Adobe Systems Incorporated, the leader in network publishing, today announced a new version of Adobe� Premiere�, the company's award-winning digital video editing software. From Real-time Preview and the Adobe Title Designer to support for MPEG2 export and DVD authoring, Adobe Premiere 6.5 provides a complete editing environment to create and deliver professional, polished video productions. Adobe Premiere 6.5 provides the widest range of video hardware support, including the latest Sony DVCAM (MicroMV - ed) devices and leading third-party capture cards, allowing editors to customize their workflow to suit their needs. Whether editing in real-time on a laptop or using an uncompressed, multi-layer real-time system, Adobe Premiere complements almost any editing suite.

During the editing process, Real-time Preview capabilities in Adobe Premiere 6.5 allow video editors to dramatically improve productivity by reducing the time spent rendering projects. Editors can instantly view effects, titles and transitions as they are made. In addition, video editors can enhance their projects with broadcast-quality title sequences created in the new Adobe Title Designer. Adobe Premiere 6.5 delivers complete, affordable video editing tools for producing professional-quality video for DVD, videotape, Web, CD-ROM and film. Windows users can export MPEG2 files using the new Adobe MPEG Encoder and then use the bundled version of DVDit! LE to author DVDs.

In the United States and Canada, Adobe Premiere 6.5 for Windows XP, 98SE, 2000, ME, and Macintosh OS 9 and OS X is expected to ship in the third quarter of 2002. The estimated street price is US$549 for all platforms. Registered users of earlier versions of Adobe Premiere can upgrade to version 6.5 for US$149.