About Prelude

Adobe Prelude software is a video ingest and logging tool that helps you quickly tag and transcode raw footage from file-based cameras. It is an open platform that supports customized integration with third-party technologies and management systems.

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Adobe Prelude creates a project (.plproj) file for every project that you create in Prelude. The project file contains references to the media you add to your project.

A project file stores only references to the source files that you ingest. For this reason, project files remain fairly small. Because only references to the source files are stored, avoid moving, renaming, or deleting your source files. Prelude cannot locate moved or renamed files.

Ingest entire movie clips, or only portions of a clip (partial ingest). Choose a codec that best suits your editing requirements.

File-size and byte-level checks help you immediately identify whether the footage was ingested successfully.

You can reorder the sequence of clips by moving them in the project view.  Use bins to organize project contents much as you use folders to organize files. Bins can contain clips, subclips, and rough cuts.

Use interface options or keyboard shortcuts to add temporal metadata to clips, and create subclips. Markers and other temporal metadata help you quickly organize and search clips. You can leverage the metadata information when you export to other software such as Adobe Premiere Pro.

Create rough cuts from clips and subclips before sending the rough cut to other software such as Adobe Premiere Pro for final editing.

You can export a rough cut for use in other software such as Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. Alternatively, you can send the rough cut to Adobe Premiere Pro directly for editing.

The organization and metadata information from Prelude is carried over to Adobe Premiere Pro. This seamless workflow reduces post-production time and effort when you create the final cut of a movie.

Adobe technical partners can use the Prelude SDK to customize Prelude.

• Leverage XMP-based open platform capabilities of Adobe Prelude to integrate with third-party technologies and asset management systems.
• Create searchable, custom, temporal-based markers through ActionScript^® panels that capture information for your project or organization.
• Import event metadata from other workflow-specific sources. Then add it to your footage in Prelude by importing it as an XMP stream or file.