Adobe Premiere comes with over 60 video filters and over 20 audio filters, which allow you to alter these tracks in any number of ways. By right-clicking on a video file you will be able to colour correct it, brighten it, emboss it, flip it, and so on. I have noticed a bug with the -reverse" filter, which should play a clip backwards. It did play the clip backwards but also split the screen in half horizontally and had the film mirrored in the bottom half of the frame. This certainly isn't what the filter claimed to do in the help file. On a positive note, every other filter I have applied has worked as reported.
Audio filters include a range of equalisation effects, as well as reverb, chorusing, delay and panning. The audio filters have been useful in allowing certain files to be mixed and edited to allow consistency of audio output throughout an entire project.
Previewing and the Monitor View
Another vital window provided by this application is the monitor window, in which a great deal of fine-tuning of the project takes place. The monitor windows allow either a single view of the file you are working on or it allows you a double-screen view that shows the work file on the left and the project output on the right. In addition, this window can be switched to -trim view" mode, which allows frame-accurate cuts to be made between two adjacent video segments.
In effect, the monitor window is the screen on which you can view your files and fine-tune your cuts and edit points. The monitor window contains the familiar transport controls (play, stop, rewind, still advance, etc.) that you tend to find on video equipment and computer media applications. Additional controls allow you to mark points in a file, set in and out points, and insert or extract video segments. Double-clicking on an audio file also allows you to fine tune audio edits in much the same way, although it does not display the waveform in this view.
The monitor window appears when you double-click on a file. Or that's how it should happen in theory. I have found many inconsistencies in the way the monitor window operates on our system. Double-clicking on a file or opening up the monitor window via the menu command doesn't always bring that window to the front. I have often had the transition window or at times even the timeline window obscuring the monitor view. I have heard the video playback and have seen the timeline marker move but the monitor remains hidden. This is a frustrating aspect, which requires unnecessary minimising of the other windows in order to view the monitor output. Of course, clicking on the timeline minimise button results in the playback being halted anyway. The opposite situation can also occur on occasions. When single-clicking on a file to select it, the monitor window sometimes pops up in front. This should not happen if you are merely selecting a segment in order to apply a filter.
The other thing I have noticed is that playback of a video file while Premiere is running results in very sluggish performance. Now this may in part be due to the requirements of full-screen, full-motion video and limitations in computer architecture. In fact, using Premiere, I have run into huge time lags in using the transport controls, and attempting to pause at an exact location is near impossible. (The system I use has 128MB of RAM and each new project uses newly formatted hard drives. I suspect that perhaps Adobe Premiere uses much of the system resources when it runs and that more memory and perhaps a graphics card upgrade may solve this issue. However, I have found that Media Studio seems to play back the same files much more smoothly and it is more responsive all round.)
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