Adobe Premiere

Assembling a few segments into a single video is not hard and it can be done with numerous tools, which are available on the Internet. Most applications focus on fast and simple procedures, making them excellent solutions for editing home videos. If you want to create a montage for professional purposes, you will need more control over your videos, a feature that most editors fail to provide. Many users prefer Adobe Premiere over any other video editor. Although some of its features can intimidate novice users, the software gives you full control and allows you to manipulate any aspect of your project, down to the slightest adjustments.

Adobe Premiere is not exactly a lightweight application. The installation package is 1.71 GB and it will take several minutes to set up the program on your computer. The Adobe Download Assistant can automatically download, extract and install Premiere or other Adobe-developed programs.

A series of adjustments have been made to the program's user interface. Just like its previous versions, Adobe Premiere CS6 allows you to customize the interface however you want. You may click and drag entire sections to different areas of the window, group them on separate tabs and so on. Additionally, the CS6 version lets you decide what controls should be displayed or not, beneath the source and project previews.

Another improvement is the way Premiere displays your input files when you switch from the list view mode to thumbnails. If you hover with the mouse cursor over a thumbnail and drag the mouse in certain directions, you will be able to preview different frames, as if you were clicking and dragging a seeker. Furthermore, the software will display different icons, on the same thumbnails, if the videos contain audio tracks or if the videos are used in your current project.

Effects can be added right away, on specific video segments, with click and drag actions or by double clicking the desired effect. Once added, you can make various adjustments to your effect, on a different section of the window. Obviously, the adjustment options are different, depending on the selected effect. All you need to know is that Premiere places a wide range of options at your disposal, for individual effects, so you may customize them in a very flexible manner.