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Achieve creative control with a complete set of video and design tools to take your ideas from storyboarding and acquisition through production, post-production, and delivery.

Motion graphics and visual effects with Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
- 32-bit 2D and 3D compositing and animation. Create high-impact communications by combining moving imagery, graphics, text, and sound in 2D or 3D space and then animating virtually any aspect of each element in Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional software. Freely work with high dynamic range (HDR) imagery in a color-managed workflow.
- Versatile text animation. Animate text along any path, transform or displace words or lines of text over time, set inter-character blending modes, randomize the order in which characters animate, blur or wiggle your text, and more.
- Powerful masking and keying tools for creating video transparency. Control which portions of a layer are visible by importing, manipulating, and animating masks. Key bluescreen and greenscreen mattes with Academy Award-winning Keylight and a host of supporting tools. Flexible auto-tracing options and RotoBezier masks make it easy to get precise results.
- Shape Layers. Easily create and animate vector graphics with new Shape Layers. Add and animate strokes, fills, gradients, and vector effects. You can convert text into shapes and then animate them just like any other shape type.
- Puppet tool. This new, fast, and intuitive animation tool lets you squash and stretch images or text to bring it to life as an animated character. Use Motion Sketch to record the position and speed of your puppet movements, the Starch tool to stiffen areas of the character, and the Overlap tool to control the depth of elements of your puppet.
- Powerful motion controls. Animate graphics and text using the Puppet tool. 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 Motion Tracker, and get the look of a locked-off shot using Motion Stabilizer.
- Brainstorm. Jump-start animations with Brainstorm, a new user interface that offers variations based on selected design and animation parameters. Choose which properties and effects you want to explore, and Brainstorm will propose animated variations.
- Layer styles. Vastly expand the possibilities for adding texture and shading to even the most basic layer instantly. Animate style characteristics freely, going beyond what is possible in Adobe Photoshop® software.
- Adobe Clip Notes. Streamline the review and approval process. Export your work into an Adobe PDF file that enables anyone with Adobe Reader software to make timecode-accurate comments. When you import the comments into After Effects, they appear as markers on the Timeline.
- Wacom tablet support. Use Wacom tablets for more precise control when painting in After Effects.

Real-time video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Adobe OnLocation CS3 (Windows only)
- Efficient tools for creative editing. Create high-quality visual and editorial effects directly within the editing timeline in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 software. 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. Edit footage from multicam shoots with ease and precision.
- Broad range of supporting hardware and software for Mac and Windows. Choose from a wide range of Mac and Windows® workstations, capture cards, and software packages — including most After Effects plug-ins — that work with Adobe Premiere Pro. Build the editing system that meets your needs and budget or get a certified, preconfigured Adobe OpenHD™ system (see www.adobeopenhd.com for details).
- Comprehensive video format compatibility. Work with the formats you want. Edit all standard- or high-definition formats, from DV and HDV to HD and beyond (some formats may require additional hardware).
- Real-time editing. Play through most common transitions and effects without waiting to render. For even better real-time performance in Adobe Premiere Pro, add hardware from a variety of third parties.
- Advanced color-correction tools. Use primary and secondary color-correction tools to match shots; change colors; correct exposure errors; and modify highlights, midtones, and shadows across clips, sequences, or entire projects.
- Direct-to-disk recording with included Adobe OnLocation CS3* (Windows only). Save tape and time by eliminating capture from your production process. Record SD and HD video directly to hard disk using Adobe OnLocation™ CS3 (formerly the award-winning DV Rack™ HD), included in the Production Premium box. Instantly review each shot without shuttling tape. Adobe OnLocation automatically detects and flags problems to provide the best results.
- High-quality slow motion with time remapping. Create dramatic slow- and fast-motion effects without exporting clips to another application. With precise keyframe control, real-time feedback, and excellent quality from advanced frame blending, you can slow things down without compromising quality.
- Multiple project panels with smart file search. Find files faster with search tools that instantly update results as you type. Organize assets into multiple project panels, each with its own graphical or text view setting. Display and handle media files, making project management easier and more efficient.
- Improved editing efficiency. Work faster with powerful and flexible editing tools. Play video with nested audio sequences in real time without rendering. Replace any clip in the timeline with a new clip while preserving the original clip's editing attributes and settings. Use timesaving shortcuts to switch between workspace panels.

