Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium

by Adobe

Product Features

• Create and deliver high-quality video and interactive productions with tightly integrated software tools for pre- and post-production on Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems
• Achieve exceptional creative control with all components--produce engaging experiences by leveraging innovative new 3D workflows; enhanced editing, animation, and compositing features
• Work with unparalleled efficiency, so you have more time to craft your vision. For example, expanded Adobe Dynamic Link enables you to link content between components so you can see updates immediately without rendering
• Take advantage of the efficiency XMP metadata offers for project intelligence
• Deliver on film, on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, online, and on mobile devices with smooth efficiency to reach more audiences

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001EUB6GM
• Item model number: 65023084
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 23, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,004 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Master the production challenges of today and tomorrow with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software, a tightly integrated pre- and post-production toolset for Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems. Use it for video and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive media, as well as DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile authoring.

Search for spoken dialog, make video clips searchable, and access rights management information and other types of project intelligence thanks to new support for XMP metadata across Production Premium. Click to enlarge.

Save time on every project by dynamically linking content between select components of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium. With Adobe Dynamic Link, you can see and hear updates instantly--without rendering--as you refine your project's assets. Click to enlarge.

Use the powerful new Speech Search feature in both Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4 to automatically generate metadata that makes video searchable by linking the spoken word to timecode-specific text. Click to enlarge.

The redesigned user interface puts all of the controls for Adobe OnLocation on a single screen, while the Shot List (inset) lets you input vital information, comments, and more. Click to enlarge.

Plan, create, and deliver anywhere with the intelligent post-production solution

Complete pre-and post-production solution
Create and deliver high-quality video and interactive productions with tightly integrated software tools for pre- and post-production on Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems.

Creative control
Achieve exceptional creative control with all components. Produce engaging experiences by leveraging innovative new 3D workflows; enhanced editing, animation, and compositing features; a unified user interface that makes moving between components fluid; and robust output options.

Powerful integration for exceptional productivity
Work with unparalleled efficiency, so you have more time to craft your vision. For example, expanded Adobe Dynamic Link enables you to link content between components so you can see updates immediately without rendering.

Project intelligence with XMP metadata
Take advantage of the efficiency XMP metadata offers for project intelligence. For example, new Speech Search technology in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4 speeds up the editing process by using metadata to turn spoken words into searchable metadata, making it easy to find particular clips and make video assets searchable.

Wide variety of output options
Deliver on film, on video, on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, online, and on mobile devices with smooth efficiency to reach more audiences.

Motion graphics and visual effects with Adobe After Effects CS4
Be more productive with a host of enhanced features in Adobe After Effects CS4. Searchable timelines and projects, expanded 3D compositing options, included Mocha for Adobe After Effects software, and numerous interface enhancements streamline almost everything you do.

Editing efficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Take advantage of scalable and flexible nonlinear video editing capabilities to tell your most compelling stories. New native support for tapeless workflows and more than 50 enhancements in this release help make the editing workflow more efficient.

Direct-to-disk recording with Adobe OnLocation CS4
Bypass the time-consuming capture process by shooting directly to disk, and monitor the quality of your footage using an impressive array of production tools. Featuring a completely redesigned interface, Adobe OnLocation CS4 now runs natively on both Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems.

Interactive experiences with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Work with a new animation model that makes Adobe Flash CS4 Professional easier to learn for new users, adds efficiency for proficient users, and provides even greater control for creating immersive interactive experiences.

Industry-standard design with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
Edit images and video with an expanded set of creative options. Work directly with 3D models, and take advantage of new video layer enhancements. Plus, the new Adjustment and Masks panels provide quick access to tools you need to adjust color, tone, and selections of your images.

Production planning with Adobe Illustrator CS4
Design project elements and storyboards for your productions. Create multiple art boards in a single file, and work with enhanced gradient tools.

Enhanced audio editing with Adobe Soundbooth CS4
Create and arrange audio clips in film, video, and interactive projects with greater flexibility. Easily edit audio in Flash CS4 Professional projects in Soundbooth CS4 using convenient, task-based tools along with new multitrack audio project support.

Collaboration with clients and colleagues
Access the Adobe ConnectNow service to share project storyboards online with up to three people before you shoot. Use Adobe Encore CS4 to output SWF file versions of your dailies to post online. Expedite review cycles with the Adobe Clip Notes feature in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, which enables you to embed video into a PDF file and then import timecode-specific comments to the timeline. Access improved Resource Central to find new assets, and quickly find news and inspiration in Bridge Home.

What's included

• Adobe After Effects CS4
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe Soundbooth CS4
• Adobe OnLocation CS4
• Adobe Encore CS4

Adobe After Effects CS4--Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard

Innovate visually
Enjoy creative control over virtually every element in a highly responsive 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment. With After Effects CS4, you can create virtually whatever you envision.

