About Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes video editing, graphic design, and web development programs.

Premiere Pro is used by broadcasters such as the BBC and CNN.

 It has been used to edit feature films, such as Gone Girl, Captain Abu Raed, and Monsters, and other venues such as Madonna's Confessions Tour.

History

Premiere Pro is the redesigned successor to Adobe Premiere, and was launched in 2003. Premiere Pro refers to versions released in 2003 and later, whereas Premiere refers to the earlier releases. Premiere was one of the first computer-based NLEs (non-linear editing system), with its first release on Mac in 1991. Up until version Premiere Pro 2.0 (CS2), the software packaging featured a galloping horse, in a nod to Eadweard Muybridge's work, "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop".

Features

Premiere Pro supports high resolution video editing at up to 10,240 × 8,192 resolution, at up to 32-bits per channel color, in both RGB and YUV. Audio sample-level editing,VST audio plug-in support, and 5.1 surround sound mixing are available. Premiere Pro's plug-in architecture enables it to import and export formats beyond those supported by QuickTime or DirectShow, supporting a wide variety of video and audio file formats and codecs on both MacOS and Windows. When used with Cineform's Neo line of plug-ins, it supports 3D editing with the ability to view 3D material using 2D monitors, while making individual left and right eye adjustments.

Workflow integration

After Effects

Through Adobe Dynamic Link, compositions from Adobe After Effects may be imported and played back directly on the Premiere Pro timeline. The After Effects composition can be modified, and after switching back to Premiere Pro, the clip will update with the changes. Likewise, Premiere Pro projects can be imported into After Effects. Clips can be copied between the two applications while preserving clip attributes. Premiere Pro also supports many After Effects plug-ins.

Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop files can be opened directly from Premiere Pro to be edited in Photoshop. Any changes will immediately be updated when the Photoshop file is saved and focus returns to Premiere Pro.

Adobe Story, OnLocation and Prelude

The Premiere Pro workflow takes advantage of metadata in the script of a video production. The script is created in or brought into Adobe Story, then passed to Adobe On Location to capture footage and attach any relevant metadata from the script to that footage. Finally, in Premiere Pro, speech recognition can match the audio to the dialogue from the script in the metadata. Clips can be searched based on their dialogue in Premiere Pro, and can be sent to Adobe Encore to make searchable web DVDs.Adobe Prelude replaces OnLocation in CS6 and above.

Others

There are other integration functions, such as Edit in Adobe Audition, Dynamic Link to Encore, and Reveal in Adobe Bridge.

Advantages over Premiere Elements

An entry-level version, Adobe Premiere Elements is aimed at home users available on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. With Premiere Pro aimed at the professional market, it has advantages over Premiere Elements including multiple sequence support, high bit-depth rendering, multicamera editing, time remapping, scopes, color correction tools, advanced audio mixer interface, and bezier keyframing. Premiere Pro also has Encore, for more elaborate DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring options, and On Location for direct-to-disk recording. Encore was discontinued with the release of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Release history

