Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium

What is Production Premium?
Conquer today's deadlines and tomorrow's challenges with Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Production Premium software, the ultimate video production toolkit. Craft video productions, motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive experiences with high-performance, industry-leading creative tools. Boost your productivity with tightly integrated components that deliver breakthrough performance and smooth production workflows, giving you the power to produce engaging media for virtually any screen.

Native 64-bit support and the new Mercury Playback Engine
Work more fluidly on HD and higher resolution projects with native 64-bit support in Adobe After Effects® CS5, Photoshop® CS5 Extended, and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5. The new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine speeds up effects processing and rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Rich, compelling 2D and 3D images with Photoshop Extended
Export video sequences from Photoshop CS5 Extended and import them into After Effects CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, and Adobe Encore® CS5. Work with new painting tools, make complex selections more easily, and create 3D logos from text, masks, or vectors.

Roundtrip editing with other NLEs
Tap the full power of Production Premium — even if you favor Final Cut Pro or Avid NLEs. Move projects easily back and forth between these editors and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.

Encoding and delivery for virtually any screen
Use Adobe Media Encoder to batch encode source files to many standards. Author once in Encore CS5 for DVDs, Blu-ray Disc media, and searchable web DVDs. Use Adobe Device Central CS5 to preview and test mobile content.

Integration with CS Live online services
Collaborate easily thanks to integration with Adobe CS Live online services*: Adobe Story, a scriptwriting tool that accelerates production and post-production; and Adobe CS Review and Acrobat.com, which enable you to initiate reviews and collect client feedback on dailies, storyboards, and edited works in progress. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.

Pristine audio creation in Soundbooth
Quickly accomplish everyday audio tasks without sacrificing high-quality results or creative control using Adobe Soundbooth® CS5. Remove noise from a recording, polish voice-overs, customize music to fit a production, and much more.

Using CS5 Production Premium
Director David Fincher uses Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium during post-production on his latest major studio release, “The Social Network”. Learn more about his innovative workflow.

Broad format support in Adobe Premiere Pro
Work with virtually any format in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, thanks to native editing support for DV; HDV; RED; DPX; Sony XDCAM, XDCAM 50, XDCAM EX, and XDCAM HD; Panasonic P2, DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and AVC-Intra; and Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras.

Compositing and animation tools in After Effects
Get everything you need to create blockbuster motion graphics and visual effects with After Effects CS5. Create and animate in 3D space for broadcast, film, online video, and mobile devices.

Script-to-screen workflow
Speed up production and post-production with the collaborative scriptwriting tool Adobe Story, a new CS Live online service. Integrated metadata support in Adobe Story makes it easy to create shot lists in Adobe OnLocation™ CS5 and rough cuts in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.

Interactive design with Flash Professional or new Flash Catalyst
Quickly create web video portfolios and add video to interactive sites without writing code using Adobe Flash® Catalyst™ CS5, a new interaction design tool. Easily and flexibly add video to Adobe Flash Professional CS5 projects.

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