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Alan Hamill, Dynamic Media Application Engineer at Adobe
The Launch of Premiere 6.0

January 24, 2001

Alan Hamill, Dynamic Media Application Engineer at Adobe, discusses the launch of Premiere 6.0. Alan chats about the new features of Premiere 6.0 and answer questions about this powerful tool. Adobe Premiere software allows anyone to become a movie producer. It includes one-step export to leading Web video formats.

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Showtime: Please welcome Mr. Alan Hamill. He's a Dynamic Media Application Engineer at Adobe Systems and is a specialist in digital video technology and Adobe digital video products. He knows pretty much everything there is to know about Premiere 6.0. For all you budding movie producers out there, here is your opportunity to get your questions answered. Alan, by the way, is a native of Scotland. Alt.SHO.com is pleased to have Alan as our guest. Welcome, Alan! Let's get started!

Alan Hamill: I'm really pleased to be here, and I'm very happy with the release of Premiere 6.0 And I certainly hope that the people using Premiere 6.0 will enjoy a productive and fun time using it. I shall do my best to answer any and all questions asked of me. Thank you!

Sierra: What are some of the features we can look forward to using with Premier 6.0?

Alan Hamill: In Premiere 6.0 one of the fundamental new features is robust DV support. In relating to this Premiere 6.0, it has extensive support for many DV cameras and formats. For example, there is support for non-square pixels. Also, there are many DV presets to make it easy to customize and adapt your DV device for Premiere. Also, one other menu feature is One Step Web Output. We have multiple Web export options. It is very easy to take DV material into Premiere and export the movie suitable for the Web. Adobe Premiere also offers the ability to set timeline markers, that includes links to HTML pages. Therefore, the information within your movie which was created in Premiere can automatically launch Web pages at precise points during playback of the movie. For those interested in audio, there is now a sophisticated audio mixer. And this is a professional level tool for blending multiple audio tracks and adjusting gain and pan. Also, in order to very rapidly assemble material for quick results, we have a storyboard window. This storyboard window allows you to assemble a rough cut within minutes. You can then send your clips, your movie clips, to the timeline in sequence using the new Automate to Timeline feature. Another thing to point out is customizable workspaces. Which allow you to configure your workspace according to your own needs. There are many other improvements within the program. But certainly, we have focused on ease of use, and the capability to take DV in and output to the Web, in easy stages. And, also in conclusion, Premiere shares a very strong integration with all our other applications. For example, Photoshop Illustrator and Adobe GoLive!, and I hope that's an indication of some of the new features.

Sandy TX: Are there any additional requirements that I need on my computer to run this software?

Alan Hamill: Additional requirements. I shall talk briefly about the requirements. Briefly, on the Macintosh OS 904, 32 megabytes of RAM minimum. But I would recommend 128 or more. And of course, a large hard disk. On Windows, the same recommendations, 32 MB of RAM, and the operating systems we recommend are Windows 98, Windows 2000, and I personally prefer Windows NT 4. And perhaps a mention of capture cards. A capture card is required to bring video to the computer. A user can check on the Adobe Web site as to which capture cards are certified for use with Premiere. And certainly we have more detailed specifications and requirements on the Web site.

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