Take creative control
Produce engaging experiences by leveraging innovative new 3D workflows and enhanced editing, design, and compositing features, all brought together with an intuitive user interface. Production Premium offers exceptional components that give you unparalleled creative control.

Animation and keying with After Effects CS4

• Innovative compositing and animation tools
  Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, still images and graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating virtually any aspect of each element.

• Unlimited creative options, including the new Cartoon effect
  Manipulate moving and still images using hundreds of effects such as stylize, distort, and shatter, and combine them to create Hollywood-caliber special effects. Bring images and text to life by animating them with the Puppet tool, and use the new Cartoon effect to quickly give footage the look of cel animation.

• Text and vector graphics creation and animation
  Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools, and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.

• Comprehensive masking and keying tools
  Control which portions of a layer are visible to aid compositing by drawing and animating masks. Flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results. Remove bluescreen and greenscreen backgrounds with the Academy Award–winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools.

• Powerful motion controls
  Apply motion blur to produce more realistic animations, or use Timewarp to slow down and speed up footage. Precisely match the motion of source footage using the Motion Tracker, and remove unwanted movement with the Motion Stabilizer.

Efficient workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

• Powerful and flexible editing tools
  Create high-quality visual and editorial effects directly within the editing timeline. Adobe Premiere Pro includes more than 50 of the most requested editing enhancements to make your workflow more efficient. Apply effects to multiple selections, get timecode information faster, and much more.

• Customized workspaces and extensive special effects
  Control and navigate your tools as quickly as possible with mouseless, customizable keyboard shortcuts. Generate slow motion and other time-remapping effects with precise keyframe control and real-time feedback. Add color correction, lighting and other effects, audio filters, and more with fast, flexible built-in tools.

• Multicam editing
  View multiple video tracks from a multiple-camera shoot, easily sync via timecode, and edit by switching between tracks in real time. Re-record sections of your edit, make fine adjustments using standard timeline editing tools, and easily make color corrections across multiple shots, even after editing.

• Integrated titling
  Create sophisticated text and graphics titles from scratch, from professionally designed templates, or from user-defined styles.

Advanced image control with Photoshop CS4 Extended

• New Adjustments panel and Masks panel
  Get professional-quality results quickly with two new panels that offer intuitive access to the unrivaled editing power of Photoshop. The Adjustments panel brings together every tool you need to adjust Exposure, Vibrance, and more. The Masks panel brings together all the tools you need to quickly create, preview, and refine nondestructive, editable masks (including vector masks).

• Richer painting and drawing toolset
  Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Work faster and smoother by simply dragging to resize brushes as you paint. And enjoy improved tablet tracking for greater precision.

• Automatic compositing
  Automatically align multiple Photoshop layers or images and blend color and shading to easily create a single image from a series of shots. Extend depth of field by automatically blending photos with different focal points. And automatically stitch horizontal or vertical photos into seamless panoramas — now up to 360-degree spheres — using Photomerge® technology.

• Motion design enhancements
  Edit motion graphics on video layers more efficiently with new single-key shortcuts, sync the visual effects you create in Photoshop with specific points in an audio track using new audio syncing controls, and turn any 3D object into a video display zone by applying video layers as textures.

• Better raw image processing
  Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5.0 plug-in, which now offers localized correction of exposure, tint, saturation, and more; the ability to also process TIFF and JPEG images; and support for more than 190 camera models.

• Content-Aware Scaling
  Use the revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step, without time-intensive masks, crops, and retouching.

New animation options with Flash CS4 Professional                                                                                                                     

• Object-based animation
  Dramatically simplify animation in Flash CS4 Professional without losing creative flexibility. Apply tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes and gain greater control over each individual animation attribute.

• Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool
  Easily create chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects or quickly distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.

• Procedural modeling with the Deco tool
  Turn symbols into instant design tools. Create patterns that can be applied using the brush or fill tools, or create kaleidoscope-like effects with the new Deco tool.

• Motion editor
  Experience detailed control over keyframe parameters, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the new motion editor. Refine easing control with graphical displays.

Production planning with Illustrator CS4

• Powerful gradient tools for lower thirds and slates
  Create a gradient of many colors and control the opacity of the individual colors on the gradient stops and sliders to create lower-third graphics and slates. Use transparency to create cover-up fades or reveal underlying images.

• Multiple artboards for storyboarding
  Create hand-drawn storyboards using the new multiple layout feature and scale them to accommodate whatever display mode your stakeholders require — projected onscreen for viewing dailies, viewed at low resolutions over the web for remote review and approval, or even scaled to mobile device-friendly screen sizes.

• Live Color, Live Trace, and Live Paint
  Explore color variations using Live Color, which lets you select any artwork and interactively edit or replace colors to see results immediately. Quickly convert images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace. Easily paint any closed or partially closed area of your artwork with the Live Paint Bucket, which detects and corrects gaps and lets you select colors from a Swatch palette for faster work.

Better video shooting with Adobe OnLocation CS4

• Direct-to-disk recording and metadata acquisition
  Record DV, HDV, and DVCPRO HD footage directly to hard disk while Adobe OnLocation CS4 automatically detects and flags problems in your footage to help you avoid reshoots. Use the Shot List and Metadata panel to add important scene and camera information in XMP format metadata. Then use that metadata to manage your projects with greater efficiency from post-production through delivery.

• Camera calibration
  Maximize camera image quality using software-based on-set waveform and vectorscope tools to quickly calibrate your camera, check levels, and monitor your signal. Use the all-digital field monitor during setup and display the actual post-compression image as it is recorded. The monitor provides features similar to those on high-end broadcast field monitors, as well as unique features for freezing, zooming, and comparing video content.

