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Leverage the familiar InDesign environment and your existing expertise to deliver design in more media. Just one example: Export an InDesign layout as XFL, open it in Flash, edit text and graphics, and then add interactive elements to produce a compelling dynamic document. Click to enlarge.

Drag a Photoshop image into a Dreamweaver page to create a dynamically linked Smart Object. If the source file changes, a badge shows that the Dreamweaver version is no longer current. To update the image, simply click the Update icon in the Properties panel. Click to enlarge.

In Illustrator, create and arrange up to 100 artboards of differing sizes, and then save them in a single, multipage PDF file or export them as sequentially numbered files. Click to enlarge.

In Photoshop, rotate canvas and image together to any angle for convenient viewing and editing. Click to enlarge.

Upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection from 1 older version of Creative Suite or Studio

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection

More speed and control in everyday design tasks
Catch production errors on-the-fly with Live Preflight and manage placed files more efficiently with the newly customizable Links panel in Adobe InDesign CS4. Zoom in on images more smoothly and rapidly than ever, and rotate your canvas to any angle in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. Combine multiple artboards in a single document in Adobe Illustrator CS4. And do more with dozens of other enhancements that help you deliver the design work you do today, faster.

New dimensions in image editing
Use the indispensable tools in Photoshop Extended as a starting point in any medium: Apply the revolutionary new Content-Aware Scaling to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas of the image as it adapts to new dimensions. Paint, composite, and animate 3D models using familiar tools. Enhance video footage, even syncing visual effects to an audio track.

Rich interactive documents
Export a dynamic presentation or interactive brochure as a SWF file with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page transitions, such as curl, wipe, dissolve, and fade. Or, combine the page layout strength of InDesign and the authoring power of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to customize rich interactive documents. For example, export an InDesign layout as an XFL file and open it with full visual fidelity in Adobe Flash Player. Then add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation in Flash to produce engaging online experiences.

New animation controls for richer online experiences
Simplify the creation and updating of animations with Flash CS4 Professional without losing creative flexibility. Apply tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes with greater control over individual animation attributes. Use the new 3D translation and rotation tools to animate 2D objects on x, y, and z axes in 3D space. Create more natural animated interactions between linked objects or distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.

Easier interactions with complex web pages
Design and develop more sophisticated websites with new Live View in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, which features interactive code editing. Use the new Related Files and Code Navigator features to dive deeply into complex pages that include HTML files, link to external JavaScript documents, and integrate XML data. Update your code in the associated files, and then review changes in the master document's Design view.

Exceptional productivity in video post-production
Move content among Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Soundbooth CS4, and Encore CS4 with unparalleled efficiency, so you have more time to craft your vision. Expanded Adobe Dynamic Link enables you to link content between components, so you can see updates without rendering.

Direct-to-disk recording and tapeless workflows
Shoot footage directly to disk from nonfile-based cameras with redesigned Adobe OnLocation CS4, which now runs natively on Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems.

Import and natively edit a wide variety of tapeless formats
including AVCHD, P2, and XDCAM EX--without transcoding or rewrapping in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

In InDesign, sort by any column and easily scan the thumbnails in the enhanced Links panel to view detailed, customizable information about linked content. Click to enlarge.

In InDesign, quickly create a compelling interactive document by using the new Page Transitions panel to add animated transitions such as Page Turn. Then export the document as a SWF file that anyone with Adobe Flash Player or a web browser that supports Flash can conveniently view. Click to enlarge.

Creating a basic Flash animation is now a simple two-step process: Select an object and choose Create Motion Tween, and then drag the object. The resulting motion path can be easily edited using Bezier curves. Click to enlarge.

Paint directly on 3D objects in Photoshop Extended and view the results immediately. Click to enlarge.

Quickly and reliably test mobile content in a variety of simulated lighting environments by controlling test settings for backlight, reflections, contrast, and more. Click to enlarge.

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.

Project intelligence with XMP metadata
Capture valuable XMP metadata from your camera, and accumulate key information throughout the production process for intelligent media management. Use new Speech Search technology in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth to turn spoken dialog into metadata, making it easy to find particular clips and your video assets searchable online.

Intuitive audio
Amplify your impact in your video, film, and online interactive projects with Soundbooth CS4. Multitrack recording capabilities, a visual approach to professional audio editing, and tight integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash, and Encore, make Soundbooth a valuable addition to your creative work.

PDF collaboration
Communicate effectively with clients, colleagues, and others using Adobe PDF files. Add video and audio created in Flash to PDF files for smooth playback in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Reader 9 software. Quickly export interactive web prototypes from Adobe Fireworks CS4 to PDF for client review. Embed video into PDF files for clients to add timecode-specific comments, and then view those comments mapped to an Adobe Premiere Pro timeline. Package documents in dynamic PDF Portfolios with customizable interactive navigation.

Combines:

• Adobe InDesign CS4
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator CS4
• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
• Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Contribute CS4
• Adobe After Effects CS4
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
• Adobe Soundbooth CS4
• Adobe OnLocation CS4
• Adobe Encore CS4

Adobe InDesign CS4--Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing

Publish persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences in less time and with fewer steps.

Experience fluid workflows
Design with ease using customer-inspired enhancements to your everyday toolset and a more flexible layout environment.

