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Adobe® Prelude™ PreviewIngest and logging of file-based media

Jump-start your production with Adobe Prelude, a unified interface for easy ingest and logging that allows you to work faster, stay organized, and prepare your digital footage for a streamlined post-production process. Adobe Prelude gives you the tools to define and shape your visual narrative right from the start. Create rough cuts with production notes that flow into Adobe Premiere® Pro, communicating the vision for the project through final editing.

Save time with an intuitive, keyboard-driven workflow, entering temporal markers and other searchable metadata while keeping your eyes on what matters most: your footage. With expanded file support for ingest and transcoding, Adobe Prelude accelerates shot-logging with new features like hover scrubbing thumbnails in the Project panel, file renaming during ingest, and metadata templates which ensure that key information is always added. Export rough cuts directly through Adobe Media Encoder to share your vision on virtually any device. Collaborate in new ways with your team with new support for Adobe Anywhere and Adobe Story screenwriting and production scheduling software.

Adobe Prelude brings efficient and reliable logging, ingest, and transcoding to your laptop—on location or after the day’s shoot. Use it alongside all the other Adobe production tools such as Adobe Premiere® Pro and Photoshop® and discover how simple it is to get great results quickly and efficiently.

Adobe Prelude offers an integrated interface for ingest, logging, and transcoding that is both powerful and simple to operate.

Adobe Creative Cloud

With Adobe® Creative Cloud™, a simple monthly membership gives you the complete collection of Adobe creative desktop applications. Along with cloud storage, Creative Cloud members automatically get access to new tools and product updates as soon as they’re released. You also get services like Adobe Story Plus, which provides collaborative screenwriting and production management tools. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. www.creativecloud.com

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What’s coming in Adobe Prelude

Easy metadata templates Get exactly the metadata you need for post-production. Prelude lets you create custom metadata templates, so collecting key information becomes an easy and integral part of the ingest workflow.

Renaming files on ingest Set up your own filename presets to automatically rename files upon ingest so that you can search and find files more easily both during and after production.

Export rough cuts for review Share rough cuts faster by exporting directly to Adobe Media Encoder from Prelude to create review versions for easy distribution. At any point, you can also choose Send to Adobe Premiere Pro to create a sequence ready for editing.

Hover scrub thumbnails Quickly review clips in the Project panel by hover-scrubbing thumbnails—no need to open the clip to see what is there. Click the clip make it active and play it (including audio) using standard keyboard controls.

Add file metadata

Set up your template at the start of your project to ensure that all the information you need is logged for each shot.

Choose clips ExportAssemble rough cut

Create rough cut edits for review right in Prelude.

Who uses Adobe Prelude?

Editors and assistants count on Prelude to start their projects on the right foot: ingesting and selecting shots, building assembly edits, and adding markers and comments that will speed up their editing workflows.

Photojournalists and documentary filmmakers use Prelude to quickly log, transcode, and organize field footage, and to create rough cuts with metadata.

Directors and producers rely on Prelude for adding production notes, ensuring their ideas are clearly communicated to the editor and that their material is prepped and ready for post-production.

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Turn your script into metadata Working with scripts created in Adobe Story Plus, you can drag and drop scenes to link them with footage as searchable metadata. You can also create speech transcription markers via Adobe Media Encoder that allow you to search by specific words. Your script becomes meaningful metadata that flows into Adobe Premiere Pro, informing and speeding your editing. Adobe Story Plus is available as part of Creative Cloud.

Support for growing files Save time by ingesting and logging growing files. This means post-production and editing work can begin even as production continues. This is great for projects requiring a fast turnaround, such as live-to-broadcast shows. As footage is being recorded by a system such as Omneon Mediagrid or Sienna PictureReady, Prelude continues to check in to see which files have grown. Prelude then refreshes that material so you can continue to work on your footage.

Ingest files directly into selected bins Save time and get your media organized from the get-go by setting destination bins for your footage.

Sony XMPilot metadata support Ingest clips directly into Prelude with planning metadata as well as markers added during the shoot. Save time in production and make it easier to find the files you need afterwards.

Enable team collaboration with Adobe Anywhere Prelude is integrated with Adobe Anywhere, empowering virtually instant collaboration within distributed teams. Ingest and log files to remote servers so your team can get right to work, regardless of their locations. Note: Adobe Anywhere for video is available as a separate purchase and implementation.

Drag scene from Adobe StoryDrop on clip to add metadata

Set the refresh rate for Growing Files in Adobe Prelude.

Prelude is now 64-bit

Get rock-solid performance and stability with 64-bit Prelude on Mac and Windows. Take full advantage of your computer’s memory when play-ing back HD and larger formats.

Customize your tools

With Prelude, you can customize colors for different marker types and set Skip Back duration, marker pre-roll, and default durations to help you work more efficiently.

Color code your markers

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More Prelude highlights

Heads-up loggingSpeed up your logging workflow with a streamlined interface and intelligent keyboard control. Preview clips and log temporal markers and other searchable metadata while keeping your eyes on the footage itself.

Full or partial clip ingestStart working faster by ingesting clips in full, or just the portions you want, to save time and reduce storage needs. Set the In and Out points right on the clip thumbnails; Adobe Media Encoder creates a new clip from the marked range.

Transcoding to multiple formatsTranscode files to multiple formats as you ingest clips. Simply set up a primary destination folder and format, add additional destinations and their corresponding formats, and then click Ingest.

Get Adobe PreludeThe next version of Adobe Prelude is not yet shipping. But when you become an Adobe Creative Cloud member, you have access to the latest versions and features as soon as they are released. Join today and get all of the Adobe CS6 products now, and then get the new versions of Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and every other Adobe creative app the moment they are released—all for one simple membership starting at US $49.99 per month ($29.99 per month for your first year if you are a current owner of CS3 or later).

To learn more about what’s coming, go to adobe.com/go/nab_reveal.

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Preview clips before ingest

Set up bins before you begin ingest. Then

select destination bins for footage.

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