• SureShot setup module
  Calibrate your camera for exceptional quality in any environment. The SureShot camera setup module provides tools to set up focus, white balance, and exposure — you don't need to know anything about waveforms or traditional scopes. SureShot works automatically, using the custom calibration charts included in Production Premium.

• Scene continuity
  Help ensure that all aspects of continuity — color, lighting, audio, and more — match from one scene to the next using the full complement of shooting tools in Adobe OnLocation. Use the field monitor in Split Screen or Onion Skin mode to compare one clip to another and catch wandering microphones or changes in camera framing, brightness, and more.

• Stop-motion animation recording
  Make static objects come to life using stop-motion recording. This feature allows you to easily record static objects one frame at a time. Split-screen overlay view with opacity control makes it easy to position objects precisely from frame to frame.

New 3D workflows

• Streamlined 3D painting and compositing in Photoshop Extended
  Edit, enhance, and manipulate 3D content in a streamlined interface — even paint directly on 3D models. Create 3D animations and use video layers as textures to turn any 3D object into a video display zone. With Vanishing Point, measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes; and output planes as 3D models to use in After Effects projects.

• 3D transformation in Flash Professional
  Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate via the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformation to move an object in relation to itself or the stage.

Audio enhancements                                                                                                                                                                        

• Recording, editing, and mixing in Soundbooth
  Record high-quality mono or stereo audio files, and work on more than one file at a time. Add tracks to create new sounds composed of multiple audio clips. Use powerful sample-accurate tools to cut, copy, paste, fade, and stretch audio assets. Intuitive on-clip tools make common edits instant, and visual feedback keeps you informed at every step.

• Fast audio cleanup in Soundbooth
  Automatically detect and fix common flaws in audio recordings such as hisses, hums, rumbling, crackling, and pops using simple, intuitive tools.

• Royalty-free audio with Soundbooth Scores
  Select one of the dozens of included Soundbooth Scores in Soundbooth CS4 and then customize it to match your project. Modify the score in multiple tracks, combine multiple scores on a single track, or layer different scores on multiple tracks.

• Visual tools for healing sound in Soundbooth
  Use tools in Soundbooth similar to those in Photoshop to visually identify, select, and remove individual sounds from a revealing spectral display of your waveform.

• 32-bit audio support in After Effects
  Work with confidence knowing After Effects supports 32-bit audio. Use innovative features to make audio tracks visual, such as the ability to convert fluctuations in an audio track into keyframes or expressions, and the ability to generate full-color visuals that animate dynamically.

• Advanced audio editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
  Create 5.1 surround-sound audio mixes, edit audio with individual sample precision, and apply clip- and track-based effects using the included VST plug-ins or your own. Control the volume and pan/balance settings of your audio tracks with a software version of an audio mixer, and create smooth audio cross-fades and other audio changes with a minimal number of keyframes.

• Broad audio support in Encore
  Increase your audio format options with support for DTS audio. Set the language codes for audio and subtitled streams so viewers can select by name rather than number. Convert source files to Dolby® Digital audio and depend on built-in sample-rate conversion that automatically converts your source audio to the 48kHz audio used for DVDs.

Pristine color

• Industry-leading color correction in Photoshop Extended
  Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.

• 32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support in Photoshop Extended
  Combine multiple exposures into a single 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene — from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. Image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.

• Video color management in Photoshop Extended
  Create and edit images for video with maximum quality and a broad range of color models. Edit and enhance grayscale, RGB, CMYK, and LAB models at 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit depths with color management.

• High-fidelity color in After Effects
  Get precise, predictable color with Adobe After Effects. In addition to support for HDR color, After Effects enables the use of ICC-based color management tools with enhancements for film and video workflows. Work in 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit modes for optimum performance.

• Professional internal scopes in Adobe Premiere Pro
  Monitor luma and chroma levels on every line with the built-in waveform monitor and vectorscope. Display Waveform IRE information in standard, YCbCr Parade, RGB Parade, or combined modes.

• 10-bit and 16-bit color resolution support in Adobe Premiere Pro
  Help maintain source integrity with support for 10-bit video and 16-bit PSD files.

• 32-bit internal color processing in Adobe Premiere Pro
  Help maintain maximum image quality with subtle and dramatic changes to color, contrast, and exposure, free of the banding and artifacts caused by lower bit-depth processing.

Creative building blocks

• Animation presets in After Effects
  Jump-start projects quickly with hundreds of fully customizable animation presets for transitions, text animations, Shape layer sprites, color treatments, picture-in-picture effects, backgrounds, and more. Use Adobe Bridge to quickly preview and apply animation presets, and create and save your own.

• Template compositions and automated animation in After Effects
  Use included project templates to get started on creating DVD motion menus, show openings, animated backgrounds, and more. Special behavior presets create simple to complex animations without keyframes.

• Brainstorm in After Effects
  Energize animations with Brainstorm, a user interface within After Effects that offers variations on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to animate, and After Effects will brainstorm a selection of animated variations.

• Soundbooth Scores and sound effects
  Kick-start your soundtracks with the enhanced Soundbooth Score editing workflow. Select from dozens of Soundbooth Scores and use the new Multitrack project view to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores. Add sound effects by choosing from thousands available via Resource Central (Internet connection required).

• High-definition templates and menu art in Encore
  Simplify menu creation using the many royalty-free templates, motion menus, and other included artwork files, including HD templates and menu art for use in Blu-ray projects.

• Motion presets in Flash Professional
  Take advantage of prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets across teams to save animation time.