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Supports all existing editing modes and features of Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 and Premiere Pro 2

Supported HDV resolutions:
- 1440 x 1080: i50 / i60 / p24 / p25 / p30
- 1280 x 720: p24 / p25 / p30 / p60
- 720 x 480: p60
- 720 x 576: p50

IEEE-1394 Source Input Format: - MPEG2 MP@HL Transport Stream (HDV format)

File Input Format: - Any file compatible for import into Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 or Premier Pro 2

Editing file format: CineForm Visually Perfect™ CFHD, YUV 4:2:2. AVI wrapper is compatibile with other Windows AVI applications.

Simultaneous real-time effects on multiple layers of HD video:
- Keyframeable color adjustment
- Over 40 parameter-controllable transitions
- Slow-motion and frame hold
- Static and moving titles and video overlays
- Pan/Scan/Rotate/Zoom (PSRZ). For standard definition output, PSRZ allow real-time zooms and camera rotations to be added in post- production without any loss of pixel resolution.

Supports Adobe's multi-cam feature (using Premiere Pro 2 only)

Batch capture using the Adobe Premiere Pro capture interface

Supports Canon's new XL H1 including its 24F progressive mode for a true 24p editing workflow

Supports JVC's new GY-HD100U camcorder and BRHD50U deck, including 24p acquisition and editing

Supports Sony's HDV CineFrame modes: CineFrame 30, 25, 24
- CineFrame 25 supports optional conversion during capture to 24p for film
- CineFrame 24 supports optional inverse pull-down to 24p for film

Supports Redrock Micro's innovative "M2" lens adapter for increased depth-of-field, angle of view, and focus

CFHD Compressed File Sizes: Variable based on scene complexity.
1080i60 HDV files compress to typically 9MB - 14MB per second, approximately 40 GB/hour
720p30 HDV files compress to typically 7.5MB/sec, approximately 30GB/hour

Multiple video quality range settings during capture or render

Multiple resolutions supported simultaneously on timeline

24p editing workflow. If exporting to M2T, automatic pull-down conversion from 24p to 60i is provided

Includes HDLink, CineForm's HDV I/O application and MPEG conversion utility the operates external to Adobe Premiere Pro

Threaded encoder for faster ingest on dual-core processors

After Effects 6.5 (and 7) importer/exporter components.

Graphics card support: Most Matrox, nVidia, and ATI graphics cards are supported. Aspect HD does not require GPU processing. For dual-head graphics cards, the second display should be configured to use the overlay channel

Component Output Graphics cards (optional): Both the Matrox Parhelia and Nvidia FX540 are recommended for monitoring the timeline using their HD component outputs.

Output Formats supported by Premiere natively or through plug-ins, including:
- HD: Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9); MPEG2 MP@HL, MPEG2-TS MP@HL (HDV),
- SD: MPEG2, DVD (anamorphic and letterboxed), Analog VHS (External video output card required)

Supported HDV cameras:
- All Canon HDV Camcorders and Decks
- All JVC HDV Camcorders and Decks
- All Sony HDV Camcorders and Decks

• Premiere Pro 2 offers limited camera support for 720p30 and 1080i50/i60 modes only. Notice in particular the absence of support for 24p or 25p, plus special modes that are part of all new HDV camcorders.
  
• Aspect HD supports 1280x720: p24/p25/p30/p60 plus 1440x1080: i50/i60/p24/p25/p30. In short, all HDV cameras are supported including their "special" modes such as Canon's "24F" and Sony's "CineFrame".
  

• Adobe's minimum spec for native HDV editing is a 3.4GHz P4, and with that you'll get about one stream.
  
• Using Aspect HD on the same hardware you'll get three 1080i streams in real-time plus transitions, color, motion and titles - all without rendering. The efficiency of Aspect HD translates to many, many dollars saved in post.
  

• Everybody realizes that editing native MPEG streams is taxing both on your CPU and your patience. Emphasizing this point is Adobe's Knowledge Base article #332583 in which it is recommended that to achieve better performance in After Effects you consider using a less compressed format than MPEG2 (we interpret that to mean CineForm Intermediate). And while we're at it, if you capture HDV streams with any other application (besides Premiere Pro 2) you'll have to render those streams to Adobe's version of ".MPEG" before they're usable on the Premiere Pro timeline. (And none of us want to wait around to render MPEG files....)
  
• CineForm AVI files are broadly compatible with virtually all Windows video apps - period.