What is Production Premium?

Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Production Premium is the high-performance leader in video production software. Produce your best work more quickly than ever before with game-changing innovations like the blazing fast Adobe Mercury Playback Engine and the new Warp Stabilizer that steadies shaky video footage with a single click

 

What’s new in 5.5?

 

Efficient workflow Trim and edit with efficiency and precision in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5.5. Use widely accepted NLE shortcuts and easily sync separately recorded field audio with your video, thanks to dual-system sound support

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 OS 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

Mercury Playback Engine Get amazing performance from the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro on both desktops and laptops (Windows® and Mac OS). Natively 64-bit and optimized for modern CPUs, Mercury delivers astounding performance with or without GPU acceleration

Warp Stabilizer in After Effects Smooth a bumpy camera move, or lock a shot automatically. Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities

Fast, reliable encoding for multiple devices Output your work for PCs, 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

RAW digital cinema Gain new workflow flexibility with RAW digital cinema files and other file-based footage. Experience faster performance for high-resolution RED footage, as well as enhanced support for RED, Sony XDCAM, Canon XF, and CinemaDNG formats

Camera Lens Blur and camera property in After Effects Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur. Set iris shape, blade curvature, and diffraction fringe characteristics for beautiful bokeh, and use these same settings for fantastic depth-of-field control with the After Effects® 3D camera

Asset intelligence for accelerated post-production Locate assets and dialogue quickly in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 with integrated support for metadata from Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service1,2. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time

Streamlined collaboration Collaborate using CS Live online services1,2 including Adobe Story, a collaborative script-development tool; CS Review, an online review service; and Acrobat.com services that simplify sharing project information

Source timecode support in After Effects Take the guesswork out of source footage edits. Timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF is read directly in After Effects, and the Timecode effect can display both source timecode and composition frames

Light falloff in After Effects Control how light intensity falls off across 3D distances, just like in the real world

Enhanced creative freedom on the go Take your creativity further — use mobile devices like the iPad with Adobe Ideas sketching software and a growing number of companion apps as they become available for Photoshop CS5 Extended

• Work faster Accelerate your video production workflow in Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Production Premium software, with sweeping performance enhancements that define new standards for speed and efficiency on both Mac OS and Windows
• Craft great stories Tackle virtually any post-production challenge with the industry-leading, tightly integrated creative toolset. Game-changing innovations enable you to deliver the highest quality productions to virtually any screen
• Collaborate efficiently Move sequences and assets through the production pipeline faster with open project exchange with other NLEs, while streamlining project reviews and improving communication with colleagues and clients

 

 

Requirements

• 64-bit support required: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Coreâ„¢ i3, i5, or i7 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 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
• Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop® Extended 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)
• Javaâ„¢ 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
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis