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. 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 breakthrough, cross-platform performance in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, the leader in video production software. Produce your best work with game-changing innovations like the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro and the industry’s most efficient post-production workflow. Tightly integrated best-of-breed video, animation, compositing, audio and design tools provide the creative features and toolsets you need to accelerate your production workflow and deliver high-quality results.

• Best-of-breed production tools Get best-of-breed video, motion graphics, compositing, audio, and design tools packed with innovations that accelerate production workflows, inspire creativity, and help deliver high-quality productions to virtually any screen.


• Native 64-bit operating system support Work fluidly on HD and higher resolution projects using all the RAM on your system thanks to native 64-bit operating system support in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Photoshop® Extended.


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


• Broad format support in Adobe Premiere Pro Maximize the efficiency of your file-based workflow and edit virtually any format including DV, HDV, RED, DPX, Sony XDCAM, XDCAM 50, XDCAM EX and XDCAM HD, Panasonic P2, DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, AVC-Intra, and footage from DSLR cameras.


• Groundbreaking motion graphics with After Effects Create motion graphics and visual effects with industry-standard After Effects. Combine moving and still imagery, graphics, and text in 2D or 3D space. Animate practically any aspect of each element, and add sound for virtually any result you can imagine.


• Rich 2D and 3D images with Photoshop Extended Magically remove objects with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Paint with lifelike brush strokes and use creative 3D tools. Roundtrip images and motion-based content to Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Encore.


• 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 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.


• Fast, 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.


• Timesaving integration Save time on every project thanks to a familiar user interface; deep integration; roundtrip editing; and Dynamic Link, which eliminates intermediate rendering as you refine assets between After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore.


• Compatibility with large-scale workflows Work with multiple NLEs thanks to roundtrip editing between Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro or Avid NLEs. Leverage industry-standard formats such as AAF, EDL, OMF and XML to integrate with a variety of systems.


• Integrated metadata for faster post-production Develop scripts or outlines with Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service. Leverage metadata acquired in production to search assets and dialogue and edit faster. Create searchable web DVDs to make assets discoverable online.


• Integration with CS Live online services Collaborate with the Adobe Story, a powerful scriptwriting tool, a CS Live online service. Initiate reviews and collect feedback on dailies, storyboards, and works in progress with Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service and Acrobat.com.


• Vector graphics with Illustrator Import native Adobe Illustrator artwork into After Effects with layers, masks, blend modes, gradients, and effects intact. After Effects can continuously rasterise vector shapes for smooth edge detail at any size.


• Interactive design Create interactive designs with Adobe Flash Catalyst or Flash Professional. Use Flash Catalyst for content such as simple video portfolios, or use powerful controls in Flash Professional to add video content to interactive experiences.

System requirements:

• 64-bit support required: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II required for Adobe Premiere® Pro
• 64-bit operating system required: Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended) or Windows 7
• 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
• 16.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x900 display (1280x1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit the Adobe Premiere Pro system requirements page for the latest list of supported cards
• Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop® require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9–capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM
• 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
• Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape for SD/HD workflows
• OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
• Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• Java™ Runtime Environment 1.5 (32 bit) or 1.6
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files