ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 5.5 PRO

It strives to differentiate the camera motion you want from the shakycam qualities you don’t want, sometimes with odd results. The warp stabilizer isn’t perfect, of course. The Warp Stabilizer is such a dramatic addition to the Premiere editor’s arsenal that we asked Adobe to create a walkthrough video for StudioDaily. Think of Photoshop’s content-aware fill capabilities for still images, extended to work temporally across your video frames. The warp stabilizer will perform that crop for you automatically (this is the default setting) or, if you select the “synthesize edges” option, it will actually analyze other frames in your video and try to automatically rebuild those blank border areas. If you’ve done image stabilization before, you know you may have to crop your frame significantly at the end of the process to get rid of blank areas that were revealed at the margins of different frames as your image was shifted and pivoted to compensate for your camera shake. It also analyzes and tries to correct for some of those wobbly rolling-shutter artifacts. It then remaps that camera move you actually made to the one you wish you made – probably a smooth line or curve, like you’d get from a nicely executed dolly shot – and then warps each frame of your clip to try and recreate what the camera would have seen from its ideal position in that smooth move. Instead, it analyzes the picture to figure out how your camera was moving through a scene, generating a plethora of tracking points that it follows from frame to frame. It doesn’t just track and stabilize your image as a 2D plane. The sexiest new feature for editors is actually an After Effects tool, the “warp stabilizer.” As the name suggests, this is a camera-stabilization tool with a difference. (At press briefings last month, Adobe officials were unsure exactly what the final number would be, but said nearly a dozen cards would be newly supported by 5.5.) Smooth Moves CS5’s Mercury Playback Engine, which brought tremendous GPU-accelerated speed gains, has been beefed up to support as many as 30 NVIDIA cards. All of them can be further customized and saved as a preset.

If you’re a dyed-in-the-wool Final Cut or Avid user, you’ll appreciate the more robust key-mapping tools, including presets that mimic Media Composer 5 and FCP 7 keyboard layouts.

ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 5.5 PRO

What does that really mean for a creative pro using the software? Well, that depends on your workflow.

Adobe creative suite 5.5