Adobe Premiere Version 4.0 for Windows now available.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 1994--Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) Wednesday announced the availability of Adobe Premiere 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 The name of Microsoft's first video playback implementation in Windows. Supporting the AVI movie format, Video for Windows (VfW) was installed separately in Windows 3.x, but was later built into Windows 95 and subsequent versions. Audio/Video Interleaved (AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. ) 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 custom 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 (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. frame rate); Edit Decision Lists (EDLs); SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, White Plains, NY, www.smpte.org) A professional society for motion picture and TV engineers with more than 9,000 members worldwide. It prepares standards and documentation for TV production. timecode; 60-field video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. ; 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 CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). at no additional cost to users and includes Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. 2.5 LE software and Adobe Acrobat Reader The former name of Adobe Reader. See PDF. 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 from Adobe that was used with earlier versions of Mac and Windows for printing Type 1 PostScript fonts on non-PostScript printers. Adobe Type Manager (ATM) was built into the OS/2 and NeXTstep operating systems and was originally developed to provide WYSIWYG screen fonts for the 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 New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "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." 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 I 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 See nonlinear video editing. (language) EDL - 1. Experiment Description Language. 2. Event Description Language. formats CMX CMX Corel Presentation Exchange (file extension) CMX Cisco Mobile Exchange CMX Cloaca Maxima (sewage system of ancient Rome; Finnish rock band) CMX Crisis Management Exercise 3400, CMX 3600 and Generic, Grass Valley and Sony BVE BVE abbr. Black Vernacular English 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 (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . , TIFF and TGA See TARGA. TGA - Targa Graphics Adaptor 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. 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 MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. 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 to 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 See video capture board. , 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 Feb. 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 Feb. 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 Sept. 12, 1994, will receive a free upgrade. For more information, customers should contact Adobe at 800/833-6687. Adobe Systems Inc., founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain View. 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 Corp. and Adobe's 1993 revenue on a combined basis was approximately $520 million. -0- Note to Editors: Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Adobe Type Manager are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc., which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Windows and MS are trademarks and MS-DOS and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Pentium is a trademark and Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corp. QuickTime and TrueType are trademarks, and Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Other brand, product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Adobe Systems Inc., Mountain View
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