Adobe kicked off the week with a fairly substantial update to the latest Premiere Pro CS5.5, stomping out a long list of bugs and beefing up compatibility with OS X Lion as the company continues to gobble up unhappy Final Cut Pro customers.
Adobe Systems has released their first update for Premiere Pro CS5.5 on Monday, bringing the application to version 5.5.1. Based on user bug reports and crash logs, a laundry list of issues have been addressed with the latest update, which also addresses three OS X Lion specific problems.
Among the improvements with Premiere Pro 5.5.1 are playback and scrubbing performance of footage from DSLR cameras, Preview in the Capture panel when working with HDV footage, Final Cut Pro XML import audio fixes and the application not finding files after changing the location of a project.
OS X Lion users will likely be happy with the 5.5.1 update as well. Although Premiere Pro CS5.5 works just fine with Lion, the patch fixes missing countdown numbers on the Universal Counting Leader, closed caption overlays not appearing on the Program Monitor and more importantly, problems with a crash while quitting the app.
Adobe notes that the Premiere Pro 5.5.1 update will not yet appear in the Help > Updates menu and must be downloaded directly from the company’s website for both Mac and Windows users. Users are warned that they “must choose the correct patcher based on your original installation type -- electronic download or DVD.”
If you’re not sure which kind of installation you have, it’s advisable to wait for the update to appear in the application, which the company promises “soon.”
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