Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Production Premium [OLD VERSION]
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Software Summary

• The ideal solution for delivering professional post-production content to film, video, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices
• Work with full new versions of Adobe's professional video, audio, and design tools
• Enjoy tight integration for exceptional productivity
• Combines full new versions of Photoshop CS3 extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, After Effects CS3 Professional, Premiere Pro CS3, Soundbooth CS3, Encore CS3, OnLocation, Ultra CS3
• Produce visually innovative work faster and more easily

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Description of Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Production Premium [OLD VERSION]

Photoshop CS3 Extended for new dimensions in digital imaging

Illustrator CS3 for powerful vector graphics creation

Flash CS3 Professional for creating rich interactive content

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for capturing, editing, and delivering video

Adobe Encore CS3 for preparing DVD titles

Put Ideas in Motion with the Total Post-Production Solution

Audience benefit

Corporate and event videographers--You only have one chance to capture that critical shot, and with small crews and tight deadlines you need to work fast for clients who demand high production values. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium combines the latest versions of Adobe's video, audio, and design tools, allowing you to capture events directly to disc; work fast with precision editing tools; create blockbuster effects with Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional and Photoshop CS3 Extended software; create and match audio to your visuals with Adobe Soundbooth software; and deliver content however your clients need it, whether on tape, DVD or Blu-ray Disc, the web, or mobile devices. Unmatched integration and productivity tools allow you to move quickly between applications, keeping you on schedule without sacrificing high-quality results.

Motion graphics professionals--For visual effects creation, motion graphics, and compositing, you need to meet tight deadlines for clients who expect the highest quality productions. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium helps you deliver results using the industry's leading motion graphics tool, Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software, tightly integrated with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and other components to enable maximum flexibility and performance. Create multilayered composites, rich animation, and high-quality graphics for films, television commercials, bumpers, and promos, as well as for DVD or online content within the fluid, unified environment of Production Premium.

Independent filmmakers--Your passion is storytelling. Your challenge is finding the right software to handle every aspect of the production process and deliver high-quality results. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium helps meet this need with a complete toolset combining the latest versions of Adobe's industry-leading software components for capturing footage directly to disc, performing nonlinear video and audio editing, producing motion graphics and visual effects, authoring to DVD, and outputting content as FLV or SWF files for the web and mobile devices. Tell your story with stunning impact to the widest possible audience with Production Premium.

Educators--Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium is a total post-production solution, combining full new versions of Adobe's world-class design and graphics tools. With Production Premium, you can work with every aspect of visual design, animation, video, film, and disc production cost effectively and via a single, integrated interface. Create promotional materials such as websites that feature video content, prepare students for working with a wide range of file formats on both Windows and Mac platforms, and deliver your work across multiple media types.

Interactive designers--Integrating video into interactive projects is increasingly part of authoring rich, engaging experiences, whether for a DVD, an interactive display, websites, or emerging mobile markets. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium offers all the essential tools needed for interactive authoring, including new releases of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Flash software. Save time as you work fluidly between After Effects and Flash, generating sophisticated graphics and animations for your interactive projects.

Improve efficiency and incorporate a tapeless workflow during shoots by using Adobe OnLocation CS3 to monitor your camera's video signal and record it directly to a computer hard drive.

Top new features in Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium

New Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
Take advantage of innovative new features in Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional such as Shape Layers for flexible drawing and animation of vector shapes; the Puppet tool, an intuitive new approach to shape animation; and Brainstorm to quickly experiment and refine designs using parameters you define.

New Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Adobe OnLocation CS3* (Windows version)
Make every phase of video production more efficient with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 as well as Adobe OnLocation CS3* (formerly the award-winning DV Rack HD, now included in the Production Premium box), a powerful set of direct-to-disc recording and on-set monitoring tools to help produce high-quality video footage while shooting with an SD or HD camera. Achieve dramatic effects using improved slow motion with variable speed control in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.

New Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended and Illustrator CS3
Enhance your video productions with the highest quality images and vector illustrations. With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, use new video layer support to edit and paint your video frame by frame, or clone between frames. Illustrator CS3 provides New Document Profiles for video, with safe areas specific to your output.

Now with Adobe CS3 Flash Professional
Market your services through your own rich, interactive website using Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. Work in Flash using a familiar Adobe interface and familiar video workflows. Export Flash video with cue points from After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Soundbooth, and move animations easily between After Effects and Flash.

