Use high-performance tools to create video for virtually any screen.
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium is high-performance video production software that will help you accelerate production workflows and deliver high-quality results. Produce your best work more quickly than ever before with the blazing fast Adobe Mercury Playback Engine and the new Warp Stabilizer that steadies shaky video footage with a single click. A tightly integrated combination of best-of-breed video, animation, compositing, audio, and design tools provides the creative features and toolsets you need to accelerate your product workflow and deliver high-quality results. Accelerate media creation by streamlining the flow of script data into your video productions to create more engaging experiences. Initiate reviews and collect client feedback on dailies, storyboards, and edited works in progress with Adobe CS Live online services.
- Work Faster - Accelerate your video production workflow with sweeping performance enhancements - like native 64-bit support and the Mercury Playback Engine - that define new standards for speed and efficiency.
- Craft Great Stories - Tackle virtually any post-production challenge with an advanced, tightly-integrated creative toolset. Experience game-changing innovations like Warp Stabilizer, Camera Lens Blur, and advanced motion tracking.
- Collaborate Efficiently - Move sequences and assets through the product pipeline faster thanks to open project exchange with other NLEs, while streamlining project reviews and improving communication with colleagues and clients.
- Efficient Workflow - Trim and edit with efficiency and precision in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Use widely accepted NLE shortcuts and easily sync separately recorded field audio with your video, thanks to dual-system sound support.
- Advanced Audio-for-Video Editing - Record, edit, mix, master, and sweeten audio with Adobe Audition CS5.5. Roundtrip edit with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 or use OMF and SML to speed up project exchange with Avid Pro Tools and other NLEs.
- Mercury Playback Engine - Get amazing performance from the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro on both desktops and laptops. Natively 64-bit and optimized for modern CPUs, Mercury delivers astounding performance with or without GPU acceleration.
- Warp Stabilizer - Smooth a bumpy camera move, or lock a shot automatically in After Effects. Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities.
- Fast, Reliable Encoding - Output your work for PCs, smartphones, tablets, and television with Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Use intuitive presets and contextual menus to set up sequences once for multiple formats, and batch encode while you keep editing.
- RAW Digital Cinema - Gain new workflow flexibility with RAW digital cinema files and other file-based footage. Experience faster performance for high-resolution RED footage, as well as enhanced support for RED, Sony XDCAM, Canon XF, and CinemaDNG formats.
- Streamlined Collaboration - Collaborate using CS Live online services Adobe Story, a collaborative script-development tool; CS Review, and online review service; and Acrobat.com services that simplify sharing project information.
- Asset Intelligence for Accelerated Post-Production - Locate assets and dialogue quickly in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 with integrated support for metadata from Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service (CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time).
- Light Falloff in After Effects - Control how light intensity falls off across 3D distances, just like it does in the real world.
- Enhanced Creative Freedom - Take your creativity further, using mobile devices like the iPad with Adobe Ideas sketching software and a growing number of companion apps as they become available for Photoshop CS5 Extended.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software lets you edit video faster with true native format support. Get breakthrough performances on workstations and laptops; streamline collaboration; and boost productivity with an efficient, robust, cross-platform editing workflow. Effortlessly move assets between Adobe Premiere Pro and other Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium components and enjoy fast, reliable, multiscreen delivery. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 also provides stronger support for RED ONE and RED EPIC cameras.
New Features: - Fast, Reliable Multiscreen Delivery - Output your work for computers, smartphones, tablets, and television with Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Use intuitive presets and contextual menus to set up sequences once for multiple formats, and batch encode while you keep editing.
- Direct Integration with Adobe Story - Accelerate your editing workflow by directly importing Adobe Story scripts, complete with metadata, into Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Eliminate hours of routine work using Speech Search and other metadata to quickly find footage.
- Closed-Captioning Support - Play back and display 608 and 708 closed captions, synced to your video sequence and viewable in the Program Monitor.
- Enhanced Canon XF Native Support - Preview Canon XD footage in the Media Browser panel and utilize camera metadata throughout your preproduction and post-production workflows. Spanned clips are displayed as a single asset in the Media Browser, reducing clutter.
- Expanded RED Support - Work natively with RED footage, with support for RED Rocket, Mysterium X, and the latest Color Science and Firmware for RED ONE cameras. The Source Settings dialog box gives you full control over RED parameters and allows RMD files to be imported and exported.