Create rich interactive documents
Create dynamic documents for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime as well as engaging PDF content that both include professional typography and top-quality page design.

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.

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.

Using Live Preflight in InDesign, you can open the Preflight panel to be alerted to errors as they occur rather than when the presses are just about to roll. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

Live View lets you see exactly how your pages will appear in a web browser directly from within Dreamweaver, so you can quickly tweak the code right then and there. Click to enlarge.

To allow you to work smoothly and swiftly within components and to move effortlessly among them, Design Premium offers several elegant, cross-component interface enhancements, including N-up view, an application bar, an application frame, and tabbed documents, and task-based workspaces. 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.

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.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro--Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF

Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone using free Adobe Reader software.

Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.

Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews, participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form Tracker to monitor progress and participation.

Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.

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.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4--Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Create next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.

Learn best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.

Take control of your content
Design your pages in Dreamweaver so your clients can make updates to their web pages directly from the browser using the Adobe InContext Editing online service. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.

Adobe Fireworks CS4--Rapidly prototype and design for the web

Take prototyping to the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Fireworks CS4 software. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.

Collaborate more smoothly
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, including Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4.

Design once, deploy to many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, Flash, or Flex software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export web standards-compliant CSS to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software. Create HTML-based Adobe AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.

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.

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

Adobe Contribute CS4--Simplify web content management

Delegate work while retaining control
Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising the integrity of your websites. Define and enforce custom publishing workflows to meet your organization's review and approval requirements for published content.

Engage users
Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring. Give users the choice of editing websites directly from their favorite browsers or composing and publishing web content from within Microsoft Office applications. Enable easy collaboration between users in the content publishing process.

Work with a compatible, affordable tool
Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks to compatibility with existing web and IT infrastructures and cross-platform interoperability. Contribute CS4 is affordable and works on Intel and PowerPC based Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.

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.

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 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

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

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

Choose Your Edition

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.

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-11-04
ISBN/EAN: 0883919165820

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Create rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms.

The Flash Welcome Screen gives you quick access to recent documents and also helps you get started with creating new files—either from scratch or from existing samples or templates.

No more running back to Photoshop to make simple text edits.

Enjoy creative flexibility
Realize your creative vision with a full complement of drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Explore innovative styles and techniques, impress your clients with more than they expected, and deliver consistent results across multiple platforms. With Flash CS3 Professional, the possibilities extend as far as your imagination.

Maximize development productivity
Leverage the power of a true development environment. Utilize professional coding tools including code collapse, commenting, automatic syntax completion, streamlined error resolution, and more. The new ActionScript 3.0 language supports a structured and intuitive workflow that saves time and facilitates exchange between designers and developers, enabling individuals and teams to deliver predictable, consistent results that meet or exceed the original vision.

Easily work with other Adobe software
Now your favorite tools will play well together. Enjoy timesaving integration with other Adobe creative software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flex Builder 2, After Effects, and Soundbooth, as well as Adobe Bridge, the central hub of Adobe Creative Suite 3. Easily exchange designs, assets, and files between applications without compromising fidelity.

Extend your reach
Extend the reach of your work by creating content for Adobe Flash Player, the world’s most pervasive software platform. Flash Player is installed on more than 700 million computers and devices worldwide, including over 96% of Internet-enabled desktops. By creating content with Flash CS3, you can leverage your work not only to the Internet, but also to a wide range of mobile and consumer electronics devices. Create content once, and then deploy it to multiple platforms.

Audience Benefit

Web and interactive content designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software offers a flexible, advanced authoring environment for creating unique online experiences with the latest in technical innovations, such as interactive video and high standards of usability and accessibility. Flash CS3 makes it easy to design interactive experiences that convey your true creative vision and impress your clients. Enjoy intelligent integration with other Adobe creative software.

Instructional media designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software offers an intuitive, flexible authoring environment for creating instructional media content that is easy to deploy to the widest possible audience via web and mobile devices. The advantages of Flash CS3 include the ability to integrate audio and video, seamless integration with related Adobe software, and optional integration with education tracking systems.

Graphic designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software enables experienced graphic designers to expand their creative repertoire to include interactive design without compromising efficiency or disrupting existing processes and workflows. Use Flash CS3 to build projects that impress clients with truly unique, interactive, engaging content that better enables them to meet their marketing or business goals.

Student designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software offers nearly limitless opportunity to student designers and developers who are interested in building careers using interactive design technology. Flash CS3 integrates with and supports a broad spectrum of emerging technologies, including Ajax, 3D animation, online video, and open source development. Each day, more and more creative professionals make Flash CS3 their primary tool for building a creative reputation and advancing their career.

Video and motion graphics professionals--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software dramatically expands the creative options for video and motion graphics professionals without compromising efficiency or disrupting existing processes. Create innovative videos, films, and animations with compelling creative and interactive effects and leverage them across media, including broadcast, tape, web, and mobile devices. Leverage the advantages of Flash Player, including small content file size; broad distribution; and rapid, automatic updates.

Top Reasons to Buy Adobe Flash CS3

Produce content for a wide range of mobile and consumer electronics devices.

The Emulator in Adobe Device Central gives you a spectacular preview for how your content will appear on a mobile device.

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator import
Import Photoshop (PSD) and Illustrator (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Flash CS3. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.

