Production Premium CS4

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Work with the Complete Pre- and Post-Production Solution
Take your productions from planning through delivery using powerful, intuitive tools that make the creation process smoother and more efficient. Available for Windows® and Intel® based Mac OS systems, Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium pairs world-class video, audio, and design tools with integration features that help save you valuable production time at every step.

• Motion graphics and visual effects with Adobe After Effects CS4
  • Visual innovation: Achieve creative control over virtually every element of your production in the highly responsive 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment of Adobe After Effects® CS4.
  • Flexible and efficient tools: Easily handle a wide range of post-production tasks — from keying and motion tracking to color correction, rotoscoping, and more — using flexible tools in a user interface optimized to save you time.
  • Delivery to a wide range of formats: Easily create output for delivery to a wide range of media formats and platforms — from traditional film and video to the web and mobile devices — from a single project.
• Real-time video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
  • New post-production workflows: Work with the formats you want, from DV and HD to 4K and beyond. Support for industry standards in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 enables you to interchange easily with other industry-standard tools.
  • Editing efficiency: Focus on telling your story with powerful, flexible editing tools that help save you time. Exploit the potential of tapeless workflows to achieve new levels of efficiency.
  • Creative excellence: Achieve your vision with professional color correction, quick and precise multicam editing, and much more — all from within a familiar, customizable interface.
  • Broad range of supporting hardware and software for Mac OS and Windows: Choose from a wide range of Mac OS and Windows workstations and capture cards to build the editing system that meets your needs and budget. Enhance your system with additional plug-ins, including many from After Effects.
• Image editing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
  • Access to full editing power: Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended offers with more intuitive, nondestructive editing so you can achieve the highest quality results.
  • More efficient way to work: Be more productive with interface enhancements that let you work more naturally so you can focus on your images instead of the tools.
  • 3D and motion-based editing: Work with 3D content and video frames as easily as any 2D image with enhanced controls for speed and precision. Breakthrough 3D capabilities and enhanced video controls dramatically expand your creative options.
  • Precise image analysis: Get additional measurement and counting tools, as well as support for DICOM images and MATLAB processing routines.
• Rich interactive content with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
  • Easy and efficient design: Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools, Bezier controls, and motion presets in Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.
  • New creative possibilities: Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Animate 2D objects through 3D space with 3D translation and rotation. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like effects or distort shapes. Add the expressive power of patterns to your designs with the Deco tool.
  • Sophisticated video tools: Experience advanced video capabilities, including embedded cue points, alpha channel support, and high-quality video codecs. Use the optimized video component, featuring closed-captioning and support for streaming and progressively downloaded video files.
  • Delivery for a wide reach: Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices.The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR™ runtime, are right at your fingertips.
• Vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS4
  • Powerful creative tools: Explore multiple design options and generate intricate graphics using robust creative features in Adobe Illustrator® CS4. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely and quickly achieve just the look you want.
  • Workflow efficiency with artboards: Accomplish more and stay in the groove by working directly on the artboard. Interact with tools and options more easily and complete your projects efficiently using a wealth of innovative, timesaving features and shortcuts.
  • Delivery for print, motion, and more: Move easily between Illustrator and Creative Suite 4 components while confidently delivering graphics for print, interactive experiences, and motion effects.
• Digital audio with Adobe Soundbooth CS4
  • Intuitive, task-based tools: Take command of audio for your film, video, or rich-media project. Task-based tools help you clean up recordings, polish voice-overs, customize music and sound effects, and much more. High-quality production becomes more efficient with Adobe Soundbooth® CS4, without sacrificing creative control.
  • Ready-to-use audio assets: Select from dozens of Soundbooth Scores, adjust the intensity of your soundtrack to suit the mood, and create audio using thousands of sound effects available via Resource Central (Internet connection required).
  • Tighter integration: Work on audio in After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, or Flash CS4 Professional more efficiently than ever with the Edit in Soundbooth option that edits your audio files directly in Soundbooth.
  • Enhanced audio editing: Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power of nondestructive editing. Quickly and easily heal sound; remove pops, clicks, and other unwanted noises; and match volume levels.