Version	Platform	Release date	Significant changes	Codename
Adobe Premiere 1.0	Mac	December 1991	First release of Premiere QuickTime multimedia and VideoSpigot format support PICT image support Supported up to 160 x 120 pixels movie creation Supported 8-bit audio Supported output to video tape	Demon
Adobe Premiere 2.0	Mac	September 1992	QuickTime video and audio capture support Title creation Title, Sequence, and Construction windows Slow/fast motion support 5 audio and 41 movie/still-image filters 49 special effects 16-bit, 44 kHz audio support Filmstrip file format introduced Numbered PICT sequence support EDL support Illustrator text import SMPTE timecode support
Adobe Premiere 3.0	Mac	August 1993	99 stereo audio tracks 97 video tracks Video waveform monitor Sub-pixel motion and field rendering Batch digitizing Full framerate preview from disk Enhanced title window
Adobe Premiere 1.0	Windows	September 1993	First release of Premiere application for Windows platform 24-bit AVI and QuickTime video format support Autodesk Animator file support AVI, AIFF, and WAV audio format support Still image support (Photoshop, BMP, DIB, PCX, PICT, PCX, and TIFF formats) Two video tracks, three audio tracks, and one transition and superimpose track No EDL, titling, and motion and device control available in then current Mac (v3.0) release
Adobe Premiere 1.1	Windows	February 1994	AdobeCap video capture module Expanded graphics and audio file support TARGA and ADPCM file support Image sequence import support
Adobe Premiere 4.0	Mac	July 1994	Support for 97 superimposition tracks plus two A/B tracks Trim window Dynamic previewing Custom filter and transition creation Time variable filters Batch capture Time-lapse capture NTSC 29.97 frame rate support	Zambini
Adobe Premiere 4.0	Windows	December 1994	Adobe moves Windows platform release of Premiere directly from v1.1 to v4.0 Premiere 4.0 for Windows matches capabilities of Premiere 4.0 for Macintosh	Zambini
Adobe Premiere 4.2	Mac	October 1995	CD-ROM Movie Maker Plug-in Data rate analysis tool Power Macintosh-native Sound Manager 3.1	TopGun
Adobe Premiere 4.2	Windows	April 1996	32-bit architecture Long File Names support Background compiling Batch movie maker 4K output support Right-mouse button support Uninstaller utility
Adobe Premiere 4.2 for Silicon Graphics	UNIX/SGI	July 1997	SGI O2 platform exclusive release IRIX 6.3 integration OpenGL accelerated versions of transition and special effects plug-ins Platform-specific plug-ins by Silicon Graphics for combining 3D and video content	Primo
Adobe Premiere 5.0	Windows and Mac	May 1998	Source/Program editing Title window editor Keyframeable audio and video filters Collapsible tracks Up to three hour project length support	Mustang
Adobe Premiere 5.0.1	Windows and Mac			Button Fly
Adobe Premiere 5.1	Windows and Mac	October 1998	QuickTime 3.0 support DPS Perception support Preview to RAM "Smart" Preview file Timeline export Multi-threaded, dual processor support
Adobe Premiere 6.0	Windows and Mac	January 2001	Support for web video and DV formats OHCI support Title editor Storyboard Audio mixer Timeline video track keyframes	Jukebox
Adobe Premiere 6.5	Windows and Mac	August 2002	Real-time preview Adobe Title Designer Exporting to DVD as MPEG-2	Rockford
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0 (Adobe Premiere 7.0)	Windows	August 21, 2003	Rewritten source code for the whole program Multiple nested timelines Color correction tools Sample-level audio editing Track-based audio effects 5.1 surround sound support VST audio filters and ASIO audio hardware support AAF export Customizable keyboard shortcuts Adobe Media Encoder First inclusion of SurCode for Dolby Digital® 5.1 Encoder for Adobe Premiere Pro bundle into Premiere Pro	Columbo
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5	Windows	May 24, 2004	Project Manager Panasonic 24p support Effects favorites Project-ready Photoshop file creation Automatic loading of built-in After Effects plug-ins After Effects clipboard support One-click color correction AAF and EDL import and export New DeEsser and DeHummer audio filters New GPU effects Bézier keyframe controls	Starsky
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1	Windows	March 1, 2005	HDV support	Banacek
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0	Windows	January 17, 2006	Docking Workspaces Multicam editing Adobe Clip Notes Dynamic Link with After Effects projects DVD authoring from the timeline Native HDV editing Native SD and HD support Enhanced color-correction tools 10-bit and 16-bit color resolution support 32-bit internal color processing GPU-accelerated rendering	Stingray
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3	Windows and Mac OS X	July 2, 2007	Output to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and Flash High-quality slow motion with time remapping Direct-to-disc recording and professional on-set monitoring Publish Adobe Encore projects to the web Multiple project panels with smart file search Improved editing efficiency Output for mobile devices Help documentation available online	Buffy
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 v3.0.1	Windows and Mac OS X			Willow
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 v3.1.0	Windows and Mac OS X	October 18, 2007	Native Panasonic P2 MXF import, editing, and export	Xander
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 v3.1.1	Windows and Mac OS X			Spike
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 v3.2.0	Windows and Mac OS X	April 14, 2008	Native Sony XDCAM MXF import and editing	Drusilla