Frame-based timeline
Quickly add motion to your creations with the easy-to-use, highly controllable, frame-based timeline inspired by traditional animation principles such as keyframing and tweening.

Shape primitives
Easily create pie wedges, round off rectangle corners, define an inner circle radius, and do much more. Visually adjust shape properties on the stage. And create custom shapes with the included JavaScript API.

ActionScript 3.0 development
Save time with the new ActionScript 3.0 language, featuring improved performance, increased flexibility, and more intuitive and structured development.

The Import Video dialog box takes you through the necessary steps to encode and prepare the video for use in your Flash project.

Flash Video Encoder is a separate standalone application that can save time by batch processing the encoding of video files for the necessary conversion to FLV format.

Sophisticated video tools
Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive download Flash Video with comprehensive video support. Ensure the best video experience with a standalone video encoder, alpha channel support, a high-quality video codec, embedded cue points, video import support, QuickTime import, closed captioning, and much more.

MP3 audio support
Integrate audio into your projects by importing MP3 files. Integration with Adobe Soundbooth makes it easy to edit files as needed, without requiring audio production experience.

Rich drawing capabilities
Visually adjust shape properties on the stage with smart shape drawing tools, create precise vector illustrations with the new Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, paste illustrations from Illustrator CS3 into Flash CS3, and more.

Extensible architecture
Leverage the Flash application programming interfaces (APIs) to easily develop extensions that add custom functionality.

Convert animation to ActionScript
Instantly convert timeline animations into ActionScript 3.0 code that can be easily edited, reused, and leveraged by developers. Copy animations from one object to another.

Adobe Device Central Design, preview, and test mobile device content, including interactive Adobe Flash Lite applications and interfaces, using Adobe Device Central, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Additional Features

Powerful shape drawing
Manipulate vector shapes with powerful shape drawing tools. Easily bend, erase, distort, skew, and combine vector shapes in a natural and intuitive way.

Skinnable video component
Use the video component to easily customize the look and feel of video projects without significantly increasing file size. The component works with multiple deployment options, including streaming and progressive download.

Improved Adobe software integration
Enjoy a smoother and more efficient workflow enabled by integration between Adobe Flash CS3 and related software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Soundbooth, as well as Adobe Bridge, the central hub of Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Pen tool
Create precise vector illustrations with the Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, and then manipulate Bezier control points using Illustrator keyboard shortcuts.

Adobe interface
Enjoy a new, streamlined interface that emphasizes consistency with other Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications and can be customized to improve workflow and maximize stage space.

Publisher: Adobe
Author: Adobe
Release Date: 2007-04-20
ISBN/EAN: 0883919066486

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Clear: Brings email, photo sharing, shopping, game playing and more right to you with a clean, consistent and easy to use design

BigScreenLive: Empowering Seniors - Connecting Families. At BigScreenLive, we empower seniors to use the best of the internet and home computing to stay connected to family and loved ones. BigScreenLive is easy to use, and brings everything you need from the internet into one seamless environment. That is why those who use BigScreenLive cannot say enough about how it has positively changed their lives. Clear. Brings email, photo sharing, shopping, game playing and more right to you with a clean, consistent and intuitive design. Customized. Software that delivers large adjustable fonts, no popup ads or spam, and content specifically selected for your interests, within a seamless, easy to use environment. Connected. A service that automatically connects your family and friends to you so that you can share photos, play games, and send email directly with each other. Internet and shopping are easy to use within a secure environment and everything is at your fingertips.

Customized: Software that delivers large adjustable fonts, no popup ads or spam, intuitive, easy to use design and content specifically selected for your interests.

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BigScreenLive is a new software solution specially designed to empower older adults to connect online with their family, friends and community without the hassles of traditional software or internet. You and your loved ones will enjoy a fun, secure, easy to use software that requires no previous experience, very little training and enables people to...

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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.

Upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium for special introductory pricing

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium

Powerful integration, including expanded Adobe Dynamic Link, for exceptional productivity
Work with unparalleled efficiency, so you have more time to craft your vision. For example, expanded Dynamic Link lets you link content between Creative Suite 4 Production Premium components, so you can see updates immediately without rendering.

Project intelligence with XMP metadata
Capture valuable XMP metadata from your camera, and accumulate key information throughout the production process for intelligent media management. Use new Speech Search technology in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth to turn spoken dialog into metadata, making it easy to find particular clips and make video assets searchable.

Direct-to-disk recording and tapeless workflows
Shoot footage directly to disk from non-file-based cameras with redesigned Adobe OnLocation CS4, which now runs natively on Windows and Intel based Mac OS systems. Import and natively edit a wide variety of tapeless formats--including AVCHD, P2, and XDCAM EX--without transcoding or rewrapping in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

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.

Collaboration with clients and colleagues
Use the Adobe ConnectNow service to share project storyboards online before you shoot. Access improved Resource Central to find new assets, and quickly find news and inspiration in Bridge Home.

Editing efficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Utilize scalable, efficient, and flexible nonlinear video editing capabilities and superior integration with other Creative Suite 4 components to tell your most compelling stories. New native support for tapeless workflows and more than 50 enhancements make the editing process more efficient.