• Powerful recording options with Adobe OnLocation CS4
  • Metadata-driven workflow: Use fast, efficient logging tools during recording in Adobe OnLocation™ CS4 to add metadata that increases productivity at every stage in the production process.
  • Direct-to-disk recording: Capture DV, HDV, and DVCPRO HD footage directly to disk and start editing sooner by eliminating the tedious capturing process.
  • Professional on-set monitoring tools: Use professional on-set monitoring tools to calibrate your camera, set levels, and monitor signals to obtain high-quality video and audio and help avoid time-consuming and potentially costly problems.
• Video delivery virtually anywhere with Adobe Encore CS4
  • Easy DVD, Blu-ray, and SWF authoring: Create DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray Discs with pop-up menus, and interactive SWF files for the web with Adobe Encore® CS4. The enhanced Flowchart helps you define and view your project's points and links. Build and arrange slide shows with ease.
  • Intelligent workflow: With Adobe Dynamic Link, open your Adobe Premiere Pro sequences directly in Encore — complete with chapter markers — without intermediate rendering so you can work quickly and stay focused.
  • Design control and freedom: Import images and illustrations from Photoshop Extended and Illustrator into Encore without loss of quality. Create motion menus in After Effects or use integrated text design tools to realize your creative vision.

• Animation and keying with After Effects CS4
  • Innovative compositing and animation tools: Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating virtually any aspect of each element.
  • Unlimited creative options, including the new Cartoon effect: Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter, and combine them to create Hollywood-caliber special effects. Bring images and text to life by animating them with the Puppet tool, and use the new Cartoon effect to quickly give footage the look of cel animation.
  • Text and vector graphics creation and animation: Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.
  • Comprehensive masking and keying tools: Control which portions of a layer are visible to aid compositing by drawing and animating masks. Flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with the Academy Award–winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools.
  • Powerful motion controls: Apply motion blur to produce more realistic animations, or use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Precisely match the motion of source footage using the Motion Tracker, and remove unwanted movement with the Motion Stabilizer.
• Efficient workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
  • Powerful and flexible editing tools: Create high-quality visual and editorial effects directly within the editing timeline. Adobe Premiere Pro includes more than 50 of the most requested editing enhancements to make your workflow more efficient. Apply effects to multiple selections, get timecode information faster, and much more.
  • Customized workspaces and extensive special effects: Control and navigate your tools as quickly as possible with mouseless, customizable keyboard shortcuts. Generate slow motion and other time-remapping effects with precise keyframe control and real-time feedback. Add color correction, lighting and other effects, audio filters, and more with fast, flexible built-in tools.
  • Multicam editing: View multiple video tracks from a multiple-camera shoot, easily sync via timecode, and edit by switching between tracks in real-time. Re-record sections of your edit, make fine adjustments using standard timeline editing tools, and easily make color corrections across multiple shots, even after editing.
  • Integrated titling: Create sophisticated text and graphics titles from scratch, from professionally designed templates, or from user-defined styles.
• Advanced image control with Photoshop CS4 Extended
  • New Adjustments panel and Masks panel: Get professional-quality results quickly with two new panels that offer intuitive access to the unrivaled editing power of Photoshop. The Adjustments panel brings together every tool you need to adjust Exposure, Vibrance, and more. The Masks panel brings together all the tools you need to quickly create, preview, and refine nondestructive, editable masks (including vector masks).
  • Richer painting and drawing toolset: Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Work faster and smoother by simply dragging to resize brushes as you paint. And enjoy improved tablet tracking for greater precision.
  • Automatic compositing: Automatically align multiple Photoshop layers or images and blend color and shading to easily create a single image from a series of shots. Extend depth of field by automatically blending photos with different focal points. And automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos into seamless panoramas — now up to 360-degree spheres — using Photomerge® technology.
  • Motion design enhancements: Edit motion graphics on video layers more efficiently with new single-key shortcuts, sync the visual effects you create in Photoshop with specific points in an audio track using new audio syncing controls, and turn any 3D object into a video display zone by applying video layers as textures.
  • Better raw image processing: Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5.0 plug-in, which now offers localized correction of exposure, tint, saturation, and more; the ability to also process TIFF and JPEG images; and support for more than 190 camera models.
