Adobe Premiere 6.0 Question

[chi_red]

Hello,
I just have a couple of questions about Premiere.

1. Does Adobe Premiere 6.0 run on Window PX professional?

2. I checked out Adobe website for new features of Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 (http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/newfeatures.html). I t says there "Premiere Pro 1.5 supports Panasonic 24P/24PA support
Capture the look of film with support for new Panasonic 24P/24PA format cameras."
I have been told that Premiere does not support true 24p editing with 2:3:3:2 advanced pulldown...what is going on? Is this a new feature for Pro 1.5? How about Pro 1.0?, does 1.0 suppor 24P Advance?

3. Has anyone bought programs like Premiere through Ebay? I found some really cheap ones there. They claim to be Adobe Premiere Pro, Full Version, New in Shrinkwrapped Box.

[Mike_Donis]

The new Premiere Pro 1.5 is the first NLE by Adobe to support 24P Native capture and editing from the DVX.

Other versions of Premiere can support 24P editing (or 23.98) as well, but they dont let you capture straight from the camera into the program in native 24P. You'd have to use a third party program to remove the pulldown.

I'm definitely looking forward to Premiere Pro 1.5!!!

[chi_red]

You mean I could just buy 99 dollar DVFilm Maker and turn 60i into 24p, and use the converted 24p footages in Premiere 6.0? Nice~

Thanks Mike for your helpful answer.

[Mike_Donis]

Yup, you can definitely do that.

The only issue becomes one of quality; you're loading the footage with the DV codec, then when you convert it back to Native 24P, you compress it again into quicktime or something like that, and then once edited, you re-apply the pulldown, compressing it *again* with the DV codec. So basically you end up compressing/recompressing more than you should have to.

- unless of course you're making an uncompressed file, but that takes a LOT of disk space.

Unless you're needing a TRUE 24P edit (like if you plan on going to film, which is a VERY expensive process) or you're only streaming on the web, you might as well just shoot in 24P standard, edit the 60i footage that already has the 3:2 pulldown, in Premiere, as 60i footage. It'll LOOK like 24P footage when viewed on an NTSC television, albeit with a 3:2 pulldown. Many television programs edit in 60i, with pulled-down footage, having originated on film.