Motion graphics and visual effects with Adobe After Effects CS4
Be more productive: Searchable timelines and projects, easier navigation of nested compositions, expanded 3D compositing options including the ability to import 3D layers from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, and the new Cartoon effect help you work more efficiently and open up new creative possibilities.

Industry-standard design with Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended
Use an expanded set of creative options in Adobe Illustrator for designing static assets and creating storyboards, and take advantage of enhanced 3D support, Vanishing Point, and improved video support in Photoshop CS4 Extended to enhance your projects.

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.

Enhanced audio editing with Adobe Soundbooth CS4
Create and arrange audio clips for your film, video, and interactive projects for Flash with more flexibility using convenient, task-based tools along with new multitrack audio project support.

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

Top new benefits of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium

New integration, including expanded Dynamic Link, for exceptional productivity

Adobe Dynamic Link
In Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, the expanded Adobe Dynamic Link gives you tighter-than-ever integration when moving assets between After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Soundbooth, and Encore. Work faster and stay in the creative flow by eliminating intermediate rendering when you make changes to assets, whether you're editing a sequence of clips in Adobe Premiere Pro, changing a composition in After Effects, refining a project in Encore, or sweetening audio in Soundbooth.

Here are some of the ways you can use Dynamic Link:

• Send sequences directly from Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 to Adobe Encore CS4 without rendering them first. Sequences open immediately in Encore--any changes you then make in Adobe Premiere Pro are automatically reflected in Encore. Encore also reads chapter markers from the sequence, making it easy to set DVD chapter markers directly in the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline.
• Use sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 as a layer in your After Effects composition without rendering. Any changes you make to the sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro are automatically reflected in your After Effects comp.
• Dynamically link Adobe Premiere Pro sequences and After Effects compositions to Adobe Soundbooth for quick audio sweetening.
• As with previous versions of Production Premium, you can dynamically link After Effects compositions to an Adobe Premiere Pro project, where the comp looks and acts just like any other clip. However, when you make changes in After Effects, they're automatically reflected in the Adobe Premiere Pro sequence. Similarly, you can dynamically link After Effects compositions to Adobe Encore projects.

Import live Photoshop 3D layers into After Effects
Leverage the new support Photoshop CS4 offers for 3D workflows by importing 3D models and using industry-standard painting tools to enhance their appearance. (For more information, see page 12.) Then, import Photoshop 3D layers into After Effects, move them in space, animate cameras around them, adjust lighting, and composite them with other elements. This new integration makes it easier than ever to composite 3D elements into a scene, and saves time by enabling you to make more design decisions right in After Effects.

Export After Effects comps as layered projects for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
In Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, After Effects compositions can now be exported as layered projects that can be opened in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. Native FLV, PNG, and JPG sources that have been transformed or faded are passed straight through, while many After Effects assets, such as text or Illustrator artwork, are preserved as vectors. Pixel-based layers--including video and rich graphics--may be rendered to a variety of formats including FLV, and are then presented as layers in Flash CS4 Professional.

Roundtrip audio editing
Convenient roundtrip editing saves you time. Now you can use the Edit In Soundbooth command from within Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro, or After Effects to send assets directly to Soundbooth, where you can clean up or enhance your audio. After your edits are complete, the files easily update in the Timeline or Project panel of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, or After Effects CS4. You also can drive animation or create captions in Flash by laying down markers in Soundbooth CS4 and exporting them as XML or FLV files. Plus, the new Adobe Sound Document (ASND) format lets you save your multitrack audio projects created in Adobe Soundbooth as ASND files that can be easily shared with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and After Effects CS4 software.

These new features build on the integration previously available in Production Premium, offering you new ways to move assets fluidly between components as you refine your work.

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.

Project intelligence with new XMP metadata support

New XMP metadata support
This release of Production Premium pioneers new ways of using XMP metadata to make video assets searchable in After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Soundbooth, Encore, and OnLocation. Other components of Production Premium, including Illustrator, Photoshop Extended, Adobe Flash Professional, and Adobe Bridge, also offer XMP support for a complete, end-to-end metadata solution.

Metadata describes the content or characteristics of a file. With XMP metadata-enabled applications such as the components of Production Premium, meaningful descriptions and titles, searchable keywords, and copyright information can be captured and embedded in the file using a format that is easily understood by you as well as by software applications and hardware devices. And, as an open-source and extensible technology, XMP is freely available to developers and provides industry partners with standards-based building blocks to develop optimized workflow solutions.

Use new Speech Search to make dialogue in video assets searchable
Use powerful new speech recognition technology in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4 to turn spoken dialogue into text-based metadata that makes your video searchable. This new capability solves one of the biggest challenges in taking video online by automatically turning any spoken word into a keyword that points precisely to the places in a clip where the word is spoken. This unleashes considerable power, for both post-production professionals and all of us who watch video online. During the editing process, creative professionals can use Speech Search to quickly find the relevant points in a particular clip, or easily locate the right clip based on what gets said in it. Equally importantly, the time-accurate text that corresponds to spoken words is embedded in the output you render from Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4, so your video is searchable by other tools that can read XMP metadata, such as search and indexing engines.

