Got knack for video editing or just need a professional video editing solution for your video production? Then you got to love this Premiere Pro Creative Suite 3  (sponsored link).

A bit pricey but worth every penny you spend for  it.With this piece of extraordinary application, even a newbie can do video editing on the fly (Learning curves are higher for advance video editing features). So here is an overview of what this app can bring you-

Cross Platform

The Premiere Pro CS3, a completely re-written and supercharged video editing software application available for both Mac and PC users. This A-Z solution for efficient and professional video production includes Adobe OnLocation CS3 (Windows only) and Adobe Encore CS3. The Mac users will need Boot Camp and Windows (Or a PC with windows) for using Adobe OnLocation. Powerful feature set and easy-to-use interface are the key perks of this app.

Effortless

First thing you will notice, the excellent OnLocation (which unfortunately doesn’t work on the Mac unless you’re using Boot Camp and a copy of Windows XP) direct-to-hard disk digital recording and quality assurance software, additional output options to Blu-ray disc using H.264 or MPEG-2 compression in Adobe Encore and an effortless way to create Flash output for Web sites or cell phones without knowing anything about Flash at all.

Interportability

Adobe’s interoperability with most of its other content creation applications is no stranger to any Adobe app power users. This tradition well maintained and extends beyond the applications in Premiere Pro, such as the ability to easily edit audio files in the new and user-friendly audio editor Soundbooth with a single click on the Premiere Pro timeline. Or you can create graphics in Photoshop, place them in Premiere Pro, and then go back and make changes to those graphics in Photoshop with the changes immediately showing up in the Premiere Pro timeline. That’s not the end, user will have ability to copy and paste a sequence of shots from the Premiere Pro timeline directly into After Effects, add more sophisticated effects there and immediately see those changes in Premiere Pro with no rendering required. You got to admit this is cool.

Multiple projects handling

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The highly useful ability to create and open multiple bins (Adobe calls them Project Panels), which was absent in the earlier premiere are now available in Premiere pro cs3. The other remarkable feature in this new Premiere Pro version is a brilliantly designed speed tool called Time Remapping. It’s as simple as clicking on a clip, and selecting Time Remapping in a drop-down menu. You can click to add key frames, and most importantly, these effects play back immediately and smoothly in real time on both Mac and PC.

Rich export range

Users can maximize camera image quality during shoots by using Adobe OnLocation CS3 to quickly calibrate their camera, check levels, and monitor signal. Rich export feature of this app is simply amazing. You can export your creation as SWF, FLV, AVI, WMV etc. files. You can easily convert your DVD projects complete with menus to SWF for web playback. With Adobe Premiere pro you can even encode for delivery to cell phones and other mobile devices, and emulate playback on those devices to check playback quality.

Clip Notes

Lastly if I don’t mention the Clip Note feature, it will be incomplete. This Clip Note is a feature which gives you ability to embed video into a PDF file, e-mail the file to your client/group to review and add timecode-specific comments, and then view comments/reviews mapped to the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline.

Overall

Finally I have to say Adobe Premiere Pro Cs3 is a complete solution for Video production, in fact the only tool you need. But the Adobe OnLocation CS3 incompatibility with Mac makes it complicated for Mac users. Can’t say the app is lightweight, require over 1.7 GB hard disk space alone (without other CS3 elements) and if you have less than 2GB Memory you will feel like a turtle. The $799/ € 1,028 can a bit excessive, if you have to upgrade your PC/Mac for getting best out of this app. But it’s a lot cheaper when you get it as a part of CS3 Production Premium or CS3 Master Collection (sponsored link).