The annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention kicks off in Las Vegas on April 16, but Adobe has already announced what will surely be one of the hottest items for video professionals in attendance: CS6 Production Premium.
Adobe is getting a jump start on the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event at the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 16-19 by announcing CS6 Production Premium (PDF), its newest bundle for video pros which will be previewed at the convention.
Adobe CS6 Production Premium includes major updates for the company’s flagship video editing software, Premiere Pro, as well as the industry standard for video compositing and special effects, After Effects. 2012 NAB attendees can get a peek at these forthcoming releases at booth #SL2624, but CS6 Production Premium will also be on display in more than 60 other partner booths throughout the show floor.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 features a slick new user interface with trimming and OpenCL support in a new turbo-charged Mercury Playback Engine, while After Effects CS6 is touted as “the biggest release in a decade, with huge performance gains and powerful 3D features.”
Creative Suite 6 Production Premium also introduces two new tools: Adobe Speed Grade CS6 for professional color grading of video content, and Adobe Prelude CS6, billed as “an elegant solution for the process of ingest, logging and transcoding, essential tasks in a modern file-based workflow.”
The CS6 Production Premium bundle will also feature Adobe Audition (for pro audio editing), Adobe Story (for planning and scriptwriting), Adobe Media Encoder (for file conversion and encoding), Adobe Illustrator (for vector-based graphics), Encore (for DVD and Blu-ray authoring), Flash Professional (for web animation), Adobe’s powerful Bridge for file organization and Adobe Photoshop, which is already available for download as a public beta.
Adobe isn’t saying exactly when we can expect to get our hands on these shiny new toys other than “the first half of 2012,” but CS6 Production Premium will also be part of the company’s larger Adobe Creative Cloud, a subscription-based service which bundles almost all of the company’s creative software for one low monthly fee.
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driverajr
April 16, 2012 at 8:10am
Yeah, lets see...from the usual 'trend' these companies LOVE to boast about 'instant' and 'automatic' features which aren't particularly better than manual processes...if we automate things anymore, we will dissolve the human ability to think on our own...earn on our own...heck we may as well be seeing the prelude processes of our future 'droid' selves.
