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TSC’s master video editor Daniel Byrne was our man on the front line when it came to road-testing CS4 in Las Vegas. He installed the Master Collection on a brand new M70Vn-C2 laptop. It’s a super-heavy duty portable (I wouldn’t want it sitting on my lap for very long) with a 2.53GHz Intel Core2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM and dual 500GB hard drives. It runs on Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate. This is one amazing machine.
The Asus hardware and the Adobe software were a perfect match. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what Dan had to say:
Adobe Premiere CS4 is quite brilliant. I first put it to a crash test at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. I am a Final Cut editor by nature and was a bit nervous about road-testing new software. Premiere really came through for me. I was able to learn everything on the fly in about an hour. Adobe has really combined the best parts and elements of all of the current popular editing software titles Avid, Premiere and Final Cut and put together something that can be used by novices and professionals with outstanding results. Adobe has also included the stand-alone Media Encoder, which has a wide choice of file outputs for compression of video. For TheStreet.com’s videos, we use a Flash 8 encoder. I was surprised at the speed of the compression and the overall quality. I would say it leaves Apple’s compressor in the dust. Overall, I still love my Final Cut, but when left to edit on a PC, I see no reason why this shouldn’t be every editor’s first choice. The other contender, Avid, is way too involved and requires a foolish amount of steps to get anything done.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection is available at an academic discount price of $999.
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