Advanced image control with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
- Easy animation creation with the Animation palette. Use the new Animation palette in Adobe Photoshop® CS3 Extended software to create an animation from a series of images — such as time-series data — and export it to a wide variety of formats, including QuickTime, MPEG-4, and FLV.
- Movie Paint. Enhance video directly within Photoshop Extended. Now you can paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of imported footage.
- Enhanced Vanishing Point with 3D support. Edit in perspective on multiple surfaces — even those connected at angles other than 90 degrees — with the enhanced Vanishing Point, which also lets you measure in perspective; wrap graphics, images, and text around multiple planes; and output 2D planes as 3D models.
- Smart Filters for more flexible editing. Add, adjust, and remove filters from an image without having to resave the image or start over to preserve quality. Nondestructive Smart Filters allow you to visualize changes without altering original pixel data.
- Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools. Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection for you. Then preview and fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.

Rich interactive and mobile content creation with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
- Extended reach with Adobe Flash Player. Extend the reach of your work by creating content for Adobe Flash® Player software, 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.
- Familiar design tools. Leverage common nonlinear editing and motion graphics concepts and tools such as filters, blend modes, and custom easing. Customizable components, skins, and a familiar interface make it easy to get started.
- Redesigned 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.
- 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® software, paste illustrations from Illustrator CS3 into Flash CS3, and more.
- Pen tool. Create precise vector illustrations with the Pen tool, and then manipulate Bezier control points using Illustrator keyboard shortcuts.
- Copy-and-paste capability for animations. Copy an animation that is applied to an object and paste it into any other timeline object, dramatically reducing the time spent on animation development.
- Leveraged artwork from Illustrator. Copy and paste illustrations from Illustrator directly into Flash CS3, preserving full fidelity.
- Superior font rendering. Improve text crispness and readability with revolutionary font rendering. Use rendering options and anti-aliasing to optimize for different use cases.
Powerful, scalable vector artwork creation with Adobe Illustrator CS3
- Live Trace. Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace.
- Live Paint. Easily paint any closed or partially closed area of your artwork with the Live Paint Bucket, which automatically detects and corrects gaps and lets you interactively select colors from a Swatch palette for faster work.
- Advanced typography. Easily create and control type with over 100 OpenType® fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strike-through, transparent effects, and more.
- Interactive Crop Area tool with video presets. Interactively define crop areas for print or export, particularly for video, web, and mobile workflows, with presets for commonly used formats.
- Live Color for web and interactive. Quickly explore, apply, and control color variations for web and interactive designs. Easily create multiple versions for any web prototype or interactive design.
- Enhanced drawing tools and controls. Draw in Illustrator more quickly and fluidly than ever. Easier and more flexible anchor point selection, improved operating performance, and a new Eraser tool help you create artwork efficiently and intuitively.
- Improved performance for more responsive drawing. Enjoy more responsive drawing and editing with performance in key operations, including faster screen redraw, object moving, panning, scaling, and transformations.
- Easy task performance with the Control panel. Discover more options faster and free up screen space by accessing anchor point controls, clipping masks, envelope distortions, and more from the context-sensitive Control panel.
Fast, intuitive audio editing and creation with Adobe Soundbooth CS3
- Intuitive editing with on-clip controls. Use powerful sample-accurate tools in Adobe Soundbooth™ CS3 software 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. Detect and fix common flaws in audio recordings such as hisses, hums, buzzing, crackling, and pops.
- AutoComposer with customizable Soundbooth Scores. Easily create customized music for your project using dozens of included scores with the AutoComposer feature. Stretch music automatically to match the length of your video clips, and adjust for intensity to match the mood.
- Thousands of sound effects via Resource Central. Create or customize existing audio using thousands of sound effects available via Resource Central (Internet connection required).
- Fast mastering and vocal improvement. Use streamlined mastering tools to polish your file, clarify vocals, and give it punch.
- More than 15 high-quality audio filters. Enjoy a library of audio filters to help you achieve your own sound, including reverb, echo, EQ, time and pitch stretch, distortion, chorus, and more. Combine up to five effects using the Effects Rack.