- Native RED EPIC Camera Support - Edit up to 5K footage shot from RED EPIC cameras without transcoding or rewrapping, and access RED parameters directly from the enhanced Source Settings dialog box. Download the RED EPIC camera importer for native support in CS5.5
- Merge Clips - Easily create subclips that match audio and video from separate sources. The Merge Clips feature supports dual-system sound by allowing high-quality audio to be synced with video shot on a separate device, such as a DSLR or RED camera.
- Easy Presets for Popular Devices and Formats - Save time and encode content more easily by using Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 presets that help ensure your video looks great on widely used output formats and devices, including mobile devices and HDTV.
- Improved User Interface and Workflow - Take advantage of a clearer user interface, new presets, and new contextual menus that improve your Adobe Media Encoder workflow. Expand Queue items to check formats, progress, and encoding settings. Monitor job status in the new Watch folders section.
- Audible Alerts When Jobs are Completed - Hear alerts when Adobe Media Encoder finishes jobs in the background, so you can keep working without having to watch the queue. Different sounds indicate whether jobs have been completed successfully or with errors.
- Adobe Media Encoder CS Review Presets - Save time with new Adobe Media Encoder presets that are optimized for output to Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service.
- GPU-Accelerated Media Processing - Correct issues caused by mismatched media, media with varying types of alpha channels, and more with GPU-accelerated effects that compensate for differences in frame rate, field order, and pixel aspect ratio.
- Speed Changes Effects - Create high-quality slow motion or fast motion and play clips backwards using GPU-accelerated time remapping, speed change, and backwards effects.
- Interpret Footage - Easily modify the properties of clips using GPU-accelerated effects that give you control over frame rate, aspect ratio, field order, alpha channels, and pulldown removal.
- Field Options - Eliminate unwanted interlacing artifacts with GPU-accelerated effects that give you control over field order, interlacing, deinterlacing, and flicker removal.
- GPU-Accelerated Transitions - Transition between clips using Additive Dissolve to add the color information from clip B to clip A, and then subtract the color information of clip A from clip B. Get a film like transition with Film Dissolve.
- Blur Effects - Quickly add blur to large areas for your clips using GPU-accelerated Fast Blur, create the illusion of motion using Directional Blur, and see the results in real time thanks to GPU acceleration.
Adobe After Effects CS5.5 Create sophisticated motion graphics and cinematic visual effects with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software. Transform moving images for delivery to theaters, living rooms, personal computers, and mobile devices. After Effects lets you animate and composite flexibly in 2D and 3D, as well as create and animate text and vector graphics. Work with pristine color and creative building blocks while saving time with efficient tools and a customizable interface for unlimited creative options supported by responsive 64-bit performance. Making and keying tools along with powerful motion controls make it possible to turn your visual ideas into motion graphics and effects for delivery virtually anywhere.
New Features: - Camera Lens Blur - Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur. Set iris shape, lens curvature, and diffraction fringe characteristics for beautiful bokeh, and use these same settings for fantastic depth-of-field control with the After Effects 3D camera.
- Source Timecode Support - Take the guesswork out of source footage edits. Timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF is read directly in After Effects, and the Timecode effect can display both source timecode and composition frames.
- Stereoscopic 3D Workflow Improvements - Animate and composite stereoscopic projects more easily. Quickly set up stereo camera rigs. Save time with simplified rendering of multiple cameras, and work with an updated 3D Glasses effect.
- RAW Digital Cinema Workflow Improvements - Gain instant access to high-definition source formats. RED Rocket card and RMD metadata dramatically improve the performance and look of RED footage. Import footage in CinemaDNG format, an open standard that offers a common solution.
- Expanded Color LUT Support - Expand your color management options by using additional LUT variants in the 3DL and CUBE formats to simulate film and alternate devices or to apply different looks to your footage. Export 3D LUTs to promote more consistent, predictable color.
- Save As After Effects CS5 - Work easily on projects with colleagues still using After Effects CS5 format to take advantage of new features and performance improvements without the need for colleagues to upgrade.
- Small Changes that Make a Big Difference - Benefit from big productivity gains: more efficient rendering with improved disk caching, review of recent searches, and new sorting options in the Project panel.
