CS6 Production Premium / Features

Use editing, motion graphics, compositing, ingest, logging, color, audio, and design tools to accelerate production workflows, inspire creativity, and deliver to any screen.

Produce dynamic logos and other sophisticated motion graphics and visual effects using industry-standard After Effects, the animation and compositing software that offers high creative control and unparalleled performance.

Patch images with greater control using Content-Aware Patch. Experience fast performance when working with large files using the new Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine.

Easily extrude ray-traced text and shapes, including vector graphics imported from Illustrator. Place and track elements in 3D space with the new 3D Camera Tracker. Freely mix 3D and 2D layers in a single composition.

Manipulate light and color. Broad format support includes RAW, HDR, and stereoscopic. Apply precise HDR grades to source, or import sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro for more in-depth color grading.

Record, edit, mix, master, and sweeten audio. Roundtrip edit with Adobe Premiere Pro, or use OMF and XML to speed up project exchange with Avid Pro Tools and other NLEs.

Take editing in new creative directions with adjustment layers, expanded multicam editing, and the Three-Way Color Corrector in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

Easily stabilize a bumpy camera move or lock a shot automatically with the Warp Stabilizer in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Remove jitter, rolling shutter artifacts, and other motion-related irregularities.

Create 2D and 3D animations fast with the Adobe Mercury Performance System, a high-performance tracing engine, tighter integration with After Effects, and a customizable user interface.

Handle even the trickiest tracking jobs with the 2D planar tracking tools in mocha for After Effects CS6 from Imagineer Systems Ltd., with tracking masks and variable feather via mocha shape.

Leverage metadata acquired in preproduction with Adobe Story and Prelude to search assets and dialogue during post-production in Adobe Premiere Pro. Create searchable web DVDs in Encore.

Use streamlined video controls in the industry-standard Adobe Flash® Professional workflow to quickly add video content to sophisticated interactive experiences.

Eliminate intermediate rendering during design — whether you're editing clips in Adobe Premiere Pro, changing a composition in After Effects, or refining a project in Encore.

Drag and drop or copy and paste clips and timelines between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Open complete Adobe Premiere Pro projects, including nested sequences, in After Effects.

Save time and preserve edits when working with Adobe Premiere Pro projects in After Effects. Preserve bins, edits, markers, keyframes, nesting, transitions, and more. Make an After Effects composition an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence.

Transfer groups of clips from Adobe Premiere Pro to After Effects using a single command that preserves file organization. Dynamic Link maintains the relationship of each sequence in both applications for easy updates.

Quickly create a new Photoshop file in your Adobe Premiere Pro project. The new file automatically matches the frame size and aspect ratio of an Adobe Premiere Pro project — even in HD — in one click.

Use powerful Photoshop image editing and restoration tools to fix footage. Work with Lens Correction, Healing, and Cloning, and import Photoshop files with video layers directly into the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.

Instantly export still images from Adobe Premiere Pro to edit in Photoshop — great if you need a freeze frame from your video sequence.

Control how Photoshop files look when imported into Adobe Premiere Pro. Preview all layers, choose which individual layers to import, merge them, or bring them in as a sequence to animate.

Apply Photoshop blending modes to clips on the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline, and import them automatically from Photoshop files. Layer transparency from a Photoshop file is imported automatically and plays seamlessly.

Integrate look design and grading with other creative workflows. Send sequences directly to SpeedGrade from Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, or import EDLs from other NLEs.

Send sequences directly from Adobe Premiere Pro to Encore without rendering first. Dynamic Link enables sequences to open "live" in Encore, with any changes made in Adobe Premiere Pro automatically reflected.

Easily set chapters or links in an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence, see those chapters in Encore, and update the list with a single click.

Use Edit Original to modify your original project in Adobe Premiere Pro, and then link the changes back to your DVD project.

Pass individual or multiple clips from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Audition® for precision editing. Remove background noise, retime with accurate pitch shift, and even heal damaged audio with seamless editing.

Send Adobe Premiere Pro sequences with a reference video to Adobe Audition for complete soundtrack creation. You can then return the project to Adobe Premiere Pro for final output.

Accelerate your editing workflow by directly importing Story scripts, complete with metadata like scene and character details, into Adobe Premiere Pro. Simplify clip selection with Speech Search and metadata.

Ingest nearly any file-based format and begin logging immediately, creating searchable markers and other temporal metadata that flow through post-production, so you can work faster and stay organized.

Get a headstart on editing by combining clips and subclips, complete with all related markers and comments. Take advantage of a simple one-click Send to Adobe Premiere Pro option for final editing.

Transcode to your preferred editing format as you ingest, allowing better storage optimization and a consistent workflow.

Scale an Illustrator image in Adobe Premiere Pro, and it is continuously rasterized for pristine image quality.

Save time by exporting media directly from Adobe Premiere Pro to the Adobe Media Encoder queue. Render and transcode media in the background while you continue to work.

Drag and drop sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects directly into Adobe Media Encoder to encode immediately, while you continue to work on projects.

Export metadata to Adobe Media Encoder to preserve essential details about your files and improve searchability on the web.

Import Photoshop layered files into After Effects as compositions. Text remains editable, and layers, layer effects, blending modes, masks, transparency, and color profiles are preserved.

Work with or create high dynamic range imagery with powerful merging tools. Adjust photographic content in 16- and 32-bit color values suitable for use in After Effects.

Create a composition and position the layers in 3D space with Vanishing Point image data in Photoshop for virtual sets as well as storyboards and animatics in After Effects.

Quickly export an After Effects composition as a layered Photoshop file, and utilize powerful image effects and brush technology in Photoshop to repair or enhance layers.

Import Photoshop layer effects into After Effects as a layer property for enhanced shadows, bevels, shading, and other image treatments, which can be animated.

Easily convert Illustrator vectors into shape layers and animate in 2D or extrude to 3D in After Effects.

Copy vectors from Illustrator to use as After Effects masks or motion paths. Illustrator layers and blend modes are preserved, and vector shapes can be continuously rasterized.

View changes made in After Effects immediately in Encore without rendering via Dynamic Link. Update motion menus or create compelling transitions with ease.

Export H.264 and MPEG-2 movies from After Effects with markers that Encore reads as chapters.

Use markers in After Effects to create cue points that can be added to your FLV output. Convert any layer's keyframes to cue points to make it easier to trigger events in Flash based on motion or elements changing over time.

Import SWF files in After Effects as continuously rasterized vectors with alpha channels preserved, so you can scale them without any loss in quality. Use FLV assets as sources as well.

Export composition or layer markers in After Effects as cue points in FLV files. Easily convert keyframe values into markers to apply motion tracking data and other After Effects keyframe values in Flash Professional.

View and organize popular video and audio formats in Adobe Bridge, including Photoshop and Illustrator files and After Effects projects, along with useful presets for text animation and image effects.

Use industry-standard XMP metadata for complex searches based on very specific criteria, without opening a file. Metadata includes automated data from digital image capture and template-based copyright status and keywords.

Customize Bridge to compact mode, or use Thumbnails, Filmstrip, and Details, resizing previews with a simple slider control.

Enjoy direct integration with Adobe Creative Cloud™ and Adobe Touch Apps within core components of Production Premium.*