Professional DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring with Adobe Encore CS3
- After Effects integration with Adobe Dynamic Link. Send a menu directly to After Effects CS3 Professional for animation, export your animation as a movie file, and then add it to your menu background in Adobe Encore® CS3 software for a stunning motion menu — all without intermediate rendering.
- Slideshow Editor. Build and arrange slide shows with ease. Define shows as browsable or autoplay with optional narration or music. Set slide durations, add transitions, and apply pan-and-zoom effects.
- Flowchart. Define and view your project's interactive navigation by using a visual flowchart representation of all points and links.
- High-definition Blu-ray Disc authoring. Maintain the pristine quality of your HD video all the way to distribution. Create high-definition Blu-ray Discs, working with the same Encore interface and features used to create standard-definition DVDs.
- DVD and Blu-ray Disc publishing for the web. With one click, easily create SWF versions of your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects for the web using Encore. Produce content for playback on the popular Adobe Flash Player, complete with DVD interactivity and menus, without learning or even opening Adobe Flash.
- Leveraged title authoring. Reach more audiences quickly. Use Encore CS3 to author interactive titles, and then publish them to multiple delivery formats — Blu-ray, DVD, and SWF for playback through the popular Adobe Flash Player — with a single click.
New Adobe Ultra CS3 (Windows only)
- Virtual sets. Use virtual sets included in Adobe Ultra® CS3 software for dropping keyed footage into realistic-looking composites, and customize with a wide range of effects including virtual shadows and reflections.
- Flexible output options. Enjoy a wide range of output options, including DV, QuickTime, image sequence, 24-bit AVIs, and 32-bit AVIs with alpha channels for later compositing with Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects.

Work efficiently with freedom and control
Experience exceptional productivity offered by a highly integrated toolset that brings new fluidity to your workflow, letting you work fast and stay focused.

New Photoshop integration with After Effects
- More powerful cloning and healing tools. Experience greater control when retouching images with cloning tools and the Healing Brush. Clone images over time; see source pixels under your tool or brush for more precise positioning; preview changes to source content live; and set multiple source points, scale, and rotate in the new Clone Source palette.
- Photoshop Layer Styles in After Effects. Photoshop Layer Styles are preserved on import to After Effects and can be modified and animated, allowing you to vastly expand possibilities for adding texture and shading to even the most basic layer instantly. Animate style characteristics freely, going beyond what is possible in Photoshop.
- 3D compositions from Vanishing Point. Import Vanishing Point data from Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended into After Effects to automatically build a 3D composition from the 2D Photoshop image.
Enhanced integration between Photoshop and Adobe Flash
- Photoshop layer selection on import to Flash. Select individual Photoshop layers when importing to Flash CS3 Professional, and choose whether to convert layers to layers or keyframes for use in Flash. Optimize and customize files during import with advanced options.
- Flexible Photoshop text import. Choose whether Photoshop text imports as editable text, vectors, or as a bitmap image.
- Easy animation creation with the Animation palette. Use the new Animation palette to create an animation from a series of images — such as time-series data — and export it to a wide variety of formats, including QuickTime, MPEG-4, and FLV.

Easy animation exchange between After Effects and Adobe Flash
- Importing of SWF files as vectors into After Effects. SWF files are imported as continuously rasterized vectors with the alpha channels preserved, allowing you to scale them without any loss in quality.
- After Effects timeline marker conversion to cue points for use in Flash. Use markers to create cue points that can be added to your FLV output. Automatically convert any layer's keyframes to cue points to make it easier to trigger events based on motion or elements changing over time.
- Batch rendering of FLV files from After Effects. Use the powerful Render Queue in After Effects to batch render FLV files. Create templates to apply common render and output settings.
Timesaving integration between Adobe Flash and Illustrator
- Manipulation of Illustrator files in Flash. Import Illustrator (AI) files while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Flash. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.
- Timesaving integration between Illustrator and Flash. See high-fidelity results when moving objects and attributes — such as live effects and gradient fills — between Illustrator and Flash using copy and paste, drag and drop, or file import.