Work with efficient tools
Easily handle a wide range of post-production tasks--from keying and motion tracking to color correction, rotoscoping, and more--using flexible tools in a user interface optimized to help save you time.

Deliver to virtually any screen
Easily create output for delivery to a wide range of media formats and platforms--from traditional film and video to the web and mobile devices--from a single project.

Robust timecode display options throughout Adobe Premiere Pro give you the ability to work with SMPTE or frame-count timecode. Click to enlarge.

Navigating nested compositions in Adobe After Effects CS4 is made easier by the Composition navigator along the top of each Composition panel (right). A Mini Flowchart (below) reveals the nesting organization of related compositions Click to enlarge.

The new Cartoon effect in Adobe After Effects CS4 allows you to convert live action footage (left) into stylized imagery (right). Click to enlarge.

Enhancements to 3D support in Photoshop CS4 Extended include the ability to merge 2D layers (left) onto 3D layers (right)Ñeffectively turning a 2D image into part of the 3D object. Click to enlarge.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4--Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device

Discover new post-production workflows
Work with the formats you want, from DV and HD to 4K and beyond. Support for industry standards enables you to interchange more easily with other industry-standard tools. Powerful new metadata management features help you deliver video content to virtually any screen.

Work with efficient post-production tools
Edit faster with a broad selection of professional editing tools and tighter-than-ever integration with other Adobe software. Maintain pristine quality across the production process with an efficient tapeless workflow, find specific areas of your content faster with the innovative Speech Search feature, and stay focused on your work with background batch encoding.

Achieve creative excellence
Maximize your creative options with powerful enhancements that help you bring new dimensions to your work. Achieve your vision with professional color correction, quick and precise multicam editing, and much more--all from within a familiar, customizable interface. Tap into a wealth of tutorials, stock footage, visual effects, and more to elevate your production quality, and connect to the creative community to share ideas. From acquisition to delivery, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 offers tools that help you deliver excellent results.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended--Discover new dimensions in digital imaging

Easily access full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended software offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.

Work more efficiently
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's faster graphics processors.

Edit 3D and motion-based content
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop software on 3D content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for speed and precision.

Perform advanced image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.

Flash CS4 Professional--Create and deliver rich interactive content

Design with ease and efficiency
Quickly create and modify animations while retaining a great degree of control. Powerful new object-based animation, Bezier controls, and motion presets make working in Flash easier and more intuitive.

Explore new creative possibilities
Express your creative vision in innovative ways with exciting new design tools. Animate 2D objects through 3D space with 3D translation and rotation. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like effects or distort shapes. Add the expressive power of patterns to your designs with the Deco tool.

Collaborate across workflows
Collaborate smoothly across designer and developer workflows. Easily import content into Flash from Adobe InDesign and After Effects software using the XFL format. Enjoy common user interface elements and tools across the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family.

Deliver for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices. The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR runtime, are right at your fingertips.

Use the new Motion Editor panel in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to control keyframes more precisely. Click to enlarge.

The ability to transform 2D elements in 3D space opens up the possibility of creating new looks in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. Click to enlarge.

Multitrack support lets you quickly assemble all your audio elements, and save them as an ASND file that can be shared with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Adobe After Effects CS4 software. Click to enlarge.

Adobe Media Encoder lets you use any combination of sequences and clips as source files and encode to an extensive variety of formats. Click to enlarge.

Adobe Illustrator CS4--Explore new paths with the essential vector tool

Explore new features
Powerful additions such as the Blob Brush tool and transparency in gradients inspire new creativity. The highly anticipated multiple artboards feature prompts new ways of working.

Discover hidden gems
Existing features have been polished, and hidden functions have been uncovered to reveal usefulness and depth, enabling you to learn more quickly and take better advantage of the power of Illustrator.

Work efficiently
Illustrator CS4 offers improved interaction with options and tools, plus you can do more directly on the artboard. Innovations with Smart Guides and Isolation Mode plus new panel behaviors enable a smoother, more efficient workflow.

Deliver almost anywhere
Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new user interface similarity and shared formats among Adobe Creative Suite tools, work across applications is virtually seamless.

Adobe Soundbooth CS4--Create and edit audio with ease

Rapidly enhance and edit audio
Take command of the audio in creative projects with task-based tools that help you create, clean up, and polish sound. Multitrack support and automatic volume matching give you more flexibility and control. Visually remove unwanted noises with the editing tools available in Spectral view.

