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Create video for virtually any screen using high-performance production tools
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. Tackle any production challenge and deliver video to virtually any screen with breakthrough performance, the industry’s best file-based workflow, and streamlined collaboration.
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.
- 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 Stabiliser Smooth a bumpy camera move, or lock a shot automatically. Warp Stabiliser 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.
- 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.
- 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.
* Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe’s online privacy policy. Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time.
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CS5.5 Production Premium v5.5 Windows Upgrade From CS5
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Although I am well-accustomed to writing product reviews on Amazon, I have to admit I balked at the prospect of writing one for Adobe Production Premium CS5.5. Mainly because there are just so very many features that no review of it will ever be complete. However the more I use it, the more I want to SHARE it with everyone.
Bearing in mind I have upgraded from Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Adobe Photoshop Extended CS3, and Sony Movie Studio Platinum, to CS5.5 Production Premium, you can imagine that it is very much a quantum leap for me in terms of functionality and work-flow. Although Production Premium does not include Dreamweaver, my interests have moved from web authoring to video content since MX was the daddy, so Production is a much more suitable suite for me now.
Compared to Production CS4 and earlier, in terms of functionality, CS5.5 adds the following features:
- AFTER EFFECTS: Roto Brush tool, Refine Matte, AVC-Intra import, improved RED support, improvements and new plug-in tools for Mocha, Auto-keyframe mode, Apply Colour LUT effect, Align panel improvements, bundled Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse 3, bundled Digieffects FreeForm, Warp Stabiliser effect, Camera Lens Blur effect, source timecode support, improved stereoscopic 3D work-flow, light falloff, improvements to RAW work-flow, XDCAM EX support, and a whole bunch of other tweaks and improvements.
- PREMIERE PRO: Mercury Playback Engine, improved native tapeless work-flows, "script-to-screen" work-flow path when used with Adobe Story and OnLocation, round-trip editing with Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer, various metadata features, CS Review for sharing dailies etc, revamped Adobe media Encoder, Ultra Key realtime HD footage chroma key, native support for DSLRs, integration with Encore DVD/Blu-Ray authoring suite, round-trip audio editing in Adobe Audition, closed captioning, improved speech analysis, and more.
- PHOTOSHOP: New and awesome refine edges module, content-aware filling and healing, rebuilt HDR merge/tone features, new "bristled" paint brushes, puppet warp, lens distortion correction profiles, 3D repoussé extruder, many 3D enhancements, CS Review integration, improved interactions with Bridge 5, ability to use newer versions of Adobe Camera RAW, GPU acceleration, 64-bit and 32-bit versions supplied.
- FLASH PRO: Share assets while authoring, copy/paste whole layers, scale content on stage resize, export as/convert to bitmap, code snippets panel, AIR for Android support, AIR 2.6 SDK, debug on-device via USB, new "Text Layout Framework", round-trip bitmap editing with Photoshop, new decorative drawing tools, physics in bone animations, XFL internal file format exchanges data with other Adobe applications, and a whole host of other tweaks and improvements.
- ILLUSTRATOR: Perspective drawing grid tool, variable width strokes, dashed line alignment, defined stroke arrowheads, brush stretch controls, bristled brush tool, shape builder tool, round-trip editing with Flash Catalyst, and more.
- ENTIRE SUITE: Adobe Audition (believe this replaces SoundBooth), Encore, Flash Catalyst, Bridge 5.5, Device Central, ExtendScript toolkit, Mocha for AE, Extension Manager 5.5, Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6, and Media Encoder 5.5 are all included.
Dynamic Link connects assets between different applications, for example you can link an After Effects composition as a sequence in Premiere Pro, without having to render an output file from AE first. You can take this further by opening the Premiere project in Encore and building a Blu-Ray from your project and linked AE assets... delay rendering right till the point where you're about to burn a disc!
I actually found the new 3D Repoussé tool in Photoshop to be a little underwhelming, at least in terms of integration with After Effects, but as I said I have come from PS-CS3 so the rest of the upgrade more than makes up for it! Content aware fill has made my month.
The Roto Brush and Warp Stabiliser tools in After Effects are two of the biggest time savers I have ever seen in a software package, and the metadata integration between Adobe Story, OnLocation, and Premiere Pro is an independent content creator's dream. Being able to round-trip audio from Premiere to Audition for cleaning, and then sending it back again, is also really quite nifty.
