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Adobe CS3 Production Suite: Summary (4/2007)
by Douglas Dixon
A summary of the Adobe CS3 Production Studio, with quick summaries of the
included tools and technology components, highlighting the new features of each.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 - Design - Web
- Production - Master Collection
Adobe Creative Suite 3 is a huge upgrade of the Adobe Creative product line, with design and
development tools spanning the creative workflow across print, web, video,
interactive and mobile (www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite). The tools are even more tightly integrated, especially
with extensive support for Flash design and export from Adobe's recent
acquisition of Macromedia. CS3 also marks the return of the video Production
tools to the Macintosh platform. The Design and Web applications ship in April
2007, and the Production tools ship in the third quarter 2007.was just announced on March 27, 2007.
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional: Motion graphics & visual effects
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Video editing
Adobe Encore CS3 - Author professional-quality DVDs
Adobe OnLocation CS3 - On-set monitoring and direct to disk capture
Adobe Ultra CS3 - Quick, effective keying
Adobe Soundbooth CS3 - Audio production tasks
Adobe Media Encoder: Compress to media formats
Adobe Device Central CS3: Preview for mobile devices
Adobe Bridge CS3: Manage media visually
- See Adobe
Creative Suite 3: Summary for an overview of the applications,
suites, and pricing.
- See Deliver Everywhere: Adobe's
Creative Suite 3 for examples of delivering content across many
channels
Find Adobe
Creative Suite 3 Master Collection (Windows or Mac) on Amazon.com
Find Adobe
Creative Suite 3 Production Premium (Windows or Mac) on Amazon.com
Motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile
devices
www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects
Features
- For motion graphics designers, visual effects artists, video editors, rich
media web designers
- Combine moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D
or 3D space
- Animate virtually any aspect of each element
- Start quickly with animation presets and behaviors
- Comprehensive masking and keying, auto-tracing and RotoBezier masks
- Motion Tracker matches motion of source footage, Motion Stabilizer locks
shots
- Performance from multicore and graphics acceleration
Distribute rendering across entire network
Enhancements
- Shape Layers: Vector graphic creation within After Effects (like
Illustrator)
Create and animate complex shapes, compound shapes
Adjust sides, points, rounded corners
Adjust strokes, fills, dashes, gradients, patterns
Replicate and add animation, like After Effects text
- Puppet tool: Squash-and-stretch animation for 2D image
Drag pin to automatically set keyframes
- Brainstorm interface to experiment with animation possibilities
Interactively create wide range of animation
possibilities very quickly
Select effect (or specific set of parameters), press
Brainstorm button
Brainstorm panel presents grid of animations
with theme and variations
previewing in full motion
Select best and repeat to refine
- Text animation of individual characters in 3D
- Color management: preview color look on broadcast monitors and film stocks
Composite accurately in 32-bit linear high-dynamic-range
project workspace
- Performance improvements:
Previews take advantage of multi-processor and multi-core
machines
Faster color management, no audio rendering delay,
improved HDV and MPEG
- Adobe Clip Notes streamlines review and approval (was just Premiere Pro)
Export a composition as PDF file with embedded or
streamed movie
Reviewer plays with Adobe Reader software
Remarks saved as timecode clip markers for collaboration
- Adobe integration
Import Flash SWF files into After Effects compositions
Rasterize vector shapes and preserve alpha channels from
Flash
Create and export After Effects keyframes as Flash cue
points
Export multiple formats in one render pass: batch render
Flash video files
Create and animate Photoshop Layer Styles
Import Photoshop 2D Vanishing Point images to create 3D
scenes
Supports new Photoshop CS3 Extended video layers for
rotoscoping and animated paint
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Capture, edit, and deliver video to disc, the web, and mobile devices
www.adobe.com/products/premiere
Features
- Edit every major standard-definition and high-definition video format
DV, Digital Betacam, HDV, DVCPRO HD, HDCAM, 2K scans,
etc.
- Native HDV editing: Supports Sony, JVC, and Canon cameras
Interlaced and progressive, various resolutions, frame
rates
- Precise keyframe controls
Adjust any effect parameter with value and velocity
graphs
- Multi-cam editing of up to four synchronized source tracks
- Advanced audio editing and processing
Create and position 5.1 surround-sound audio channels
Record and play back multichannel audio through ASIO
hardware
Sample-level edits, clip and track-based effects
Advanced dynamics and effects plug-ins, other VST
plug-ins
- Professional color correction, primary and secondary
Fast Color Corrector for quick adjustments with real-time
previews
Support for 10-bit and 16-bit color spaces
- Finish and deliver to film, tape, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Web, mobile devices
- Use Dynamic Link to work with After Effects motion graphics, title
sequences,
and visual effects in Adobe Premiere Pro timeline without
re-rendering
- Adobe Bridge CS3 to find, browse, preview assets
- Adobe Clip Notes streamlines review and approval process
Export a video sequence as PDF file with embedded or
streamed video
Reviewer plays with Adobe Reader software
Remarks saved as timecode clip markers for collaboration
Enhancements
- Improved slow-motion and variable-speed control features
Time Remapping for variable-rate time stretches directly
in timeline
Backward playback, variable-speed slow motion
Change clip duration and pace to fit sequence's timing
and beats
Real-time feedback, keyframe control, improved quality
- Multiple Project panels and bins with smart file filtering
Find, view, and organize files
- Enhanced editing efficiency
Play audio immediately in nested sequences without
rendering
Replace clip in timeline while preserving original's
attributes and effects
Improve audio with new Spectral Design audio filters
reduce noise, control dynamics,
tweak EQ and compression
- Output for mobile devices
Use Adobe Media Encoder to export 3GPP and H.264 video