  • Content-Aware Scaling: Use the revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step, without time-intensive masks, crops, and retouching.
• New animation options with Flash CS4 Professional
  • Object-based animation: Dramatically simplify animation in Flash CS4 Professional without losing creative flexibility. Apply tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes and gain greater control over each individual animation attribute.
  • Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool: Easily create chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects or quickly distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.
  • Procedural modeling with the Deco tool: Turn symbols into instant design tools. Create patterns that can be applied using the brush or fill tools, or create kaleidoscope-like effects with the new Deco tool.
  • Motion editor: Experience detailed control over keyframe parameters, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the new motion editor. Refine easing control with graphical displays.
• Production planning with Illustrator CS4
  • Powerful gradient tools for lower thirds and slates: Create a gradient of many colors and control the opacity of the individual colors on the gradient stops and sliders to create lower-third graphics and slates. Use transparency to create cover-up fades or reveal underlying images.
  • Multiple artboards for storyboarding: Create hand-drawn storyboards using the new multiple layout feature and scale them to accommodate whatever display mode your stakeholders require — projected onscreen for viewing dailies, viewed at low resolutions over the web for remote review and approval, or even scaled to mobile device-friendly screen sizes.
  • Live Color, Live Trace, and Live Paint: Explore color variations using Live Color, which lets you select any artwork and interactively edit or replace colors to see results immediately. Quickly convert images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace. Easily paint any closed or partially closed area of your artwork with the Live Paint Bucket, which detects and corrects gaps and lets you select colors from a Swatch palette for faster work.
• Better video shooting with Adobe OnLocation CS4
  • Direct-to-disk recording and metadata acquisition: Record DV, HDV, and DVCPRO HD footage directly to hard disk while Adobe OnLocation CS4 automatically detects and flags problems in your footage to help you avoid reshoots. Use the Shot List and Metadata panel to add important scene and camera information in XMP format metadata. Then use that metadata to manage your projects with greater efficiency from post-production through delivery.
  • Camera calibration: Maximize camera image quality using software-based on-set waveform and vectorscope tools to quickly calibrate your camera, check levels, and monitor your signal. Use the all-digital field monitor during setup and display the actual post-compression image as it is recorded. The monitor provides features similar to those on high-end broadcast field monitors, as well as unique features for freezing, zooming, and comparing video content.
  • SureShot setup module: Calibrate your camera for exceptional quality in any environment. The SureShot camera setup module provides tools to set up focus, white balance, and exposure — you don't need to know anything about waveforms or traditional scopes. SureShot works automatically, using the custom calibration charts included in Production Premium.
  • Scene continuity: Help ensure that all aspects of continuity — color, lighting, audio, and more — match from one scene to the next using the full complement of shooting tools in Adobe OnLocation. Use the field monitor in Split Screen or Onion Skin mode to compare one clip to another and catch wandering microphones or changes in camera framing, brightness, and more.
  • Stop-motion animation recording: Make static objects come to life using stop-motion recording. This feature allows you to easily record static objects one frame at a time. Split-screen overlay view with opacity control makes it easy to position objects precisely from frame to frame.
• New 3D workflows
  • Streamlined 3D painting and compositing in Photoshop Extended: Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D content in a streamlined interface — even paint directly on 3D models. Create 3D animations and use video layers as textures to turn any 3D object into a video display zone. With Vanishing Point, measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes; and output planes as 3D models to use in After Effects projects.
  • 3D transformation in Flash Professional: Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate via the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformation to move an object in relation to itself or the stage.
• Audio enhancements
  • Recording, editing, and mixing in Soundbooth: Record high-quality mono or stereo audio files, and work on more than one file at a time. Add tracks to create new sounds composed of multiple audio clips. Use powerful sample-accurate tools to cut, copy, paste, fade, and stretch audio assets. Intuitive on-clip tools make common edits instant, and visual feedback keeps you informed at every step.
  • Fast audio cleanup in Soundbooth: Automatically detect and fix common flaws in audio recordings such as hisses, hums, rumbling, crackling, and pops using simple, intuitive tools.
