From Adobe Systems: Adobe Acrobat Reader is the free, trusted leader for reliably viewing, annotating and signing PDFs. VIEW PDFs. Quickly open PDF documents from. Adobe Acrobat Reader for iOS enables you to view, annotate, and sign PDFs from your phone. Subscribe for a free Adobe Document Cloud account, or connect to. · While Apple made a drastic break with the past when it updated Final Cut Pro X, Adobe continues to take an incremental approach, polishing the interface. A community-built site of hints and tips on using Apple's new Mac OS X operating system. The podcast craze of the past several years shows no signs of slowing down, and while every armchair broadcaster with a voice recorder app is eager to get in the game. Adobe Premiere Pro CC Review & Rating. Adobe Premiere Pro deserves its place as the industry standard video editing software, thanks to its familiar nonlinear editing interface, unmatched ecosystem of tools, and powerful set of capabilities. Since my last look at the massive application, it has added support for 3. VR content, 4. K (and higher) and HDR video, and the Lumetri Color tool. It has also added class- leading collaboration capabilities. All of this makes Premiere well worthy of an ditors' Choice award for professional- level video- editing software. While Apple made a drastic break with the past when it updated Final Cut Pro X, Adobe continues to take an incremental approach, polishing the interface and adding state- of- the art tools to its professional video editing software, Premiere Pro CC. Those used to traditional nonlinear digital video editing will applaud Premiere's familiar approach, but in its favor, Final Cut offers some innovative tools like connected clips, auditions, and a trackless timeline that can ease the work of editors. Pricing and System Requirements. Premiere Pro is now only available by subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. The cross- platform program runs on mac. OS 1. 0. 1. 0 through 1. Windows 7 through Windows 1. It also requires a minimum of 8. GB of RAM (1. 6GB recommended), and a 1,2. The program by itself costs $1. You can also get it as part of the complete suite of Adobe professional applications for $4. There is a free 3. Because Premiere is sold as a subscription, not only is the immediate dent on your pocketbook lessened (prior to the new pricing plan, it cost a cool $7. When you install Premiere, you also get Adobe Media Encoder, which converts output to a wide variety of formats for online and broadcast. Interface. Premiere Pro has a good- looking, flexible interface. The startup view helps you quickly get to projects you've been working on, begin new projects, or search Adobe Stock. The dark program window makes your clips the center of attention, and you can switch among functions like Assembly, Editing, Color, Effects, Audio, and Titles. You can edit these or create your own custom workspaces, and even pull off any of its panels and float them wherever you want on your display(s). You can now create content bins based on search terms. By default, the editor uses a four- panel layout, with the source preview at top left, a project preview at top right, your project assets at lower- left, and the timeline tracks along the lower right. You can add and remove control buttons to taste; Adobe has removed a bunch by default for a cleaner interface. Since many editors rely on keyboard shortcuts like J, K, and L for navigating through a project, fewer buttons and a cleaner screen make a lot of sense. It's a very flexible interface, and you can undock and drag around windows to your heart's content. When you hover the mouse over a clip in the source panel, it scrubs through the video. Premiere is now touch- friendly, letting you move clips and timeline elements around with a finger or tap buttons. You can also pinch- zoom the timeline or video preview window. You can even set in and out points with a tap on thumbnails in the source bin. Final Cut supports the new Mac. Book Pro Touch Bar, but I prefer the on- screen touch capability, since, unlike the Touch Bar, the touch screen doesn't require you to take your eyes off the screen and therefore your video project. When you click on a media thumbnail, you get a scrubber bar and can mark in and out points right there, before you insert the clip into your project. Premiere offers several ways to insert a clip into your sequence. You can click the Insert or Overwrite buttons in the source preview monitor, or you can just drag the clip's thumbnail from the media browser onto the timeline or onto the preview monitor. Holding Command (or Ctrl on Windows) makes your clip overwrite the timeline contents. You can even drag files directly from the OS's file system into the project. The media browser also has tabs for Effects, Markers, and History, the last of which can be help you back to a good spot if you mess up. Markers, too, have been improved, with the ability to attach notes and place multiple markers at the same time point. Markers can have durations in frame time codes, and the Markers tab shows you entries with all this for every marker in a clip or sequence. Clicking on a marker entry here jumps you right to its point in the movie. Any device that can create video footage is fair game for import to Premiere Pro. The software can capture from tape, with scene detection, shuttle transport, and time- code settings. It also imports raw file format from pro- level cameras like the Arri Alexa, Canon Cinema EOS C3. Red Epic. Resolutions of up to 8. K are supported. And, of course, you can import video from smartphones