Beyond Photoshop and Illustrator, the principal elements of Production Premium consist of Premiere Pro, an NLE After Effects, an effects compositing programme Flash, a Web animation package and Encore, a DVD and Blu Ray authoring tool. In this review I'll be homing in on the apps that are most relevant to video production in the Production Premium version of the package, leaving some other aspects aside. As you can see from the Adobe CS5 Packages table, Adobe are asking serious money for CS5, and even the upgrade cost from CS4 is pretty significant, so what's in there to justify the big numbers? Previous versions of the Creative Suite have given buyers the choice between 'Standard' or 'Premium' versions, but in CS5 the only 'Standard' version to survive is Design Standard, which includes the standard version of Photoshop rather than the Extended version used by all the other packages. Every package includes them, but from there your choice lies between the web‑directed Web Premium, the print/repro‑based Design Standard or Premium, and the video‑oriented Production Premium.

The meat of CS5 is provided by Photoshop and Illustrator. So although it's possible to order the 'Master Collection', most of us will be restricting ourselves to just some of the delights on the menu (see 'Adobe CS5 Packages' table). The Creative Suite has become super‑sized, and few of us either need or can handle the whole package. Following its introduction at NAB this year, CS5 is now on general release, so it's time we took a good look around it.Īs the Creative Suite has developed and extended its reach, more programmes have been added, either by acquisition (as with internet‑focused Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver tools, added in 2007), or as a result of development by Adobe themselves (as with On Location or Media Encoder). We take a look at its most important components for video production.Ĭreative Suite 5 is the latest incarnation of Adobe's flagship software package, a package that's responsible for much of the web, print and even video media that we see around us every day. Adobe's latest Creative Suite comes in a variety of flavours, including the video‑focused Production Premium package.

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