Advanced file management with enhanced Adobe Bridge CS3
- Enhanced preview panel with FLV and SWF preview. Save time by previewing file contents — now including FLV and SWF files — without waiting to open an application. Quickly display an image in a full-screen Preview panel and use the new Loupe tool to zoom in on details. Drag the tool to magnify a selected image area up to 800%. Display multiple images side by side in the Preview panel for easy comparison.
- Image stacks for organization and batch file processing. Select multiple files and collapse them into a stack. Organize multiple versions of the same file, group related files, or gather files to send to Photoshop or Illustrator for batch processing. For video professionals, manage image sequences more efficiently. Preview and scrub image sequences.
- Single-click audio file sound previews. Preview audio clips easily from within Adobe Bridge with a single click.
- Enhanced preferences for thumbnail display. Use new preference settings to choose whether to generate quick thumbnails or high-quality thumbnails, or to create high-quality thumbnails when images are previewed. You can also set preferences for displaying more metadata properties below thumbnails.
- New Filter panel for fast file selection. Use the powerful new Filter panel to quickly locate files according to metadata properties such as file type, file modification date, keywords, aspect ratio, and orientation. Sort results by criteria ranging from filename and creation date to label and rating.
- Easy preview and testing of mobile content with Adobe Device Central CS3. Design, preview, and test engaging content for playback through Adobe Flash Lite™, as well as video and images for a wide range of mobile and handheld consumer devices, using Adobe Device Central CS3. Easily display your work in a wide variety of mobile device skins using built-in device profiles.
No more intermediate rendering thanks to Adobe Dynamic Link
- Easy integration of After Effects compositions in Adobe Premiere Pro. Incorporate After Effects motion graphics, title sequences, and visual effects into your Adobe Premiere Pro timeline without rendering. Work with the compositions in both applications at the same time. Changes made in After Effects appear immediately in your Adobe Premiere Pro project.
- Easy integration of After Effects motion menus in Encore. Use After Effects compositions in Adobe Encore for motion menus without rendering. Work with the compositions in both applications at the same time. Changes made in After Effects appear immediately in your Encore project.
Extensive integration for exceptional productivity
- Capture in After Effects. Capture video directly from within After Effects using the capture interface in Adobe Premiere Pro — an exclusive feature of Production Premium.
- Native Photoshop and Illustrator file import to After Effects. Import layered Photoshop and Illustrator files, and even Photoshop sequences, into After Effects with layers intact and ready to be animated. When importing Photoshop files, blend modes, opacity, visibility, adjustment layers, common layer styles, clipping paths, and layer masks are also preserved, and text remains fully editable.
- Native Photoshop file import to Adobe Premiere Pro. Import and animate Adobe Photoshop layers. Edit still images from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.
- Native Photoshop file support in Adobe Encore. Import native Photoshop files or create new menus in Photoshop file format. Buttons, text, and images are stored as layers and layer sets so you can edit them later in Photoshop.
- Photoshop and Illustrator integration. Preserve layers, layer comps, transparency, editable text, and slices when moving files between Photoshop and Illustrator. Use Smart Objects in Photoshop to edit Illustrator content, and use Edit Original in Illustrator to edit placed Photoshop images.
- Easy creation of project-matching Photoshop images. From within After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, open new files in Photoshop CS3 Extended that automatically match your project's resolution and pixel aspect ratios. From within Adobe Encore, open a new file in Photoshop based on a DVD menu template.
- Drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste functionality. Easily drag and drop or copy and paste video, audio, and images in a variety of standard and Adobe-specific formats among the components of Production Premium. Keyframes, markers, and effects are preserved from one component to the next.
- Edit Original. Select an imported file in After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore, or Illustrator and choose the Edit Original command to open the file in its native Adobe application for editing. Automatically incorporate your changes back into your work.
- Import and export of Adobe Premiere Pro projects in After Effects. Import Adobe Premiere Pro projects into After Effects and export projects from After Effects into Adobe Premiere Pro, with video and audio arranged as layers. Bins, edits, markers, and shared effects with keyframes are all preserved. Nested sequences remain nested, and clip order and footage durations are preserved (including all trimmed In and Out points).
- Shared effects between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Use a wide variety of effects, such as blurs and glows, in both After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Many available third-party effects can also be shared between components.
- Marker conversion to DVD chapter points. Convert timeline markers from Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects into chapter points in Encore to speed up navigation design for your DVD menus, and to help ensure proper positioning of chapter markers in your video.
- Film and video document start-up profiles in Illustrator. Easily create documents for your video projects using New Document Profiles for film and video.
- Video-ready document creation in Illustrator. Create video-ready documents from scratch in Illustrator, or choose an area of your Illustrator document with the Crop tool, using presets for standard frame sizes. Position the area over your image like an aperture, and then export that area as a new Illustrator file for use in your video work.
- Animation cue creation for Adobe Flash in Soundbooth. Lay down markers in Soundbooth and export them as XML. Access the markers through ActionScript™ language in Flash or in the FLV encoder for tasks like driving animation or creating closed captioning.
- Editing in Soundbooth from Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Smooth roundtrip editing allows you to send assets from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or After Effects CS3 Professional using the Edit in Soundbooth command. After your edits are complete, the files automatically update back in the timeline or project window for the originating application.
- Edit Original for Soundbooth audio files. The timesaving benefits of the Edit Original feature now extend to audio originally created in Soundbooth. Select any audio file created in Soundbooth from within another Production Premium component, and then choose Edit Original to quickly reopen the full audio file in Soundbooth.
Unified design environment for maximum productivity
- Workspace panels that dock and group. Avoid desktop clutter and find the tools you need more quickly and efficiently with workspace panels that dock and group for optimal organization.
- Custom workspaces. Use preset suggested workspace layouts for specific tasks that come with Production Premium, or customize and save your own workspace layouts.
- Common commands, tools, and keyboard shortcuts. Common commands, tools, and keyboard shortcuts throughout Production Premium make your workflow smoother as you move from one application to the next.
- Adobe Help Center. Search for any topic in this online help resource for all Production Premium components at the same time. For example, search for "markers" and see a list of relevant help topics for After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Soundbooth, and Encore. Access online tips and tutorials for any Production Premium feature.
- Adobe Clip Notes in After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Streamline the review and approval process. Export your work into a shareable Adobe PDF file that enables anyone with Adobe Reader® software to make timecode-accurate comments. When you import the comments into After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro, they appear as markers on the timeline.

