Adobe Creative Suite 4 - Production Premium

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium is a must-have solution for creative professionals who need to craft world-class video, audio, and interactive media—on air, online, on device and invariably on deadline.

Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard.

With Adobe After Effects® CS4, you can create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with flexible tools that help save you time and deliver unparalleled creative power. Achieve creative control over virtually every element of your production in the highly responsive 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment of Adobe After Effects CS4. Create text and vector graphics in After Effects using familiar Adobe tools and then animate these elements to create visually innovative new motion graphics.

Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device.

Tell your story with maximum impact using Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 software, the start-to-finish video production solution that includes Adobe OnLocation CS4 and Encore CS4 software.

Discover new dimensions in digital imaging.

Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended not only delivers all the features of Photoshop CS4, but also enables you to work with 3D imagery, motion-based content and do an advanced image analysis. Take greater advantage of everything that Adobe Photoshop Extended offers with a more intuitive user interface and non-destructive editing freedom - helping you to achieve the highest-quality results.

Create and deliver rich interactive content.

Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional creates an industry-leading environment for creating engaging interactive experiences. Deliver content-rich designs to audiences across platforms and devices. Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Flash CS4 Professional. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.

Explore new paths with the essential vector tool.

Adobe Illustrator® CS4 creates a comprehensive vector graphics environment with new transparency in gradients and multiple artboards that helps you to find more efficient ways to design. Industry-standard drawing tools and powerful effects allow you to experiment freely - helping you to push your own creative boundaries.

Create and edit audio with ease.

Adobe Soundbooth® CS4 gives web designers, video editors and other creative professionals the tools to create and polish audio, customise music, add sound effects, and do much more. Take command of audio for your film, video or rich-media project. Task-based tools help you clean up recordings, polish voice-overs, customise music and sound effects, and much more. High-quality production becomes more efficient with Adobe Soundbooth CS4, without sacrificing creative control. Work on audio in After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Flash CS4 Professional more efficiently than ever with the Edit in Soundbooth option that edits your audio files directly in Soundbooth.

Shoot better and faster with powerful production tools.

Adobe OnLocation™ CS4 software offers a powerful, direct-to-disk recording and monitoring solution for Windows® and Intel® based Mac OS systems. Use fast, efficient logging tools during recording in Adobe OnLocation™ CS4 to add metadata that increases productivity at every stage in the production process. 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.

Deliver virtually anywhere.

Adobe Encore® CS4 software is a rich set of creative tools for DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring as well as SWF file export to the web. Create DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray discs with pop-up menus, and interactive SWF files for the web with Adobe Encore CS4. The enhanced Flowchart helps you define and view your project's points and links. Build and arrange slide shows with ease. With Adobe Dynamic Link, open your Adobe Premiere Pro sequences directly in Encore - complete with chapter markers - without intermediate rendering so you can work quickly and stay focused.

Manage media visually.

Adobe Bridge CS4 is a powerful, easy-to-use media manager that allows you to easily organise, browse, locate and view creative assets. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite 4 and in most of Adobe's professional creative applications, Bridge provides centralised access to project files and global settings, plus XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.

Design, preview and test engaging mobile content.

With Adobe Device Central CS4 you can produce innovative and compelling content for mobile phones and other consumer electronics devices. Save time by automating testing and simulating the network performance of mobile content across a dynamically updated library of device profiles. Create mobile projects to manage assets, target device profiles and export options in one central location. Record content as it plays and easily send high-quality movie clips to pitch ideas more easily to clients. Thanks to the intelligent integration with Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, Adobe Device Central CS4 helps creative professionals and mobile developers deliver engaging experiences to millions of mobile subscribers.

Eliminate intermediate rendering with Adobe Dynamic Link.

Adobe Dynamic Link gives you tighter-than-ever integration when moving assets between Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Soundbooth CS4, and Encore CSAn integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and Master Collection, Dynamic Link enables you to 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.