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Welcome to the Prelude User Guide

Note:

Due to changing needs of video professionals and content creators, we are discontinuing Adobe Prelude. Effective September 8, 2021, Prelude will no longer be available on Adobe.com. For more information, and instructions for downloading Prelude during the support period, please see our FAQ.

Use this guide to help you learn Prelude’s metadata ingest, logging, and rough cuts features to rapidly tag and transcode video footage.

Start at the beginning, visit each section individually, or connect with the Community to work your way through a project.

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Link to Prelude community forum at community.adobe.com

Visit the Prelude Community to be inspired and get answers to top questions.

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What's New in Adobe Prelude

What's New in Adobe Prelude

Prelude system requirements

Prelude system requirements

The Prelude workspace

The Prelude workspace

Setting Prelude preferences

Setting Prelude preferences

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Learn about video logging and ingesting with Prelude

Learn about video logging and ingesting with Prelude

Ingest and edit photographs from DSLR cameras

Ingest and edit photographs from DSLR cameras

Go from footage to final credits with Creative Cloud apps

Go from footage to final credits with Creative Cloud apps

Organize your media and create a rough assembly with Prelude

Organize your media and create a rough assembly with Prelude

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