This upgrade version of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium will install only if you are a licensed user of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, Design Premium, Design Standard, Master Collection, Web Premium, or Web Standard; Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium or Standard; Macromedia Studio 8; Adobe Production Studio Premium or Standard v.1; Adobe Video Bundle (Adobe Production Studio Premium and Macromedia Flash Professional 8); Adobe Design Bundle (Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium and Macromedia Flash Professional 8); Adobe Web Bundle (Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium and Macromedia Studio 8).

Conquer today's deadlines and tomorrow's challenges with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium software, the ultimate video production toolkit. Craft video productions, motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive experiences with high-performance, industry-leading creative tools. Boost your productivity with tightly integrated components that deliver breakthrough performance and smooth production workflows, giving you the power to produce engaging media for virtually any screen.

A quantum leap in productivity.

• Work faster -- Accelerate workflows from scriptwriting through post-production with high-performance production tools.
• Craft great stories -- Express your creativity and produce engaging experiences with tools that streamline planning and production workflows, and deliver video to virtually any screen.
• Collaborate efficiently -- Integrate Production Premium easily with existing workflows, and collaborate more efficiently by taking advantage of integration with new Adobe CS Live online services.

What's inside Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium:

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 -- Accelerate production with the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine
• Adobe After Effects CS5 -- Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard
• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended -- Create powerful images with the professional standard
• Adobe Illustrator CS5 -- Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
• Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 -- Create expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code
• Adobe Flash Professional CS5 -- Create and deliver rich interactive content
• Adobe Soundbooth CS5 -- Create and edit audio with ease
• Adobe OnLocation CS5 -- Efficient production and tapeless camera support
• Adobe Encore CS5 -- Versatile, interactive authoring tool for video distribution
• Adobe Bridge CS5 -- Powerful media manager
• Adobe Device Central CS5 -- Design, preview, and test engaging mobile content
• Adobe Dynamic Link -- Video rendering

FEATURES
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium software ups the ante with industry-leading, breakthrough performance. Accelerate video editing and production with 64-bit optimizations and expanded tapeless support, and rotoscope in a fraction of the time. Packed with hundreds of new features, CS5 Production Premium supercharges your productivity.

For video editors
Work more efficiently when tackling a broad spectrum of video planning, production, and post-production tasks. CS5 Production Premium offers a familiar user interface across components, which work almost seamlessly together thanks to timesaving integration, roundtrip editing, and Adobe Dynamic Link, which eliminates intermediate rendering as you refine assets between Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and other components.

• Industry-leading performance with the new Mercury Playback Engine
  Work dramatically faster thanks to the native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine that provides rock-solid performance and stability, even at 4K resolution and beyond.
• Faster Dynamic Link
  Refine compositions and sequences by jumping between After Effects CS5 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 using faster performance in Dynamic Link. New memory settings make running multiple Production Premium components more efficient.
• Richer, more compelling 2D and 3D images
  Make 3D artwork by extruding an object such as a text layer in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Create expressive digital paintings, blending colors with lifelike, textured brush strokes. Intelligently replace unwanted objects with surrounding textures or colors with Content-Aware Fill.
• Roundtrip editing with other NLEs
  Tap the full power of Production Premium -- even if you favor Final Cut Pro or Avid NLEs. Move projects easily back and forth between these editors and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
• Dozens of timesaving improvements
  Boost productivity with workflow features and enhancements suggested by users like you in Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop Extended, and After Effects.
• Flash Professional for interactive video projects
  Streamline video processes with on-stage video scrubbing and a new cue points property inspector in Adobe Flash Professional.
• Enhanced Adobe Media Encoder
  Produce content in virtually any format, including DPX, FLV, F4V, H.264, MPEG-2, QT, WM, and more.
• Intuitive perspective drawing
  Automatically generate perspective grids for 1-, 2- or 3-point linear perspectives in Adobe Illustrator CS5, complete with controls for horizon lines and vanishing points. Artwork automatically draws in the visual dimensions set by the Perspective Grid.
• Native 64-bit support in After Effects
  Work more easily with complex high-resolution projects and see longer RAM previews thanks to native 64-bit operating system support in After Effects. Enhanced disk caching allows you to spend less time waiting and more time creating.
• Expanded tapeless support
  Edit tapeless and DSLR media formats natively using the industry-leading tapeless workflow in Adobe Premiere Pro. You never waste valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping, and you always have access to the original file's pristine quality.
• Roto Brush
  Isolate moving foreground elements from their backgrounds in fewer steps using the Roto Brush in After Effects, automatically creating transparency around foreground elements.
• Script-to-screen workflow
  Speed up production and post-production with the collaborative scriptwriting tool Adobe Story, a new Adobe CS Live online service. Integrated metadata support in Adobe Story makes it easy to create shot lists in Adobe OnLocation CS5 and rough cuts in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
• Easy online video portfolios
  Create video portfolio websites and interfaces without writing code in new Adobe Flash Catalyst. Integrate video, sound effects, and dynamic media as easily as working with static artwork, and then add interactions to control their playback.
• Fast, accurate keying with Ultra keyer
  Experience breakthrough performance and achieve fast, accurate chroma keying -- even on challenging HD footage -- with the Ultra keyer in Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Integration with CS Live online services
  Initiate reviews and collect client feedback on dailies, storyboards, and edited works in progress with Adobe CS Review and Acrobat.com -- both part of CS Live online services.
• Faster multitrack audio in Soundbooth
  Enjoy numerous enhancements to multitrack editing in Adobe Soundbooth CS5, and access more than 10,000 sound effects and more than 130 Soundbooth Scores for no charge.

