What's new with Adobe
Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium
Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Production Premium is the high-performance leader in video production software. Produce your best work
more quickly than ever before with game-changing innovations like the blazing fast Adobe Mercury Playback Engine and the new Warp Stabilizer that steadies
shaky video footage with a single click.
Efficient workflow
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Trim and edit with efficiency and precision in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5.5.
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Use widely accepted NLE shortcuts.
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Easily sync separately recorded field audio with your video, thanks to dual-system sound support.
Advanced audio-for-video editing in Adobe Audition
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Record, edit, mix, master, and sweeten audio with Adobe Audition® CS5.5.
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Roundtrip edit with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, or use OMF and XML to speed up project exchange with Avid Pro Tools and other NLEs.
Mercury Playback Engine
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Get amazing performance from the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro both on desktops and laptops.
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Natively 64-bit and optimized for modern CPUs, Mercury delivers astounding performance with or without GPU acceleration.
Warp Stabilizer in After Effects
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Smooth a bumpy camera move, or lock a shot automatically.
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Warp Stabilizer removes jitter and compensates for motion-related irregularities.
Fast, reliable encoding for multiple devices
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Output your work for PCs, smartphones, tablets, and television with Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5.
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Use intuitive presets and contextual menus to set up sequences once for multiple formats.
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Batch encode while you keep editing.
RAW digital cinema
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Gain new workflow flexibility with RAW digital cinema files and other file-based footage.
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Experience faster performance for high-resolution RED footage.
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Enhanced support for RED, Sony XDCAM, Canon XF, and CinemaDNG formats.
Camera Lens Blur and camera property in After Effects
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Create soft-focus effects with Camera Lens Blur.
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Set iris shape, blade curvature, and diffraction fringe characteristics for beautiful bokeh.
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Fantastic depth-of-field control with the After Effects® 3D camera.
Asset intelligence for accelerated post-production
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Locate assets and dialogue quickly in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 with integrated support for metadata from Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service.
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CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Streamlined collaboration
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Collaborate using CS Live online services1,2 including Adobe Story, a collaborative script-development tool; CS Review, an online review service; and Acrobat.com services that simplify sharing project information.
Source timecode support in After Effects
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Take the guesswork out of source footage edits.
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Timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF is read directly in After Effects.
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Timecode effect can display both source timecode and composition frames.
Enhanced creative freedom on the go
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Use mobile devices like the iPad with Adobe Ideas sketching software and a growing number of companion apps as they become available for Photoshop CS5 Extended.

