| Version |
Platform |
Release date |
Significant changes |
| Adobe Premiere 1.0 |
Mac |
December 1991 |
- First release of Premiere
- QuickTime multimedia and VideoSpigot format support
- PICT image support
- Supported up to 160 x 120 pixels movie creation
- Supported 8-bit audio
- Supported output to video tape
|
| Adobe Premiere 2.0 |
Mac |
September 1992 |
- QuickTime video and audio capture support
- Title creation
- Title, Sequence, and Construction windows
- Slow/fast motion support
- 5 audio and 41 movie/still-image filters
- 49 special effects
- 16-bit, 44 kHz audio support
- Filmstrip file format introduced
- Numbered PICT sequence support
- EDL support
- Illustrator text import
- SMPTE timecode support
|
| Adobe Premiere 3.0 |
Mac |
August 1993 |
- 99 stereo audio tracks
- 97 video tracks
- Video waveform monitor
- Sub-pixel motion and field rendering
- Batch digitizing
- Full framerate preview from disk
- Enhanced title window
|
| Adobe Premiere 1.0 |
Windows |
September 1993 |
- First release of Premiere application for Windows platform
- 24-bit AVI and QuickTime video format support
- Autodesk Animator file support
- AVI, AIFF, and WAV audio format support
- Still image support (Photoshop, BMP, DIB, PCX, PICT, PCX, and TIFF formats)
- Two video tracks, three audio tracks, and one transition and superimpose track
- No EDL, titling, and motion and device control available in then current Mac (v3.0) release
|
| Adobe Premiere 1.1 |
Windows |
February 1994 |
- AdobeCap video capture module
- Expanded graphics and audio file support
- TARGA and ADPCM file support
- Image sequence import support
|
| Adobe Premiere 4.0 |
Mac |
July 1994 |
- Support for 97 superimposition tracks plus two A/B tracks
- Trim window
- Dynamic previewing
- Custom filter and transition creation
- Time variable filters
- Batch capture
- Time-lapse capture
- NTSC 29.97 frame rate support
|
| Adobe Premiere 4.0 |
Windows |
December 1994 |
- Adobe moves Windows platform release of Premiere directly from v1.1 to v4.0
- Premiere 4.0 for Windows matches capabilities of Premiere 4.0 for Macintosh
|
| Adobe Premiere 4.2 |
Mac |
October 1995 |
- CD-ROM Movie Maker Plug-in
- Data rate analysis tool
- Power Macintosh-native Sound Manager 3.1
|
| Adobe Premiere 4.2 |
Windows |
April 1996 |
- 32-bit architecture
- Long File Names support
- Background compiling
- Batch movie maker
- 4K output support
- Right-mouse button support
- Uninstaller utility
|
| Adobe Premiere 4.2 for Silicon Graphics |
UNIX/SGI |
July 1997 |
- SGI O2 platform exclusive release
- IRIX 6.3 integration
- OpenGL accelerated versions of transition and special effects plug-ins
- Platform-specific plug-ins by Silicon Graphics for combining 3D and video content
|
| Adobe Premiere 5.0 |
Windows and Mac |
May 1998 |
- Source/Program editing
- Title window editor
- Keyframeable audio and video filters
- Collapsible tracks
- Up to three hour project length support
|
| Adobe Premiere 5.1 |
Windows and Mac |
October 1998 |
- QuickTime 3.0 support
- DPS Perception support
- Preview to RAM
- "Smart" Preview file Timeline export
- Multi-threaded, dual processor support
|
| Adobe Premiere 6.0 |
Windows and Mac |
January 2001 |
- Support for web video and DV formats
- OHCI support
- Title editor
- Storyboard
- Audio mixer
- Timeline video track keyframes
|
| Adobe Premiere 6.5 |
Windows and Mac |
August 2002 |
- Real-time preview
- Adobe Title Designer
- Exporting to DVD as MPEG-2
|
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0
(Adobe Premiere 7.0) |
Windows |
August 21, 2003 |
- Rewritten source code for the whole program
- Multiple nested timelines
- Color correction tools
- Sample-level audio editing
- Track-based audio effects
- 5.1 surround sound support
- VST audio filters and ASIO audio hardware support
- AAF export
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Adobe Media Encoder
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 |
Windows |
May 24, 2004 |
- Project Manager
- Panasonic 24p support
- Effects favorites
- Project-ready Photoshop file creation
- Automatic loading of built-in After Effects plug-ins
- After Effects clipboard support
- One-click color correction
- AAF and EDL import and export
- New DeEsser and DeHummer audio filters
- New GPU effects
- Bézier keyframe controls
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 |
Windows |
March 1, 2005 |
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 |
Windows |
January 17, 2006 |
- Docking Workspaces
- Multicam editing
- Adobe Clip Notes
- Dynamic Link with After Effects projects
- DVD authoring from the timeline
- Native HDV editing
- Native SD and HD support
- Enhanced color-correction tools
- 10-bit and 16-bit color resolution support
- 32-bit internal color processing
- GPU-accelerated rendering
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
July 2, 2007 |
- Output to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and Flash
- High-quality slow motion with time remapping
- Direct-to-disc recording and professional on-set monitoring