For motion graphics/visual effects artists
Create high-impact, visually expressive motion graphics and visual effects more fluidly than ever with CS5 Production Premium. Native 64-bit support makes working on high-resolution projects easier, and new features like 3D extrusions in Adobe Photoshop Extended and perspective drawing in Adobe Illustrator expand your creative options. Plus, Adobe Premiere Pro, featuring the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, is the perfect partner for Adobe After Effects.

• Native 64-bit OS support
  Use all of your system's RAM to work fluidly on high-resolution projects in After Effects -- even at 32-bit-per-channel color inside HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. View a list of 64-bit third-party plug-ins.
• Roto Brush
  Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds with this revolutionary tool in a fraction of the time required by other methods in After Effects CS5.
• Expanded tapeless support
  Edit video natively in the latest tapeless formats, including R3D, AVCCAM, XDCAM HD 50, DPX, P2, XDCAM, and DSLR camera formats without transcoding or rewrapping. Take advantage of improved support for RED R3D formats, and gain additional controls for working with raw footage in After Effects.
• Faster Dynamic Link
  Refine compositions and sequences by jumping between After Effects CS5 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 using faster performance in Adobe Dynamic Link. New memory settings make running multiple Production Premium components more efficient.
• Intuitive perspective drawing
  Automatically generate perspective grids for 1-, 2- or 3-point linear perspectives in Adobe Illustrator CS5, complete with controls for horizon lines and vanishing points. Artwork automatically draws in the visual dimensions set by the Perspective Grid.
• Interactive video portfolios
  Use Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 to create expressive interactive content without writing code. Design layouts using Illustrator or Photoshop Extended, and then bring layered media from those components into Flash Catalyst to add interactions, video, and sound using its approachable user interface.
• Industry-leading performance with the new Mercury Playback Engine
  Edit faster in Adobe Premiere Pro thanks to the native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine that provides rock-solid performance and stability, even at 4K resolution.
• Richer, more compelling 2D and 3D images
  Make 3D artwork by extruding an object such as a text layer in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Create expressive digital paintings, blending colors with lifelike, textured brush strokes.
• Small changes that make a big difference
  Benefit from dozens of user-requested refinements that yield big productivity gains -- such as the ability to align layers to comps in After Effects; automatic scene detection to create separate clips from HDV tapes and the ability to import assets from DVDs in Adobe Premiere Pro; and the ability to straighten images automatically in Photoshop Extended.
• Roundtrip editing between Adobe Premiere Pro and other NLEs
  Integrate Production Premium into your workflow, no matter which NLE you prefer. Move projects easily back and forth between Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Final Cut Pro or Avid editing software, and benefit from timesaving integration between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• Integration with CS Live online services
  Initiate reviews and collect client feedback on dailies, storyboards, and edited works in progress with Adobe CS Review and Acrobat.com -- both part of Adobe CS Live online services. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.