PREMIER PRO CS6 GODIS
user interface
- button editor, with which you can customize the buttons in various panels
- improved icon view in Project panel and Media Browser panel, with ability to scrub/preview media in thumbnails (“hover scrubbing”)
- improved usage indicators in Project panel, including tooltips and indications of which sequence(s) a clip is used in
- new default Editing workspace with better use of screen space for video content
- option to remove work area bar and instead use In and Out points for features that previously relied on the work area
- full-screen playback on primary monitor
- dozens of new and changed keyboard shortcuts, with option to continue to use Premiere Pro CS5.5 keyboard shortcuts
- options to show or hide user interface items such as time ruler markings
- new settings buttons and menus in monitor panels for easy access to commonly used view options
- gestural control on Mac computers with trackpads, including pinching to zoom and using two-fingered swipes for scrolling
importing and sequence setup
- integration with Adobe Prelude for ingest, logging, transcoding, and rough cuts
- alert when adding clip to an empty sequence if sequence settings don’t match footage characteristics, with option to match sequence settings to clip
- new native import of ARRI Alexa, RED Scarlet, RED Epic, and Canon Cinema EOS C300 footage
- new HD color bars and tone, which comply with ARIB STD-B28
editing
- improved markers, including import of markers from Adobe Prelude and display of marker comments in time ruler
- dynamic, keyboard-driven trimming in the monitor panels and Timeline panel, without needing to enter the Trim Monitor
- new keyboard shortcuts for working with edit points, navigating in the timeline, and performing other basic editing tasks
- new Render In To Out command for rendering preview for span between In and Out points marked in a sequence
effects and color
- Send To SpeedGrade, which exports a sequence for color work in SpeedGrade
- Warp Stabilizer effect
- Rolling Shutter Repair effect
- uninterrupted playback, which continues previews even while you modify effect properties and perform many other operations
- improved Dynamic Link, including removal of limitation of Dynamic Link to only work within a suite (i.e., Dynamic Link will now work between applications purchased as individual products)
- redesigned Three-Way Color Corrector effect
- double-click to apply effect to selected clips
performance
- GPU processing (Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration) extended to use OpenCL on some systems: AMD Radeon HD 6750M and AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card with 1GB VRAM in MacBook Pro computers running Mac OSX v10.7
- use of GPU acceleration by additional effects and transitions, including Warp Stabilizer effect and Push transition
- Mercury Transmit, a new interface making it easier for third-party I/O hardware manufacturers to interface with Premiere Pro, allowing for more robust and stable systems
audio
- new Audio Mixer panel, with features and design from Audition
- redesigned Audio Meters panel
- new standard audio track type, which can contain either mono or stereo audio
- extremely flexible and customizable multichannel audio mapping for output
- ability to choose which clip to use timecode from when using merged clips
exporting and Adobe Media Encoder
- new Preset Browser in Adobe Media Encoder for finding and using encoding presets
- parellel encoding in Adobe Media Encoder, which encodes multiple outputs simultaneously for greater performance
- redesigned Adobe Media Encoder user interface, with panel-based workspaces as in other Adobe professional video applications
- dozens of new keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Media Encoder
- new scaling and cropping options in Adobe Media Encoder, which make it easy to resolve mismatches between output dimensions and source dimensions (e.g., prevent black bars)
miscellaneous
- removed Device Central, but extended encoding presets for mobile devices in Adobe Media Encoder effectively fill a similar need
