Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 ReadMe

ADOBE® PREMIERE PRO® 2.0 README

January, 2006

This file contains late-breaking product information, updates to the Adobe Premiere Pro documentation, and troubleshooting tips. Please print this document for future reference.

The Help menu in Adobe Premiere Pro contains the entire User Guide. For your convenience, PDF versions of the online help documentation are located on your DVD in the Documentation folder. You can install Adobe Reader from the application DVD.

For further troubleshooting and information, see the User Guide, online Help, or Adobe.com.

This ReadMe is divided into the following sections:

System Requirements
Installation and Activation Instructions
Important: Registration Information
Education Version
Troubleshooting and Known Issues
Other Resources
Legal Notices

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.4GHz processor for DV (Pentium 4 3.4GHz processor for HDV; dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz processors for HD; SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD® systems)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2
512MB RAM for DV; 2GB RAM for HDV and HD
4GB available hard-disk space for installation
Dedicated 7,200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV; striped disk array (RAID 0) for HD
Microsoft DirectX-compatible sound card (multichannel ASIO-compatible card for surround sound)
DVD-ROM drive for installation
DVD+-R burner for DVD creation
1,280x1,024 video display with 32-bit color adapter
OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 video interface card for DV and HDV
QuickTime 6.5 or higher
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Adobe-recommended graphics card required for GPU-accelerated playback (see www.adobe.com/compatiblehardware)

For information on compatible third-party hardware, see the Adobe Premiere Pro thrid-party hardware page at http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/dvhdwrdb.html.

INSTALLATION AND ACTIVATION INSTRUCTIONS

Make sure that your computer meets the system requirements for Adobe Premiere Pro. The system requirements are listed on the Adobe Premiere Pro box and in this ReadMe file.

The installer requires that you enter the serial number. The serial number is located on the back of the application DVD case or, if you downloaded the software electronically from the Web, it is on the receipt page that confirms your purchase (a copy of the receipt page is e-mailed to you). For software downloads, you can also view the product’s serial number in your Order History section of the Adobe web site if you purchased the software through Adobe. If you are installing an upgrade version of the software, you will need the serial number from the previous version.

After you install Adobe Premiere Pro, visit http://www.adobe.com to register your product and obtain product information.

Installing, starting, and uninstalling Adobe Premiere Pro

Before you can use Adobe Premiere Pro, you must install the application onto your hard disk. If you want to uninstall the application, use the Add or Remove Programs utility in the Windows Control Panel or run the application DVD.

To install Adobe Premiere Pro:

Restart Windows, and do not start any other applications.
Do one of the following:

If you are installing Adobe Premiere Pro from a DVD, insert the application DVD into your DVD drive. If the installer starts automatically, follow the on-screen instructions to install the application. If the installer does not start automatically, double-click Setup.exe in the Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 folder, and then follow the on-screen instructions to install the application.
If you downloaded Adobe Premiere Pro from the Web, the installer should start automatically when the download completes. If it doesn’t, double-click Setup.exe in the Adobe Premiere Pro folder you downloaded. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the application.

Activating Adobe Premiere Pro

Activation is a simple process you must complete within 30 days of installing the software. Activation allows you to continue using the software, and it helps to prevent casual copying of the software onto more computers than the license agreement allows. Instructions to activate Adobe Premiere Pro are provided below. For more information about activation, visit the Adobe web site at www.adobe.com/activation.

You can activate your copy of Adobe Premiere Pro during installation or at a later time over the Internet or by phone. Activation over the Internet takes just a few seconds.

If you replace or reformat your computer's hard drive, you may need to reactivate the software. If you want to install the software on a different computer, you first need to transfer the activation to it. Transferring activation involves deactivating the software on one computer and then reactivating it on another.

To activate Adobe Premiere Pro:

During installation or the first time you launch the software, the Activation dialog box automatically appears.
The first Activation dialog box appears. Do one of the following:

If you want to activate Adobe Premiere Pro over the Internet and you have an active Internet connection, click Activate to complete the activation.
If you want to activate by phone or at a later time, click Activation Options.

If you clicked Activation Options, click Next in the Activation Information dialog box, and then select one of the following activation options:

Select Over The Internet, and then click Activate to complete the activation.
Select By Telephone Via The Automated Software Activation System, and then click Next. Call the phone number that appears on-screen to contact Adobe Customer Service. Enter the authorization code they provide, and then click Activate.
Select Remind Me if you want to delay the activation. Choose a reminder option from the pop-up menu, and then click Next.