- XDCAM HD Export - Render in the XDCAM HD format using multiple bitrates, pixel aspect ratios, and frame rates. This allows you to roundtrip footage shot on popular Sony cameras so that your output is consistent with files being edited directly from source.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software is the ultimate solution for advanced digital imaging, delivering everything in Photoshop CS5 plus breakthrough tools for 3D and motion editing. Work with 3D extrusions and advanced 3D editing capabilities and even edit motion content. You can also remove any image detail or object almost magically with Content-Ware Fill. Extraordinary creative tools, state-of-the-art photography features, and broad file format support make it easy to create the ultimate images for print, the web, and video.
New Features: - Complex Selections Made Easy - Get better-than-ever results when selecting tricky image elements, such as hair, and eliminate background color around selection edges. Automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.
- 3D Extrusions with Adobe Repousse - Create stunning 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, path, or layer mask with Adobe Repousse technology. Twist, rotate, extrude, bevel, and inflate your designs.
- Content-Aware Fill - Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content had never existed.
- Superior HDR Imaging - Create photo-realistic or wildly surreal high dynamic range (HDR) images with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Get stunning results thank to automatic ghost removal and greater control for tone mapping and adjustments.
- Advanced 3D Editing Capabilities - Push your creative boundaries with powerful 3D editing tools - even paint directly on 3D objects. Add 3D objects to your designs and create amazing composites. Illuminate your scene with real lighting, and animate your objects.
- State-of-the-Art Raw Image Processing - Use the Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 6 plug-in to nondestructively remove image noise while preserving color and detail; add grain to make photos look more organic; enjoy more control in post-crop vignetting; and more.
- Puppet Warp - Precisely reposition or warp any image element. Swing a raise arm to a person side in a photo, stretch text to create new effects, and more.
- Efficient Workflow - Boost productivity with dozens of features and enhancements requested by Photoshop users. Straighten images automatically, choose colors from an onscreen color picker, adjust the opacity of many layers at once, and more.
- 64-Bit Performance - Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process very large images up to 10 times faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support.
- GPU-Accelerated Features - Take advantage of GPU-enable enhancements to everyday tools. Crop with the Rule of Thirds grid; zoom with click-and-scrub functionality; and sample colors with better visualization and the onscreen color picker.
- Black-and-White Conversion - Explore an endless variety of black-and-white looks. Use the integrated Lab B&W Action to interactively color images, create gorgeous HDR black-and-whites with greater ease and speed, and experiment with a variety of presets.
- Image Analysis - Use measurement and counting tools to extract quantitative information from images. Record and export data for further analysis. Import DICOM files as frames or as a volume to directly analyze and edit your image data.
Adobe Audition CS5.5: Make your video and audio productions sound their best with the professional tools found in Adobe Audition CS5.5. Handle a wide range of audio production tasks efficiently, including recording, mixing, and sound restoration. Audition CS5.5 features a new high-performance audio engine for even greater production speed, as well as other workflow enhancements. You can view and edit XMP metadata in a simplified interface and save sessions to the flexible XML format.
New Features: - New High-Performance Audio Engine - Experience greater speed throughout the audio production process with the new audio engine in Adobe Audition CS5.5, whether opening and saving files, processing multicore effects, or simultaneously editing multiple sessions.
- Roundtrip Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro - Easily sweeten audio for video. Pass individual clips and multitrack mixes from Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software to Adobe Audition for editing, or send Adobe Premiere Pro sequences with a reference video to Adobe Audition for complete soundtrack creation.
- Project exchange with third-part NLEs and DAWs - Easily move sessions between Adobe Audition and Avid Pro Tools using built-in OMP import and export functions in Adobe Audition. Share files with other video NLEs via XML interchange.
- Native 5.1 Multichannel Support - Edit multichannel files and mix your projects in 5.1 surround. Adobe Audition CS5.5 includes a Surround Panner in the Mixer View, as well as a new Surround Reverb effect and Amplify, a multichannel gain processor.
- Effects Workflow Enhancements - Edit and play audio while adjusting settings for multiple effects simultaneously in the new modeless effect racks. Experiments with different effect settings while making selections or edits in the Waveform Editor.
- Royalty-Free Content in Resource Central - Use the new Resource Central panel in Adobe Audition to access thousands of royalty-free sound effects, loops, and music beds that you can drag and drop directly into your creative projects.
- Native Audio Effects - Improve performance with native support for audio effects. Effects added in Adobe Audition CS5.5 include a DeHummer, DeEsser, Speech Volume Leveler, and Surround Reverb for working with 5.1 surround projects.
