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Joseph Zyiuahndy
As you get more experienced with video editing, you may want to step up to amore professional editing tool, such as Adobe Premiere 6 or Ulead Media StudioPro 6.5. These not only offer more capability and headroom in terms of editingfeatures, but also provide a more comfortable, robust, and customizableenvironment for getting serious with video.
Both Premiere and Media Studio Pro are mature applications that have evolvedto provide the same general capabilities. However, they are significantlydifferent in their design philosophy. Like other Adobe tools, Premiere is atightly integrated editing environment designed to match the working style ofprofessional editors. In the Ulead style, Media Studio Pro, is a suite of fivemore loosely integrated tools that can provide a broader range of features.
Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.5 ($495 list, www.ulead.com),released in August 2001, added advanced features including DV scene detection,MPEG-2 editing, and even DVD authoring. Many of these were first introduced inUlead's consumer applications, which tend to evolve faster, and provide theopportunity to break in new technology.
The first Media Studio Pro application, Video Capture, captures clips fromthe usual analog or DV sources. Premiere uses a Capture dialog window within themain application, so you can manage the project settings end-to-end. MediaStudio Pro adds support for DV capture beyond the 4 GB Windows limit, directcapture to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, DV scene detection, and helpful Vectorscope andWaveform monitors for color calibration.
The core Media Studio Pro application is Video Editor, with the basicsincluding a Production Library to organize assets, an optional Storyboard toarrange clips, and a multi-track Timeline where you edit the production. Otheruseful features include native MPEG editing, instant playback from the Timeline,and batch rendering of multiple projects.
Media Studio Pro then provides three integrated applications in which you canprepare clips, without needing to render. The Audio Editor lets you mix, adjust,and apply filters to audio clips. CG Infinity generates vector-based motiongraphics for animated titles and video overlays. And Video Paint is forrotoscoping (or painting) effects directly over video frames, including assistsfor animating effects over motion video, and recording painting sequences asreusable macros.
Adobe Premiere 6 ($549 list, www.adobe.com),released in December 2000 (with a 6.1 upgrade in June 2001), brought importantnew features such as DV capture and Web video output. It also added significantusability enhancements to make it quite accessible for non-professional users.These included a storyboard organizer, palette windows used to organize filtersand effects, and a powerful history capability to selectively undo and redoediting operations.
Premiere provides a single environment that is focused on optimizing theediting process. It supports predefined and customized workspace layouts fordifferent editing needs, and single-press keyboard shortcuts. It also providesprecise control of editing tracks in the timeline.
You can edit audio clips directly on the Timeline and apply audio effects inthe same way as video effects. Premiere also has a powerful Audio Mixer tocombine and adjust all audio tracks simultaneously.
Premiere is integrated with Adobe's suite of tools for graphics and mediaprofessionals, and shares a common interface design. Although the program has arelatively simple Title window for formatting text and graphics for use astitles, you also can import material from Illustrator and Photoshop, completewith alpha channel mattes, and even edit the original content after importing.Similarly, you can animate overlay tracks directly in Premiere using the MotionSettings dialog, or export to After Effects for advanced compositing, animation,and visual effects.
Premiere has an impressive heritage as the market-leading professional videoediting software package, on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. The benefitsof its popularity include the large number of resources available for it,including books, training courses, user groups, and on-line discussion groups.Premiere is also bundled with a wide array of video capture and real-timeediting hardware, providing a variety of upgrade paths to more power.
Finally, both Premiere 6 and Media Studio Pro 6.5 can export productions in awide variety of desktop and Web video and audio formats. Premiere includes abundled version of Discreet Media Cleaner for additional formats, and can exportWeb markers and links.
Media Studio Pro provides the DVD Authoring module, a template-driven toolfor creating productions on DVD, VCD, or SVCD. You mark scenes in your videoproduction, select a menu design template, preview the navigation, and thenoutput.
Since Premiere 6 and Media Studio Pro 6.5 have such different approaches tovideo editing, the choice between them really depends on your preferred workingstyle, each program's interoperability with other digital media tools, and yourneeds for specific unique features.
As an example of this difference in style, while Premiere carefully organizesproject, system, and device options in logical Settings dialogs, Ulead takes amuch more open approach to exposing the innards of your system. Many dialogsoffer a "Properties" button that will display all kinds of fascinatingnitty-gritty information and options. This access to the internals alone canmake Media Studio Pro a requirement for inquisitive users.
If you also need an IEEE 1394 / DV capture board, you can save money bybuying a board bundled with Premiere or Media Studio Pro. Products like the ADSTechnologies Pyro DV line offer a 1394 card with a full version of Premiere orMedia Studio Pro for around $280, or less than the street price of the softwarealone (www.adstech.com). Adobe also offers the Digital Video Collection bundle,with Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects for $1199 (street).
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