Adobe Video Collection Pro 2.5 - Premier Pro 1.5, After Effects Pro 6.5, Audition 1.5, Encore DVD 1.5, Photoshop CS [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Comprehensive toolset for Windows-based video production
• Create stunning motion graphics and visual effects
• Produce quality audio and author-interactive, multi-language DVDs
• Deliver professional results for film, video, DVD, or the Web
• Premiere Pro; Audition; Encore DVD; After Effects Pro; Photoshop CS

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• 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: B00021XHVG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 26, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,060 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #14 in Software > Video & Music > Encoding
  • #35 in Software > Video & Music > Software > MIDI
  • #73 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Music Creation & Sequencing

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The all-new Adobe Video Collection delivers a comprehensive toolset for Windows-based video production, providing the power and control to put your ideas in motion. Transform video into award-winning productions, create stunning motion graphics and visual effects, produce professional-quality audio, and author-interactive, multi-language DVDs. An exceptional value, the Adobe Video Collection pairs creative control with the ability to deliver professional results for film, video, DVD, or the Web. Software includes Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Encore DVD, as well as Adobe After Effects Professional and Adobe Photoshop CS.

Work with powerful tools

• Work efficiently using Adobe-standard timelines, palettes, controls, menus, tools, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Get up to speed quickly by applying your expertise in one Adobe product to another.
• Save time as you work. Tight integration among the tools in the Adobe Video Collection makes moving project elements between applications easy.
• Learn Adobe tools easily using Tool Tips, context-sensitive menus, comprehensive online Help, and detailed information on the Adobe Web site.

Express your creativity

• Create broadcast-quality video, design motion graphics and visual effects, produce professional-quality audio, and author interactive, multilanguage DVDs using an outstanding collection of creative tools.
• Experiment with creative ideas using the flexible feature sets available in Adobe's award-winning software tools.
• Extend creative possibilities with the wide range of plug-ins that developers have created for Adobe products.

Produce professional output

• Take advantage of the speed and performance of Adobe applications that have been optimized for Windows XP and Intel processors that support hyper-threading technology.
• Prepare professional output in a wide range of popular formats for use in film, broadcast, video, DVD, and on the Web.

Get outstanding value

• Gain significant savings off the combined costs of the individual programs.

Product Description

MODEL- ADBCD36236WI VENDOR- ADOBE SOFTWARE FEATURES- Video Collection Professional V2.5 for Windows- Retail Put your ideas in motion. The all-new Adobe Video Collection delivers a comprehensive toolset for Windows based video production providing the power and control to put your ideas in motion. Transform video into award-winning productions create stunning motion graphics and visual effects produce professional-quality audio and author interactive multi- language DVDs. An exceptional value the Adobe Video Collection pairs creative control with the ability to deliver professional results for film video DVD or the Web. Adobe Video Collection Professional includes: Create motion graphics and visual effects using powerful 2D and 3D compositing animation and effects tools. Produce powerful video productions using real-time video and audio editing tools. The professional standard in desktop digital imaging offers indispensable new features for graphic and Web design photography and video. Produce sophisticated multilanguage DVDs with interactive menus using the familiar Adobe Photoshop interface. Record edit and mix professional audio soundtracks with more than 40 DSP effects and intuitive multitrack or wave edit views.* Work with powerful tools - Work efficiently using Adobe-standard timelines palettes controls menus tools and customizable keyboard shortcuts. - Get up to speed quickly by applying your expertise in one Adobe product to another. - Save time as you work because tight integration between the tools in the Collection makes moving project elements between tools easy. - Learn Adobe tools easily using Tool Tips context-sensitive menus comprehensive online Help and detailed information on the Adobe Web site. * Express your creativity - Produce broadcast-quality video and audio design motion graphics and visual effects and create interactive DVDs using an outstanding collection of creative tools. - Experiment with creative ideas using the flexible feature sets...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Video Editing, May 1, 2005

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Linda M. Stone "Linda Mermaid" (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Video Collection Pro 2.5 - Premier Pro 1.5, After Effects Pro 6.5, Audition 1.5, Encore DVD 1.5, Photoshop CS [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

If you are looking at Premier Pro, you've probably already had multiple frustrating failures with other Products like Pinnacle and Ulead. You won't have those failures with Adobe. It has a lot of complex tools but once you get the basics, it's a breeze. I would recommend buying the "Classroom in a Book" if you need some tutorials. You don't get any technical support unless you pay extra (I did and I've made them earn it). I bought the suite and felt it was well worth it, but if you just want to edit your video and burn a disk, you might not need that much firepower (or want to spend that kind of money).