- Simplified XMP Metadata Panel - View and edit XMP metadata using a simplified interface. Support for XMP metadata includes the Broadcast WAV (BMF) schema, enabling automated workflows within Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium software and other radio and TV production systems.
- Auto-Saved XML Session Files - Save your sessions in the robust, flexible, and nondestructive XML format. Undo unwanted changes with the new History panel. Import Adobe Audition 3 sessions and then save them as XML.
- History Panel - Edit, arrange, and mix with confidence, knowing that you can easily revert to previous states using the new History panel.
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5: Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5 is approachable interaction design software that enables you to easily transform Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks artwork into expressive, fully interactive projects without writing code, and leverage the reach and consistency of the Adobe Flash Platform. Flash Catalyst makes interaction design approachable with powerful layout tools, user interface prototyping, and custom skinnable components. User interactions are easy to define, and applications and components can be designed to adjust for various screen sizes and resolutions. The Common Library Panel and video and dynamic media support help you more quickly develop your design ideas.
New Features: - Full Designer-Developer Workflow - Work with confidence on shared Flex-based projects with a new bidirectional workflow that allows designers to collaborate with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 (not included).
- Resizable Components and Applications - Visually design and preview the position and scaling of objects when designing interfaces and applications that adjust to fit various screen sizes or resolutions.
- Enhanced Timelines and Animations - Craft precise, expressive transitions and effects with greater control and less effort. Animate filter effects and font sizes, and easily apply customizations across effects or objects.
- Common Library Panel - Quickly design wireframes and evolve developer-ready interface concepts using native Spark components and placeholder graphics.
- Custom Skinnable Components - Craft the visual appearance, or skin, or developer-built custom components without the need to understand the underlying code or logic.
- Improved Interactions - Define user interactions more efficiently with the ability to globally target any component within your project, and specify double-click actions as interactions.
- User-Requested Enhancements - Align and distribute objects with a new Align panel, lock aspect ratio when manipulating objects, easily name components for better collaboration with developers, and more.
Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5: Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 lets you create expressive interactive content. Create immersive experiences that present consistently to audiences across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions. Design with professional typography and pixel-precise artwork, and write code efficiently. Advanced animation tools, drawing tools, and text engine as well as filter and blend effects make it possible for you to produce effect user experiences through Flash. A convenient Code Snippets panel, the ActionScript editor, and integration with other Adobe Creative Suite programs lets you accomplish more faster - and XML-based FLA source files aid in project collaboration.
New Features: - Expanded Platform and Device Support - Reach audiences on the latest Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtimes and on Android and iOS devices.
- Efficient Workflows for Mobile Development - Manage FLA project files that target multiple devices. Share code and assets across documents and device targets to efficiently create, test, package, and deploy content for a wide range of screens and devices.
- Content Scaling When Resizing Stage - Save time when sharing symbols and motion paths across documents that are optimized for different screen sizes.
- Enhanced Layer Control - Preserve important document structure when copying layers across multiple files and projects.
- Symbol Rasterization and Better Performance - Use new tooling options, on-stage symbol rasterization, and the Property Inspector to improve CPU, battery, and rendering performance on mobile devices.
- Enhanced Code Snippets Handling - Use the new pick whip to preview and visually add more than 20 new code snippets, including ones for creating mobile and AIR applications, use of the accelerometer, and multitouch gestures.
- Streamlined Publish Settings Dialog Box - Publish content quickly and more efficiently with a redesigned Publish Settings dialog box.
- Inverse Kinematics Pinning Support - Lock inverse kinematics bones to the stage and set stage level movement restrictions to selected bones. Create multiple spans per layer, and define more complex movement of armatures, such as walk cycles.
- Auto-Save and File Recovery - Ensure consistency and integrity of your files, even after computer crashes or power outages.
- Incremental Compilation - Use asset caching to reduce the compile time of documents that use embedded fonts and sound files, and deploy rich content faster.
- Customer-Inspired Enhancements - Benefit from numerous user-requested improvements, including improved controls for the Text Layout Framework.
- Seamless Mobile Testing - Perform source-level debugging on Adobe AIR enabled devices that are connected with a USB cable, running content directly on the device.
- Flash Builder Integration - Create and open projects in either Adobe Flash Professional or Flash Builder (not included). Roundtrip code and synchronize project settings between both applications.
