Adobe Video Collection Pro 2.0 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Powerful, integrated tools for Windows-based video production
• Prepare layered images for video with Adobe Photoshop software
• Transform video into compelling stories with Adobe Premiere Pro software
• Create visual effects with Adobe After Effects Professional software
• Author interactive, multi-language DVDs with all-new Adobe Encore DVD software

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.8 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: B0000DC725
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2003
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,743 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Adobe Video Collection Professional edition delivers powerful, integrated tools for Windows-based video production. Prepare layered images for video with Adobe Photoshop software. Transform video into compelling stories with Adobe Premiere Pro software. Create visual effects for the most demanding production environments with Adobe After Effects Professional software. Author interactive, multi-language DVDs with all-new Adobe Encore DVD software. And enhance all of your productions with multitrack audio accompaniments created using the professional tools in Adobe Audition software. 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:

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Adobe After Effects Professional
• Adobe Encore DVD
• Adobe Audition
• Adobe Photoshop

Key Benefits:

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, and comprehensive online Help.

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 easily with creative ideas because of 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 offered by Windows based video environments.
• Prepare professional output in a wide range of popular formats for use in film, video, DVD, and on the Web.

Get outstanding value

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

Top five features of each product in the collection:

Adobe Premiere Pro

• Real-time editing: take advantage of a new, real-time editing experience that provides immediate feedback and enables you to edit with amazing speed.
• Multiple, nestable timelines: Experience the convenience of creating multiple iterations of the same sequence for clients. Or divide sections of a production for others to work on and then nest them to complete the production.
• Professional color correction tools: Adjust hue, saturation, and lightness for highlights, midtones, and shadows with precise control using three-point color correction tools. Vectorscopes and waveforms help ensure your color adjustments fall within legal broadcast limits.
• Enhanced audio editing: Adjust audio files with the utmost precision at the subframe, sample level; create and manipulate multichannel audio to produce true 5.1 surround sound; work with industry-standard VST plug-ins; and more. Take advantage of ASIO support to integrate Adobe Premiere Pro with professional audio hardware.
• Flexible import and export options: Adobe Premiere Pro imports and exports leading video and audio formats and enables you to deliver to any required media—from DV, SD, and HD to DVD and the Web.

Adobe After Effects Standard

• Flexible compositing environment: Composite and animate in 2D or 3D space using multiple cameras and lights.
• Powerful animation and keyframing: animate layers by setting keyframes at different points in time that change properties such as position, scale, rotation, and opacity.
• Flexible text animation: Create animated text with unprecedented ease. Type and edit text in the Comp window, define character-level animations, and much more.
• Leading-edge visual effects: Create visual effects using more than 100 plug-ins to blur, sharpen, distort, shatter, and more. New effects include Liquify, Warp, Scribble, and 17 others.
• Comprehensive masking: design, edit, and use masks with more ease and flexibility thanks to new support for auto-tracing alpha channels and RotoBezier masks.

Adobe Encore DVD

• Native Adobe Photoshop format menus: save time and streamline your workflow by creating menus in Photoshop format.
• Photoshop integration: edit menus in Photoshop and see your changes immediately in Adobe Encore DVD, with no rendering of effects, adjustment layers, or other elements.
• Integrated transcoding: let Adobe Encore DVD automatically convert source files to MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital audio, or manually adjust settings to maximize your DVD compression.
• Motion menu creation: make motion menus using integrated compositing tools.
• Integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: Import files from Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects for use in your DVD projects. Edit Original allows you to make changes to your original project and import the changes into Adobe Encore DVD.

Adobe Audition

• Complete audio studio: record, edit, and mix up to 128 audio tracks of 24-bit/96kHz (DVD-quality) and higher audio.
• Ability to edit audio for video: fine-tune the audio for video productions: edit, mix, and add audio effects to AVI soundtracks while watching movie playback.
• Powerful DSP tools: use more than 45 digital signal processing (DSP) effects, mastering and analysis tools, and audio restoration features--all at 32-bit resolution.
• Wave editing view: edit individual audio files with fast, sample-accurate tools that are tightly integrated with the multitrack view for an improved workflow.
• Real-time audio effects: Hear changes to effects settings and track EQ in real time. Microsoft DirectX plug-ins are also supported.

Adobe After Effects Professional (Adobe Video Collection Professional Edition Only)

• Additional production tools: take advantage of all the powerful tools in After Effects Standard plus more than 40 additional features--including 16-bit color control--designed for the most demanding production environments.
• New Motion Tracker: get significantly faster results using the new Motion Tracker to isolate, track, and stabilize the motion of an element on a layer, and precisely match the movement of another layer.
• Precise keying and matte tools: create seamless composites: use Keylight to create high-quality mattes quickly, and work with other advanced tools such as the Matte Choker and Spill Suppressor.
• Advanced visual effects: design and manipulate images with more than 30 additional effects filters, including Fractal Noise, Displacement Map, Advanced Lightning, and Glow.
• Render automation: automate production tasks, including managing the Render Queue, with JavaScript-based scripts that save time and help ensure consistency.

Adobe Photoshop (Adobe Video Collection Professional Edition Only)

• Industry-standard image editing: composite, retouch, color correct, paint, and edit layered images using comprehensive image-editing tools.
• Non-square pixel support: create and work with different aspect ratios to accommodate non-square pixels without distortion.
• Comprehensive 16-bit image support: perform more precise editing, matte painting, and compositing for film and video with comprehensive support for 16-bit images in core features including layers, brushes, text, shapes, and more.
• Healing Brush: use the versatile Healing Brush to quickly remove artifacts--such as dust, scratches, blemishes, and wrinkles--from images while preserving shading, lighting, and texture.
• Guide presets: easily design for video or DVD using video-specific presets that show action-safe and title-safe areas of the screen.