CS5.5 Production Premium / Reviews
Industry reviews
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Icrontic
"Adobe's new 'rental' model that was introduced with CS 5.5 is a game-changer, and may be the perfect solution in certain situations. If you didn't think you could afford to jump in to Creative Suite before, this may be the chance."
Brian Ambrozy, Icrontic, October 9, 2011
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Icrontic
“For now, if you’re an NVIDIA user, by all means Creative Suite 5.5 is the best version of Creative Suite yet. The performance enhancements and new filters and effects that are possible with CUDA acceleration are truly remarkable.”
Brian Ambrozy, Icrontic, October 9, 2011
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Cyber News & Reviews
"I have to say, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is a nifty neat professional video editing program for creating fast and efficient tapeless videos."
Howard Berenbon, Cyber News & Reviews, October 3, 2011
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MacDirectory
"Premiere Pro CS5.5 remains an attractive option for editors needing more power, performance and format flexibility (not to mention backward compatibility) than Final Cut can offer. The interface is familiar enough to get an experienced Final Cut or Avid editor started with the basics and, if you're working with a variety of formats (input our output), there are some differences you'll soon appreciate."
Ric Getter, MacDirectory, July 20, 2011
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EventDV Magazine
"By all of these measures, Premiere Pro is a better choice than FCPX."
Jan Ozer, EventDV, July 19, 2011
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Computer Graphics World
"For video and audio professionals, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium Suite delivers breakthrough performance, workflow improvements, creative innovations, and new audio editing capabilities that build upon the customer momentum Production Premium is experiencing with broadcasters, filmmakers, and video professionals worldwide."
Staff
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POST Magazine
“Additional features such as expanded Red workflows, Adobe media encoder enhancements and integration with Adobe CS make this point release really rock solid."
David Basulto, POST Magazine, June, 2011
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POST Magazine
"Adobe, you had me at keyframing in the timeline.”
David Basulto, POST Magazine, June, 2011
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POST Magazine
"Adobe has pumped steroids into the audio fixing abilities”
David Basulto, POST Magazine, June, 2011
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ProVideo Coalition
"This is the first, start to finish, complete production workflow in a box that has been released to date, and this is something to get really, really excited about."
Kevin McAuliffe, ProVideo Coalition, May 25, 2011
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Studio Daily
“As a mid-cycle release Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 is not supposed to conjure a whole lot of jumping up and down. If I am jumping up and down a little right now it’s only because I can’t help myself. Please try to be understanding.”
Barry Braverman, Studio Daily, May 18, 2011
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Videography
"Once again, Adobe has ratcheted development up a notch and it shows.”
Oliver Peters, Videography, April 19, 2011
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EventDV
"I was absolutely blown away by CS5.5's dramatic and unexpected performance improvements."
Shawn Lam, EventDV, April 10, 2011
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EventDV
“Adobe, with its CS5.5 improvements in speed, postproduction fixes, and real-time creative effects, has done its part to free video editors worldwide from countless hours of isolation from the edit suite.”
Shawn Lam, EventDV, April 10, 2011
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Professional Photographer Magazine
"As video capture assumes a larger role in pro photography, Adobe stays ahead of the curve with Creative Suite 5 Production Premium. "
Professional Photographer Magazine
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TechRevu
"Thanks to Adobe's conversion of Premiere Pro and After Effects to 64-bits and marrying Premiere Pro up to their real time Mercury Playback Engine and CUDA, it's no exaggeration to say the CS5 Production Suite's the best implementation of desktop video we've ever tested. Highly Recommended."
David Em, TechRevu
September 27, 2010 -
HD4PC
"While I don't yet fully utilize many of the new features, CS5 has already revolutionized the way I work."
Mike McCarthy, HD4PC
June 2, 2010 -
Videomaker
"CS5 is among Adobe's most significant upgrades to the Production Premium bundle ever... The bottom line: if you don't already have an earlier version of the suite, take a serious look. If you do, prepare to upgrade."