Adobe Illustrator CS5: Adobe Illustrator CS5 software helps you create distinctive vector artwork for any project. Take advantage of the precision and power of sophisticated drawing tools, expressive natural brushes, advanced typography and a host of time-savers. Perspective drawing, in-panel appearance editing, drawing enhancements, and multiple artboards make it possible to create unique designs for any project, from crisp graphics and text for web and mobile use to Adobe PDF files with Illustrator layers retained. Integration with Adobe CS Review and other Adobe solutions as well as industry-standard graphic file formats let you create and share designs the way you need them.
New Features: - Perspective Drawing - Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, creating the look of realistic depth and distance.
- Beautiful Strokes - Fully control variable-width strokes, arrowheads, dashes, and art brush scaling along a path.
- Bristle Brush - Paint with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes. Achieve the expressiveness of natural media with the scalability of vector graphics.
- Crisp Graphics and Text for Web and Mobile - Create and align vector objects precisely on the file's pixel grid for clean, sharp, raster graphics. Use text and anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.
- Multiple Artboards for Web and Interactive - Define up to 100 working areas in one file. Paste objects in place across artboards for repeating artwork on multiple web pages, screens, or frames.
- Shape Builder Tool - Intuitively combine, edit, and fill shapes directly on your artboard without accessing multiple tools and panels.
- Drawing Enhancements - Draw behind elements, disregarding stacking order. Draw or place an image inside an element, instantly creating a clipping mask.
- Roundtrip Editing with Flash Catalyst - Edit artwork in Illustrator while maintaining structure and interactivity added using Adobe Flash Catalyst software.
- Resolution-Independent Effects - See raster effects such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures maintain their appearance across media. Create work for different types of output and know that raster effects will look the same no matter how your resolution settings change.
- Integration with Adobe CS Review - Create and share online reviews for clients down the hall or around the world using Adobe CS Review, an Adobe CS Live online service.
- XML-Based FXG Support - Deliver FXG format. The XML-based graphics interchange format for the Adobe Flash Platform enables designers to deliver more editable, workable content to developers for web, interactive, and RIA projects.
Also Included in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium: - Adobe OnLocation CS5 - Powerful, direct-to-disk recording, logging, and monitoring solution. Take control of your footage and easily place comment markers during recording and manage metadata across assets to accomplish more while you're recording or importing footage.
- Adobe Encore CS5 - Efficiently create DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and web DVDs, all from a single Adobe Premiere Pro project. Use flowcharts to define and view the navigation of your project as you realize your vision with powerful authoring tools.
- Adobe Dynamic Link - Create dynamic links between After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Encore so that changes made in one program immediately appear in the linked clips in the other programs.
- Adobe Device Central CS5.5 - Simplify the production of innovative and compelling content for mobile phones, tablets, and consumer electronic devices. Plan, preview, and test engaging experiences and deliver them to practically anyone on virtually any device.
- Adobe Bridge CS5 - A powerful media manager that provides centralized access to all your creative assets. Browse linked files in InDesign documents, access every component of your page layouts, and convert any document in the Bridge to JPEG for easy sharing.
- Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 - Edit faster with true native format support. Get breakthrough performance on workstations and laptops; streamline collaboration; and boost productivity with an efficient, robust, cross-platform editing workflow.
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
- Adobe After Effects CS5.5
- Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended
- Adobe Audition CS5.5
- Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5
- Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5
- Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Adobe OnLocation CS5
- Adobe Encore CS5
Additional Components: - Adobe Dynamic Link
- Adobe Device Central CS5.5
- Adobe Bridge CS5
- Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5
Integrates with CS Live Online Services
Important Compatibility Information: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe After Effects CS5.5 require 64-bit editions of Windows Vista or Windows 7. For customers not yet using these operating systems, complimentary copies of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4 are included.
- 64-bit operating system required: Windows Vista Home Premium/Business/Ultimate/Enterprise with SP1 (SP2 recommended); Windows 7
- 64-bit support required: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor (Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 or AMD Phenom II recommended); Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II required for Adobe Premiere Pro
- 2 GB of RAM (4 GB or more recommended)
- 16.3 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
- 1280 x 900 display (1280 x 1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256 MB of VRAM
- Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop Extended require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and Open GL 2.0
- Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64 MB of VRAM
- 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
- Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape for SD/HD workflows
- OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
- Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
- DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
- Java Runtime Environment 1.5 (32-bit) or 1.6
- QuickTime 7.6.2 software required to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis
- CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time
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