Innovative new Adobe Soundbooth CS3 for audio
Designed for creative professionals, Adobe Soundbooth CS3 delivers focused tools to quickly accomplish everyday audio tasks--even if audio production isn't your specialty. Fast and intuitive, Soundbooth makes it easy to remove noise from recordings, polish voice-overs, customize music and sound effects to fit a production, and much more.

New Adobe Encore CS3
Author once, and then output to multiple media types. Use a familiar Adobe interface to author a single Encore CS3 project and then export to standard-definition DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and interactive DVD-style SWF-based experiences for immediate use on the web.

Extensive integration for exceptional productivity
Tighter-than-ever integration between Photoshop and After Effects and between After Effects, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore, Soundbooth, and Flash streamlines your workflow, making it easier than ever to move projects and files between component applications and work with a common user interface. In addition, Adobe Bridge offers new file type support and metadata previews.

Available for Mac and Windows
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.

Expanded output options, including video for mobile phones
Reach a broader audience using a wider range of formats and devices. Use the Adobe Media Encoder to export 3GP and H.264 video for mobile phones, iPods and PSP systems, and other mobile devices from After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth. Preview the results for supported mobile devices using Adobe Device Central CS3. Use Adobe Encore CS3 to author DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and interactive DVD-style SWF-based experiences.

Quick, effective keying with new Adobe Ultra CS3
Transform keying into a practical daily production tool for all types of video projects with Adobe Ultra CS3 software. Create highly realistic background composites with drag-and-drop simplicity, even from marginal video sources, and customize hundreds of virtual sets included in Master Sets Library 1, a collection of virtual sets with alternate angles, motion tracking, and scaling to put your subject in the set, not just in front of it. Output in broadcast quality to a wide range of advanced file formats.

Visually manage assets in Adobe Bridge

Test mobile designs in Adobe Device Central

Additional Features

Future-ready tools for delivery of video content anywhere
Meet today's production demands and tomorrow's 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.

No more intermediate rendering thanks to Adobe Dynamic Link
Enjoy greater freedom to experiment with new ideas without having to wait for intermediate rendering. Exclusively available in Production Premium, Adobe Dynamic Link allows you to edit a composition in After Effects and view your updates instantly in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore.

Engaging online experiences leveraging new Adobe Flash CS3
Use the industry's most advanced interactive authoring environment to integrate your video content into uniquely engaging websites, presentations, and mobile content. Export layered vector animations from After Effects to Flash, import SWF files as vectors into After Effects, and encode FLV files with cue points from After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth.

Compositing and animation with new Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
Innovative new features make the industry standard even more essential. Adobe After Effects CS3 software offers new Shape Layers for drawing and animating vector shapes, an intuitive new approach to shape animation using the Puppet tool, new integration with Flash and Photoshop, and dramatically improved performance so you can maintain your creative momentum.

Real-time editing with new Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe Encore CS3, and Adobe OnLocation CS3* (Windows version)
Now available for Mac and Windows, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software offers scalable, efficient, and flexible nonlinear video editing with improved slow-motion capabilities and delivery options. Support for HD, HDV, SD, and DV gives you the flexibility to deliver high-quality work. Use Encore CS3 to create full-featured, menu-driven standard-definition DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and interactive DVD-style SWF-based experiences for immediate use on the web. In Windows, enjoy new direct-to-disc recording and on-set monitoring tools to help produce high-quality video footage with Adobe OnLocation CS3.

Image editing and graphics creation with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3
Integrate images and graphics for use in your productions. With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, 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.

Fast, intuitive audio editing and creation with Adobe Soundbooth CS3
Adobe Soundbooth CS3 lets you take command of your audio in film, video, or Flash projects with convenient, task-based tools that make high-quality audio production more efficient, even if audio production isn't your specialty.

Video production and preview for mobile devices
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.

*For Macintosh users, Adobe OnLocation requires Boot Camp and Windows (purchased separately) or a separate Windows based computer.

Adobe Creative Suite 3: What's in Each Edition?

	ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3 EDITIONS
	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	WEB STANDARD	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe illustrator CS3
Adobe indesign CS3
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Contribute CS3
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Adobe Soundbooth CS3
Adobe Encore CS3
Adobe OnLocation					*
Adobe Ultra CS3					*
	ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND SERVICES IN ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 3
Adobe Bridge CS3
Adobe Version Cue CS3
Adobe Device Central CS3
Adobe Dynamic Link
Adobe Stock Photos
Adobe Acrobat Connect

* Adobe Ultra runs on Microsoft Windows only. For Macintosh users, Adobe OnLocation requires Bootcamp and Windows (purchased separately), or a separate Windows-based computer.

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