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Enjoy a fluid, efficient workflow with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium

Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium software offers exceptional productivity in the form of a highly integrated toolset to take you from storyboarding and acquisition through production and delivery. The innovative Adobe Dynamic Link allows you to move smoothly between select software components, eliminating intermediate rendering so you can work quickly and stay focused. Along with native Adobe Photoshop® file support across components and a range of other integration features, Production Premium offers a smooth workflow and maximum productivity through each stage of production and post-production:

No more intermediate rendering thanks to Adobe Dynamic Link

Enjoy greater freedom to experiment with new ideas without having to wait for intermediate rendering. Exclusively available in Production Premium, Adobe Dynamic Link allows you to edit a composition in After Effects and view your updates instantly in Adobe Premiere® Pro and Adobe Encore®.

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 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.

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New Photoshop integration with After Effects

Work effectively with Photoshop layers in After Effects, preserving Layer Styles on import, and build 3D compositions in After Effects from 2D Photoshop files.

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's possible in Photoshop.

3D compositions from Vanishing Point

Import Vanishing Point data from Photoshop CS3 Extended into After Effects to automatically build a 3D composition from the 2D Photoshop image.

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Enhanced integration between Photoshop and Flash

Move efficiently between Photoshop and Flash CS3 Professional. Import individual Photoshop layers into Flash, export from Photoshop to SWF with a new interface that matches the one in Flash, and enjoy flexible options for importing Photoshop text.

Photoshop layer selection on import to Flash

Select individual Photoshop layers on import to Flash, 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, as 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.

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Easy animation exchange between After Effects and Flash

Enjoy unprecedented integration between After Effects and Flash. Export layered vector animations to Flash, convert After Effects timeline markers to cue points in Flash, and batch render FLV files in After Effects.

SWF files imported 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 markers converted to cue points

Use markers to create cue points in Flash 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.

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Timesaving integration between Flash and Illustrator

Copy and paste or drag and drop illustrations from Illustrator into Flash, preserving full fidelity. Import individual Illustrator layers. Export from Illustrator to SWF with a new interface that matches the one in Flash.

Illustrator file import 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.

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Extended integration for exceptional productivity

Tighter-than-ever integration between Photoshop and After Effects and between After Effects, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore, Soundbooth™, and Flash streamlines your workflow, making it easier than ever to move projects and files between software components and work with a common interface. In addition, Adobe Bridge CS3 offers new file type support and metadata previews.

Video 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, 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 Photoshop layers. Edit still images from Adobe Premiere Pro with Photoshop. Automatically create Photoshop files to match a project's frame size and aspect ratio.

Native Photoshop file support in Encore

Create DVD menus in native Photoshop file format, with complete support for layers, styles, blend modes, adjustment layers, clipping paths, text editing, and masks.

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 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 navigation design for your DVD menus, and to help assure 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 or After Effects 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.

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