and DSLRS, as well. For high- frame- rate video, the program lets you use proxy media for faster editing. Trimming Clips in Your Project. Premiere Pro continues to offer the four edit types that sound like they belong at a waterpark—Roll, Ripple, Slip, and Slide—and adds a Regular Trim mode. They're all clearly accessible at the left of the timeline. The cursor shape and color give visual cues about which kind of edit you're dealing with. A welcome new capability is that you can actually make edits while playback is rolling. In a nice touch, holding down the mouse button while moving a clip edit point (or double- clicking on an edit point) opens a view of both clips in the preview window. If you double click on the edit point it switches to Trim mode, which shows the outgoing and incoming frames, with buttons for moving back and forward by 1 frame or 5 and another to apply the default transition. As with Adobe Photoshop image layers, layer support in Premiere Pro lets you apply adjustments. These will affect all tracks below them. You create a new adjustment layer by right- clicking in the project panel. Then you drag it onto a clip your timeline, and start applying effects. Transitions and Effects. If you've been reading my recent reviews of enthusiast- level video editing software, you may be surprised to learn that Premiere Pro includes just 3. This is because in the pro community, most of those hundreds of transitions offered by the likes of Cyber. Link Power. Director are considered tacky—if pros want to do fancy transitions, they build their own striking, custom ones in After Effects or buy polished premade ones via third- party plug- ins. Otherwise, all the video effects you'd expect are present—keying, lighting, colorizing, and transforming. You can apply an effect just by double clicking. A search box makes it easy to find the effect or transition you need. The Warp Stabilize feature, brought over from After Effects, is very effective at smoothing out bumpy video. But it takes a while, analyzing one frame at a time. You can adjust the amount of cropping, tweak the percent smoothness, and make the borders auto- scale. But the long wait pays off. The result was very noticeably smoother than in Final Cut Pro X in my testing. Collaboration. New collaboration features rank high in the list of new features in Premiere Pro. Creative Cloud Libraries let you store and organize assets online, and the beta Team Projects feature lets editors and motion graphics artists using After Effects collaborate in real time. The Teams features are only available for business- level accounts, which cost $2. Any Premiere user can sync settings to Creative Cloud, for editing from different PCs and locations. This also means that editors can go to any machine running Premiere and see their environment tweaks duplicated by signing into the cloud. VR Video. Premiere lets you view 3. VR footage and change the field of view and angle. You can view this content in anaglyphic form, which is a fancy way of saying you can see it in 3. D using standard red- and- blue glasses. You can also have your video track a head- mounted display's view. Phone and i. OS: The Complete Newbie's Guide. There comes a time in almost every life where you put a computer in your pocket that's more powerful than anything that went to the moon. I'm speaking of course, of owning your first smartphone. And for many that first smartphone will be Apple's i. Phone. Years ago, a friend of mine made that astronomical jump from feature phone to i. Phone, and in talking to him I realized there were things I take for granted that he found completely alien. He didn't know the difference between Wi- Fi and Bluetooth, and had no clue about the difference between Messages and Mail. Why is the web browser named Safari? Does he really need i. Tunes on his computer? Why on Earth would anyone talk to Siri? Those questions have since been answered, but as the i. Phone 8, 8 Plus, and i. Phone X make their debut, new users will join the i. OS family. And there will be even more questions. Even seasoned veterans of the i. Phone probably don't know every little basic tidbit. I'm not talking the advanced new features of i. OS 1. 1 (though they are worth checking out). I'm talking about the basics. This tutorial aims to create i. Phone users who are not scared of their new tech, but confident, competent, and maybe on their way to power- user status. Know Your i. Phone Model. Apple currently sells seven i. Phone models. The latest are the i. Phone 8 and 8 Plus; i. Phone X (pronounced "i. Phone Ten") arrives in November. Here's a quick rundown of available models: i. Phone SEThe lowest- end, least expensive i. Phone currently for sale, the SE's screen is only 4 inches (measured diagonally). It has a 1. 2- megapixel camera on the back and 1. Face. Time calls and selfies. There's a Touch ID fingerprint scanner for security, a 3. GB or 1. 28. GB of storage. Get it in space gray, silver, gold, or rose gold, starting at $3. Phone 6s. The 6s, which arrived in 2. There's a 1. 2MP camera on back and a 5. MP camera on the front, Touch ID, 3. D Touch, and the 3. Prices start at $4. GB; 1. 28. GB is $1. Same color options. Phone 6s Plus. The current baseline phablet—phone meets tablet—has a big, 5. It weighs 6. 7. 7 ounces—about 1. The base price is $5. GB of storage and $6. GB of storage. i. Phone 7. The i. Phone 7 ditches the headphone jack for a Lightning port that does double duty as a charging port and connection point for things like headphones (Apple encourages you to buy its wireless Air. Pods). The Home button is also haptic; it's a virtual button—you can't really press it, but you get some physical feedback from the motor inside. But it's the first i. Phone to be water- and dust- resistant, so it can survive a quick dunk. There's a 1. 