  • Royalty-free audio with Soundbooth Scores: Select one of the dozens of included Soundbooth Scores in Soundbooth CS4 and then customize it to match your project. Modify the score in multiple tracks, combine multiple scores on a single track, or layer different scores on multiple tracks.
  • Visual tools for healing sound in Soundbooth: Use tools in Soundbooth similar to those in Photoshop to visually identify, select, and remove individual sounds from a revealing spectral display of your waveform.
  • 32-bit audio support in After Effects: Work with confidence knowing After Effects supports 32-bit audio. Use innovative features to make audio tracks visual, such as the ability to convert fluctuations in an audio track into keyframes or expressions, and the ability to generate full-color visuals that animate dynamically.
  • Advanced audio editing in Adobe Premiere Pro: Create 5.1 surround-sound audio mixes, edit audio with individual sample precision, and apply clipand track-based effects using the included VST plug-ins or your own. Control the volume and pan/balance settings of your audio tracks with a software version of an audio mixer, and create smooth audio cross-fades and other audio changes with a minimal number of keyframes.
  • Broad audio support in Encore: Increase your audio format options with support for DTS audio. Set the language codes for audio and subtitled streams so viewers can select by name rather than number. Convert source files to Dolby® Digital audio and depend on built-in sample-rate conversion that automatically converts your source audio to the 48kHz audio used for DVDs.
• Pristine color
  • Industry-leading color correction in Photoshop Extended: Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.
  • 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support in Photoshop Extended: Combine multiple exposures into a single 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene — from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. Image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.
  • Video color management in Photoshop Extended: Create and edit images for video with maximum quality and a broad range of color models. Edit and enhance grayscale, RGB, CMYK, and LAB models at 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit depths with color management.
  • High-fidelity color in After Effects: Get precise, predictable color with Adobe After Effects. In addition to support for HDR color, After Effects enables the use of ICC-based color management tools with enhancements for film and video workflows. Work in 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit modes for optimum performance.
  • Professional internal scopes in Adobe Premiere Pro: Monitor luma and chroma levels on every line with the built-in waveform monitor and vectorscope. Display Waveform IRE information in standard, YCbCr Parade, RGB Parade, or combined modes.
  • 10-bit and 16-bit color resolution support in Adobe Premiere Pro: Help maintain source integrity with support for 10-bit video and 16-bit PSD files.
  • 32-bit internal color processing in Adobe Premiere Pro: Help maintain maximum image quality with subtle and dramatic changes to color, contrast, and exposure, free of the banding and artifacts caused by lower bit-depth processing.
• Creative building blocks
  • Animation presets in After Effects: Jump-start projects quickly with hundreds of fully customizable animation presets for transitions, text animations, Shape layer sprites, color treatments, picture-in-picture effects, backgrounds, and more. Use Adobe Bridge to quickly preview and apply animation presets, and create and save your own.
  • Template compositions and automated animation in After Effects: Use included project templates to get started on creating DVD motion menus, show openings, animated backgrounds, and more. Special behavior presets create simple to complex animations without keyframes.
  • Brainstorm in After Effects: Energize animations with Brainstorm, a user interface within After Effects that offers variations on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to animate, and After Effects will brainstorm a selection of animated variations.
  • Soundbooth Scores and sound effects: Kick-start your soundtracks with the enhanced Soundbooth Score editing workflow. Select from dozens of Soundbooth Scores and use the new Multitrack project view to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores. Add sound effects by choosing from thousands available via Resource Central (Internet connection required).
  • High-definition templates and menu art in Encore: Simplify menu creation using the many royalty-free templates, motion menus, and other included artwork files, including HD templates and menu art for use in Blu-ray projects.
  • Motion presets in Flash Professional: Take advantage of prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets across teams to save animation time.

Be More Efficient
Streamline the entire creative process with Adobe Dynamic Link and convenient roundtrip editing functionality among Production Premium components. Groundbreaking new project intelligence with new XMP metadata support pioneers new ways of using metadata to make video assets searchable online and offline.