optimized for playback on mobile
phones, iPods, PSPs, other devices
Use Adobe Device Central CS3 to simulate playback on
specific devices
- Direct Flash video export (FLV) with markers converted to cue points
Convert timeline markers into Flash cue points
Used to trigger interactivity during playback
- Bundled Encore CS3 to export to Blu-ray Disc, DVD, even Flash
- Bundled OnLocation CS3 for on-set monitoring and direct to disc recording
- Bundled Ultra CS3
- Available for Intel Mac and Windows XP / Vista
Top
(Bundled
with Premiere Pro)
www.adobe.com/products/premiere/encore
- DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring and SWF export to the web
- Professional authoring, design, and mastering tools
- Create simple single-menu discs
to elaborate titles with interactive menus, multiple
audio tracks, subtitle tracks
- Use Dynamic Link to work with After Effects animations for DVD motion
menus without re-rendering
- New: Author single project, deliver as standard-definition DVD,
plus high-definition Blu-ray Disc, and Web-ready Flash
content
- New: Blu-ray Disc authoring with same interface and features
Author high-definition Blu-ray Disc project
and create finished standard-definition DVD project
- New: Create interactive DVD-style Flash version of project
Create interactive SWF content without scripting and
without Flash authoring
Deliver DVD-style menus, interactivity, and content to
Web Flash Player users
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(Bundled
with Premiere Pro; New version of Serious Magic DV Rack HD)
www.adobe.com/products/premiere/onlocation
- Direct-to-disk recording (saves time-consuming capturing from tape)
Record DV and HDV directly from FireWire camera to laptop
hard drive
- Ensure recording quality with professional live image-monitoring tools
Display HD images up to 1280x720
Fast step-by-step camera calibration
Split-screen and dual-zebra modes
View underscan, safe-area, variable aspect ratios
Quality monitor identifies video and audio distortion
Check video levels: Virtual reference monitor, waveform
and vectorscope
Audio spectrum analyzer
- Pre-record buffer up to 30 seconds to capture before press Record button
- Record stop-motion animation or time-lapse sequences
- (Windows application, requires Boot Camp on Macintosh running under
Windows)
Top
(Bundled
with Premiere Pro, From Serious Magic Ultra)
www.adobe.com/products/premiere
- Create highly realistic background composites, even from marginal video
sources.
- Use laptop to preview keying on location
- Real-time color correction and 32-bit rendering quality
- Import Photoshop files as backdrops or virtual sets
- One-click Set Key feature for fast setup with less tweaking
- Compensates for uneven lighting, wrinkled backdrops, frizzy hair
- Supports all standard HD and HDV resolutions and aspect ratios, standard
frame rates
- Supports all standard video formats: AVI, MPEG, DV, Flash, QuickTime, etc.
- Includes collection of virtual sets, including animated backgrounds
Corporate and educational settings, newsrooms, futuristic
studios
- (Windows application, requires Boot Camp on Macintosh running under
Windows)
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Tools for everyday audio editing and cleanup, sound design, and music
creation
(New product;
Replaces Adobe Audition in suite as audio tool for video editors;
Audition
continues as independent high-end audio editing tool)
www.adobe.com/products/soundbooth
www.adobe.com/products/audition
- Designed for video editors, web developers, motion graphics artists,
creative pros
- Quickly accomplish common audio production tasks
Trim clips, remove noise, create sound effects, polish
voiceovers,
customize music to fit production
- Intuitive audio editing with on-clip controls
Cut, copy, paste; trim, fade, volume control
- Fast audio cleanup
Remove background noises and artifacts, preserve dynamics
and sound quality
hiss and hum, rumble, clicks and
pops
- Create customized music: AutoComposer with customizable Soundbooth Scores
Customize length and mood of music to match production
Adjust score's length, intensity, and instrumentation
Use keyframing to automate changes over time
- Fast mastering and vocal improvement
Vocal Enhancer brighten up vocals
On-clip volume controls even amplitude of different parts
of dialogue track
- Apply more than 15 high-quality audio filters
EQ and compression, distortion, reverb, echo, chorus,
time and pitch
Use presets or save your own
Stack up to five filters in Effects Rack and preview in
real time
- Access Resource Central to browse thousands of sound effects and
Soundbooth Scores
- Launch Soundbooth directly from within Premiere Pro
save changes in Soundbooth, update automatically in
Premiere Pro project
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(Technology component across suite)
- Compress to common media formats, with presets or custom settings
- New: Export 3GPP / H.264 video for mobile phones, iPods, PSPs, mobile
devices
Top
(Technology component across suite)
www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/devicecentral
- Preview, test, optimize mobile content on simulated mobile and handheld
devices
Web and Flash Lite content, video, and images
- Simulate playback on specific devices: appearance, performance, behavior
- Emulate device memory, backlit screens in bright sunlight, low-battery
conditions
- Use emulated keypad to interact with Flash Lite content
- Library of devices with detailed specs and supported content types
Realistic skins, emulated interface and display
- Download updates for new devices: compression presets and playback
simulators
- Preview exported video from Premiere Pro, After Effects
- Preview mobile content from Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver
- Export Flash video and Flash experiences for the web
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(Technology component across suite)
www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/bridge
- Quickly find, browse, and preview assets, filter to specific file type
Image, video, audio, FLV, SWF
- Search or edit XMP metadata: keywords, language, and format
- Drag files from Adobe Bridge directly into project window or timeline
- New: Drag assets directly from Adobe Bridge into Flash or Soundbooth
Preview FLV and SWF files in Adobe Bridge
- New: Bridge Home provides up-to-date information about all CS3 software
Tips and resources
Watch video tutorials, listen to podcast, learn about
upcoming training
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