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January 4, 2007

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Adobe Premiere reborn from its own ashes

Posted Jan. 4, ’07, 8:43 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

Premiere ProBack in college I used to a decent amount of video editing. That was in the last days of OS 9, and the software I used was the software I’d learned way back in high school: Adobe Premiere. I made a handful of short videos with Premiere, and a couple of longer ones for clubs and classes. Then, in 2003, Adobe viciously killed Premiere for OS X. The reason cited for the disappearance was Apple’s own Final Cut package, which has since become the de facto editing software on the Mac— Adobe had basically conceded Mac video editing to Apple.

Or so it had seemed. Yet today, Adobe has announced that not only will Premiere be returning to the Mac, but it will do so as part of an Adobe Production Studio suite that will also include Soundbooth (relesed as a beta last year) and, in its Mac debut, Adobe Encore DVD. According to Adobe’s Simon Hayhurst, the new Premiere is reputedly built from the ground up for Intel processors (sorry, PowerPC users). Hayhurst went on to explain that the reason they decided to bring Premiere back was feedback from Final Cut Pro users.

On one condition, I’ll welcome Premiere back with open arms, and that’s backwards compatibility. A couple of months ago, I realized that I’d lost the final video file for one of my Premiere projects. I still had the Premiere project files and an OS 9 version of Premiere, but I had to reinstall OS 9 on a separate drive so I could load it up. I’d love to be able to bring those projects forward into an OS X-native environment.

There’s no price on the Production Studio suite as of yet, but I’d expect it to run in the same range as Creative Suite. As for timing, looks like we’ll be seeing it in mid-2007, around the same time as CS3 takes its bow.

[via Macworld]


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