Work with ready-to-use audio assets
Personalize your soundtracks with the enhanced Soundbooth Score editing workflow. Download Soundbooth Scores from Resource Central, and use new multitrack support to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores. Add effects to adjust the mood, or stretch or shorten the file to alter duration.

Use intuitive, task-based tools
Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power of nondestructive editing in the new Adobe Sound Document (ASND) format. Quickly and easily heal sound, match volume levels, create sound effects, and choose from a library of high-quality audio filters and streamlined mastering tools.

Enjoy tighter integration
Eliminate the need for intermediate rendering and streamline the process of editing audio in Soundbooth while working in various Adobe Creative Suite components with features such as new nondestructive roundtrip editing and Adobe Dynamic Link.

Adobe OnLocation CS4 for shooting direct to disk and monitoring footage

Adobe OnLocationCS4 is powerful cross-platform (Windows and Intel-based Macs), direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software that helps you shoot better and faster. The completely redesigned interface puts control of all functions on a single screen and features the familiar look and feel of other Adobe creative applications. Use the professional on-set monitoring tools to calibrate your camera, set levels, and monitor signals to obtain the best quality video and audio and avoid time-consuming and potentially costly problems.

Shooting and capturing video directly to disk lets you record a two-hour event as a single clip or shoot as many takes of a scene as you need to get it right--no changing tapes, no solid-state memory time limits, no missed action. It's a director's dream come true--but when you're editing, finding that one perfect take among dozens of outtakes can be difficult. To make it easier, Adobe OnLocation CS4 offers a Shot List that enables you to re-record multiple takes of the same scene retaining the metadata automatically from the original master shot. When you edit the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro, you can search for a favorite take simply by searching for metadata logged while you originally recorded the footage. Or, run the speech-to-text feature in Adobe Premiere Pro, which uses new metadata support to find words spoken by the talent.

Adobe Encore CS4

Use Encore to create DVDs and high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and with one click, easily save projects you designed to be delivered to disc as interactive content compatible with Adobe Flash Player for the web.

While on location, use Encore to output SWF file versions of your dailies to post online.

Choose Your Edition

With the tightly integrated tools and services in Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, you can create visually rich content for virtually any media--print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile. Find the one that's right for you:

Adobe Creative Suite 4 also allows you to access features and services that are hosted online, such as Adobe Community Help, Adobe Kuler, Adobe ConnectNow (a service on Acrobat.com), Adobe InContext Editing, and Bridge Home.*

* This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages and/or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the online services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Adobe privacy policy, and access to these services may require user registration. Some online services, including services initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees. For additional details and to review the terms of use and privacy policy, please visit www.adobe.com.

Product Description

Plan, create, and deliver anywhere with the intelligent post-production solution

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium software is a must-have solution for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive media - on air, online, on device, and invariably on deadline.

Work with the complete pre- and post-production solution
Take your productions from planning through delivery using powerful, intuitive tools that make the creation process smoother and more efficient. Available for Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems, Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium pairs world-class video, audio, and design tools with integration features that help save you valuable production time at every step.

Motion graphics and visual effects with Adobe After Effects CS4

Real-time video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Image editing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended

Rich interactive content with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS4

Digital audio with Adobe Soundbooth CS4

Powerful recording options with Adobe OnLocation CS4

Video delivery virtually anywhere with Adobe Encore CS4

Take creative control
Produce engaging experiences by leveraging innovative new 3D workflows and enhanced editing, design, and compositing features, all brought together with an intuitive user interface. Production Premium offers exceptional components that give you unparalleled creative control.

Animation and keying with After Effects CS4

Efficient workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Advanced image control with Photoshop CS4 Extended

New animation options with Flash CS4 Professional

Production planning with Illustrator CS4

Better video shooting with Adobe OnLocation CS4

New 3D workflows

Audio enhancements

Pristine color

Creative building blocks

Be more efficient
Streamline the entire creative process with Adobe Dynami

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Deeply flawed., August 26, 2009

