Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium software, the total post-production solution available for both Mac and Windows®. Tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe’s all-new video, audio, and design tools—now including Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software for rich interactive authoring and Adobe Soundbooth™ CS3 software for audio—helps ensure fluidity in every aspect of your workflow, including capturing, editing, motion graphics, effects, compositing, and rich media authoring. Move beyond SD and DVD to HD, HDV, Blu-ray Disc, and other emerging web and mobile formats so you can deliver your content to the widest possible audience.
Main Features
Work on the platform of your choice. Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium is now available for both Mac and Windows® and is supported by a broad selection of books, training materials, third-party plug-ins, and leading industry partners including the OpenHD™ Partner Alliance.
Meet todays production demands and tomorrows challenges head on. Broad support for leading standards and formats, an open approach to hardware and platform support, a rich ecosystem of plug-ins and other third-party solutions, and the ability to deliver video content to new types of devices — from mobile to Blu-ray Disc — give you a competitive edge.
Unparalleled integration between the components of Production Premium saves time at every step of the process so you can work at peak efficiency. A unified interface and integrated workflow make it easier than ever to move projects and files between components. In addition, AdobeBridge offers new file type support and metadata previews.
Enjoy greater freedom to experiment with new ideas without having to wait for intermediate rendering. Exclusively available in Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, Adobe Dynamic Link allows you to edit a composition in Adobe After Effects® software and view your updates instantly in Adobe Premiere® Pro and Adobe Encore® software.
Use Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, the industrys most advanced interactive authoring environment, to integrate your video content into uniquely engaging websites, presentations, and mobile content. Preserve vectors from animations created in After Effects, import SWF files as vectors into After Effects with alpha channels preserved, and encode FLV files with cue points from After Effects, Adobe Premiere® Pro, and Adobe Soundbooth™ software.
Innovative new features make the industry standard even more essential. After Effects CS3 Professional offers new Shape Layers for drawing and animating vector shapes, an intuitive new approach to shape animation using the Puppet tool, new integration with Adobe Flash and Photoshop software, and dramatically improved performance so you can maintain your creative momentum.
Integrate images and graphics for use in your productions. With Adobe Photoshop® CS3 Extended software, use new video layer support to edit and paint your video frame by frame, or clone between frames. Use advanced drawing, texturing, coloring, tracing, and typography tools to create vector artwork with Adobe Illustrator® CS3 software.
Soundbooth CS3 lets you take command of your audio in film, video, and Flash CS3 projects with convenient, task-based tools that make high-quality audio production more efficient, even if audio production isn your specialty.
Use the Adobe Media Encoder in After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth to export 3GP and H.264 video for mobile phones, iPods and PSP systems, and other mobile devices. Preview the results for supported devices using Adobe Device Central CS3.
System Requirements
Hard Disk
21.5GB of available hard-disk space to install all components (up to 1GB of additional free space may be required during installation).
Memory
1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD; more RAM recommended when running multiple components.
Processor
Multicore Intel processor (Adobe Photoshop® Extended, Illustrator®, Flash® Professional, and After Effects® Professional are universal binary and also work on a PowerPC® G4 or G5 processor.
