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Speech to text (and 64-bit performance) in Adobe Production Premium CS4.

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This is a review of Adobe's Speech to Text feature, which is found in both Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4. I'm stating this upfront because somewhere along the line in the 4 months since I was commissioned to test and write about this new feature and when and I completed my review, I decided that I would be doing a disservice to my readers by spending the entire article discussing a feature that is just a bit ahead of its time, while ignoring one that has been around for a few versions but is finally fully functional.

More on the Speech to Text stuff in a bit.

THE MISSING LINK (UNTIL CS4)

In the 8 years I have been editing on Adobe Premiere and Premiere Pro, I've seen a lot of new features and improvements over seven different versions. Mind you, some of the versions were .5 and even a notable .51 version, but despite their fractional upgrade nomenclature, these half-steps have been some of the most significant upgrades, including Premiere 6.5, which introduced real-time previews, and Premiere Pro 1.51, which included HDV support. By far, the most exciting new feature with Adobe's latest NLE, Premiere Pro CS4, is the Dynamic Link functionality that allows the editor to send a Premiere timeline to Encore without first rendering to an intermediate or delivery codec.

Although once you send an initial sequence to Encore you cannot send additional sequences to Encore using the same Dynamic Link function to form additional timelines, I discovered that once an Encore project is created and remains open, Adobe now permits the drag and drop of actual Premiere Pro sequences straight into Encore! Although the time-savings benefit is attractive,...

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