Brian Peterson, Videomaker
April 13, 2010 -
EventDV
"If you have the computing horsepower, the Mercury Engine and CUDA acceleration deliver the closest that I've seen to the real-time, all-the-time experience we've been hearing about and waiting for since the last century. AVCHD and DSLR producers in particular could see absolutely shocking drops in preview and rendering time."
Jan Ozer, EventDV
April 12, 2010 -
Millimeter
"So CS5 won't overwhelm you with new features, but the performance boost for those editing in or producing to H.264-based formats could truly be startling."
Jan Ozer, Millimeter
April 12, 2010 -
MicroFilmmaker Magazine
"With the price staying the same as it was in CS3, CS4 is an amazing value.... While I always hate giving software packages a perfect ten, this marks the third time in a row that the Adobe Production Premium package has earned this extraordinarily rare score here at MFM. And, just like the past releases, CS4 improves so much beyond the last release that it completely deserves it."
Jeremy Hanke, MicroFilmmaker Magazine
January 1, 2009 -
Renderosity
"If you're a user of the Adobe CS product line, you will absolutely love this release. On the other hand, if you work with media production using any other product line, you'll find a lot of nice features that will make you want to switch to Adobe CS4. There are many compelling features in this release, but if I had to pick a 'killer feature,' I'd pick the completely renderless workflow offered by the Dynamic Link."
Sergio Rosa, Renderosity
February 2, 2009 -
Streaming Media Magazine
"Each and every one of the suite's features and technologies has been improved in CS4, some significantly. With an eye toward accelerating encoding workflows and an initial foray into mission-critical metadata entry and retrieval, the product offers noteworthy improvements that merit attention."
Tim Siglin and Paul Schmutzler, Streaming Media Magazine
January 8, 2009 -
The Seybold Report
"Through a combination of user interface enhancements, new technology, personal workplace configuration, drag and drop interoperability and other under the hood improvements to performance, color management, and metadata, Adobe continues to make the case to designers to look to them first for solutions to delivering content in new ways more productively."
Ron Roszkiewicz, The Seybold Report
October 9, 2008 -
Videomaker
"The Adobe CS4 video-editing suite is a perfect combination of creative tools for the video-editing guru or post-production business. Enhancements to the CS4 Suite bundle include both the impressive 'wow' features and the more practical updates that make video editing much more enjoyable.... All things considered, there is no other production suite on the market that has as many industry-standard applications in one bundle."
Mark Montgomery, Videomaker
December 15, 2008 -
PCMag.com
"It's the combination of innovation, integration, and attention to detail that makes Creative Suite 5 great. Regardless of your field of expertise, and regardless of whether you use Creative Suite 5's apps alone or together, you'll agree that CS5 is an impressive work."
Matthew Murray, PCMag.com
April 12, 2010
Awards
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Videomaker Magazine
Award: Best Products of 2010 Award (Best Editing Suite)
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EventDV
Award: EventDV Winner's Circle 2010: Postproduction category — Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium
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Videography
Award: 2010 NAB Best of Show Vidy Award — Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection
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POST Magazine
Award: Post Picks: Coolest Gear from NAB 2010 — Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection
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DV Magazine
Award: Black Diamond Award — Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Production Premium
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MicroFilmmaker Magazine
Award: Award of Superiority — Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium
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MicroFilmmaker Magazine
Award: 10 out of 10 rating — Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium
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Videomaker Magazine
Award: Best Product of the Year — Best Suite category — Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium
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Videomaker Magazine
Award: Videomaker 2007 Best Products of the Year: Best Video Editing Suite, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
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Government Video Magazine
Award: Government Video Salute Award, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
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Videoguys
Award: Videoguys' Top New Product of 2007, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
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Digital Content Producer
Award: NAB 2007 Pick Hit, Adobe Creative Suite 3
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PC Magazine
Award: Best of the Year 2007: Adobe Creative Suite 3
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Millimeter
Award: NAB 2007 Pick Hit, Adobe Creative Suite 3
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Digital Video Magazine
Award: 2007 DV Black Diamond Award, Adobe Soundbooth® CS3
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Television Broadcast Magazine