After Effects is an amazingly complex bit of software but does some fantastic stuff. I definitely needed the tutorials for it.

Encore allows you to set up menus - beware! This part is video-card-memory-intensive (so is After Effects for that matter). Make sure your system can handle it.

4.0 out of 5 stars old but works, April 23, 2010

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Daniel Meek (Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adobe Video Collection Pro 2.5 - Premier Pro 1.5, After Effects Pro 6.5, Audition 1.5, Encore DVD 1.5, Photoshop CS [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I bought this mostly for Audition, but also to update my other software as well. While this version is technically ancient by technology standards it still works well when paired with good hardware. I am doing some video projects on it now and I must say that I am highly impressed!
Even though this version of Premiere it is old as dirt I am still able to edit HD material on it (granted I cannot import HD material direct from camera) through the VFW settings. But with my little Core2Duo I am able to do real-time editing for most fades and basic effects (premiere is not made for doing advanced effects and filtering anywas, best to do that in Ae, or Virturaldub/AVS which is free)
Aftereffects is still klunkey, as to be expected, but it gets the job done if you are patient with it.
Audition (which I bought this for) is awesome! Considering this was their first audio editing software release they did an excellent job. Just the noise reduction settings alone has saved my life on several occasions. The other built in plugins get the job done for most cleaning projects, and it supports many 3rd party filters and effects. The big downfall for this however is that I upgraded to win7, and now am unable to record audio because Microsoft changed their audio drivers too much. Still great for cleaning and editing audio for premiere though which is most of what I used it for in the first place.
Encore DVD. It works, and you technically CAN do anything you want. Wanting to spend the time however is a different story. Surely their newer DVD authoring software is better.
Photoshop. It is old. Would probably annoy me not to have the newer hardware support, but I think I have used it once so far, so it doesn't matter to me much.

All in all if you want quality software on the cheap I highly suggest buying some of their legacy software. Everything still works in win7 with exception of recording in Audition, but rather than the multi-thousand-dollar price tag that this originally packaged as, you should be able to find it for a few hundred. Once again, if you are an AV professional and will be using this everyday then you will want something newer that supports 64bit*, 4+core, and graphics acceleration; But if you are just learning Adobe software, or just do side projects like I do then this will get you a nice looking end product with a little more rendering time.

*this will still work under a 64bit OS with 64bit hardware, it just will not take advantage of any acceleration or precision that you could get with newer packages that have native support for this.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What can you say about this collection, totally awesome!, January 8, 2005

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Charles Bittner "Disabled comedian & gamer!" (New England USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Video Collection Pro 2.5 - Premier Pro 1.5, After Effects Pro 6.5, Audition 1.5, Encore DVD 1.5, Photoshop CS [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Here you have Adobe's video collection. I've had it for almost a year and use parts of it. Almost every day. I'm a homegrown editor, and it took awhile to learn the intricacies of this very complex set of tools. If you're looking to buy this then you most likely need it.

I will going to explain what each program does and what it doesn't do because if you need that explanation. And you shouldn't be buying this way too complex.

What I wanna say is, if you wanna buy Adobe Premiere Pro or aftereffects professional. Do not buy them individually by the collection. It's so much cheaper it's insane, if anybody buys the individual units I will have to throw myself off my porch! I mean, I don't know how somebody could or would dish out $600 for premiere Pro or $900 for aftereffects professional and not just by this whole package, which in net to Photoshop encore and audition to!

Those are my thoughts, if you want to make complex DVDs edit videos and add special effects tweak audio and edit photographs like a professional than Adobe has the package available to you. I love it so much (I did not buy the Company). I bought the software.

Go here for some free video tutorials, dealing with Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe audition and Adobe encore DVD
/www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial

Go here for some of the best free Adobe aftereffects video tutorials
/www.xtreme-is-back.com/tutorials.html

You can download the free 30 day trial demo's for each of the programs in this package. Go here:
/www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp
Peace out