Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 review: Extending video editing beyond the desktop

AT A GLANCE

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• Premiere Pro CC 2015
  4/5
  With this version, Adobe is making a clear effort to bring in tools usually found in other Adobe applications. This makes Premiere Pro closer to being a one-stop video editor.

Alan Stafford

Contributor, PCWorld

• Jun 16, 2015 12:01 AM
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Use Adobe Hue CC to capture color looks from camera shots; press on the color balloons to adjust the look before uploading to your Creative Cloud library.

Last year, as I was sprinting down the street trying to stay ahead of six angry bulls in Pamplona, Spain, I held my phone behind me to capture some video of the experience, all the while thinking, how am I going to color-correct this video? And then I looked up at the beautiful old buildings facing the street and thought, hey, that palette would really work well with the talking-head videos I had been editing in my hotel room the night before. But how to capture those colors and reuse them? Thankfully, Adobe has solutions for these vexing problems in the latest version of its video-editing application, Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015.

IBM's crazy-thin 7nm chip will hold 20 billion transistors

Looks like Moore's Law has some life in it yet, though creating a 7nm chip required exotic techniques and materials.

How far can we push Moore’s Law? It’s starting to become a concerning question as processors push into almost infinitesimally small process nodes.

Intel’s 14-nanometer Broadwell chips suffered from lengthy delays, stuttering Intel’s vaunted tick-tock manufacturing schedule. TSMC, the company that manufactures graphics processors for AMD and Nvidia, has been stuck at the 28nm node for yearsnow. Intel plans to push into 10nm in 2017, but IBM’s looking beyond that, and just revealed the world’s first working 7nm processor—but it took some pretty exotic manufacturing to get there.

 

Radeon R9 Fury graphics card review: AMD's furious bid for enthusiast gaming supremacy

AMD's air-cooled counterpart to the liquid-chilled Radeon Fury X doesn't topple its big brother, but the Asus Strix version of the Radeon Fury firmly outpunches Nvidia's GTX 980.

AMD’s water-cooled, luxuriously designed Radeon Fury X graphics card was supposed to be the star of the show—the technology-packed counterpunch to Nvidia’s ferocious GeForce GTX 980 Ti. AMD drip-drop-dripped information about the Fury X in the days ahead of the card’s launch, slowly teasing enthusiasts with leaks and glimpses and internal benchmarks. In the end, the $650 Fury X lived up to its name, proving competitive—though not quite dominant—to Nvidia’s beast, and promptly selling out in stores.
But forget about the Fury X.
It’s the Fury X’s little brother that AMD should be shouting about from the rooftops: the $550 Radeon Fury. Sure, it’s not quite as powerful as AMD’s liquid-chilled flagship, but the Radeon Fury is nothing less than a stellar card that clearly outpunches its GeForce GTX 980 counterpart in many titles—something the Fury X can’t quite claim against the 980 Ti.
Let’s dig in.

AMD Radeon Fury detailed

AMD originally implied that the Radeon R9 Fury was merely an air-cooled version of the Fury X, but that’s not quite true.

AMD Radeon R9 Fury’s stock specs. (Click any image in this article to enlarge it.)