Pro Media Tools 1.0.1 released - Adobe Premiere support and more

Earlier this week we released Pro Media Tools 1.0.1, which offers new features and bug fixes for our suite of utilities to process and manage media in Final Cut Studio and Avid Media Composer.

The biggest new feature is support for Adobe Premiere CS5 for Mac. Premiere users have feature parity with Final Cut Studio users and can use the tools in the suite by exporting their projects to Final Cut Pro XML.

We've also improved the email settings dialog in Render Watcher to help those who had difficulty setting it up in version 1.0. There are now presets for common email providers, you can specify custom ports and there is now a button to check the settings by sending yourself a test email.

Edit Detector had several changes too. The sensitivity slider now behaves more predictably (this fixes an issue where it would not detect changes for movies with subtle edits, regardless of how high you raised it), thumbnails can now be switched off for improved performance when detecting changes, and edit points can now be added manually by pressing the N key.

We've also created a video overview of the tools in the suite:

The full list of changes is here:

• Support for Adobe Premiere CS5 for Mac
• Auto Transfer - Fixed an issue where multiple copies of the application could be launched in Auto Mode
• Auto Transfer - Fixed an issue where progress bars may not start at zero
• Batch Renamer - Speed and memory usage improvements when dragging in a folder with a large number of files inside
• Batch Renamer - Fixed an issue where Add Suffix would place the text at the beginning instead of the end
• Batch Renamer no longer adds an underscore separator character when adding a prefix or suffix. To regain this functionality, type the underscore in the prefix or suffix text itself.
• Batch Renamer - Fixed a crash when removing frame numbers
• Edit Detector - Left and right arrow keys now step through the movie
• Edit Detector - Thumbnails can now be switched off for improved performance
• Edit Detector - The sensitivity slider now behaves more predictably
• Edit Detector - Added a button to manually insert an edit point (shortcut key N)
• Quick Bins - Added a Send to FCP button on the toolbar
• Quick Bins - Fixed an issue where it would try to send data to FCP when trying to save a standalone XML file
• Render Watcher - Added a button in the preferences dialog to test email configuration
• Render Watcher - Presets for common email providers
• Render Watcher - Support for specifying custom email ports
• Render Watcher - Fixed an issue where email passwords would not save correctly
• General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements

Pro Media Tools is available for an introductory price of $99 and there is a 15-day trial available here. It will run on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 on both Intel and PowerPC computers.

If you want to find out more about Pro Media Tools, check out screenshots and the user manual.