No scene detect for HDV. No Video review during capture. Even Little $40 apps give you these options. Dont waste your money there are much better options available.

I started several years ago doing simple stuff with windows movie maker, then moved up to cyberlink power director for a couple years before taking the leap and buying the adobe production suite. I can’t say enough about how great this program is, especially after coming from cheaper programs that have many limitations. I am not a professional producer but I do like videos I make to look sharp and professional, and adobe premiere has been perfect for me. It does take some time to learn all the ins and outs of the program which is made easy by lynda.com videos. The potential for media collaboration with after effects, soundbooth, and other adobe programs seems limitless and I am now focusing on learning how to enhance my videos by utilizing these various programs. for example, I recently made a promotional video for an organization that i am a part of. I created custom background music in soundbooth using its resource center. I created the organizations logo in Illustrator, imported it into After Effects where i animated it and added some dramatic effects, and then i imported it into my timeline on premiere. I have spent some time messing around with final cut pro and my experience is that they provide the same editing resources but premiere just seems much more intuitive. Maybe for professional editors who relish in technical complexity final cut makes the most sense, but for the discerning hobbyist or prosumer, premiere pro is definitely the way to go in response to the other 2 posts. i have used the scene detection in premiere’s capture software and it works great as long as you do not have any breaks in the timecode. and oh yea…macs are overrated

My rating of 3, as opposed to 4 stars or better, is mostly based on the help menu. Unless you are connected to high speed internet the help files are useless. For a $700 program I want to able to access decent help files whether I am on a plane, vacation, whatever. Also this program does not read simple .avi files like those produced by consumer cameras, even though windows media player and most other free programs read these video files just fine. Premiere elements will also read those files. I expected that Premiere Pro, which costs 5x as much, should be able to do as much and more than premiere elements. I agree with the other posters that the options to work with other Adobe programs through dynamic link is very nice. If you are in to editing and want to step it up a notch, you will like this program.

An upgrade from CS 1.5 and it speeds up work dramatically. Works extremely well on a 64bit Vista machine. Importing video from an Xacti is a problem as they do not all come in correctly. I use ConvertXtoDVD and create .avi files that then work very well in Adobe Premiere. Other imports work very well.

I used to use Adobe Premiere CS3 with Windows XP Professional. It had a few issues, but on the whole, it was a pretty reliable package. When CS4 came out, I upgraded to Windows 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 at the same time. I can’t tell you how sorry I am. In the middle of rendering I keep getting an “unknown error” with no information as to how to solve the problem. Encore freezes up when I try to import media files that were rendered by Premiere and it locks up my computer to the point where I have to do a hard restart because nothing responds. You learn to save very often, because Premiere also locks up periodically, requiring you to close the program. Dolby 5.1 surround surcode (which worked great with CS3) doesn’t seem to be working at all–no sound at all from the tracks that are assigned to the rear surround speakers. The rendered video and audio from the media encoder are different lengths, so if you try to create a playlist in Encore, you end up with the video and audio quite a ways apart. When I tried to render a video using AVI files, the video rendered several times faster than the audio, so you end up with a normal sounding audio track with a video that gallops along and then hangs on the last frame. Now for the fun part: When you contact technical support, you end up on the phone with somebody from India who speaks limited English and doesn’t know very much about computers in general and even less about Adobe Premiere. When they can’t solve your problem, they escalate your case, but you never hear from them again. (I have waited a month–I keep calling, but the only people I ever talk to are the people in India because they will tell you that there is no way to contact anybody in technical support in the United States.) Their idea of help: They type your question into a computer and read off the results from their database, whether or not the solution that they found relates to your particular situation.