• Timesaving integration between Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4
  • Project exchange between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: Benefit from a flexible workflow: Open Adobe Premiere Pro projects in After Effects, and open After Effects projects in Adobe Premiere Pro. Compositions map to sequences, and clips map to layers. Bins, edits, markers, shared effects with keyframes, nested sequences, and dissolve transitions are all maintained.
  • Asset movement between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: Quickly move assets — including video clips, audio files, and still images — between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro projects by copying and pasting.
  • Shared effects in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: Control audio and video effect parameters in Adobe Premiere Pro using comprehensive keyframe controls that mirror those in After Effects. Get precise control using Bezier handles to finesse the shape of parameter curves. Apply powerful visual and motion effects to your clips such as those already found in After Effects, and access more effects thanks to the wide range of After Effects compatible plug-ins for video.
• Dynamic Link benefits
  • Expanded Dynamic Link: Work faster and stay in the creative flow by eliminating intermediate rendering when you make changes to assets, whether you're editing a sequence of clips in Adobe Premiere Pro, changing a composition in After Effects, refining a project in Encore, or sweetening audio in Soundbooth.
  • Soundbooth integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: Use Dynamic Link to move Adobe Premiere Pro sequences and After Effects compositions to Soundbooth for quick audio sweetening.
  • Integration between Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore: Use Dynamic Link to send sequences directly from Adobe Premiere Pro to Encore without rendering them first. Sequences open immediately in Encore — and any changes you then make in Adobe Premiere Pro are automatically reflected in Encore. Encore also reads chapter markers from the sequence, making it easy to set DVD chapter markers directly in the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.
• Workflow enhancements between Production Premium components
  • After Effects composition export to Flash Professional: Export After Effects compositions as layered, XFL format projects. XFL is an XML representation of an FLA file that can be opened in Flash CS4 Professional. Native FLV sources that have been transformed or faded are passed straight through, while many After Effects assets such as text — or even artwork created in Illustrator — are preserved as vectors.
  • Animation efficiencies between After Effects and Flash Professional: Import FLV files directly into After Effects, and work more efficiently to create and edit animations for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime. Preserve vectors from animations created in After Effects for lean and clean delivery, and encode FLV files more easily. Import SWF files as vectors with alpha channels preserved, and batch render FLV files with embedded cue points.
  • Audio creation for interactive experiences using Soundbooth: Insert markers while playing, recording, or editing audio in Soundbooth, and then export markers with all relevant data to an XML file that can be used to drive animation in Flash Professional. XML can be imported natively or edited in XML tools. Edit specific properties such as event or navigation type and name/value pairs. Streamline the process of syncing animation with media in Flash using specific metadata cues and the ActionScript® programming language.
  • Cue point creation for Flash Professional in Adobe Premiere Pro: Create FLV/F4V cue points with name/value pairs using markers directly in the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline. Cue points flow directly into Adobe Media Encoder, which offers a comprehensive interface for creating, checking, and adjusting cue point information. These cue points can then be used as interactive and navigational triggers in Flash Professional.
  • Workflow integration between Adobe OnLocation and Adobe Premiere Pro: Move footage acquired from Adobe OnLocation to Adobe Premiere Pro quickly and easily, while retaining important metadata logged at the shoot. Use the Shot List to identify the good takes, collect those clips, and use the transfer feature to edit in Adobe Premiere Pro.
  • Flash integration with After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro: Export individual layers with transparency using the export to QuickTime capability in Flash Professional, and import them into Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects for advanced manipulation. Import video files directly from Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects.
  • Live Photoshop 3D layer import into After Effects: Leverage the new support Photoshop CS4 offers for 3D workflows by importing 3D models and using industry-standard painting tools to enhance their appearance. Then import Photoshop 3D layers into After Effects, move them in space, animate cameras around them, and composite them with other elements. This new integration makes it easier than ever to composite 3D elements into a scene.
  • Photoshop Extended integration with Adobe Premiere Pro: Save time when using Photoshop files with direct import of video layers. Import and animate individual Photoshop layers and retain the same blending modes to maintain consistency and control. Edit still images for Adobe Premiere Pro with Photoshop Extended, and automatically create Photoshop PSD files to match the current project's frame size and aspect ratio.
