CS6 Production Premium / Tech specs
System requirements
Windows
- Intel® Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II processor with 64-bit support; Intel Core i7 processor required for Adobe® SpeedGrade™
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1 (64 bit)
- 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
- 10.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
- Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files (10GB recommended)
- 1280x900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680x1050 display required and second professionally calibrated viewing display recommended for SpeedGrade
- OpenGL 2.0–capable system
- 7200 RPM hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, recommended)
- Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft WDM//MME
- DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
- Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6
- QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features
- Dedicated GPU card required for SpeedGrade (for optimal performance in SpeedGrade and for GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Premiere® Pro and After Effects®: NVIDIA Quadro 4000, 5000, or 6000 or other Adobe-certified GPU card with at least 1GB of VRAM recommended); visit www.adobe.com/products/premiere/extend.html for supported cards
- Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for SpeedGrade
- Optional: For SDI output, NVIDIA Quadro SDI Output card required for SpeedGrade
- This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.* Phone activation is not available.
Mac OS
- Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
- Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6.3 or higher; Mac OS X v10.6.3 or higher required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro
- 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
- 20.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
- 1280x900 display (1280x1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
- Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop Extended require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
- 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
- Core Audio–compatible sound card
- DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
- Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6
- QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features
- Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis*
*Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.
Activation
This product must be activated over the Internet prior to use. Visit the Product Activation Center to learn more about activation.
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Language versions
- Deutsch
- English
- Español
- Français
- Italiano
- 日本語*
- 한국어*
* Hybrid version with only some components localized.
