Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium Student and Teacher Edition

by Adobe

Product Features

• Video-production software--create video for virtually any screen
• Accelerate video-production workflow with enhancements in speed and efficiency
• Tightly integrated best-of-breed video, animation, compositing, audio, and design tools
• Game-changing innovations like Adobe Mercury Playback Engine
• Collaborate efficiently; ultra-efficient post-production workflow

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B004TH7S9G
• Item model number: 65113558
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #556 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #37 in Software > Graphics > Professional Design

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium

Create video for virtually any screen using high-performance production tools

A completely new high-performance audio engine takes full advantage of multicore processors to make Adobe Audition CS5.5 an even more powerful all-in-one editing and mixing environment. View larger.

Tackle any production challenge and deliver video to virtually any screen with breakthrough performance, the industry's best file-based workflow, and streamlined collaboration.

What is 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.

You can send Adobe Premiere Pro clips and sequences to Adobe Audition for advanced audio editing and restoration, then roundtrip back to Adobe Premiere Pro.

Like Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition can exchange projects with Final Cut Pro and other NLEs, to simplify integration with larger workflows.

Key Features

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.

Top Reasons to Buy Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium

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.

After Effects displays a frame overlay to show that it's automatically analyzing the shot--the first step in stabilization.

Warp Stabilizer offers considerable control over the automated result without creating actual keyframes in the timeline. The Subspace Warp option, chosen by default, performs pixel analysis to correct for motion artifacts including parallax shifts. View larger.

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.

To make it easier to output your work to virtually any video and device format, the new Adobe Media Encoder user interface includes three sections--the Queue pane, the Current Encode pane, and the Watch Folders pane. View larger.

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 rasterize 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.

Bokeh blur is the natural result when light highlights appear in the defocused area of an image, but many blur features don't account for this. The depth-of-field effects on the right bring focus to the face by making the foreground appear defocused. View larger.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, you can:

Work faster. Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium takes the breakthrough performance delivered in Creative Suite 5 and makes it more accessible; in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, expanded support for mobile and desktop video cards brings Adobe Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration to a wider selection of systems, including Windows laptops for editing in the field. Edit with a highly efficient keyboard-driven workflow, and boost productivity with dual-system sound support and other timesaving features suggested by users. Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium gives you new flexibility when working with RAW digital cinema files and other file-based footage in After Effects CS5.5 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, building upon the industry's best file-based workflow which eliminates transcoding and rewrapping while preserving the pristine quality of your footage. 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 simplifies multiscreen delivery--with new, intuitive presets and contextual menus that let you set up sequences once for batch encoding to multiple formats such as PCs, smartphones, and television, while you continue editing.

Craft great stories with game-changing creative innovation. Adding to the groundbreaking Roto Brush feature that After Effects CS5 introduced, the new Warp Stabilizer gives you options for improving the quality of handheld footage; Camera Lens Blur lets you control which parts of a scene are in focus; and Light Falloff enables you to manage how light behaves in a 3D scene. Improve your audio workflow and get best-in-class editing and multitrack mixing tools, powerful sweetening options, and rock-solid performance using Adobe Audition CS5.5--available for the first time on Mac OS, as well as Windows.

Collaborate efficiently. Easily integrate CS5.5 Production Premium with existing workflows, whether you're part of a small workgroup or a large-scale enterprise. Move projects back and forth more easily between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition, and other NLEs such as Apple Final Cut Pro. Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service for collaborative script writing, now directly integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and helps you create metadata-rich, production-ready assets. New presets in Adobe Media Encoder make it easier to send sequences to Adobe CS Review, another CS Live online service, making it easier for you to get feedback from clients and teammates on works in progress.

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5

Make an impact through print, video, and digital experiences for virtually any device and platform. With powerful new creative tools, enhanced performance, simple workflows, and support for cutting-edge standards like HTML5 and EPUB 3, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 software helps you create rich content for virtually any media. Whether you need to produce printed pages, create high-end video, or design and distribute engaging interactive content for the latest smartphones and tablets, Creative Suite 5.5 is ready to help you boost productivity and keep pace with your creative vision.

