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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 What’s New
More performance gains with the Mercury Playback Engine
The 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine brought extraordinary performance and stability to Adobe
Premiere Pro CS5. In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, the Mercury Playback Engine takes performance
to the next level, so that you get even faster playback of mixed-format timelines and more
GPU
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-accelerated effects and transitions. And the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro
CS5.5 supports additional Nvidia graphics cards for laptop and desktop computers, so you can
enjoy high-performance, real-time editing in the editing suite and on location.
New GPU-accelerated features, effects, and transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 include:
• Speed-change features. GPU-accelerated Time Remapping, Speed Change, and Backwards
functions enable you to create high-quality slow- or fast-motion footage and play clips back-
wards, all in real time without rst having to render them.
• Footage interpretation options. Easily modify the properties of clips using GPU-accelerated eects
that give you control over frame rate, aspect ratio, eld order, alpha channels, and pulldown removal.
• Field-order processing. Eliminate unwanted interlacing artifacts with GPU-accelerated opera-
tions that give you control over eld order, interlacing, deinterlacing, and icker removal.
• Transitions, including the new Film Dissolve . Move between clips using GPU-accelerated
Additive Dissolve to add the color information from clip B to clip A, and then subtract the
color information of clip A from clip B. The new Film Dissolve transition lets you achieve a
different look when moving between clips by using linear color blending to prevent certain
edge and halo artifacts, such as fringing, which appears when high-contrast saturated colors
are blended together.
• Blur eects. Use GPU-accelerated Fast Blur to quickly add blur to large areas of your clips, create
the illusion of motion using Directional Blur, andthanks to GPU accelerationsee the results in
real time.
Multiscreen delivery presets with Adobe Media Encoder
Reaching audiences wherever they are and on whatever device they use to watch video content is
an essential requirement of modern video production. New presets, intuitive context menus, and
dramatically enhanced watch folder support in Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5, a separate 64-bit
Transitioning
between two clips
using Additive
Dissolve (A and B)
and the new Film
Dissolve (C and D).
Notice the dierence
in color saturation
and in the edges
around the actor’s
hair (A and C) as well
as the appearance
of his le shoulder.
A
D
B
C
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Using NVIDIA graphics cards; depending on system conguration and le types.
Supported Nvidia Graphics Cards
e list of graphics cards
that are compatible with
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is
updated on a regular basis. For an
up-to-date list of supported cards,
please see www.adobe.com/
go/64bitsupport. For system
requirements and compatibility,
please see www.nvidia.com.