Adobe has released a free 140-page “Best Practices & Workflow Guide” for Premiere Pro. Adobe’s editing software has continued its steady rise and has been one of the de-facto industry standard for years. More recently, Adobe has added features like Productions, Multi-Camera-Editing and integrations with cloud services like Frame.io, making the software all the more compelling for larger production houses. Does the “Best Practices & Workflow Guide” give a comprehensive enough overview? Let’s find out! Adobe has indeed done a solid job in its stewardship of Premiere Pro. Turning back time to the film-to-digital transition, the industry seemed to be firmly divided between Final Cut Pro editors and Avid Media Composer(s) ruling major production houses. After Final Cut’s very divisive version 10 release and Avid’s years of arguably over-conservative handling of updates to Media Composer, Premiere Pro, at that time still the underdog, began to gain ground. Adobe Premiere Pro Nowadays, we face a different landscape. Despite a minor resurgence of usage in the Final-Cut-camp and Avid still being used in very complex production workflows, Premiere Pro has taken over parts of the industry. Of course, there are other solutions out there, such as DaVinci Resolve (version 18 just went final) and others, but Premiere Pro still seems to be quite popular amongst filmmakers and editors. Due to its integration into Adobe’s Creative Cloud, packaging and integration with After Effects and the addition of new features like the already mentioned Productions, everything ranging from the one-person so called “preditors” (producer-editors),...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 29 July, 2022