CS6 Production Premium / Buying guide
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| Adobe Premiere® Pro | |||||
| Refined user interface for even smoother workflows |
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| Highly fluid editing with fast, keyboard-driven workflows |
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| Uninterrupted playback |
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| GPU-accelerated Warp Stabilizer |
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| Expanded multicam editing |
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| Adjustment layers |
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| Adobe Mercury Playback Engine support for NVIDIA® CUDA™ enabled laptops |
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| Roundtrip editing with Adobe Audition |
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| Native 64-bit support |
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| Adobe Mercury Playback Engine |
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| Script-to-edit workflow |
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| Dynamic Link between Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro |
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| Native editing of file-based formats |
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| End-to-end metadata workflow |
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| Time remapping |
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| Adobe After Effects® | |||||
| Global Performance Cache |
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| 3D camera tracker |
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| Extruded text and shapes |
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| Rolling shutter correction |
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| Warp Stabilizer |
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| Camera Lens Blur |
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| Stereoscopic 3D workflow improvements |
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| Native 64-bit support |
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| Roto Brush tool |
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| New mocha for After Effects from Imagineer Systems Ltd. |
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| Quick Search |
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| Independent x, y, and z keyframing |
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| Puppet tool |
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| Brainstorm |
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| Adobe Photoshop® Extended | |||||
| Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move |
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| Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine |
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| Content-Aware Fill |
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| Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips |
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| Content-Aware Scale |
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| Smoother rotation, panning, and zooming |
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| Adobe Audition® | |||||
| Clip grouping |
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| Automatic speech alignment |
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| Native Mac OS support |
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| Native multichannel support (5.1 surround) |
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| Roundtrip workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro |
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| Real-time clip stretching |
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| Advanced pitch and speed controls |
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| CD burning (also in Adobe Audition 3) |
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| Adobe SpeedGrade™ | |||||
| Lumetri™ Deep Color Engine |
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| Powerful, layer-based grading |
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| Real-time performance |
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| Unlimited primary and secondary corrections |
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| Streamlined user experience |
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| Adobe Prelude™ | |||||
| Easy, time-efficient full and partial ingest and tagging of footage |
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| Footage transcoding and tagging upon ingest |
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| Searchable marker-based metadata |
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| Keyboard-driven logging |
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| Easy rough-cut assembly |
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| Adobe Illustrator® | |||||
| Adobe Mercury Performance System |
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| Faster tracing engine |
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| Customizable user interface |
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| Perspective drawing |
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| Enhanced multiple artboards |
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| Bristle Brush |
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| Blob Brush |
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| Exposed gradients |
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| Adobe Encore® | |||||
| 64-bit support |
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| Faster MPEG import with asynchronous processing |
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| Searchable web DVDs |
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| Multipage Blu-ray menus |
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| Roundtripping with Photoshop |
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| Publishing of DVD projects to the web |
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| Industry-leading Blu-ray authoring |
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| Dynamic Link between After Effects and Encore and Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore |
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| Adobe Media Encoder | |||||
| Preset browser |
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| Fast, reliable multiscreen delivery |
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| 64-bit support |
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| Background encoding |
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| Adobe Flash® Professional | |||||
| HTML5 support |
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| Sprite sheet generation |
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| Multitarget project setup, shared assets, and libraries |
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| Content scaling |
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| XML-based FLA source files |
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| Text engine |
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| Object-based animation |
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