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Summary: STAY AWAY!!!
Review: I have Adobe Premiere 6.01 and while it has good intentions, it is the "buggiest" program I've ever used. If you take one step forward, Adobe will take you two steps back. Fix one problem, two more will pop up. Playback problems, exporting problems, editing problems....Adobe should have kept this one until all the bugs were worked out. If you need proof, visit Adobe.com and browse through the hundreds of fed up customers on their Forum page. Ulead Media Studio Pro is a lot less painful to use, and you get the same results.
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Summary: Be careful! I bought an upgrade that doesn't upgrade!
Review: I just spent [dollar amount] on a product that announces itself as an upgrade. After purchasing it and trying unsuccessfully to install it in my computer, I called Adobe and was informed that I had purchased the wrong upgrade. The wrong upgrade? Yes, you see, I have a PC with Premiere LE installed in it. And Adobe markets an upgrade for that specific software package. The upgrade I bought, of course (?), is intended only for folks who already had Premiere 5.0 installed in their computers. Oh? How would I know that before buying it? There's no indication on the advertising which Amazon uses for the product -- and I'm sure that Amazon is only using what Adobe provided them.I'm going to try to return the package to Amazon -- but it's really not their fault that Adobe's packaging is so unclear. (There is no indication in the description Adobe provided Amazon. Check it out for yourself. The actual package that arrived does indicate, in small print on a sticker, that it was intended for licensed users of 5.x. Even then, however, it doesn't say that it is not compatible as an upgrade for LE. If it had said that, I wouldn't have opened the package and tried to install it. Since it didn't tell me, I made the wrong assumption that the note about 5.x was to reassure those people that the upgrade would work for them, too.)
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Summary: Be careful! I bought an upgrade that doesn't upgrade!
Review: I just spent [dollar amount] on a product that announces itself as an upgrade. After purchasing it and trying unsuccessfully to install it in my computer, I called Adobe and was informed that I had purchased the wrong upgrade. The wrong upgrade? Yes, you see, I have a PC with Premiere LE installed in it. And Adobe markets an upgrade for that specific software package. The upgrade I bought, of course (?), is intended only for folks who already had Premiere 5.0 installed in their computers. Oh? How would I know that before buying it? There's no indication on the advertising which Amazon uses for the product -- and I'm sure that Amazon is only using what Adobe provided them. I'm going to try to return the package to Amazon -- but it's really not their fault that Adobe's packaging is so unclear. (There is no indication in the description Adobe provided Amazon. Check it out for yourself. The actual package that arrived does indicate, in small print on a sticker, that it was intended for licensed users of 5.x. Even then, however, it doesn't say that it is not compatible as an upgrade for LE. If it had said that, I wouldn't have opened the package and tried to install it. Since it didn't tell me, I made the wrong assumption that the note about 5.x was to reassure those people that the upgrade would work for them, too.)
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Summary: fantastic software
Review: I tried this product and it's absolutley great. Premiere needed an upgrade and this works, the webpage features are great.
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: It is true that Premiere does have some problems in crashing and other bugs that need to be fixed. But overall is is a very powerful and helpful program for video editing. And about the comments "don't get it if you're a beginner", it's all [bad]. Adobe has a very friendly interface. Of course you can't expect to have never used a video-editing software tool and become an expert as soon as you open it. You have to play around with it a little.
Concerning the program, Premiere has exelent exporting encoders. There is virtually no decrease in quality if you do it right. Also there are numerous edit facilities in transactions, video and audio effects. And remember that there are many plug-ins for this video-editing software, so you can always buy more and expand your Premiere.
About the system requirements, you have to ask yourself just how much of a profesional are you. Yes you can use a Pentium II with the minimum of 128 MB RAM, but then you're talking about editing small things. Having tested it on a Penium III 800MHz / 256 SDRAM and an Athlon 900MHz / 256 SDRAM, I have come to realise that this is satisfactory for small edits such as home videos and video clips. But if the concern is about low-budget movies, you either need a very powerful computer system, or a video-editing card...Also when editing video, it is usually edited in DV format for minimum quality loss. This means large amounts of HD storage.
The upgrade 6.0 offers web facilities and better fire-wire capturing, which brings the program one step above what it was, as capturing in particular is perhaps the most important aspect in video editing.
Wraping it up, I would recomend Adobe Premiere to any beginner who wants to become serious, as well as to the profesional who has a relatively low budget.
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Summary: The "Buggiest program ever" guy is crazy.
Review: Premiere is EXTREMELY powerful. If you are new to video editing, don't buy this program. Stability is completely based on the system you install it on. If premiere crashes, you bought cheap RAM or you have too little RAM or you bought your (...) computer from someone who uses (...)RAM because they know that you can't tell the difference. If you have problems with Premiere crashing, check adobe's online problem solving data base. They offer something like 27 solutions to every crash there is. I solved my crash problems in 3 steps. This program is extrememly powerful and is worth every penny.
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Summary: The "Buggiest program ever" guy is crazy.
Review: Premiere is EXTREMELY powerful. If you are new to video editing, don't buy this program. Stability is completely based on the system you install it on. If premiere crashes, you bought cheap RAM or you have too little RAM or you bought your (...) computer from someone who uses (...)RAM because they know that you can't tell the difference. If you have problems with Premiere crashing, check adobe's online problem solving data base. They offer something like 27 solutions to every crash there is. I solved my crash problems in 3 steps. This program is extrememly powerful and is worth every penny.
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