
The Audio editor has also been redesigned and indeed improved, with greater control and more accurate feedback of audio signal levels.


Other enhancements include a newly revamped Time Ruler bar in the the Source Monitor, Program Monitor, and Timeline panels and new properties and functionality for markers. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 also lets you put either the Program Monitor or the Source Monitor into full-screen cinema mode on your system's primary display with a key press. Full screen cinema, baby!Ī button editor allows you to customise this further, allowing for example you to add previously 'hidden' buttons such as Play Around and Loop. There's thus no dead space on either side any more and no more jog and shuttle controls. Now the Source and Program monitors seem a lot clearer, allowing big uncluttered displays of footage - the monitor buttons sitting comfortably on a single row below. Premiere Pro always seemed a bit cramped and techy for a creative tool. Personally we like the 'big media focus' on the user interface. If you're on Premiere Pro CS5.5 it's perhaps not an essential upgrade, but for everyone else, and particularly if have a NVIDIA CUDA card in your machine, it's definitely worth a trial. Apple caught flak for changing the interface and workflow its users were so adhered to, but while there's a new interface and many enhancements here, there's not the same revolutionary overhaul that so alienated some of Apple's user base. There's also a limited number of Adobe-certified GPU cards recommended for GPU-accelerated rendering, though it's good that users of the recently released Macbook Pro, if not other laptop users, can take advantage of this power. However, although there's a lot to like, there are (albeit a few) bugs in the (preview version) of the software and the Warp Stabilizer couldn't handle everything thrown at it. The wide-open UI is also very welcome - as of course is GPU acceleration.


Trimming is a lot faster both in the Timeline and in the Program Monitor, as is the application of effects via double-click and Adjustment Layers. Good features include the new Project panel and Media Browser functionality- both as an alternative to using the source monitor and the ability to really speed up the workflow.