  • Photoshop Extended integration with Encore: Import native Photoshop PSD files or create new DVD menus in native PSD file format. Buttons, text, and images are stored as layers and layer sets so you can edit them later in Photoshop Extended. Edit menus in Photoshop Extended and see your changes instantly in your DVD, Blu-ray, and SWF projects.
  • Illustrator integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: Open Illustrator files in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects and scale images without losing image quality. Copy vectors from Illustrator to use as After Effects masks, shape layer paths, and motion paths.
  • Roundtrip audio editing in Soundbooth: Save time when editing audio from within Flash Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro, or After Effects with convenient roundtrip editing. Send assets directly to Soundbooth to clean up or enhance your sound. The files will then easily update in the Timeline or Project panel of the related application. Use the new nondestructive Adobe Sound Document (ASND) format to easily package your multitrack project and share it with Flash, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects.
• Tapeless camera support in Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Direct-to-disk recording from DV, HDV, and P2-based cameras with Adobe OnLocation: Record directly to hard disk using the digital video recorder (DVR) in Adobe OnLocation CS4, and then import your footage into the Adobe Premiere Pro project window to start editing right away. Impress your clients with fast turnaround of same-day edits at events.
  • Media Browser panel for efficient tapeless workflows: Display the content of all mounted volumes on your system with the new Media Browser panel. Finding content on tapeless cameras is easy because the media browser shows you the clips, with no extraneous files, along with a customizable view of the metadata associated with the content. Open clips and image files in the Source Monitor directly from the Media Browser panel.
  • Panasonic P2 import with browsing and metadata support: Enjoy support for native editing of content from Panasonic P2 cameras in DVCPRO, DVCPRO HD, and AVC-Intra formats, and across multiple P2 cards. View camera metadata and organize files in the media browser before importing and editing the content, without transcoding or rewrapping. Edit directly from the P2 card via the camera or a card reader, or use the media browser to transfer content to hard disk for better performance.
  • Panasonic P2 export: Export content in Panasonic P2 format, either to P2 media for use in a P2 workflow or to hard disk for archiving.
  • Sony XDCAM and XDCAM EX import with browsing and metadata support: Import and edit content from Sony XDCAM EX cameras directly, without rewrapping or transcoding. Browse clips using the media browser and organize them using camera metadata. Edit directly from the SxS card via the camera or a card reader (XDCAM EX only), or use the media browser to transfer the content to hard disk for better performance.
  • Tapeless HDV import with browsing and metadata support: Edit content natively from Sony HDV cameras that record directly to removable media. Use the media browser to find clips and organize them using metadata, and then import content directly without transcoding or rewrapping.
  • AVCHD editing with browsing and metadata support: Import and edit AVCHD content from Sony, Panasonic, and Canon cameras without waiting. Native editing means you can start editing content immediately without transcoding or rewrapping the content. Use the media browser to browse clips and view metadata.
• Familiar, customizable Adobe user interface and experience
  • New Creative Suite interface in Flash Professional: Boost your efficiency with intuitive panel docking and spring-loaded behaviors that streamline your interaction with tools.
  • New Creative Suite interface in Adobe OnLocation: Get working quickly and efficiently with a user interface that looks and operates like the interface in the Adobe video and audio applications you already know. Adobe OnLocation CS4 is designed so that all functions are visible and accessible on a standard laptop screen, so you won't have to scroll and search through menus while on set.
  • More efficient file management with Adobe Bridge CS4: Quickly locate the content you need by organizing and managing images with enhanced Adobe Bridge CS4, which elegantly handles large volumes and renders fast previews of all your images. Set Adobe Bridge to new stealth mode for instant access when you need it. New workspaces allow you to jump to the right display for every task, preview images full screen with a single click, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.
  • Enhanced editing efficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro: Work faster with powerful and flexible editing enhancements. Apply effects to multiple selections, get timecode information faster, speed up work in the timeline with new keyboard shortcuts, and much more.
  • Enhanced user experience in Illustrator: Stay in the Illustrator groove, thanks to interface improvements and easier access to on-object and on-artboard controls. Focus on creating, interact with tools and options smoothly, and complete your projects efficiently using new timesaving features and shortcuts.
