Create
visually rich content for virtually any media--print, web, interactive,
video, audio, and mobile--using the tightly integrated tools and
services in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection software. From
producing printed pages to distributing engaging content online, on
film, on air, and on device, you get the ultimate design environment to
keep pace with your imagination.
Design across media
Ultimate creative toolset
Design across media using a comprehensive, integrated creative
environment. Work deeply in one discipline, such as print, web, video,
or audio, and then move your skills and content to another medium
efficiently. For example, export rich interactive documents from Adobe
InDesign as SWF or PDF files or as XFL files that you can open and edit
in Adobe Flash. Or, import live Adobe After Effects compositions into
Adobe Flash to add interactivity.
Industry-leading graphic design tools
Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS4, produce
powerful digital images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, and lay out
visually rich long and short documents for print and digital delivery
in InDesign. Showcase design work in dynamic, customizable PDF
Portfolios, and prepare PDF files for high-end printed output.
Efficient creation of websites, applications, and digital experiences
Prototype and create leading-edge digital experiences, including
interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, and
mobile device content, using Adobe Fireworks CS4, Dreamweaver CS4,
Flash, and many other tools in Master Collection. Exchange creative
content between designers and developers without rework.
A complete pre- and post-production toolset
Work with a highly efficient pre- and post-production toolset to do
video and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects, and
interactive media design, and then deliver for film, broadcast, and DVD
as well as Blu-ray Disc and mobile authoring.
New dimensions in image editing
Use the indispensable tools in Photoshop Extended more efficiently: Pan
and zoom on images more smoothly and rapidly, rotate your canvas to any
angle, and resize images without distortion or pixelation using
revolutionary new Content-Aware Scaling. Paint, composite, and animate
3D models using familiar tools.
Rich animation
Produce animations for virtually any screen with the utmost control in
After Effects, or create rich interactive animations with new
easy-to-use, object-based controls in Flash.
Cutting-edge web technologies and industry standards
Prototype in Fireworks and build standards-based websites and
applications in Dreamweaver, whether you're working with client-side
HTML/XHTML, CSS, and XML; server-side application languages like Adobe
ColdFusion, ASP, and PHP; or advanced JavaScript and Ajax. Get
consistent cross-browser-compatible results with virtually any
development platform. Project intelligence with XMP metadata
Track, manage, automate, and extract more value from your design and
video assets by embedding XMP metadata as you create your projects. For
example, use new Speech Search technology in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and
Soundbooth CS4 to turn spoken dialogue into metadata, making it easy to
find particular clips as you edit and your video assets searchable when
posted online.
Collaboration with clients and colleagues
Access the Adobe ConnectNow service to review creative ideas online in
real time with colleagues or clients. Find answers to technical
questions with Adobe Community Help. Share color harmonies online with
Adobe Kuler. Access improved Resource Central to find new assets, and
quickly find news and inspiration in Bridge Home.
Mobile designs for millions
Deliver compelling content to mobile subscribers worldwide. Use Adobe
Device Central CS4 to create, preview, and test mobile content easily
on an extensive selection of devices under simulated real-life
conditions directly from your desktop.
Combines:
- Adobe InDesign CS4
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
- Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
- Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
- Adobe Fireworks CS4
- Adobe Contribute CS4
- Adobe After Effects CS4
- Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
- Adobe Soundbooth CS4
- Adobe OnLocation CS4
- Adobe Encore CS4
Adobe InDesign CS4--Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing
Publish persuasive content
Create high-impact, personalized content and long documents tailored for unique audiences in less time and with fewer steps.
Experience fluid workflows
Design with ease using customer-inspired enhancements to your everyday toolset and a more flexible layout environment.
Create rich interactive documents
Create dynamic documents for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime
as well as engaging PDF content that both include professional
typography and top-quality page design.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended--Discover new dimensions in digital imaging
Easily access full editing power
Take greater advantage of all that Adobe Photoshop Extended software
offers with a more intuitive user interface and nondestructive editing
freedom so you can achieve the highest quality results.
Work more efficiently
Be more productive by taking advantage of smooth integration with other
Adobe software and enhancements that leverage the power of today's
faster graphics processors.
Edit 3D and motion-based content
Enjoy breakthrough enhancements that now let you paint directly on 3D
objects and unleash the editing power of Photoshop software on 3D
content. Plus, edit motion graphics for video with enhanced control for
speed and precision.
Perform advanced image analysis
Extract quantitative information from images, count objects or image
features, track and log your work, and volume-render DICOM files.
Adobe Illustrator CS4--Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
Explore new features
Powerful additions such as the Blob Brush tool and transparency in
gradients inspire new creativity. The highly anticipated multiple
artboards feature prompts new ways of working.
