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First Look: Adobe Production Studio by:  mike

02/06/2006 03:05 PM

PC World by Alan Stafford This new suite contains several updated, powerful applications for processing video and audio. The applications in Adobe's new Production Studio suite will help you create stand-alone video or audio elements or enhance compositions that call on two or more of those applications. Even the best video and audio applications are huge time sinks. But innovations in Adobe's new Production Studio suite make working with multimedia far more efficient than it used to be. Production Studio comes in two versions. The Standard bundle includes Premiere Pro 2, a video editor; After Effects 7, a motion graphics editor; and Photoshop CS2, an image editor. The Premium version adds Encore DVD 2, a disc-authoring tool; Audition 2, a sound editor; and Illustrator CS2, a drawing program. All components except Photoshop and Illustrator receive big updates. Among the most welcome improvements: Premiere Pro 2 adds a nifty multicamera editing mode, in which you just click different windows to make camera cuts; After Effects 7's new graph editor gives you extremely fine control over keyframe editing; Audition 2's new spectral-frequency controls include a Photoshop-like lasso selection tool; and Encore 2's new Flowchart panel gives you a graphical view of your DVD's navigational structure. read more...


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