In Adobe Premiere Pro, Speech Search can significantly speed the time-consuming process of wading through large quantities of footage to find the relevant clips. For example, you can quickly find all of the clips in a project that contain a particular word, or the opening lines of a scene from the script you're shooting, by searching from the Project panel. Once you've narrowed your search, you can search within a particular clip for a word or phrase by using the Source Monitor, or you can skim the preliminary transcript that appears in the Metadata panel. Both approaches are significantly faster than manually scrubbing through a clip to find, for example, the spot in a long interview where the subject talks about a transformative trip to Zambia. Additionally, you can tab from word to word in the Metadata panel to make edits while ensuring that text remains synchronized to the spoken word. Soundbooth CS4 enables similar functionality, and exports text as cue points to drive animations in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.

Acquire and retain asset intelligence throughout the production process
Because it's easiest to capture key information about your assets when you're creating and refining them, Production Premium offers automated processes for accumulating intelligence about them at every step of the production process. This asset intelligence--stored as XMP metadata--can speed the editing process, and it also adds value by enabling downstream searchability, tracking, and other types of communication--leaving creative professionals free to focus on visual decision-making.

During preproduction, create storyboards and plan camera moves using Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, and After Effects CS4. Then, build a shot list in Adobe OnLocation CS4 that lays out your shooting sequence in advance and lets you keep track of details such as shot location, production team or DP notes, audio gear used, and so on.

When you use Adobe OnLocation CS4 on-set, essential metadata--such as lens focal length, white balance settings, and frame rate--are captured automatically. You can manually add to this metadata at the shoot to indicate which shot is the best take, or to log notes while recording. If you reshoot a scene, each new take inherits the metadata from the master shot. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, After Effects CS4, Soundbooth CS4, and Encore CS4 all include the Metadata panel, so you can view and track these and other important details throughout your post-production workflow. Metadata also makes your assets searchable within the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Project panel, so you can locate assets and clips by filename, date, time, camera setting such as resolution or frame rate, shot location, or any other search term you've added to your asset or clip. (For more information about Adobe OnLocation CS4, see page 7.)

In After Effects, you can add new project- and layer-level metadata to streamline the flow of information within your projects. The new Metadata panel allows you to view and edit the metadata embedded in your media, which also makes it easier to integrate After Effects CS4 into an asset-management system. Metadata can also be accessed and edited using custom scripting. For example, you can generate a report of stock footage used in a composition in order to help determine accurate payment for rights-managed assets.

Next-generation tapeless camera support and tapeless workflows

Connectivity with colleagues, clients, and peers

Collaborate with your colleagues and clients
When you're collaborating with colleagues and clients, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium offers three ways to speed up the pre- and post-production process.

• During the planning stage, you can initiate an Adobe ConnectNow web-based meeting session from within Illustrator CS4 or Photoshop CS4 and share storyboard ideas and concepts online with up to two guests at no additional service charge. ConnectNow is one of a set of services on Acrobat.com, which also offers file sharing and storage, PDF conversion, and an online word processor. These additional services are accessible via the Acrobat.com AIR application (included) and your web browser. (Internet connection required.)
• For client review of dailies, use Encore to create a SWF file version of your project compatible with Adobe Flash Player to share the day's shoot online.
• Expedite post-production review cycles with Adobe Clip Notes, available in both new and previous versions of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Embed your video in a PDF file, then simply e-mail the file to your client to review and add timecode-specific comments, which you can view mapped to the Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects Timelines.

Collaborate with your peers
Get the power of an online search engine within Production Premium, but with more targeted results thanks to Adobe Community Help. Searchable content includes in-depth product-specific Help, plus additional Adobe and third-partycontent chosen by experts in the production and design communities. With Adobe Community Help, you can find the focused answers you need to remove roadblocks. It's the next best thing to shouting over your cubicle wall for help. (Internet connection required for extended content.)

Adobe Kulerª panel
You don't have to be a digital artist to pick the right colors for your graphics, titles, and lower-third graphics. Using Adobe Kuler, explore, create, and share color themes in Illustrator, Photoshop, or Flash. Kick start your creative projects with color inspiration from the online Kuler community. Browse thousands of themes by newest, most popular, or highest rated; or search themes by tag word, title, or creator. Themes can be downloaded and moved to your Swatches panel with a single click. Or use an interactive color wheel that supports standard harmony rules to develop your own color themes that you can save, move to your Swatches panel, and upload to share with others. (Internet connection required for community functionality.)

Adobe Bridge Home
Visit Adobe Bridge Home--an online channel available in Adobe Bridge CS4--and stay up to date with what's new from Adobe and the video and audio production, design, web development, and communities at large. Watch the latest video tutorials for your Creative Suite 4 software, listen to a podcast interview with a leading designer, or learn about the next training event in your community. Discover tips and resources that can help you work smarter and faster, making the most of your Production Premium software. (Internet connection required.)

Adobe Resource Central
Access product-related news and tutorials by using the Resource Central panel in Adobe Soundbooth, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Encore. Jump-start your audio projects with drag-and-drop efficiency using Soundbooth Scores and audio effects offered online. (Internet connection required. There are additional fees for some content accessed through Resource Central.)

Adobe OnLocation CS4 for shooting direct to disk and monitoring footage

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.

Improved editing efficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Timesaving editing enhancements
The many new features designed to help you work more productively include the ability to:

• Create new subclips by simply dragging content directly from the Timeline to the Project panel.
• Align new keyframes with existing ones by placing them precisely from within the Effect Controls panel--as you move keyframes, they snap to Sequence Markers, the playhead, clip edges, and other video or audio keyframes.
• Use Copy and Paste to apply transitions while maintaining destination attributes like transition duration.
• Paste clips directly at the end of previous clips--the playhead jumps automatically to the end of pasted clips.

