Plan, create, and deliver anywhere with the intelligent post-production solution
Master the production challenges of today and tomorrow with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software, a tightly integrated pre- and post-production toolset for Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems. Use it for video and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive media, as well as DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile authoring.

Top new benefits

• New integration, including expanded Dynamic Link, for exceptional productivity
• Project intelligence with new XMP metadata support
• Next-generation tapeless camera support and tapeless workflows
• Connectivity with colleagues, clients, and peers
• Adobe OnLocation CS4 for shooting direct to disk and monitoring footage
• Improved editing efficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
• Motion graphics and visual effects with industry standard After Effects CS4
• Expanded 3D, motion, and compositing in Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Preproduction productivity and scalable vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Rich, interactive content with Flash CS4 Professional
• Everyday audio editing with Soundbooth CS4
• Output to any screen

Adobe CS4 Production Premium Includes:

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

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Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium

• Powerful integration, including expanded Adobe Dynamic Link, for exceptional productivity
  Work with unparalleled efficiency, so you have more time to craft your vision. For example, expanded Dynamic Link lets you link content between Creative Suite 4 Production Premium components, so you can see updates immediately without rendering.
• Project intelligence with XMP metadata
  Capture valuable XMP metadata from your camera, and accumulate key information throughout the production process for intelligent media management. Use new Speech Search technology in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth to turn spoken dialog into metadata, making it easy to find particular clips and make video assets searchable.
• Direct-to-disk recording and tapeless workflows
  Shoot footage directly to disk from non-file-based cameras with redesigned Adobe OnLocation CS4, which now runs natively on Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems. Import and natively edit a wide variety of tapeless formats—including RED One, P2, XDCAM, and AVCHD—without transcoding or rewrapping in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
• Wide variety of output options
  Deliver on film, on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, online, and on mobile devices with smooth efficiency to reach more audiences.
• Collaboration with clients and colleagues
  Use the Adobe ConnectNow service to share project storyboards online before you shoot. Access improved Resource Central to find new assets, and quickly find news and inspiration in Bridge Home.
• Editing efficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
  Utilize scalable, efficient, and flexible nonlinear videoediting capabilities and superior integration with other Creative Suite 4 components to tell your most compelling stories. New native support for tapeless workflows and more than 50 enhancements make the editing process more efficient.
• Motion graphics and visual effects with Adobe After Effects CS4
  Be more productive: Searchable timelines and projects, easier navigation of nested compositions, expanded 3D compositing options including the ability to import 3D layers from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, and the new Cartoon effect help you work more efficiently and open up new creative possibilities.
• Industry-standard design with Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended
  Use an expanded set of creative options in Adobe Illustrator for designing static assets and creating storyboards, and take advantage of enhanced 3D support, Vanishing Point, and improved video support in Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance your projects.
• Interactive experiences with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
  Work with a new animation model that makes Adobe Flash CS4 Professional easier to learn for new users, adds efficiency for proficient users, and provides  even greater control for creating immersive interactive experiences.
• Enhanced audio editing with Adobe Soundbooth CS4
  Create and arrange audio clips for your film, video, and interactive projects for Flash with

The production challenges of today and tomorrow are mastered with a tightly integrated cross-platform toolset for taking productions from planning through to completion. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software is the complete solution for video and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive media, as well as DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile authoring. There are countless innovations, improvements, and features found in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium that, when combined, give you the most important benefit of all—time. The time to explore, imagine, create, and deliver compelling productions.

Adobe CS4 Production Premium gives you the power to:

• Work with the complete solution for pre- and post-production.
  With Adobe’s complete solution, you can take a production from planning through delivery using powerful, intuitive tools that make the creative process smooth and efficient. Production Premium combines the latest video, audio, and design tools from Adobe.
  
  For preproduction, use industry-standard Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS4, and Adobe After Effects CS4 software to create storyboards and animatics.
  
  During production, use Adobe OnLocation CS4 to bring your preproduction planning on-set and capture video footage directly to disk.
  
  In post-production, edit your footage, create motion graphics and visual effects, customize your soundtracks, and produce interactive experiences with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Soundbooth CS4, and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software. Use Adobe Bridge to quickly browse, locate, manage, and preview your digital assets across all the Production Premium components.
  
  For authoring and delivery, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium helps you deliver your most compelling story not only for traditional film, video, and DVD, but for Blu-ray Discs, the web, and mobile devices with Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Device Central, and Adobe Media Player software.
  
