


Shuttling back and forth through clips is now possible in the Project panel, simply by moving the mouse left and right over a thumbnail. The missing buttons can be restored as required, with jog and shuttle controls being the only permanent casualties. The new default layout of panels reduces the number of on-screen buttons and dead space, making more room for the video. Its interface had various features that felt like a hangover from the days of tape-based video, and the dense clusters of icons and text weren’t exactly welcoming for newcomers.ĬS6 introduces a sweeping redesign of the interface. Premiere Pro CS5 looked like a professional editor but this was sometimes to its detriment. This sort of work used to be farmed out to specialists using dedicated compositing software, but the ability for one person to do it all in one application makes sense for web video production. It helps that it has some of the best animation tools of any general-purpose editor, giving meticulous control over the path, speed and effects settings of visual elements as they move around the frame.

Multi-camera editing is no longer limited to four cameras, and new keyboard shortcuts and split-view Monitor (top-right) make it easy to nudge edit points