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.

Robust timecode display
Precise editing and communication with clients are facilitated by the accurate display of timecode information. Whether you're working with news footage gathered in the field, telecined film footage, or clips shot on a camcorder that supports timecode only by way of an accessory pack, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 offers you a variety of timecode display options. The source-media timecode display format acts as the default in both the Project panel and Source Monitor. If there is no timecode or frame rate associated with the media, say if it's a still graphic or was shot on a camera that doesn't record timecode, Adobe Premiere Pro will use the format specified in the Project Settings. You can display SMPTE-style timecode or frame-count timecode that you can set to start at frame 0 or 1.

Place items in the Timeline with timecode accuracy by dragging and dropping them. See up-to-date timecode information in the Info panel as you drag clips. Choose the appropriate timecode display mode separately for each sequence in your project. Use any supported timecode format as the timecode display mode in the Timeline, Info panel, and Timecode controls. View source-media information for clips in the Timeline using the Info panel.

More options with multiple selections
In the same manner as Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro now allows you to create and save combinations of effects as a single preset and apply them to multiple clips in a single action, helping you to work more efficiently. In Adobe Premiere Pro, applying a default transition across multiple selected clips, adjusting the speed/duration of a large number of clips all at once, or adjusting the audio levels on a number of selected clips without having to tweak them individually are just a few examples of how you can reduce time-consuming repetitive tasks.

Motion graphics and visual effects with industry-standard After Effects CS4

Searchable timelines and projects, plus easier nested-comp navigation
As your projects become more complex, it can be challenging to find a specific layer or other asset--especially when you're on deadline or when you're working in an unfamiliar project. After Effects CS4 eliminates this frustration by including live search functions directly inside the Timeline and Project panels. This new feature saves considerable time scrolling through lists and twirling open layers to manually reveal their contents. You can search projects for specific footage items or footage properties, and you can search timelines for layer names, properties, comments or expressions, effect names or parameters, and more. Search results appear as soon as you start typing, and can be limited to selected layers or may encompass your entire timeline or project.

Many artists use nested compositions inside After Effects as a way to break complex projects into smaller, more manageable elements. To make these composition hierarchies easier to navigate, After Effects CS4 features a Composition navigator along the top of each Composition panel, which displays the names of the incoming (nested) compositions as well as the outgoing (parent) compositions for the currently active composition. A Mini Flowchart also reveals the nesting organization of related compositions. This allows you to more easily visualize and navigate the structure of complex projects: You merely have to click on a composition's name in the Mini Flowchart to instantly switch to it.

Cartoon effect
The new Cartoon effect allows you to create a stylized look for your video or other animated imagery, instantly applying the look of hand-drawn cel animation or watercolorpaintings to live action or computer-generated 3D imagery. Stylize footage for fresh new looks, or rescue low-resolution or poor-quality footage by smoothing and abstracting it. This new effects is useful for motion graphics and interactive designers looking to craft their own stylized treatments, as well as videographers and editors looking to eliminate the painstaking process of creating this popular effect by hand.

Streamlined 3D workflows
In addition to the ability to import Photoshop 3D layers (see page 4), After Effects CS4 contains two other major enhancements that make working in 3D more fluid.

• X-, Y-, and Z-position properties can be keyframed separately, greatly easing the crafting of complex animation moves, such as having a camera smoothly change elevations and then hold while maintaining a constant forward or sideways velocity, or creating bounce-style actions. These separate properties may be collapsed back into a unified set of keyframes that control all properties at once.
• A new Unified Camera tool takes advantage of a three-button mouse, allowing you to quickly switch between Track XY, Track Z, and Orbit movements. This allows you to work more intuitively while setting up camera positions. It also makes the experience of using cameras in After Effects more similar to other 3D applications.

Imagineer's Mocha for Adobe After Effects for 2.5D planar motion tracking
After Effects CS4 includes Imagineer's Mocha for Adobe After Effects, a stand-alone application with advanced 2.5D planar motion tracking. Mocha for After Effects helps solve problematic shots that are difficult to accomplish with point-based trackers, such as footage with objects moving out of the frame, lack of detail in the underlying footage, motion blur, and heavy grain or noise. Now you can avoid the guesswork and inaccuracies that result from hand tracking challenging shots, speeding up the process of generating solid four-point tracks, yielding position, scale, rotation, and shear information resulting in perspective-matched tracks.

Expanded 3D, motion, and compositing in Photoshop CS4 Extended

Expanded 3D editing and compositing
With Photoshop CS4 Extended, video and motion graphics designers can take advantage of three-dimensional assets created in today's high-end modeling applications. Edit 3D properties such as lights, materials, and meshes, and add new lights to your image by taking advantage of the 3D engine. For the first time, you can paint directly on 3D models without having to unwrap any textures, and you can merge 2D layers directly onto 3D layers. Animate your texture maps by adding video layers to them. In addition to editing and manipulation, 3D support now includes the ability to create 3D objects directly from 2D images or depth maps. 2D pixel data (and/or layers) can also be rendered into a volume. Further, you can export 3D layers directly to common 3D file formats such as OBJ, KMZ, Collada, and U3D.