2MP camera on the back and a 7. MP shooter on the front. The internals get an upgrade too, naturally. It starts at $5. 49 for 3. GB, $6. 49 for 1. GB, and comes in two extra colors: jet black and black, but no space gray. Phone 7 Plus. Another phablet, this one a little lighter, with the same lack of headphone jack, but with the addition of water- resistance and the haptic Home button. Apple says its dual 1. MP cameras make 7 Plus a "telephoto" camera, which isn't exactly true, but it's nice to have a wide- angle and more narrow view, with optical zoom up to 1. The 7 Plus has the same colors as the 7, and goes for $6. GB and $7. 69 for 1. GB. i. Phone 8 Many people—including our reviewer—think this one should have been called "7s" since it's essentially last year's model with an upgraded "A1. Bionic" processor and a few new perks, like wireless charging (which required a glass back instead of metal) and the new camera sensor. It'll also likely be the last standard i. Phone to have a Home button on it at all. It comes in three colors (silver, gold, space gray) and costs $6. GB and $8. 49 for 2. GB. i. Phone 8 Plus. Everything we said about the 8 applies here, except this model sports a bigger screen (5. It's also waterproof and more expensive at $7. GB ($9. 49 for 2. GB) but those prices are cheaper than the upcoming i. Phone X, which starts at $9. You might have an older i. Phone, say the 5s or the 6/6 Plus. They're not actively sold anymore, but they support i. OS 1. 1, along with the models listed above. For the purposes of this article, we'll assume you made that upgrade to i. OS 1. 1. How to Work the i. Phone. This might seem basic for those of us used to the world of touch- screen phones, but here are some general techniques you need to know. An i. Phone is not just a touch screen—it's a multi- touch screen, meaning more than one finger on the screen at a time can make the software do different things. Every gesture you make on the phone has a name and does something specific, depending on if you're on the Home screen (the screen full of app icons) or in an app itself. The tap is like a click on a computer screen with the mouse cursor. A double tap is almost like a double- click. You generally double tap in apps to do things like zoom in. Newer i. Phones (since the 6s) also support 3. D Touch, where if you push down on the screen halfway in supported apps, it brings up more features. Drag and hold is when you hold your finger down on the screen, usually on some text, and then drag until you've highlighted even more text. You can also do this to move items around on the screen. This is a much bigger deal in i. OS 1. 1 than ever before, especially if you use it on an i. Pad tablet. An important part of the i. OS interface is the swipe—a quick flick of your finger along the screen in a direction like left, right, up, or down can do wonders in some apps and on the Home screen. Where does the multi- touch come in? In a pinch. Putting two fingers on the screen in certain apps, like Maps, lets you move both fingers as a quick way to zoom out (pinch them together) or in (move your fingers apart). Likewise, with Maps in particular, and many image- editing apps, you can rotate what you're looking at by moving the dual- fingers clockwise or counter- clockwise. Parts of the i. Phone. The i. Phone is famously minimalist, but it still has methods of interaction. Here are the toggles and switches and parts of the screen you should know. Buttons. The single button at the bottom of the screen is called the Home button; it doubles as the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, and you'll use this button to activate Siri (hold it down) or get to the Home screen. If you're in any app on the phone, a push of this button will take you back to the Home screen. A quick double- press on the Home opens the App Switcher (right), which shows you every open app. Swipe up to remove them from App Switcher. A double- tap (with no press) on i. Phone 6s and above moves the top of the screen to the bottom so you can more easily reach apps; Apple calls it Reachability. Double- tap again to return to normal view. The i. Phone X will not have a Home button. That's a first for i. Phone, but Android phones from Samsung, Sony, LG, Google, and Huawei have not had physical home buttons for awhile in order to facilitate edge- to- edge screens. The button at right side of the i. Phone is the Sleep/Wake button (on older model i. Phones, it was at the top). Push this button to put the phone into lock mode, where it is dormant to you, but can still take calls, texts, and download info in the background. If you hold down this button, you get the option to shut down the phone completely. You also hold down this button to power it back on. On the left is a toggle button, the Ring/Silent switch, which does exactly that—it moves your phone instantly into a silent, vibrate- only mode. The buttons below it are the volume up/down. Volume buttons can be used as a shutter switch when you're using the i. Phone as acamera. There are also various holes to be found on the i. Phone: on the bottom you'll see the speakers, very tiny microphone holes, and the port for the Lightning connector use to charge the i. Phone and connect it to a computer (and on the i. Phone 6s and earlier, the headphone jack).
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