	DESIGN PREMIUM	DESIGN STANDARD	WEB PREMIUM	PRODUCTION PREMIUM	MASTER COLLECTION
	Design Professionals	Print Designers; Print Professionals	Web Designers; Web Developers; Interactive Designers	Web Professionals; Motion Graphics Artists; Broadcasters	Graphic Design Professionals; Web and Interactive Design Professionals; Video and Broadcast Professionals
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended	•		•	•	•
Adobe Photoshop CS5		•
Adobe Illustrator CS5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe InDesign CS5.5	•	•			•
Adobe Acrobat X Pro	•	•	•		•
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.5	•		•	•	•
Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5	•		•	•	•
Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 Premium			•		•
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5	•		•		•
Adobe Fireworks CS5	•		•		•
Adobe Contribute CS5			•		•
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5				•	•
Adobe After Effects CS5.5				•	•
Adobe Audition CS5.5				•	•
Adobe OnLocation CS5				•	•
Adobe Encore CS5				•	•
ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS
Adobe Bridge CS5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe Device Central CS5.5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5	•	•	•	•	•
Adobe Dynamic Link				•	•
INTEGRATES WITH ADOBE CS LIVE ONLINE SERVICES
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Product Description

The Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium for Windows is a collection of applications that includes Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop CS5 Extended, Adobe Audition, Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Illustrator, Adobe OnLocation, Encore, Device Central, Bridge and Media Encoder. It also integrates with CS Live online services. Delivering better efficiency and speeding up your video production workflow, the Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium provides native 64-bit operating system support that allows you to utilize all the RAM on your system and work fluidly on HD and higher resolution projects. The Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro can offer astounding performance with or without GPU acceleration, on both desktops and laptops (Windows). The GPU-accelerated features in Photoshop Extended accelerate image cropping, color picking and brush treatments.Formats such as 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 can be edited as it offers a broad format support in Adobe Premiere Pro. You can also swiftly transcode or rewrap media. Intermediate rendering is eliminated, as it features deep integration, roundtrip editing and Dynamic Link and you can refine assets between After Effects, Premiere Pro and Encore. The Roto Brush in After Effects enables you to separate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds in fewer steps. Dual-system sound.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great price, September 12, 2011

By 

Conrad - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium Student and Teacher Edition (Software)

Gotta hand it to Adobe for giving such a generous discount to students compared to Apple. Everything works just like it would with the normal retail copy. My only complaint is you have to wait a day or two for Adobe to approve your student status. They have you send them a photo/scan of your ID, transcript, etc to show you are in fact a student or whatever.

Oh and I don't know if it's a new thing since the last reviewer bought CS5.5, but when Adobe emailed me my serial number they also included a 32bit CS4 serial and a serial for Color Finesse 3.

21 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE! You cannot activate the included CS4 32bit programs without DAYS of tech support., August 5, 2011

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C5pilot (Philly suburbs) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium Student and Teacher Edition (Software)

(Updated 8/11/11)

If you use a 32bit version of Windows you probably already know that Premiere Pro and After Effects 5.5 are 64bit only apps. You cannot install them on a 32bit system. Adobe actually HAD everyones best interest at heart when they decided to include 32bit CS4 versions of those programs on disk 4, with their compliments. Too bad they didn't explain this fact to tech support or the people over at Identit-E who issue the serial numbers for this edition.

Since this edition doesn't come with a serial number in the box you must visit a website which you upload the required documents and wait for them to email you a serial number. Surprisingly they sent a serial number in less than 2 days. Not bad!

CS5.5 loaded just like it said it would, skipping the 64bit apps since it's installing on a 32bit system. No problem. Entered the serial number, no problem, and it installed reporting a couple errors probably related to the missing 64bit apps. But everything "seems" to run ok so far for the CS5.5 even with the errors reported.

Onto loading Disk 4 and all the CS4 related programs. The installer checks the system and then presents a screen to input the serial number. Type it in... NOT VALID. Try again, NOT VALID... red X. But it will allow it to be installed as a trial for 30 days, so I figure I may as well see if there are any other issues before contacting Adobe support. And there were some issues and I resolved them with a lot of Internet searching. Adobe support is almost useless for troubleshooting because of the language/accent barrier. Each tech is harder to understand than the previous one. Every one I had the pleasure of repeating myself to was based in India. Great people... lousy English accent. -EXTREMELY- polite.