Powerful storyboarding capabilities
Photoshop CS4 Extended gives you more creative options for creating storyboards, animatics,and motion graphics effects. A revolutionary new illustration feature lets you paint and draw in Photoshop CS4 Extended as if you were working with canvas or paper on a table top. With the new Rotate View tool, you can simply spin your canvas to any orientation you desire--a boon to every tablet user and to illustrators in general. No pixel distortion, no craning your head to get the perspective you want, and no matter how you spin your canvas, Photoshop CS4 Extended adjusts your selections, grids, rulers, and other tools and features to match your chosen orientation.

Enhanced motion design
Adobe Photoshop is an essential part of the motion graphics workflow, and Photoshop CS4 Extended makes that workflow more efficient than ever, starting with enhanced preview of images composed of non-square pixels. You can now easily preview and export the audio content in a video file as well as the comments. Quickly turn on single-key shortcuts for animation, to greatly streamline your workflow. The Animation panel now lets you animate the 3D camera and object position in addition to render settings and cross sections. Plus, Adobe After Effects CS4 can now directly read Photoshop CS4 Extended 3D layers, as described on page 4. With the inclusion of expanded 3D editing features, Photoshop CS4 brings new depth to motion graphics workflows.

Preproduction productivity and scalable vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator CS4

Scalable animated lower thirds
For post-production tasks such as the creation of onscreen graphics, Illustrator CS4 offers enhanced gradient tools to help you quickly create lower-third graphics and slates. Create a gradient of many colors and define the opacity of any or all individual colors. Being able to apply transparency within a gradient simplifies creating interaction between layers, and enables easy mixing and knockouts. You can use transparency to create cover-up fades or reveal underlying images. You can even apply multiple fills to a single object and set up some of those fills as gradients that include transparency that can easily accommodate multiple output options, from web-resolutions to high-definition video, without losing image quality.

Rich, interactive content with Flash CS4 Professional

Object-based animation
Flash CS4 Professional now offers object-based animation, which dramatically simplifies designing in Flash while simultaneously providing greater control. Tweens are now applied directly to objects instead of keyframes, providing precise control over each of the individual animation attributes.

Motion Editor panel
With the new object-based animation model in Flash CS4 Professional, keyframes take on a new and significant role. You can now experience granular, independent control over every keyframe parameter, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the Motion Editor panel. Offering even more command over the creative presentation of your animations, the Motion Editor panel allows you to graphically control easing using curves.

3D transformations
Bringing perspective and dimension to your design can add an element of excitement and fun to any project. But until now, the ability to create motion was available only to expert users via ActionScript or other tools. Now, with Flash CS4, you can animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D transformation tools, greatly extending creative possibilities. Built for inexperienced and advanced users alike, the 3D transformationtools make motion effects available to everyone.

Metadata support
Flash CS4 Professional adds support for XMP metadata, which can be used to track assets across the production workflow. Additionally, metadata enables mobile devices to identify the type of content being played, allowing you to deliver a better user experience to mobile devices.

Everyday audio editing with Soundbooth CS4

Multitrack support
Sound for visuals usually comprises a variety of different elements: Dialogue tracks give voice to actors, animated characters, and featured talent; voice-overs supply narrative context; sound effects and ambient sounds create atmosphere and aural depth cues; and music provides emotional cues. The ability to work with multiple audio tracks--the most requested new feature from Adobe Soundbooth CS3 users--means you can assemble all the elements in a complex soundtrack into a final audio mixdown. Now you can work on more than one mono or stereo file at a time. Add tracks in the Project view to create new sounds with multiple audio clips, and mix multiple audio tracks and scores. You can even bring additional sound files into any given audio track.

Automatic volume matching
Equalizing volume levels within a specific file can be a challenge, especially if, for example, you're cutting between two tracks, one of which is a carnival barker and the other is a dialogue track of a speaker who's barely audible. The equalize-volume feature in Adobe Soundbooth CS4 corrects this type of problem with a single click. You can also use the new volume-matching functionality in Adobe Soundbooth CS4 to quickly match the volume of multiple clips to each other or to a single reference volume level.

Volume keyframing
Volume keyframing lets you adjust the volume of your dialogue and sound-effects tracks, as well as the volume of your audio over time. The volume keyframing feature is especially useful when you create podcasts: Soundbooth lets you record directly into a track, duck vocals, improve the quality and sound of voice-over tracks, and add sound effects.

New Adobe Sound Document
The new Adobe Sound Document (ASND) file format enables nondestructive multitrack audio editing, so you can always return to the original source files. Using snapshots, you can revert back to any previously saved condition of a file at any time. Snapshots are saved in the ASND files, and can be recalled, even after exiting the program and running it later. In the case of single files, the snapshot will preserve the current state of the file, including effects, fades, volume changes, and so on. In the case of multitrack projects, the snapshot will preserve the states of all tracks, all the clips in your project, and any changes you've made to them. The ASND file can be easily shared with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Adobe After Effects CS4 without modifying the original audio files.