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4	Windows and Mac OS X	September 23, 2008	Speech Search Batch encoding using Adobe Media Encoder Over 50 enhancements to editing efficiency (apply filters/transitions to multiple clips, sync lock, smart zoom) Media Browser panel to efficiently browse file-based recording media (e.g. Panasonic P2 and XDCAM) Project intelligence with new XMP metadata support Blending modes Sequence-level settings Dynamic Link to open Premiere Pro sequences directly in Adobe Encore Enhanced Photoshop file import Mac support for OnLocation AVCHD support (not available in the trial version)	Ironside
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.0.1	Windows and Mac OS X	November 20, 2008	Final Cut Pro XML import OMF export Enhanced third-party support	Whitfield
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.0.2	Windows and Mac OS X			Sanger
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.1.0	Windows and Mac OS X	May 29, 2009	Additional support for REDCODE Performance improvements to project load time Improvements to AVCHD support Performance enhancements for DV/HDV playback Support for Avid-captured DV or IMX footage New 16 channel audio tracks for playout Export media to a still format now bypasses the AME render queue Enabled .VOB extension support	Randall
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.2.0	Windows and Mac OS X	November 10, 2009	Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra support (including new sequence presets)
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.2.1	Windows and Mac OS X	December 8, 2009	Fixed memory issue that occurred when importing large numbers of AVC-Intra files into Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5	Windows and Mac OS X	April 30, 2010	64-bit native application (32-bit OS no longer supported) Mercury Playback Engine, which supports GPU-accelerated rendering using qualified nVidia CUDA graphics cards Ultra keyer for chroma keying Final Cut Pro XML export DPX format import and export Metadata integration with Adobe Story and Adobe OnLocation Face detection and improved speech-to-text Direct export option, bypassing Adobe Media Encoder Fractional resolution options Audio capture metering	Scully
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 v5.0.1	Windows and Mac OS X	May 26, 2010	Mercury Playback Engine supports additional layers on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 GPU card	Doggett
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 v5.0.2	Windows and Mac OS X	September 1, 2010	Windows-based Mercury Playback Engine support for new NVIDIA cards (GTX 470, Quadro 4000, Quadro 5000) Import and export of RED RMD files to and from REDCINE-X software XD-CAM HD export Source timecode in XDCAM 4:2:2 footage Support QuickTime files from JVC solid-state cameras RED Rocket cards support Broadcast Wave audio file format support Broadcast Wave in OMF export support 10-bit DisplayPort support for NVIDIA Quadro cards (Windows only)	Skinner
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 v5.0.3	Windows and Mac OS X	December 7, 2010	Mercury Playback Engine support for the NVIDIA Quadro 5000m card (Windows) and the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 card (Mac)	Spender
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 v5.0.4	Windows and Mac OS X			Pendrell
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5	Windows and Mac OS X	May 3, 2011	Mercury Playback Engine support for more NVIDIA cards (Geforce GTX 570, 580, Quadro FX 3700M, FX 3800M, 2000, 2000D, 2000M, 3000M, 4000M, 5010M, 6000) MPE acceleration of more video effects Merge clips for dual system audio Closed captioning playout to firewire and third-party hardware Adobe Audition CS5.5 integration Improved speech-to-text using Adobe Story scripts Canon XF metadata support New Film Dissolve effect, Subtract and Divide blend modes Create new sequences based on clip properties	Mulder
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.1	Windows and Mac OS X	September 12, 2011	Bug fixes, including some for Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion) compatibility	Strughold
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.2	Windows and Mac OS X	November 1, 2011	nVidia Maximus functionality and bug fixes
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6	Windows and Mac OS X	May 7, 2012	Redesigned Interface, including customizable Monitor panels, larger thumbnails with Resizing and Hover Scrubbing Over 50 new editing enhancements Improved Mercury Playback Engine, including OpenCL support for specific GPU cards Uninterrupted playback while editing Unlimited Multicam tracks Adjustment layers Warp Stabilizer effect Rolling Shutter Repair effect Updated Three-Way Color Corrector New Export Preset Browser 16-channel audio export Adobe Prelude CS6 integration Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 integration Adobe Encore CS6 integration	Mighty Kilt
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.0.1	Windows and Mac OS X	May 25, 2012	Bug fixes and improved OpenCL performance	Tighty Kilt
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.0.2	Windows and Mac OS X	September 6, 2012	HiDPI for Retina Display, bug fixes, and new supported GPUs	Slightly Built
Adobe Premiere Pro CC7.0.0	Windows and Mac OS X	June 17, 2013	Creative Cloud application (Creative Suite discontinued) Sync workspace and keyboard shortcuts over the Creative Cloud Integration with Behance Redesigned timeline interface Lumetri Deep Color Engine Mezzanine codecs built in Native support for Apple Prores and Avid DNxHD codecs Advanced Link and Locate Updated Close Captioning tool Updated Avid and Final Cut Pro project importer and exporter	Sir Reel