- Publish Adobe Encore projects to the web
- Multiple project panels with smart file search
- Improved editing efficiency
- Output for mobile devices
- Help documentation available online
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 v3.1.0 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
October 18, 2007 |
- Native Panasonic P2 MXF import, editing, and export
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 v3.2.0 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
April 14, 2008 |
- Native Sony XDCAM MXF import and editing
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
September 23, 2008 |
- Speech Search
- Batch encoding using Adobe Media Encoder
- Over 50 enhancements to editing efficiency (apply filters/transitions to multiple clips, sync lock, smart zoom)
- Media Browser panel to efficiently browse file-based recording media (e.g. Panasonic P2 and XDCAM)
- Project intelligence with new XMP metadata support
- Blending modes
- Sequence-level settings
- Dynamic Link to open Premiere Pro sequences directly in Adobe Encore
- Enhanced Photoshop file import
- Mac support for OnLocation
- AVCHD support (not available in the trial version)
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.0.1 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
November 20, 2008 |
- Final Cut Pro XML import
- OMF export
- Enhanced third-party support
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.1.0 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
May 29, 2009 |
- Additional support for REDCODE
- Performance improvements to project load time
- Improvements to AVCHD support
- Performance enhancements for DV/HDV playback
- Support for Avid-captured DV or IMX footage
- New 16 channel audio tracks for playout
- Export media to a still format now bypasses the AME render queue
- Enabled .VOB extension support
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.2.0 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
November 10, 2009 |
- Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra support (including new sequence presets)
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 v4.2.1 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
December 8, 2009 |
- Fixed memory issue that occurred when importing large numbers of AVC-Intra files into Adobe Premiere Pro
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
April 30, 2010 |
- 64-bit native application (32-bit OS no longer supported)
- Mercury Playback Engine, which supports GPU-accelerated rendering using qualified nVidia CUDA graphics cards
- Ultra keyer for chroma keying
- Final Cut Pro XML export
- DPX format import and export
- Metadata integration with Adobe Story and Adobe OnLocation
- Face detection and improved speech-to-text
- Direct export option, bypassing Adobe Media Encoder
- Fractional resolution options
- Audio capture metering
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 v5.0.1 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
May 26, 2010 |
- Mercury Playback Engine supports additional layers on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 GPU card
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 v5.0.2 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
September 1, 2010 |
- Windows-based Mercury Playback Engine support for new NVIDIA cards (GTX 470, Quadro 4000, Quadro 5000)
- Import and export of RED RMD files to and from REDCINE-X software
- XD-CAM HD export
- Source timecode in XDCAM 4:2:2 footage
- Support QuickTime files from JVC solid-state cameras
- RED Rocket cards support
- Broadcast Wave audio file format support
- Broadcast Wave in OMF export support
- 10-bit DisplayPort support for NVIDIA Quadro cards (Windows only)
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 v5.0.3 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
December 7, 2010 |
- Mercury Playback Engine support for the NVIDIA Quadro 5000m card (Windows) and the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 card (Mac)
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
May 3, 2011 |
- Mercury Playback Engine support for more NVIDIA cards (Geforce GTX 570, 580, Quadro FX 3700M, FX 3800M, 2000, 2000D, 2000M, 3000M, 4000M, 5010M, 6000)
- MPE acceleration of more video effects
- Merge clips for dual system audio
- Closed captioning playout to firewire and third-party hardware
- Adobe Audition CS5.5 integration
- Improved speech-to-text using Adobe Story scripts
- Canon XF metadata support
- New Film Dissolve effect, Subtract and Divide blend modes
|
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 |
Windows and Mac OS X |
May 25, 2012 |
- Redesigned Interface
- Adobe Prelude CS6 integration
- Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 integration
- Adobe Encore CS6 integration
- Updated Three-Way Color Corrector
- Adjustment layers feature
- New Preset Browser
- Rolling Shutter Repair effect
- Warp Stabilizer effect
- Larger thumbnails (with Resizing and Hover Scrubbing)
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