Stay ahead of the curve
Reach the widest possible audience and anticipate emerging media with support for every major file format and the tools to deliver your work to virtually any medium.

Broad support for industry standards and formats
- Available for Mac and Windows. Work on the platform of your choice. Production Premium is now available for both Mac and Windows and is supported by a broad selection of books, training materials, third-party plug-ins, and leading industry partners including the OpenHD Partner Alliance.
- Future-ready tools for delivery of video content anywhere. Meet today's production demands and tomorrow's challenges head on. Broad support for leading standards and formats, an open approach to hardware and platform support, a rich ecosystem of plug-ins and other third-party solutions, and the ability to deliver video content to new types of devices — from mobile to Blu-ray Disc — give you a competitive edge.
- Industry standards. Integrate Production Premium into existing workflows with support for industry standards including FireWire, OpenGL, AAF, EDL, VST, and ASIO.
- File formats. Work with almost any type of video, audio, or graphic file, including PSD, AI, EPS, PDF, Camera Raw, Animated GIF, SWF and FLV, MPEG, Cineon, OpenEXR, Radiance, SGI, TIFF, TGA, Maya IFF, JPEG, ElectricImage, Filmstrip, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AVI, Windows Media, QuickTime, Real, and more.
- Broad hardware support. Choose from a wide range of capture cards and other hardware to build the HD, HDV, SD, or DV editing system that meets your needs and budget.
- Support for HD, HDV, SD, and DV formats. Production Premium provides the platform for the future use of HD post-production. From uncompressed HD video on the high end to the increasingly popular and economical HDV format, Production Premium provides a tightly integrated, comprehensive workflow solution with virtually everything you need to excel in HD video production.
- Broad support for resolutions and frame rates. Work with video at all popular resolutions and frame rates. Production Premium supports HD, HDV, SD, and DV formats.
- Robust, flexible plug-in architecture in After Effects. The robust plug-in architecture in After Effects is shared by Adobe Premiere Pro and widely supported by a range of third-party developers, making a range of specialized solutions available for extending Production Premium workflows.
- Video production and preview for mobile devices. Use the Adobe Media Encoder in After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth to export 3GP and H.264 video for mobile phones, iPods and PSP systems, and other mobile devices. Preview the results for supported devices using Adobe Device Central CS3.