If you need help activating the software, please contact Adobe Customer Service. In North America call 800-833-6687. For a list of phone numbers for other countries, please visit www.adobe.com/support/intlsupport.html.

To transfer the activation to use the software on a different computer:

After you transfer the activation and uninstall the software, you can install and reactivate the software on the new computer.

Note: Be sure to transfer the activation before you uninstall the software, unless you intend to reinstall the software on the same computer.

Connect to the Internet from your computer.
Close all Adobe applications.
Start any application that you installed as part of your Adobe Premiere Pro installation.
Choose Help > Transfer Activation.
Follow the on-screen instructions.

If you need help transferring an activation, please contact Adobe Customer Service.

To start Adobe Premiere Pro:

Choose Start > Programs > Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.

To uninstall Adobe Premiere Pro:

Close Adobe Premiere Pro
Do one of the following:

Open the Windows Control Panel, and double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the Adobe Premiere Pro version that you want to uninstall, and then click Change/Remove. In the Adobe Premiere Pro Setup dialog box, select Remove, and then click Next. Follow the on-screen instructions to remove Adobe Premiere Pro.
Insert the Adobe Premiere Pro application DVD into your DVD drive. If the installer does not start automatically, double-click Setup.exe in the Adobe Premiere Pro folder.

IMPORTANT: REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Please complete your registration card and mail it today or register on-line at http://www.adobe.com/register. You must register to receive technical support and important product update information.

EDUCATION VERSION

The SteadyMove plug-in is not included with the education version of Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. For more information on education versions of Adobe products, see http://www.adobe.com/education/main.html.

TROUBLESHOOTING AND KNOWN ISSUES

Performance

Adobe Premiere Pro can now take advantage of up to 3 GB RAM. See the Microsoft web site for information on configuring your system to use extended memory: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx. To avoid potential incompatibility, make sure you have the latest drivers for your video and audio cards.

Some removable storage devices cannot be used as scratch disk locations. When pointing a scratch disk to a removable storage device, you may receive an error that the location is not valid. If you do, choose another location.

If you resize the Monitor panel during playback and you have GPU-accelerated playback enabled, the display mode will revert to Compatible (non-GPU-accelerated). To restore GPU acceleration, choose Project > Project Settings > General and click Playback Settings. In the Desktop Display Mode group, select Accelerated GPU Effects.

Device Control

For serial device control, Adobe recommends using Pipeline Digital cables. More information can be found at the Pipeline Digital web site (http://www.pipelinedigital.com). Generic cables are unlikely to work and cannot be supported by Adobe technical support.

Device control will not work properly if you connect more than one device to the same FireWire port. It is recommended that you attach only one device to a FireWire port.

Working with footage

Premiere Pro may become unresponsive if you import a .WMV file that has a long duration (on the order of 1.5 hours).

When working with clips that have a different field dominance than your project, you may experience field dominance issues like flickering. For example, DV footage rendered in an HD project will flicker.

MP3 audio is not supported within an AVI file. If you import an AVI file that has MP3 audio, such as a Divx-encoded AVI, audio is not imported.

When working with Adobe Photoshop files, Adobe Premiere Pro uses the c: drive as a scratch disk. Problems may occur if this drive is full. For best results, make sure that you have at least 1GB free space on the c: drive when working with Photoshop files in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Working with HD projects and footage

Depending on your system configuration, Windows Media Player may not be able to play MPEG HDV clips captured in Adobe Premiere Pro. Windows Media Player uses the most-recent MPEG codec installed on your system. Some MPEG codecs, like those that come with DVD player applications, cannot support HDV MPEG frame sizes. If Windows Media Player cannot play MPEG HDV files, try installing another MPEG codec or uninstall and then reinstall Windows Media Player.

Real-time playback of HD footage in the Multi-Camera Monitor is not supported.

When you create a new trimmed project using the Project Manager (Project > Project Manager), HDV clips are not trimmed. The entire HDV clip is included in the new project.

You may notice increased latency when playing back audio clips via on-board AJA audio outputs. If you encounter this, use a low-latency ASIO-compliant audio device instead of the AJA audio outputs.CineForm HDV clips drop frames playing in Source window.