Sit back, it gets better.... Adobe standard tech support doesn't know how to solve this problem. Another company handles the licensing and they have no phone support, just email. The first line of Adobe techs don't even know about the CS4 software included or why people keep asking for a serial number for CS4 when they bought CS5.5. They are completely clueless of the issue or flat out lying about it. I actually commented to a tech that since I can read all about this EXACT issue online, it MUST be a known issue at Adobe... which means Adobe must be paying HUGE dividends to their Indian support staff for a problem that should have been identified and solved with the very first customer. The tech responded very politely, "I'm sorry, I can't make a comment about that". No kidding, his job depends on Adobes mistakes.

Adobe support insist it's a licensing issue and I need to deal with Identit-E (the company who issues the licenses) but they only have email, NO PHONES. Day after day each claims it's the others responsibility to support the issue. Finally, Identit-E had enough emails from me so they sent one last one saying there is nothing they can do and any future support emails would not be answered!

So it's back to Adobe support, again, starting from the beginning because each time they close your case saying it was resolved. I freaked out on the tech and told him don't dare tell me to email Identit-E because they aren't dealing with it and I demanded he escalate my case. In shock, he did escalate it but I honestly didn't think I'd ever hear back. Amazingly, after about 2 days, an Adobe tech DID call me back while I was at work. He begrudgingly issued me a new serial number to use with CS4! But when I got home, it didn't work!!

Back to the support page, I attached a snapshot of my screen rejecting the serial number and waited. Again a tech called about a day later and issued me ANOTHER serial. Got home, tried it, no dice. Again, I attached a snapshot of the failed activation.

Then it gets REALLY interesting. The next day, while waiting for a solution, I fire up my "trial" of Premiere, which was supposed to have 25 days remaining... And it says "TRIAL EXPIRED". I can't open ANY CS4 app!

Here we go again. While I was in my Adobe support page firing off a volley of rants, I noticed in my list of licenses it had one for CS5.5 Prod Prem (the one that works), one for Premiere 4.0, and one for After Effects 9.0. I thought it was odd neither of the last two said something like CS4 Prod Prem (because it IS a suite, not as if I bought separate programs). So I emailed them to PLEASE ask somebody just a little higher up the tech chain to see if I shouldn't have received ONE serial number to work with CS4 Prod Prem, not 2 numbers for stand alone apps.

Well, today the tech called me and said he DID ask someone higher up and they DID give him ONE number to use for the CS4 suite. I got home, plugged it in, and OMG!... IT'S ALIVE!

But before I hit enter, before actually activating it, I wanted to completely uninstall it with their tool and start from scratch (apparently not everything is included in a trial, like third party encoder licensing etc). After re-installing CS4 the number worked but it installed with a few errors which are documented so I still need to solve those issues but the programs run and are activated (at least for now). I think Adobe purposely sets the trial software to expire if you try too many numbers, so I'm crossing my fingers it's a done deal. I have no idea if I can still install it on a second system as promised in their licensing rules. Just remember, if you're going to uninstall, first de-activate the software and it will notify Adobe you want to make that license available again. If you forget or your drive crashes, that license is GONE... Forever. Good luck convincing them the software was destroyed.

So that's my tale spanning more than a week just to install one of the longest running suite of apps available from a company whose been around long enough to know better. Long hours on the phone, countless emails, and general dissatisfaction with the ENTIRE process. My only hope is that when I finally make the move to a 64bit OS, this software might finally seem worth the effort. As of now, I'd rather have my money back.

Please, if you plan on installing the 32bit software, do yourself a HUGE favor. Ask the very first tech if he knows what's included on the 4th disk. If he isn't aware it includes CS4 software, DEMAND he escalate your case immediately. Or bite the bullet and buy the retail version because both serial numbers are IN the box, ready to go. There's no telling when Identit-E will start sending both serial numbers because they don't even want to acknowledge there's an issue or have any interest in solving it with one phone call to Adobe. Great business model guys!

5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Production Suite 5.5, January 16, 2012

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Jim Foley - See all my reviews

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Thanks for the great service and for providing me with a superior product. I am impressed that at a busy time of year service remained out standing, thanks again, peace