  • Enhanced user experience in After Effects: Get to the parts of a project you want to refine more easily using new options for searrching within projects. You can now keyframe x, y, and z positions separately for finer control of layer positions. Improvements to the After Effects camera tool make it work more like those standard in 3D modeling applications. And dozens of other user-requested changes simplify numerous tasks.
• Project intelligence with XMP metadata
  • New XMP metadata support for smarter media: View and edit XMP metadata with the new Metadata panel in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Professional, Encore, and Soundbooth. This end-to-end coverage — supplemented by existing metadata support in Adobe OnLocation, Photoshop, and Illustrator — means that as you refine your assets, they automatically accrue ever-richer metadata than can help with a variety of tasks, from clip selection to rights management.
  • Speech Search in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth: Use powerful new speech recognition technology in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth to turn spoken dialog into text-based XMP metadata that makes your video searchable by other tools. Spoken words are automatically turned into keywords that point to the precise moment in a clip where the word is spoken. Use Speech Search to quickly find the relevant points in a particular clip, or easily locate the right clip based on what was said.
  • Automatic metadata capture with Adobe OnLocation: Capture essential metadata — such as lens focal length, white balance settings, and frame rate — while on set. Add more information, such as notes about lighting or which shot is the best take, on-the-fly. Use the metadata gathered in Adobe OnLocation in other Production Premium components to find clips quickly and handle other asset management tasks.
• Connectivity with colleagues, clients, and peers
  • Online storyboard collaboration: During the planning stage, initiate a free Adobe ConnectNow web-based meeting room session from within Illustrator or Photoshop Extended and share storyboard ideas and concepts online.
  • Online review of dailies with Encore: For client review of dailies, use Encore to create a SWF file version of your project compatible with Flash Player to share the day's shoot online.
  • Expedited post-production review cycles: With Adobe Clip Notes, embed your video in a PDF file and then simply e-mail the file to your client to review and add timecode-specific comments, which you can view mapped to the Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects timeline.
  • Resource Central: Access product-related news and tutorials by using the Resource Central panel in Soundbooth, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Encore. Jump-start your audio projects with drag-and-drop efficiency using Soundbooth Scores and audio effects offered online. (Internet connection required; fees may be charged for some content.)
  • Adobe Community Help: Benefit from the power of an online search engine within Production Premium, but achieve more targeted results with Adobe Community Help. Searchable content includes in-depth product-specific Help, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by community experts. Adobe Community Help is the next best thing to shouting over your cubicle wall for help.
  • Adobe Kuler: Use Adobe Kuler™ to explore, create, and share color themes in Illustrator, Photoshop Extended, or Flash Professional. You don't have to be a digital artist to pick the right colors for your graphics, titles, and lower-third graphics. Get color inspiration from the online Kuler community and browse thousands of downloadable themes. Use the interactive color wheel to develop your own color themes to save and share with others.
  • Adobe Bridge Home: Visit Bridge Home — an online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4 — and stay up to date with what's new from Adobe and the video and audio production communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or find out about local training events. Discover tips and resources that can help you work smarter and faster.

Deliver to Any Screen
Whether your production will be seen in the theater, the living room, the office, or on the road, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium helps you extend your reach by enabling you to deliver high-quality content no matter what screen viewers are using.

• Streamlined encoding options
  • Adobe Media Encoder in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: Create multiple encoded versions of your source files, compositions from After Effects, and Adobe Premiere Pro sequences. Set up multiple items for encoding, manage priorities, and control advanced settings for each item individually. Use any combination of sequences and clips as sources and encode to a wide variety of video formats, including FLV and F4V, Windows Media, MPEG-2, H.264, QuickTime, and more.
  • Adobe Media Encoder in Flash Professional: In Flash CS4 Professional, use Adobe Media Encoder to deliver higher quality results with greater control. Two-pass variable bit-rate encoding and new support for the H.264 codec provide greater fidelity while giving you more delivery options, including H.264 playback in new Adobe Media Player software.
• Web and mobile delivery
  • Faster, customizable SWF output in Encore: With one click, easily create SWF file versions of your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects for the web in Encore CS4. Create content compatible with Adobe Flash Player, complete with DVD interactivity, menus, URL links, and HTML templates. Export different video sizes for streaming or progressive download, customize SWF player skins, and reduce encoding time by using optimized settings in Adobe Media Encoder.