• Take creative control.
  Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium provides best-in-class components that give you unparalleled creative control. Produce engaging experiences by leveraging innovative new 3D workflows and enhanced editing and design features. For example, you can use Photoshop CS4 Extended to rotate and transform 3D objects, directly paint on them, and add lighting effects to help ensure quality results. Then, import Photoshop 3D layers into After Effects for complete animation and compositing flexibility. And, add new depth to your Adobe Flash CS4 Professional projects by animating 2D objects in 3D space. For powerful editing control, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 offers more than 50 editing enhancements that streamline your workflow by automating tedious, repetitive tasks, so you can focus on telling your most compelling story. Use features such the new Cartoon effect in After Effects, multitrack support in Soundbooth, and object-based animation in Flash to show off your ingenuity.
  
• Work more efficiently.
  Streamline the entire creative process with Adobe Dynamic Link: edit your work in one component of Production Premium (or in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection) and see and hear it update immediately in another—without intermediate rendering. This powerful capability can save valuable time on every project. In addition, you can save time when working with audio in Soundbooth CS4 by using convenient roundtrip editing functionality that streamlines audio workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, After Effects CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional.
  
  Getting content into your Production Premium workflow from multiple sources is now faster and more efficient. During production, monitor footage and eliminate the timeconsuming capture-from-tape process by recording footage directly to disk using Adobe OnLocation CS4. Or take advantage of the efficiency of tapeless workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4: edit files from the latest tapeless formats natively (RED One, P2, XDCAM, and AVCHD) without transcoding or rewrapping, and benefit from broad format support for DV, HDV, FLV, HD, and beyond. While recording to disk, you can capture important metadata and retain it throughout your workflow for fast, intelligent media management. When using powerful new speech-recognition technology in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4, you can instantly extract text from spoken dialogue and save it as metadata that makes your footage and the videos you produce searchable.
  
  To help maintain your creative flow, you can now continue to work on your projects as Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4 encode files in the background using Adobe Media Encoder.
  
  Make the most of Production Premium: using both Adobe Bridge Home—an online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4—and Adobe Community Help, you get access to comprehensive online help tools that enable you to discover tips and resources that can help you work smarter and faster. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software, listen to a podcast interview with a leading producer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Plus, with Resource Central you get convenient access to Soundbooth Scores, sound effects, product-specific news, and more, to help you add polish to your productions.
  
  Production Premium also makes it easy to collaborate with clients during every phase of production. Use Adobe ConnectNow, an Acrobat.com service, to gather feedback from your clients by sharing project storyboards in Illustrator or Photoshop Extended online before you shoot. While on location, use Encore to output SWF file versions of your dailies to post online. Expedite review cycles with Adobe Clip Notes, which embeds your video project into a PDF file and returns timecode-specific comments to the timelines in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. These features foster better communication with clients and other team members, and give you the flexibility to adopt location-independent workflows.
  
• Deliver to any screen.
  Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium helps you extend your reach by enabling you to deliver high-quality content to audiences whether they’re viewing it in a theatre, their living room, the office, or on the road. Use Encore to create DVDs and high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and with one click, easily save projects you designed to be delivered to disc as interactive content compatible with Adobe Flash Player for the web. Deliver engaging experiences to billions of mobile subscribers by generating content quickly for multiple devices from a single After Effects composition—new integration with Device Central, which puts the latest mobile device profiles at your fingertips through a dynamically updated online device library, makes the process fast so you can make intelligent design decisions without going through a time-consuming trial and error process.

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 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista)
• 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
• 2GB of RAM (more RAM recommended when running multiple components)
• 20.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional harddisk 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

Adobe CS4 Production Premium Point Product Upgrade PC / MAC
If you own one of the following software titles (PC or Mac), you're eligible for the Point Product Upgrade!

• Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3 Professional, or 7.x Professional or Standard; After Effects 6.x Professional or Standard
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, CS3, 2.x, or 1.x; or any version of Adobe Premiere
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional or CS3 Professional
• Macromedia Flash Professional 8, MX Professional 2004, Basic 8, or MX 2004
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, CS4, CS3 Extended, CS3, CS2, or CS
• Adobe Illustrator CS4, CS3, CS2, or CS

Adobe CS4 Production Premium CS3 to CS4 Upgrade PC / MAC
If you own one of the following software titles (PC or Mac), you're eligible for the CS3 to CS4 Upgrade!

• Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium, or Master Collection

Adobe CS4 Production Premium Studio Upgrade PC / MAC
If you own one of the following software titles (PC or Mac), you're eligible for the Production Studio Upgrade!

• Adobe Production Studio 1.0, 2.0 Premium or Standard
• Adobe Video Bundle: Adobe Production Studio Premium plus Macromedia Flash Professional 8

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