Flash Professional I have only used so far for authoring a simple iPhone app. Taking advantage of ActionScript, and using the built-in animations and code snippets, it really is a breeze to create apps; much easier than learning object-oriented programming if you just want something simple. The exporter included with Flash also allows you to export your app to the Apple .ipa format along with all the correct metadata and icons bundled, which saves you from having to package up lots of resources yourself to make the application ready for Apple.
Just a word of warning: you won't be buying a copy of Flash and then making your fortune by developing apps with it; many of the most crucial APIs for platform-specific Apple integration are missing from the ActionScript reference, for example iAds and in-app purchasing.
Another caution: you now MUST have an Apple Macbook Air/Pro, iMac, or Mac Mini in order to upload an app to the iTunes Connect service. The uploader on the Connect web site has been removed and apps can now only be added via the Application loader that ships with Xcode. You cannot upload an app from an iPhone, iPad, or PC. PC users can develop and export their app under Windows, then send the .ipa file to a Mac by email, thumb drive, or Dropbox to be uploaded. You just need your iTunes Connect login details to upload an app so there's no reason why you cannot borrow someone's Mac for half an hour to do that stage.
I am unlikely to use Illustrator or Flash Catalyst, but having them in the package means that should I need to do some quick vector-based web or screen work, I have the means to do it. Which is nice. For me, the package was worth the money for Photoshop, AE, and Premiere - the other programs are nice bonuses!
CS5.5 has drawn some negative feedback regarding the Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) and its support for CUDA graphics cards. After going nuts trying to find reliable information on this I should probably share what I found: the MPE incorporates a software renderer which will work with any 64-bit computer regardless of whether the graphics card is CUDA-enabled. However, when one of a steadily-growing list of certified CUDA cards is present, MPE also uses hardware rendering to give a highly significant increase in rendering performance. This applies only to Premiere Pro rendering, NOT to After Effects. The list of certified CUDA cards is on the Adobe web site at /products/premiere/tech-specs.html.
This release represents Adobe's big push to get most of its production software (a) 64-bit native, and (b) suitable for tapeless camera technologies, such as HD-DSLRs. The performance improvements from the 64-bit components such as AE, Photoshop, and Premiere are very noticeable indeed, and having presets and templates that I don't need to keep changing to match footage from a DSLR is one of those many little time savers that gives the whole experience a different kind of flavour.
All in all I would say that if you need to take projects from inside the camera to screen or disc, with any kind of professional editing and/or compositing, this package represents great value for money. As I delve more deeply into the software I will return to update this review if I find anything of note, particularly anything that might be a problem for prospective buyers. I hope this has been useful for people considering an upgrade or a switch!
Bearing in mind I have upgraded from Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Adobe Photoshop Extended CS3, and Sony Movie Studio Platinum, to CS5.5 Production Premium, you can imagine that it is very much a quantum leap for me in terms of functionality and work-flow. Although Production Premium does not include Dreamweaver, my interests have moved from web authoring to video content since MX was the daddy, so Production is a much more suitable suite for me now.
Compared to Production CS4 and earlier, in terms of functionality, CS5.5 adds the following features:
- AFTER EFFECTS: Roto Brush tool, Refine Matte, AVC-Intra import, improved RED support, improvements and new plug-in tools for Mocha, Auto-keyframe mode, Apply Colour LUT effect, Align panel improvements, bundled Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse 3, bundled Digieffects FreeForm, Warp Stabiliser effect, Camera Lens Blur effect, source timecode support, improved stereoscopic 3D work-flow, light falloff, improvements to RAW work-flow, XDCAM EX support, and a whole bunch of other tweaks and improvements.
- PREMIERE PRO: Mercury Playback Engine, improved native tapeless work-flows, "script-to-screen" work-flow path when used with Adobe Story and OnLocation, round-trip editing with Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer, various metadata features, CS Review for sharing dailies etc, revamped Adobe media Encoder, Ultra Key realtime HD footage chroma key, native support for DSLRs, integration with Encore DVD/Blu-Ray authoring suite, round-trip audio editing in Adobe Audition, closed captioning, improved speech analysis, and more.
- PHOTOSHOP: New and awesome refine edges module, content-aware filling and healing, rebuilt HDR merge/tone features, new "bristled" paint brushes, puppet warp, lens distortion correction profiles, 3D repoussé extruder, many 3D enhancements, CS Review integration, improved interactions with Bridge 5, ability to use newer versions of Adobe Camera RAW, GPU acceleration, 64-bit and 32-bit versions supplied.
