adobe Story You can find and fix speech analysis errors more easily by making side-by-side comparisons
of the text of the speech analysis with the text of the Adobe Story script. You can also attach an Adobe Story script file (.astx) to a single or
multiple clips directly in Adobe Premiere Pro. You don't have to use OnLocation for this step anymore. See Improve speech analysis with Adobe
Story scripts (CS5.5 and later) and
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Closed Captioning You can attach a closed caption data file to a sequence and display the closed captions in the Program Monitor and through
Firewire DV output. See Attach closed caption files (CS5.5 and later) and
Integration with Adobe CS Review Enables clients and teammates to take part in reviewing video sequences using a web browser and
annotation tools. Reviewers can make frame-accurate comments that visually correlate to the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.
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