By	P. White (Cambridge, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've used every incarnation of Premiere and the accompanying Encore so I'm qualified to comment here. Adobe also includes their 'Media Encoder' that runs independantly of Premiere to transcode clips. Encore is the DVD/Blu-Ray creation application that used to be sold on its own but now comes packaged with Premiere.
On the whole these application work well and I'd be happy to recommend them were it not for some astonishing flaws that seem to be aimed directly at the target audience, more of that later.
So, Premiere rarely lets me down. I'm running a very high end machine so I can edit HD footage (HDV and AVCHD) and it just breezes through it. Even with my machine (Intel i7 975 clocked at 4.15Ghz with 12Gb RAM) trascoding takes quite some time but we're talking an hour as opposed to all night on my old machine. Premiere takes full advantage of multi core processors as does the media encoder, I can tell because my cpu temperature rockets when using this stuff. So, Premiere and the encoder are good so what's the problem? ENCORE and Dolby Digital!
Firstly Dolby Digital. You'd presume, would you not, that an application that costs nearly £700 and that is directly targeted at a pro or semi-pro audience and is capable of handling multi channel audio during the edit process would therefore be able to include that multi channel audio in the transcoded final output? Right? Well no. Premiere can do it only with the aid of a third party plugin that is included on a 3 shot trial basis. After that it's nearly $300 (dollars) to buy a license and then only for one PC. It's probable that reinstalling Premiere (if you upgrade to Windows 7 or just have a bad day) will lose that licence and you'd better hope the third party software house is still in business to supply a new one after you've jumped through the verification hoops on the phone! This is ridiculous. Adobe claim that they don't include the Dolby Digital capability by default because the Dolby license would add a couple of hundred dollars to the price of their software. So what?! It's overpriced to start with and most likely a business expense so what difference would it make other than the user ending up with a fully functional application?! I was incensed by this when I realised why every time I transcoded 5.1 sound it ended up as stereo. It makes the app near useless for Blu-Ray or DVD work. Amazingly the FREE DVD/Blu-Ray burning software that comes with my SONY AVCHD camcorder DOES fully utilize Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Go figure: Adobe ruins a high end product by not including it and SONY gives it away for free. Amazing!
That leads me on to Encore.
When it works, Encore is good. I know how to get around most of its 'issues' now but again, don't bank on 5.1 sound. In theory it can do it if you give it exactly the right audio file but you'll be sacrificing goats and waving magic wands before that happens. More importantly I spent 4 days last week going half mad with frustration (sincerely) because no matter how I tried I could not get Encore to build what appeared to be a perfectly acceptable Blu-Ray. Encore's built in checker said it was OK and yet for days and days of seemingly endless attempts it failed with a generic and uninformative error. Eventually, I pinned it down to a couple of frames in the raw HDV footage that Premiere was ignoring, no problems and no failure on the edit but that Encore refused to transcode. Basically Encore is a fragile dog of an application. When it works, great, but when it fails you'll be hard pressed to know why and it fails a LOT. EVERY version of Encore I've used has been the same, riddled with bugs, and it's not pilot error.
So. In conclusion. This could be what it appears to be: a professional editing and disc creation suite. But it's not. It's an amateurish bug ridden mess that'll give you grief and cost you a small fortune. Adobe makes some stunning products, PhotoShop for example but they've NEVER got their video production software right and probably never will. Avoid.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop is great. Video tools are not., December 31, 2009

By	B. Mielke (Aspen, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have used Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Encore extensively for several years. I have used all versions from pre-CS2 to CS4. I have used them on multiple PC platforms, in 32 bit XP, 32 bit Vista and 64 bit Vista environments. I have created hundreds of DVDs and dozens of blu-ray disks. In a nutshell:

1) Photoshop is a great, powerful product
2) Premiere Pro is a decent and reasonably powerful editing tool, although buggier and less stable than it should be.
3) Encore is, and always has been, a very buggy, unstable, unreliable, sloppy piece of work. And in my experience, after many calls to Adobe technical support, many of Adobe's feature claims in Encore are false. They simply don't work. It is hard to believe that anyone in the Encore development group even checks their work. What a mess. And it has always been this way.

If you work on photographic images, by all means use Photoshop, a great tool. For video? It is hard to believe the video tools are from the same company. You will spend as much time trying to get the tools to work as you will doing actual video production. And don't believe any of the feature claims from Adobe. If you must try it, download the free trial and make sure it does everything you need first.

I am deeply wedded to Photoshop since I do a lot of photo restoration and it is a great tool. That, along with generally decent performance of Premiere Pro and a major learning curve investment has kept me coming back to each new release in hopes that it will get better. But it doesn't, and I now doubt it ever will. In my experience, Adobe technical support is rarely even aware of the bugs, and never able to offer any help with them. There is a pervasive sense of incompetence that eminates from every Encore release. It shows up throughout the product in a variety of ways, too numerous to list here. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and if you want to produce DVDs or BDs then Encore is one of the links and brings down the entire suite. It is a shame, since the feature set (in principal, not in reality) and the tight integration of the products could result in a great toolset if the programming was not so incompetent.

So I am done with it, and off to evaluate other products. You should too...

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Rip-off, October 20, 2009

By	Vista Hater - See all my reviews

For the amount of money being charged for this package, it would be nice if everything worked at least some of the time. But as it stands, the components crash more than they work. Premiere works for a few minutes, then crashes my system. Same with Encoder. Encore literally won't open on my computer. I have gone back to using CS3, which for all it's problems, actually works more often than not.