- FLASH PRO: Share assets while authoring, copy/paste whole layers, scale content on stage resize, export as/convert to bitmap, code snippets panel, AIR for Android support, AIR 2.6 SDK, debug on-device via USB, new "Text Layout Framework", round-trip bitmap editing with Photoshop, new decorative drawing tools, physics in bone animations, XFL internal file format exchanges data with other Adobe applications, and a whole host of other tweaks and improvements.
- ILLUSTRATOR: Perspective drawing grid tool, variable width strokes, dashed line alignment, defined stroke arrowheads, brush stretch controls, bristled brush tool, shape builder tool, round-trip editing with Flash Catalyst, and more.
- ENTIRE SUITE: Adobe Audition (believe this replaces SoundBooth), Encore, Flash Catalyst, Bridge 5.5, Device Central, ExtendScript toolkit, Mocha for AE, Extension Manager 5.5, Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.6, and Media Encoder 5.5 are all included.
Dynamic Link connects assets between different applications, for example you can link an After Effects composition as a sequence in Premiere Pro, without having to render an output file from AE first. You can take this further by opening the Premiere project in Encore and building a Blu-Ray from your project and linked AE assets... delay rendering right till the point where you're about to burn a disc!
I actually found the new 3D Repoussé tool in Photoshop to be a little underwhelming, at least in terms of integration with After Effects, but as I said I have come from PS-CS3 so the rest of the upgrade more than makes up for it! Content aware fill has made my month.
The Roto Brush and Warp Stabiliser tools in After Effects are two of the biggest time savers I have ever seen in a software package, and the metadata integration between Adobe Story, OnLocation, and Premiere Pro is an independent content creator's dream. Being able to round-trip audio from Premiere to Audition for cleaning, and then sending it back again, is also really quite nifty.
Flash Professional I have only used so far for authoring a simple iPhone app. Taking advantage of ActionScript, and using the built-in animations and code snippets, it really is a breeze to create apps; much easier than learning object-oriented programming if you just want something simple. The exporter included with Flash also allows you to export your app to the Apple .ipa format along with all the correct metadata and icons bundled, which saves you from having to package up lots of resources yourself to make the application ready for Apple.
Just a word of warning: you won't be buying a copy of Flash and then making your fortune by developing apps with it; many of the most crucial APIs for platform-specific Apple integration are missing from the ActionScript reference, for example iAds and in-app purchasing.
Another caution: you now MUST have an Apple Macbook Air/Pro, iMac, or Mac Mini in order to upload an app to the iTunes Connect service. The uploader on the Connect web site has been removed and apps can now only be added via the Application loader that ships with Xcode. You cannot upload an app from an iPhone, iPad, or PC. PC users can develop and export their app under Windows, then send the .ipa file to a Mac by email, thumb drive, or Dropbox to be uploaded. You just need your iTunes Connect login details to upload an app so there's no reason why you cannot borrow someone's Mac for half an hour to do that stage.
I am unlikely to use Illustrator or Flash Catalyst, but having them in the package means that should I need to do some quick vector-based web or screen work, I have the means to do it. Which is nice. For me, the package was worth the money for Photoshop, AE, and Premiere - the other programs are nice bonuses!
CS5.5 has drawn some negative feedback regarding the Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) and its support for CUDA graphics cards. After going nuts trying to find reliable information on this I should probably share what I found: the MPE incorporates a software renderer which will work with any 64-bit computer regardless of whether the graphics card is CUDA-enabled. However, when one of a steadily-growing list of certified CUDA cards is present, MPE also uses hardware rendering to give a highly significant increase in rendering performance. This applies only to Premiere Pro rendering, NOT to After Effects. The list of certified CUDA cards is on the Adobe web site at /products/premiere/tech-specs.html.
This release represents Adobe's big push to get most of its production software (a) 64-bit native, and (b) suitable for tapeless camera technologies, such as HD-DSLRs. The performance improvements from the 64-bit components such as AE, Photoshop, and Premiere are very noticeable indeed, and having presets and templates that I don't need to keep changing to match footage from a DSLR is one of those many little time savers that gives the whole experience a different kind of flavour.
All in all I would say that if you need to take projects from inside the camera to screen or disc, with any kind of professional editing and/or compositing, this package represents great value for money. As I delve more deeply into the software I will return to update this review if I find anything of note, particularly anything that might be a problem for prospective buyers. I hope this has been useful for people considering an upgrade or a switch!
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