Adobe Premiere Pro CC7.0.1	Windows and Mac OS X	July, 2013	Create a unique title by duplicating a sequence title Enhancements to "Lift or Extract" feature Copy, Cut, Clear works on In/Out points Enable/disable clips using Enable Clip command Frame matching using clip selection Relink all the media used in a specific sequence without having to relink all the media in the project Enhanced EDL Export dialog Reveal in Project from Source Monitor Linked Selection toggle button available from Timeline Reveal in Finder from Timeline Default start timecode preference Drag and drop files directly from Explorer/Finder into the Source Monitor Match Frame enhancements Offline clips in the timeline are now always red New Bars and Tone creation dialog Source Settings (RAW/REDRAW) dialog accessible from Timeline Auto-save improvements Improved timelapse support when adding clips to a sequence Updated keyboard shortcuts	Sir React
Adobe Premiere Pro CC7.0.2	Windows and Mac OS X			Get Reel
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 7.1	Windows and Mac OS X	October, 2013	Back button added to Media Browser Sequences have thumbnails that Hover Scrub in Icon view in the Project Panel The Add Edit command overrides track targeting, favoring instead the selected clips under the playhead The Edit To Tape dialog supports JKL shortcuts Negative speeds can be set in the Clip Speed/Duration dialog for reverse playback Audio channel layouts can be selected during QuickTime export The Clip Name effect provides three naming options (Sequence Item Name, Project Item Name, File Name) The Timecode effect automatically matches the Time Display parameter (or timebase) to the source clip Transitions can be pasted to multiple edit points All Effect parameters have individual reset buttons Support for reading captions from MXF files (SMPTE 436M ancillary data track) as well as writing captions to the MXF OP1a format Support for decoding and re-encoding CEA-708 captions. Captions in QuickTime movies can be read regardless of the video codec Caption files with a *.dfxp filename extension can be imported Camera angles in Multicam source sequences can display camera angles as track names or clip names New preference to allow the trim type of a previously selected point with the cursor Improved, GPU accelerated Direct Manipulation Multiple clips and sequences can be sent to Adobe Media Encoder at once	More Reel
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 7.2	Windows and Mac OS X	December, 2013	Voice-over recording directly in the Timeline has been enhanced. Multiple Media Browser panels can be open at once for browsing multiple projects or locations simultaneously Clip selection overrides track targeting for multiple editing commands (such as Match Frame, Mark Clip, Lift/Extract, Add Edit, etc.) Single camera multi-cam only shows single camera in the Source and Program Monitors A sequence can be created by dragging media to an empty Timeline panel The Ripple Delete command can be used with an In/Out range set in a sequence Mercury Transmit can output a Dolby E stream for external hardware decoding AVCi100 .mov files can be smart-rendered to MXF-wrapped AVCi100 OpenCL performance has been improved The active source clip name is shown on multi-cam clips used in a sequence With a sequence or sequences selected in the Project Panel, a new project can be created from just those sequences by using File > Export > Selection as Premiere Pro project Markers can be exported from any asset or sequence to a document, as a .csv or .html file with thumbnails Clip markers can be added to selected clips in the timeline without needing to load them into the Source Monitor Multicam sequences can be created with a custom preset for switched audio Playback performance with XAVC 60p 4K media using Matrox hardware has been improved OP1a formats can be used for preview renders Improved AVC-Ultra support OMF export improvements, especially when working with adaptive audio tracks Added support for: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (Windows and Mac), NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, NVIDIA Quadro K1100M (Windows) AMD Radeon HD FirePro D300, D500 and D700 (Mac)	Un Reel
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 7.2.1	Windows and Mac OS X	December, 2013	Bug fixes and AMD Radeon R9 290 Series has been added to the OpenCL supported card list
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 7.2.2	Windows and Mac OS X	April, 2014	Various bug fixes
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.0	Windows and Mac OS X	June 18, 2014	Masking And Tracking Live Text Templates CanonRAW Sony SStP Enhanced CinemaDNG support (including Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, Convergent Design Odyssey7Q, and CinemaDNG source settings) ARRI AMIRA camera LUT workflow RED GPU Debayer Intel Iris architectures are supported for Mercury OpenCL. Full support for browsing After Effects projects in the Media Browser has been added, and effects compositions within an AEP can be previewed. Users can specify a number of frames for the step forward/back command. Media Browser project browse has been significantly improved for multi-project workflows. A new progress bar appears over the Premiere Pro icon on the Mac OS X dock or Windows taskbar displaying render progress. A new Track Select Backwards tool has been added. An option to show transparent/alpha elements