Adobe CS. Production Premium Upgrade from CS [Mac]

Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium Upgrade from CS5 [Mac]
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Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2011

Buy new: $399.00
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Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium

Create video for virtually any screen using high-performance production tools

A completely new high-performance audio engine takes full advantage of multicore processors to make Adobe Audition CS5.5 an even more powerful all-in-one editing and mixing environment. View larger.

Tackle any production challenge and deliver video to virtually any screen with breakthrough performance, the industry's best file-based workflow, and streamlined collaboration.

What is Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium?

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium is the high-performance leader in video production software. Produce your best work with game-changing innovations like the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine and the industry's most efficient post-production workflow.

You can send Adobe Premiere Pro clips and sequences to Adobe Audition for advanced audio editing and restoration, then roundtrip back to Adobe Premiere Pro.

Like Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition can exchange projects with Final Cut Pro and other NLEs, to simplify integration with larger workflows.

Key Features

Take advantage of sweeping performance enhancements in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium software as you craft video productions, motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive experiences for virtually any screen. Harness the power of the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro in more ways than ever, with expanded GPU support for desktops and notebooks and the industry’s broadest support for true native editing of file-based media. Get best-of-class audio sweetening and editing tools in Adobe Audition CS5.5, now included for both Mac OS and Windows.

Top Reasons to Upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium

Flexible, precise, and reliable editing tools--Edit the way you want with widely accepted, customizable NLE shortcuts and powerful, intuitive trimming and editing tools that give you more precision and control in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Boost productivity with dual-system sound support and enhanced project exchange with Final Cut Pro and Avid software.

Advanced audio-for-video editing in Adobe Audition--Record, edit, mix, master, and sweeten audio with Adobe Audition CS5.5--now available for both Mac OS and Windows. Roundtrip edit with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, or use OMF and XML to speed up project exchange with Avid Pro Tools and other NLEs.

Breakthrough performance with the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine--Experience fast effects processing and rendering on both laptops and desktop computers with the native 64-bit, multicore, GPU-accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Warp Stabilizer--Smooth a bumpy camera move, or lock a shot automatically. Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities.

Faster, more reliable encoding for multiple devices--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.

After Effects displays a frame overlay to show that it's automatically analyzing the shot--the first step in stabilization.

Warp Stabilizer offers considerable control over the automated result without creating actual keyframes in the timeline. The Subspace Warp option, chosen by default, performs pixel analysis to correct for motion artifacts including parallax shifts. View larger.

Expanded support for RAW digital cinema and file-based workflows--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.

Camera Lens Blur effect and camera property in After Effects--Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur. Set iris shape, blade 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.

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.

Streamlined collaboration using CS Live services--Collaborate using CS Live online services including Adobe Story, a collaborative script-development tool; CS Review, an online review service; and Acrobat.com services that simplify sharing project information.

Closed-caption playback in the timeline--Play back and display 608 and 708 closed captions, synced to your video sequence and viewable in the Program Monitor.

To make it easier to output your work to virtually any video and device format, the new Adobe Media Encoder user interface includes three sections--the Queue pane, the Current Encode pane, and the Watch Folders pane. View larger.

Source time code support in After Effects--Refer to specific frames in a clip with accuracy using source time code support in After Effects.

Stereoscopic 3D workflow improvements in After Effects--Composite and animate stereoscopic projects more easily, thanks to improvements that include quick setup of stereo camera rigs, fewer steps required to render multiple cameras, and improvements to the 3D Glasses effect.

Light falloff in After Effects--Control how light intensity falls off across 3D distances, just like in the real world.

Added support for color LUTs--Share a broad range of color lookup tables (LUTs) with After Effects, such as 3DL and CUBE formats and support for 1D LUTs.

Bokeh blur is the natural result when light highlights appear in the defocused area of an image, but many blur features don't account for this. The depth-of-field effects on the right bring focus to the face by making the foreground appear defocused. View larger.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, you can:

Work faster. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium takes the breakthrough performance delivered in Creative Suite 5 and makes it more accessible; in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, expanded support for mobile and desktop video cards brings Adobe Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration to a wider selection of systems, including Windows laptops for editing in the field. Edit with a highly efficient keyboard-driven workflow, and boost productivity with dual-system sound support and other timesaving features suggested by users. Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium gives you new flexibility when working with RAW digital cinema files and other file-based footage in After Effects CS5.5 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, building upon the industry's best file-based workflow which eliminates transcoding and rewrapping while preserving the pristine quality of your footage. 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 simplifies multiscreen delivery--with new, intuitive presets and contextual menus that let you set up sequences once for batch encoding to multiple formats such as PCs, smartphones, and television, while you continue editing.

Craft great stories with game-changing creative innovation. Adding to the groundbreaking Roto Brush feature that After Effects CS5 introduced, the new Warp Stabilizer gives you options for improving the quality of handheld footage; Camera Lens Blur lets you control which parts of a scene are in focus; and Light Falloff enables you to manage how light behaves in a 3D scene. Improve your audio workflow and get best-in-class editing and multitrack mixing tools, powerful sweetening options, and rock-solid performance using Adobe Audition CS5.5--available for the first time on Mac OS, as well as Windows.

Collaborate efficiently. Easily integrate CS5.5 Production Premium with existing workflows, whether you're part of a small workgroup or a large-scale enterprise. Move projects back and forth more easily between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition, and other NLEs such as Apple Final Cut Pro. Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service for collaborative script writing, now directly integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and helps you create metadata-rich, production-ready assets. New presets in Adobe Media Encoder make it easier to send sequences to Adobe CS Review, another CS Live online service, making it easier for you to get feedback from clients and teammates on works in progress.

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5

Make an impact through print, video, and digital experiences for virtually any device and platform. With powerful new creative tools, enhanced performance, simple workflows, and support for cutting-edge standards like HTML5 and EPUB 3, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 software helps you create rich content for virtually any media. Whether you need to produce printed pages, create high-end video, or design and distribute engaging interactive content for the latest smartphones and tablets, Creative Suite 5.5 is ready to help you boost productivity and keep pace with your creative vision.

	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
	Design Professionals	Print Designers; Print Professionals	Web Designers; Web Developers; Interactive Designers	Web Professionals; Motion Graphics Artists; Broadcasters	Graphic Design Professionals; Web and Interactive Design Professionals; Video and Broadcast Professionals
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended	•		•	•	•
Adobe Photoshop CS5		•
Adobe Illustrator CS5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe InDesign CS5.5	•	•			•
Adobe Acrobat X Pro	•	•	•		•
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5	•		•	•	•
Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5	•		•	•	•
Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium			•		•
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5	•		•		•
Adobe Fireworks CS5	•		•		•
Adobe Contribute CS5			•		•
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5				•	•
Adobe After Effects CS5.5				•	•
Adobe Audition CS5.5				•	•
Adobe OnLocation CS5				•	•
Adobe Encore CS5				•	•
ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS
Adobe Bridge CS5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe Device Central CS5.5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe Dynamic Link				•	•
INTEGRATES WITH ADOBE CS LIVE ONLINE SERVICES
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Take advantage of sweeping performance enhancements in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium software as you craft video productions, motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive experiences for virtually any screen. Harness the power of the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro in more ways than ever, with expanded GPU support for desktops and notebooks and the industry’s broadest support for true native editing of file-based media. Get best-of-class audio sweetening and editing tools in Adobe Audition CS5.5, now included for both Mac OS and Windows.