Adobe Device Central CS3 for streamlined creation of mobile device content
- Smart preview environment in Adobe Device Central. Preview and test mobile video created in After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro in a wide range of mobile device skins through regularly updated device profiles.
- Mobile content creation with Adobe Device Central. Create mobile images, logos, rich media, and interactive content created for Flash Lite in Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Flash CS3 Professional.
Support for video created for Flash Player
- Standalone video encoder. Choose from either the high-quality On2 VP6 codec or the Sorenson Spark codec for advanced encoding options when creating FLV files. Use the batch processor to encode multiple video files at once.
- Video encoder plug-in. Export video directly to Adobe Flash CS3 Professional from leading professional post-production applications.
- Embedded cue points. Embed cue points directly into an FLV file to trigger events during playback and coordinate the playback of accompanying graphics and animations.
- Video import workflow. Take advantage of a centralized dialog box that presents options for FLV deployment during video import. The dialog box also instantiates the skinnable video component and prepopulates it with required deployment parameters.
- 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.
- High-quality video codec. Produce video quality that rivals today's best video codecs while maintaining small file size with the advanced video codec in Flash Player, On2 VP6.
- Alpha channel support. Overlay video composited with a transparent or semitransparent alpha channel with other content at runtime. Create unique effects using compositing tools such as those in After Effects and import them into Flash with transparency preserved.
- Advanced video encoder. Easily import video using a new wizard, and improve video quality and appearance with new encoding options such as deinterlacing, advanced cue point control, and new video component skins.
- Advanced QuickTime export. Render content published in a SWF file as a QuickTime video using the advanced QuickTime exporter. Export content that includes nested MovieClips, ActionScript generated content, and runtime effects such as drop shadow and blur.
Pristine, high-quality color
- HDR support. Work with HDR color images in PSD, OpenEXR, and TIFF formats to preserve the full dynamic range of color in Photoshop images and After Effects compositions.
- 16-bit color. Produce work that is film- and HD-ready using the broader range of colors available in the 16-bit color mode supported in Photoshop, After Effects, and Adobe Premiere Pro.
- YUV video color. Use the video-standard 10-bit YUV format in Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Professional color-correction tools in After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Use primary and secondary color-correction tools in After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro to match shots for consistent color balance; correct exposure errors; and modify highlights, midtones, and shadows across clips, sequences, or your entire project.
- New color management in After Effects. Take advantage of an end-to-end color management workflow to help ensure color accuracy throughout your production pipeline.
- Enhanced HDR color support in After Effects and Photoshop. Match the behavior of color and light in the real world with enhanced 32-bit HDR color support in After Effects and Photoshop. Achieve photo-realism by compositing in 32-bit-per-channel floating-point color.
Superior audio
- File export with the Adobe Media Encoder. Use the Adobe Media Encoder to export from Adobe Soundbooth to major video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, RealVideo, FLV, QuickTime, and Windows Media. Resize and crop video during export and automatically transfer files via FTP.
- Support for leading audio formats. Work with the industry's leading audio formats. Open or save to WAV, AIFF, MP3, and WMA formats.
- Support for ASIO, DirectX, and Core Audio. Support for both ASIO and DirectX sound card hardware drivers in Windows enables the use of a wide range of audio hardware for input and output. On Mac systems, support for the Core Audio driver enables the use of hardware devices in Mac OS X.

Royalty-free design assets
- Adobe Encore menu templates. Jump-start DVD menu creation using the many royalty-free templates, motion menus, and other included artwork files.
- Thousands of sound effects and customizable scores. Add flourish to your visuals with thousands of sound effects or use dozens of included Soundbooth Scores, which can be customized to match the mood and length of your video project.
- Timesaving presets and templates in After Effects. After Effects ships with hundreds of customizable animation presets, including presets for animating text, effects, transitions, backgrounds, and behaviors. Use included project templates for DVD motion menus and motion graphics backgrounds.