Output to any screen

Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe Media Encoder, now a separate software component included with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, works with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, After Effects CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional. Adobe Media Encoder helps you maximize your productivity by allowing you to continue creative work while files encode in the background. Adobe Media Encoder automates the process of creating multiple encoded versions of your source files, compositions from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro sequences. Set up multiple items for encoding, manage priorities, and control advanced settings for each item individually. Use any combination of sequences and clips as sources, and encode to a wide variety of video formats, including FLV and F4V, Windows Media, MPEG-2, H.264, QuickTime, and more.

Flash CS4 Professional uses Adobe Media Encoder to deliver higher quality results with greater control. Two-pass variable bit-rate encoding and new support for the H.264 codec provide greater fidelity while providing you with more delivery options, including H.264 playback in the new Adobe Media Player.

Metadata support

Everyday audio editing with Soundbooth CS4

Multitrack support
Sound for visuals usually comprises a variety of different elements: Dialogue tracks give voice to actors, animated characters, and featured talent; voice-overs supply narrative context; sound effects and ambient sounds create atmosphere and aural depth cues; and music provides emotional cues. The ability to work with multiple audio tracks--the most requested new feature from Adobe Soundbooth CS3 users--means you can assemble all the elements in a complex soundtrack into a final audio mixdown. Now you can work on more than one mono or stereo file at a time. Add tracks in the Project view to create new sounds with multiple audio clips, and mix multiple audio tracks and scores. You can even bring additional sound files into any given audio track.

Automatic volume matching
Equalizing volume levels within a specific file can be a challenge, especially if, for example, you're cutting between two tracks, one of which is a carnival barker and the other is a dialogue track of a speaker who's barely audible. The equalize-volume feature in Adobe Soundbooth CS4 corrects this type of problem with a single click. You can also use the new volume-matching functionality in Adobe Soundbooth CS4 to quickly match the volume of multiple clips to each other or to a single reference volume level.

Volume keyframing
Volume keyframing lets you adjust the volume of your dialogue and sound-effects tracks, as well as the volume of your audio over time. The volume keyframing feature is especially useful when you create podcasts: Soundbooth lets you record directly into a track, duck vocals, improve the quality and sound of voice-over tracks, and add sound effects.

New Adobe Sound Document
The new Adobe Sound Document (ASND) file format enables nondestructive multitrack audio editing, so you can always return to the original source files. Using snapshots, you can revert back to any previously saved condition of a file at any time. Snapshots are saved in the ASND files, and can be recalled, even after exiting the program and running it later. In the case of single files, the snapshot will preserve the current state of the file, including effects, fades, volume changes, and so on. In the case of multitrack projects, the snapshot will preserve the states of all tracks, all the clips in your project, and any changes you've made to them. The ASND file can be easily shared with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Adobe After Effects CS4 without modifying the original audio files.

Output to any screen

Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe Media Encoder, now a separate software component included with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, works with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, After Effects CS4, and Flash CS4 Professional. Adobe Media Encoder helps you maximize your productivity by allowing you to continue creative work while files encode in the background. Adobe Media Encoder automates the process of creating multiple encoded versions of your source files, compositions from After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro sequences. Set up multiple items for encoding, manage priorities, and control advanced settings for each item individually. Use any combination of sequences and clips as sources, and encode to a wide variety of video formats, including FLV and F4V, Windows Media, MPEG-2, H.264, QuickTime, and more.

Flash CS4 Professional uses Adobe Media Encoder to deliver higher quality results with greater control. Two-pass variable bit-rate encoding and new support for the H.264 codec provide greater fidelity while providing you with more delivery options, including H.264 playback in the new Adobe Media Player.

And while the tightly integrated cross-platform tools in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium help you take productions from planning to completion, AdobeÕs video solutions span beyond content creation to delivery and playback. Use the Adobe Flash Media Server 3 family of products to develop new revenue sources based on secure streaming or protected download delivery. To learn more, visit www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver.

Mobile device workflows with Adobe Device Central CS4
Given the skyrocketing use of mobile devices around the world, getting up to speed with mobile design offers both rapidly expanding business opportunities and intriguing creative challenges. However, screen dimensions and video frame rates vary greatly from one mobile device to another. Adobe Device Central CS4 software, a visual testing tool that works with content from most Creative Suite 4 components, makes developing mobile designs easier and fasterÑeven if youÕre brand new to this emerging creative discipline. Develop content with your favorite Adobe creative tool, and then use Device Central to preview and test it on an extensive selection of devices under a variety of simulated real-life conditions. This lets you can make intelligent design decisions without a time-consuming trial and error process.

New and enhanced features in Device Central CS4 include an automatically updated online device library, automated testing on multiple devices, simulation of network performance impact on user experience, and improved video-packaging tools. Device Central also includes new tools for simplifying project management, collaboration, and deployment of content to mobile phones, as well as streamlined workflows for handling mobile video.

Adobe Media Encoder lets you output 3GP and H.264 video for delivery on mobile devices from Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium components.

New mobile authoring workflows in After Effects make the process of authoring for multiple devices more efficient. After you select the devices you want to author for in Device Central, After Effects creates a master composition, which in turn feeds a set of device-specific compositions, each reflecting the screen size and other parameters of your chosen devices. A corresponding set of render items is also created for these device-specific comps, allowing you to render and export a set of finished movies for a large number of mobile devices in one batch render job, and deliver engaging experiences to billions of mobile subscribers.

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