Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium Reviewed (Verdict: Kicks Final Cut Ass)

We ’ve been get wind about it for months , and now Adobe has lastly put the complete touches on its Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software , shipping a package that video recording editors , movie maker , broadcasters and DVD author are get to make out . The party is also offer what it calls the Creative Suite 3 Master Collection , which couch together a dozen software packages into one huge and expensive boxful . We ’ve used and extensively try all this new stuff , and are here to recite you that this software package kicks major atomic number 33 .

The $ 1699 Creative Suite 3 Production Premium package include a video recording compositing app called After Effects CS3 that ’s the darling of special personal effects creative person put to work on anything from industrial video all the path up to the highest - end celluloid project , and Premiere Pro CS , an already excellent video editing covering that finally returns to the Mac weapons platform after a four - yr foramen . We ’ve used and tested this Mac app extensively , and can vouch for its unparalleled index and singular interoperability with all the other Adobe applications . Yes , this one is out to badly give Apple Final Cut Pro a challenging run for its money . The integration between Premiere Pro , After Effects , and all the other Adobe apps is unprecedented . Should be an interesting battle between the two giant , Adobe and Apple .

Also include in the Production Premium package are Encore CS3 , which is a much - meliorate videodisk authoring app ; Photoshop CS3 Extended , adding alone video and motion-picture show skeleton - redaction feature that editor will like ; Illustrator CS3 , a vector - based drawing program , Flash CS3 Professional , just work over from Adobe ’s purchase of Macromedia and with a bit of consolidation with the other Adobe apps added into the workflow , and then there ’s Adobe Soundbooth CS3 , an excellent sound covering that ’s delightfully easy to use and contains just the features that TV editor take . We ’ve spent a good deal of time with the above apps running on both OS X and XP , and unusually , they all have precisely the same feature article and user interface on both the Mac and PC platforms .

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Also included in the Production Premium bundle is Adobe On Location CS3 , which let you commemorate video direct to disc and gives you lots of monitoring features that look like a rack of video instruments in a broadcast studio . In fact , the software system was formerly call off DV Rack , rise by an awesome company called Serious Magic that was recently acquired by Adobe . Another Serious Magic coating in the package is Adobe Ultra CS3 , a sophisticated chromakey package that we ’ve essay and to which we give a big thumbs - up . Both of these applications are n’t Mac - centric yet , but you could run them on a Mac if you get a copy of Boot Camp . Adobe says it ’s work on the Mac versions of these two apps as you record this .

Designers who also are into World Wide Web authoring may be concerned in the Creative Suite 3 Master Collection , Adobe ’s full - gravy holder product that contains just about every while of software package the company sells , but you have to expend $ 2499 for the prerogative of owning this Brobdingnagian barrel o ’ playfulness . Here ’s the farsighted list of apps that are useable in that boxful : Adobe InDesign CS3 , Photoshop CS3 Extended , Illustrator CS3 , Flash CS3 Professional , Dreamweaver CS3 , Fireworks CS3 , Contribute CS3 , After Effects CS3 Professional , Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 , Soundbooth CS3 , and Encore CS3 , as well as Acrobat 8 Professional software package . Good gawd , who would ever know how to use all that poppycock ?

Adobe severalise us this CS3 rev up is the most gigantic and monumental software acquittance in its history . We would be given to agree .

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