Award: 2007 Top Innovation Award, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
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Videography
Award: 2007 Vidy Award, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
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Digital Content Producer
Award: 2006 Vanguard Award
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Videography
Award: 2006 Vidy Award
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Digital Content Producer
Award: 2006 Pick Hit Award
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PC World
Award: 90 out of 100 "Superior" rating
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Digital Video
Award: Award of Excellence
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PC-Review Online
Award: 5.0 out of 5.0 rating
Customer testimonials
"Because a good portion of our work is broadcast and video, we spend a huge amount of time using Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium software, with heavy emphasis on Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop Extended."—Colin Day, creative lead, Digital Kitchen
"Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium has become the staple throughout our creative services area. Unleashing the powerful new features of CS5 is a step our creative storytellers can’t wait to take. We are quickly moving forward with Adobe to enable tapeless workflows, rich in metadata that will enhance content management and delivery to all of our platforms. The power and sophistication of Creative Suite 5 will advance our efforts to be more efficient and competitive in a business that changes daily."—Marty Faubell, vice president of engineering, Hearst Television
"Video is extremely important to the university, as it greatly enhances the classroom experience. New features in Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium software, such as full support for video shot with the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera, allow me to work on studio quality footage at a fraction of the cost."—Matt Gunkel, multimedia specialist, Euphoria
"CS5 Production Premium is a fantastic release. The Adobe Mercury Playback Engine combined with an accelerated NVIDIA CUDA card is magical! Sequences that took several minutes or even hours to render can now be played back instantly. And, because effects are accelerated on output, I can make the final export in much less time as well."—Jarle Leirpoll, independent filmmaker & videographer, Jarle Leirpoll
"I have used everything from Avid and Final Cut Pro to LightWorks and Edit and Fast—and my tool of choice by far is Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium including Adobe Premiere Pro. The integration among Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Encore is a huge time saver—and Adobe solutions are a joy to work with."—Jarle Leirpoll, independent filmmaker & videographer, Jarle Leirpoll
"I would have saved days on my last production if I’d had CS5. My reaction to CS5 Production Premium? In a word: ‘Wow!’"—Jarle Leirpoll, independent filmmaker & videographer, Jarle Leirpoll
"Now that Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is hardware-accelerated using the Mercury Playback Engine, our testing shows that the speed of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is impressive when compared to Final Cut Pro. Because time is money in wedding videography, we are looking at switching to an all Adobe workflow full time once Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium ships."—Alex Tomek, owner, Lumitone
"At Lumitone, we are very excited about Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, especially because of the software responsiveness and speed we obtain now that the Adobe applications deliver native 64-bit support on the Mac."—Alex Tomek, owner, Lumitone
"Editing and producing documentaries involves hundreds or thousands of hours of sifting and searching through footage. The Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium workflow saves me weeks on my documentary project by making all my footage immediately accessible and searchable so I can focus on storytelling, not on clip hunting. With Adobe's script-to-screen workflow, the gap between a script edit and a rough cut is smaller than I ever imagined it could be."—David Harris, producer and editor, MTV New Media
"Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium is charting the future of post-production.For the Beijing Olympics, shot on Panasonic P2s, the turnaround times for daily content were so tight that we couldn’t have done it without tapeless workflows and CS3 Production Premium. Now, CS5 provides noticeable performance enhancements, including the ability to cut DSLR footage with dramatic ease and speed. Adobe has effectively streamlined the workflow to the point that from shooting to cutting is one step — it cuts production time 50 to 60%."—Evan Butson, managing director, TDE Post
"When I started with 50 Kaliber, they were a Final Cut Pro house.They now use Creative Suite Production Premium for a lot more work because of support for metadata and features like Dynamic Link."—Evan Butson, managing director, TDE Post
"I remember at one point I was working with the Media 100 HD at my day job, but the funny irony was that it wouldn’t cut HD. Media 100 wasn’t keeping up with the Joneses. Today, Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium is the Joneses — and nobody else is keeping up."—Tim Walton, filmmaker, White Rabbit Productions