  • Streamed productions using Adobe Flash Media Server: Use the Adobe Flash Media Server family of products to develop new revenue sources based on more secure streaming or protected download delivery. Adobe's video solutions go beyond content creation to delivery and playback.
  • Mobile device workflows with Adobe Device Central CS4: Develop mobile designs easier and faster with Adobe Device Dentral CS4. Develop content and then use Device Central to preview and test it on an extensive selection of devices under a variety of simulated real-life conditions.
  • Integrated workflow for mobile device authoring in After Effects: Select devices in Adobe Device Central and automatically set up an After Effects project that targets those devices. After Effects creates a composition with dimensions and settings that match the targeted devices, and then prepares the Render Queue to output to the proper codecs for each device.
• Expansive output options
  • Broad format support: Deliver your video in a wide variety of formats, including FLV, Windows Media, MPEG-2, H.264, QuickTime, and more. Deliver content to Flash Player and Adobe Media Player for online or offline viewing, as well as on mobile devices with the Adobe Flash Lite™ runtime.
  • DVD, Blu-ray, and interactive SWF authoring: Author once and deliver to three formats. Create DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and interactive web versions of your content with Encore CS4.
  • Industry-leading Blu-ray Disc authoring and output: Maintain the pristine quality of your HD video all the way to distribution. Create high-definition Blu-ray Discs and incorporate advanced Blu-ray features like pop-up menus and subtitles with Encore CS4.
  • Professional results for almost any media type in After Effects: Deliver your work on virtually any screen. Compatibility with an extensive list of output formats lets you produce animated content for virtually any media — from the web and mobile devices to film and broadcast. Plus, After Effects CS4 includes color management tools to help you get precise, predictable color.
  • Comprehensive video format compatibility: Handle virtually any format you acquire thanks to native editing of DV, HDV, Sony XDCAM, XDCAM EX, Panasonic P2, and AVCHD. Add uncompressed SD and HD acquisition with a choice of hardware cards from third-party vendors such as AJA, Blackmagic Design, and Matrox.
  • Authoring for Adobe AIR in Flash Professional: Deliver interactive experiences to the desktop with the ability to publish to Adobe AIR. Reach even more audiences across more devices — web, mobile, and now the desktop.
  • Delivery for the most recent version of Flash Player: Continue to reach wide audiences around the world by delivering to the most ubiquitous media player on the Internet today.

INCLUDED ITEMS

• After Effects CS4
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
• Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Flash CS4 Professional
• Illustrator CS4
• Soundbooth CS4
• Adobe OnLocation CS4
• Encore CS4
• Adobe Bridge CS4
• Adobe Device Central CS4
• Dynamic Link

REQUIREMENTS

• Windows
  • 2GHz or faster processor for DV; 3.4GHz for HDV; dual 2.8GHz for HD*
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or later (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista†), Windows 7.
  • 2GB of RAM (more RAM recommended when running multiple components)
  • 16.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
  • 1,280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card
  • Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0
  • Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
  • For SD/HD workflows, an Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape
  • OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
  • DVD-ROM drive (DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation)
  • Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray disc creation
  • Microsoft Windows Driver Model– or ASIO-compatible sound card
  • QuickTime 7.4.5 software required to use QuickTime features
  • Broadband Internet connection required for online services
• Mac OS
  • Multicore Intel® processor
  • Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4 or later
  • 2GB of RAM (more RAM recommended when running multiple components)
  • 20.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional hard-disk space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
  • 1,280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card
  • Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0
  • Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
  • DVD-ROM drive (SuperDrive required for DVD creation)
  • Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray disc creation
  • Core Audio–compatible sound card
  • QuickTime 7.4.5 software required to use QuickTime features
  • Broadband Internet connection required for online services

*An SSE2-enabled processor is required for AMD systems.
†Adobe® Photoshop® Extended natively supports 64-bit editions of Windows Vista. Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, Soundbooth®, Encore®, and Adobe OnLocation™ are certified on 64-bit Windows Vista.