Adobe Premiere Pro Turns 30, Gets Facelift

好吧，某些标题就是自己写的，即使它们可能不是100%正确. While Premiere did debut in December 1991, it was succeeded by Premiere Pro in 2003; the combined lineage will turn 30 in December. Though the latest isn’t a complete facelift, there are pretty dramatic changes during import and export, the bookends in every project. 这些变化旨在简化新用户的操作，并简化所有用户的工作流程.

Let’s start at import. 在以前的版本中，在访问内容之前，您需要启动一个新项目或打开一个旧项目. When starting a new project, you had to set multiple parameters like Renderer, video play format, location of scratch disks, and other administrative details before diving into your content. 我们中的大多数人只是简单地在屏幕上点击，甚至没有考虑除了存储位置之外的其他选择.

In the new version, you see the content screen shown in Figure 1 (below) 当您打开Premiere Pro时，您可以立即开始向项目添加内容. You start in the Sample Media folder but can navigate to your own clips; when you open a new project, you start in the last folder you were working in.

Figure 1. 新版本Premiere Pro的第一个屏幕允许您选择内容并创建序列. Click the image to see it at full size.

From there, you can choose your clips, save them to a new sequence, and start your project from that interface. As you select your clips. they appear on the bottom bar you see on the left in Figure 1; you can’t change the order of clips at this point, or trim the heads or tails. If you have a favorite location for storing media, 您可以单击缩略图上方文件夹名称右侧的星号，并将其添加到左上角的Favorites位置(Time_test添加到Sample Media)。.

Once you create the sequence and enter the full application, 您将注意到左上角的面向工作流的菜单选项(Figure 2, below): Import, Edit, and Export. You’ll also note that workspaces are no longer listed in the middle; now you access them via an icon on the upper right, or by clicking Window > Workspaces, a move Adobe made to open up screen real estate.

Figure 2. 工作流由左上角的三个菜单选项控制.

Click Export to open the interface shown in Figure 3 (below)，它将编码选项显示为目标，而不是格式和编解码器. If you choose a file, you can configure the file and output as normal; most of the other outputs allow you to log into your account and automatically upload the file after encoding.

Figure 3. The new Export window is destination-oriented. Click the image to see it at full size.

I didn’t study the output presets, 但Adobe默认使用ProRes编码来上传到大多数服务, 对于更长的项目，这可以将上传时间延长到几个生命周期. Easy enough to change to high bitrate H.264 (click here for a lesson on encoding for upload).

As before, after choosing your outputs, 您可以在Premiere Pro中导出，并将程序专用于导出, 或在Adobe Media Encoder中导出并立即开始编辑您的下一个项目. 您还可以继续使用2020年底在Premiere Pro中出现的快速导出功能(Figure 4, below).

Figure 4. The Quick Export option is still there.

Beyond the above referenced changes, program operation is unchanged, 作为UI现代化的一部分，将会有更全面的变化. Note that the new interface is available for public beta, including a version that runs on the new Apple M1 chip.

如果你是Premiere Pro的新用户，你会发现导入和导出更容易，更直观. If you’re an experienced user, 您会发现大多数更改都稍微有用，当然不会造成不和谐. 如果您喜欢以前的操作模式，在大多数情况下您仍然可以访问它. 作为一个日常的Premiere Pro用户，他发现现有的UI在各个方面都近乎完美, 我希望Adobe在更改编辑界面和工具时继续使用轻触，因为我花了大量的编辑时间.