For best performance when opening HDV projects created in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1, you must render the content in the Timeline before playback. This render step is required because version 2.0 now edits HDV natively.

Editing a sequence

While recording edits in the Multi-Camera Monitor during playback, if you close the panel by clicking the Close button in the upper right corner of the floating panel, any edits made during the current recording will not be saved to the timeline. You should stop playback before closing the Multi-Camera Monitor.

When Full Screen Video is enabled on a system that has an NVIDIA card, performance in the Multi-Camera Monitor may be slower than expected and output of an HD project to multiple external monitors may fail (specifically, enabling Monitor 2 in the Playback Settings dialog box causes both monitors to go blank when the sequence is played). To avoid these issues, disable Full Screen Video in the NVIDIA display properties.

Working with effects and filters

When saving a custom effect preset, first make sure the Effects panel is open in your workspace (Window > Effects). If the Effects panel is not open, the preset will not be saved.

Creating Titles

Adobe Premiere Pro installs new Titler styles that are not displayed in the styles library. You can explore these styles by choosing Append Style Library or Replace Style Library from the fly-out menu in the Titler Styles panel. In the Open Style Library dialog box, navigate to the \Preset\Styles folder in the Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 application folder (the default location is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0\Presets\Styles).

Video output

If the External Device pop-up menu in the Playback Settings dialog box (Project > Project Settings > General) is set to None, no video is recorded when you export to tape.

If you click outside the Adobe Premiere Pro application window while exporting to tape, the export will stop.

Clip Notes

Clip Notes presets have been updated to improve the aspect ratio of the video output. For best performance, it is recommended that you install the new presets. To install the presets, insert the Adobe Premiere Pro application DVD and navigate to the ClipNotes folder contained on it. Copy the entire ClipNotes folder to the Adobe Premiere Pro application folder on your hard drive at ...\Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0\MediaIO\Presets. Click Yes when asked if you want to replace the existing folder.

If you export a sequence that has a duration of more than 30 minutes to a Clip Notes PDF using the QuickTime format, the export may fail or the resulting PDF may have audio and video that is out of sync. To export a long sequence, select the Windows Media format instead.

If you encounter problems playing back QuickTime video in a Clip Notes PDF, make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader installed. You can download the latest version of Adobe Reader for free at www.adobe.com/reader.

Creating DVDs

DVD Markers are not exported when you burn a DVD without a menu, for example when using the command File > Export > Export to DVD. If you want chapter points on an auto-play DVD, set Sequence Markers on your timeline instead.

If you burn an NTSC DV project to DVD using the MPEG audio format, audio is not exported (MPEG audio is not supported by the NTSC DVD specification). By default, the DVD export presets available in Adobe Premiere Pro for NTSC DV use the PCM audio format. It is recommended that you use the default presets when exporting an NTSC DV project to DVD.

You will receive an error when exporting to DVD using a frame rate of 23.976 unless you set the N frames value to 12. To export to DVD using 23.976 fps, click the Settings button in the Burn DVD dialog box. Choose any of the available export presets. On the Video tab, select 23.976 from the Frame Rate pop-up menu. In the N Frames pop-up menu, select 12 (you may need to scroll down in the Video tab to view the N Frames field).

Keyboard shortcut documentation errata

The following keyboard shortcuts are documented incorrectly in the Adobe Premiere Pro help system:

To navigate to the beginning or end of a clip in the Timeline panel, use the Page Up or Page Down key. To navigate to the beginning or end of a sequence in the Timeline panel, use the Home or End key.
To display the Trim Monitor panel, use the shortcut Ctrl+T.
Keyboard shortcuts for closing source clips in the Source Monitor are not available in Premiere Pro 2.0.

OTHER RESOURCES

Visit the Adobe Premiere Pro page on the Adobe Systems Inc. Web site: http://www.adobe.com/premierepro. You will find links to tutorials, user-to-user forums, Adobe Customer Support, and more.

Also, sign up for our free Technical Announcements -- timely e-mails that will keep you up-to-date with technical how-to's, patches, and more: http://www.adobe.com/support/emaillist.html.

LEGAL NOTICES

Adobe and Adobe Premiere are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Intel and Pentium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.