
The new slow motion capabilities are easy to use and produce stellar results. Boot Camp is required only for OnLocation. It’s been a long time coming, but Mac users can now slice and dice with Mac OS X v.10.4.9 and newer, as long as it is running on a multi-core Intel processor. The big ones include Mac compatibility, variable-rate slow motion that produces an incredibly fluid effect, multiple project panels with improved search and organizing functions, and several editing and audio refinements. The quality of those improvements, however, is very high. Premiere ProperĬompared to the jump from Adobe Premiere CS to CS2 (see July 2006 Videomaker), the number of improvements Adobe has made to the core Premiere program in CS3 is rather low. But since the fundamental component of this bundle is still the timeline editor, we’re going to start our review with a look at what’s new in Premiere. Adobe clearly wants us to now think in terms of a unified software system. While there are certainly some welcomed improvements to Premiere, the real news of this upgrade is what surrounds it.

Premiere Pro CS3 represents a major move toward providing a total video production workflow solution (Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium) by including copies of Encore, OnLocation, Device Central and Bridge. The next big upgrade to Adobe’s Premiere Pro is out and it’s not alone.
