Adobe Production Studio
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 Adobe’s new Production Studio Premium package not only combines the newest versions of their most well-known video, photo and audio programs – Premiere Pro 2.0, After Effects 7.0 Professional, Audition 2.0, Encore DVD 2.0, Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2 – but it also includes software that allows them to work together like never before. In the past, video editors have been frustrated by the time it takes to render a file after importing it from one Adobe program to another. With Adobe’s new Dynamic Link, changes made in one program in Production Studio are updated in other programs, without any wait time. For example, if you import a green animated background from After Effects into Premiere Pro and then decide you want it blue, simply switch the color in After Effects and it will instantly be blue in Premiere Pro.
The new versions of Adobe’s popular programs offer all of the same capabilities as the previous versions, but with enhanced features and a more intuitive design. The new Premiere Pro and After Effects are capable of handling both SD and HD formats, including native-HDV (it can import HDV without any rendering). Adobe dropped the old palette design for a much handier self-adjusting panel layout, eliminating the annoyance of making a dozen tiny adjustments to every palette on the screen any time one is moved or resized.
Production Studio also ships with Adobe Bridge, a searchable browser that displays thumbnails of every compatible file on a system. These files can be dragged and dropped right into the project file. Clip Notes allows videos to be exported into PDF files that are small enough to email to clients for mid-project review. Clients can pause the video at any time, type comments directly onto the PDF, and then email it back for changes.
Perhaps best of all are the rather minimal system requirements required to run even several of these programs simultaneously. A single processor system with 2GB of RAM can handle HDV post-production without frustration.
Adobe Production Studio Premium retails for $1,699. A standard edition, which includes After Effects 7.0 Standard, Premiere Pro 2.0, Photoshop CS2, Dynamic Link and Adobe Bridge, is available for $1,199. For those who own previous versions of these products, Adobe offers upgrade pricing.
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