of a frame as a gray and white grid has been added. A preference has been added to maintain audio pitch on scrub and shuttle. The Cross-Dissolve transition is now preset capable. Lens Distortion Removal presets have been added for Go Pro and DJI cameras, and the Lens Distortion Removal effect has been ported to Mac. Multiple transitions can be selected at once and their durations altered simultaneously. Red Giant Pluraleyes workflows have been improved. Several issues with AAF export have been resolved. A Reverse Match Frame command has been added. Significant improvements have been made to effects and transitions parity between Windows and Mac. Favorites’ can now be created and navigated to in the Media Browser. Double-clicking a track item in a sequence will automatically perform a match frame to the playhead position when it is parked on a frame within that item. Typekit support has been added to Premiere Pro, allowing quick access to the Typekit website from the Title menu. A preference has been added to allow a user’s most recent autosave file to be automatically backed up to Creative Cloud. Comment names are displayed in the Marker panel. All video and/or all audio tracks can be locked or unlocked with an assigned keyboard shortcut. An Export command has been added to the contextual menu for items in the Project Panel. Sequences in the Timeline or Project Panel can be made offline with a right-click. A keyboard shortcut can be assigned for the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. Sound roll/Sound timecode can be used in an EDL export. Audio clip volume keyframing can be nudged up and down with assignable keyboard shortcuts. Scratch-disk workflows have been improved, both when moving between platforms and when the previous scratch disk is offline. Searching and sorting in the Project Panel has been made dramatically faster. A new Set To Frame Size command has been added, preserving the full resolution of media without rasterizing (as with Scale To Frame Size). A new popup has been added to audio track headers to allow fast Voice Over recording configuration. Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus (stereo only) can be encoded on export. The fx badges on track items have been moved to the left of the name, and can now be disabled. More than one keyboard shortcut can be assigned to a single command. Improvements have been made to AVCi growing files performance. An option has been added to not consolidate duplicates on import. Manual sync offsets can be committed to a new Project item. SCC or MCC caption files can be created without needing to create accompanying media. Effects are preserved when using the Flatten Multicam command. An option has been added to create a new folder when a sequence or XML is imported. The Mosaic effect has been GPU optimized. Assignable keyboard shortcuts have been added for toggling audio and video track outputs. A preference has been added to disable automatic import of embedded closed caption streams. Users can export to AS11 content packages. Users can export to certain types of Quvis Wraptor DCP packages.	Single Barrel
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.1	Windows and Mac OS X	October 6, 2014	Search Bins Multiple Project Workflows Source Monitor Timeline View Consolidate and Transcode Improved Masking And Tracking Improved Master Clip Effects Improved AAF Export 4 font size choices for the Project Panel list view A new metadata column has been added to the Project panel for Field info Preference for label colors and clip names to update all instances and stay in sync Sequence timecode can be displayed in the Program Monitor overlay Audio timecode can be shown in the overlay for multicam clips 5.1 audio channel layouts adhere to ITU-R BR.1384 Preference to display the end of sequence indicator Preference to write markers to the project file or media files ‘Discrete’ multichannel QuickTime exports “Send To Audition” rendered files are now stored next to the originals Alignment options were added to the Clip Name effect Scaling beyond 600% is supported The Timeline In/Out range now uses shading to indicate track targeting 16-channel AS11 outputs are supported Keyboard shortcut to join all through-edits in a sequence Marker colors are now assignable iXML is supported from audio location recorders Source Settings are available for Blackmagic CinemaDNG media The Timecode effect now displays all source clip timecodes in Multicam Source Sequences Improved OMF export The Effect Control Panel remembers which parameters were expanded on subsequent use Exposed “Copy to Clipboard” in Keyboard Shortcuts dialog Export Frame default file name now includes the frame number of the original clip it came from Multiple sequence markers can be selected and moved together XMP metadata is now supported for all media file types Multiple mask control point selection Bezier pen tool for drawing irregular mask shapes Direct manipulation control on mask outlines for feathered edges	Caravan
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.2	Windows and Mac OS X	December 16, 2014	Arri Open Gate media Ability to set transitions and still image default durations in seconds or frames Cineform Export improvements Improved scrubbing and shuttling in long GOP MXF files QuickTime and Cineform codecs are now available for use as sequence preview file formats on Windows.	Caravan
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015.0 (9.0.0) Build 247	Windows and Mac OS X	June 15, 2015	New Morph Cut video transition to seamlessly remove Jump Cuts	Paper Plane