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CS5 is among Adobe’s most significant upgrades to the Production Premium bundle ever. Continue reading »

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Adobe’s has released Creative Suite 5, which was announced to much fanfare a few weeks ago. Most of the tools — from Photoshop to After Effects — are available seperately, and it’s available in a selection of bundles from the £1,032 plus VAT Adobe CS5 Design Standard with the key art-creation tools to the £2,309 everything-but-the-kitchen-sink CS5 Master Collection.

We’ll be posting reviews of the final software soon, but here’s out guide to what you’ll find in Creative Suite based on some quality time spent with the betas — including step-by-step guides to the main applications. It’s expected to be on the shelves by the end of May, featuring revamped versions of its leading arts, design, video and animation tools – plus two new web-design applications, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder.

The suite features new tools to improve your art (such as Photoshop CS5’s new 3D extrusion tool Repoussé, right), and mundane but useful productivity aids (such as InDesign’s Gap tool) that make using the suite that bit smoother.

Behind the scenes are some seriously ramped-up components – such as 64-bit After Effects and Premiere Pro to make animating and editing faster than ever – and at last a 64-bit Photoshop for Mac (Windows went 64-bit with CS4). In today’s time-sensitive workflows that means more than any amount of whizzy features. read more…

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Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product features, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools and workflow enhancements to designers and developers — enabling the creation, delivery and optimization of content across media for greater impact and results. Continue reading »

Animotion Blog

Adobe has succesfully generated a hype leading up to the launch of Creative Suite 5. Through various sites fragments were’leaked’. This created the so called buzz that was picked up and redistributed by the social networks.
Exciting and fun for marketing research, but what is do we at Animotion think of CS5? Is it worth to upgrade? And if so, when? At several locations, the new options for After Effects and Premiere Pro get coverage. We’ve tried put pros and cons of upgrading in perspective:

Companies that rely heavily on compositing and motion graphics or working with RED and HD sources, more than likely already meet the system requirements and can easily upgrade. The mere fact that After Effects can use more memory or the GPU acceleration in Premiere will be reason enough for this group.

For companies that do more generally video work and for schools and training-institutes this upgrade will prove problematic. The new system requirements make it an costly story. For small business owners it is the same, replacing a working system that provides the bread and butter, often takes more than just the OS upgrade and adding some memory banks. However, if you where considering replacement or if you still work with CS3 or earlier, then CS5 a good opportunity to upgrade all.

Benefits
64bit: In a 32bit program, the maximum memory (RAM) that can be used is 3 GB. Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects CS5 are 64bit programs and can use all of the memory in your computer. This makes the program more stable and faster, especially with complex projects.

Rewritten: Because the software had to be rewritten for the 64bit platform, programmers have used the opportunity to clean up the code. This has optimized many things. C55 is therefore faster than CS4, even on a laptop with ‘only’ 2 GB of RAM. read more…