Discover hidden gems
Existing features have been polished, and hidden functions have been
uncovered to reveal usefulness and depth, enabling you to learn more
quickly and take better advantage of the power of Illustrator.
Work efficiently
Illustrator CS4 offers improved interaction with options and tools,
plus you can do more directly on the artboard. Innovations with Smart
Guides and Isolation Mode plus new panel behaviors enable a smoother,
more efficient workflow.
Deliver almost anywhere
Print delivery is more reliable with Separations Preview. And with new
user interface similarity and shared formats among Adobe Creative Suite
tools, work across applications is virtually seamless.
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro--Protect documents and accelerate information exchange with PDF
Deliver professional documents
Easily organize content from a variety of sources--including documents,
e-mail, images, spreadsheets, and web pages--in a single searchable PDF
Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Use professionally
designed templates that can be branded with your company logo and
colors. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to
communicate clearly and effectively. Share information with anyone
using free Adobe Reader software.
Create and manage forms
Simplify the creation and completion of forms to efficiently analyze
and use data. Convert Word and Excel documents or scanned paper to PDF
forms with automatic recognition of fillable fields. Or use Adobe
LiveCycle Designer ES software, a professional form design tool
included with Acrobat 9 Pro software, to further customize and automate
dynamic XML forms. Extend Acrobat functionality to Reader users so
virtually anyone can participate in the workflows you initiate. Use the
Form Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has
completed them. And easily export data to a spreadsheet for analysis
and reporting.
Manage document reviews
Accelerate the exchange of ideas with colleagues, extended teams, and
customers. Through easy-to-manage electronic document reviews,
participants can see and build on other reviewers' comments as they are
being made, so you can quickly gain the input and consensus you need to
efficiently develop and complete work. Enable virtually anyone using
free Adobe Reader software to participate in reviews, and use the Form
Tracker to monitor progress and participation.
Help protect sensitive information
Control access to and use of PDF documents, assign digital rights, and
maintain document integrity. Set document permissions to define whether
a file can be printed or changed. Apply passwords to help restrict
document access. Use redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive
information. Digitally sign and certify documents to validate they came
from a trusted source. Create and reuse document security policies to
precisely manage who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.
Flash CS4 Professional--Create and deliver rich interactive content
Design with ease and efficiency
Quickly create and modify animations while retaining a great degree of
control. Powerful new object-based animation, Bezier controls, and
motion presets make working in Flash easier and more intuitive.
Explore new creative possibilities
Express your creative vision in innovative ways with exciting new
design tools. Animate 2D objects through 3D space with 3D translation
and rotation. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like effects or
distort shapes. Add the expressive power of patterns to your designs
with the Deco tool.
Collaborate across workflows
Collaborate smoothly across designer and developer workflows. Easily
import content into Flash from Adobe InDesign and After Effects
software using the XFL format. Enjoy common user interface elements and
tools across the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family.
Deliver for a wide reach
Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms
and devices. The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and
delivery to the Adobe AIR runtime, are right at your fingertips.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4--Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications
Create next-generation web experiences
Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and
dynamic content directly in Dreamweaver. Quickly integrate third-party
web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your
pages.
Learn best practices
Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free
explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity
while supporting best practices.
Take control of your content
Design your pages in Dreamweaver so your clients can make updates to
their web pages directly from the browser using the Adobe InContext
Editing online service. Add dynamic data to your site without a
database or complex coding.
Adobe Fireworks CS4--Rapidly prototype and design for the web
Take prototyping to the next level
Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other
interactive designs with Fireworks CS4 software. Create, edit, and
optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with
an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or
e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and
the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
Collaborate more smoothly
Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks
CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such
as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Adobe Creative
Suite 4 components, including Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator
CS4.
Design once, deploy to many platforms
Output your Fireworks designs to HTML, Adobe AIR, Flash, or Flex
software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior
design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're
ready, export web standards-compliant CSS to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
software. Create HTML-based Adobe AIR prototypes directly from within
Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction
before developing your application.
Adobe Contribute CS4--Simplify web content management
Delegate work while retaining control
Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising the
integrity of your websites. Define and enforce custom publishing
workflows to meet your organization's review and approval requirements
for published content.
Engage users
Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to static and
dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring. Give users the choice
of editing websites directly from their favorite browsers or composing
and publishing web content from within Microsoft Office applications.
Enable easy collaboration between users in the content publishing
process.
Work with a compatible, affordable tool
Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks to
compatibility with existing web and IT infrastructures and
cross-platform interoperability. Contribute CS4 is affordable and works
on Intel and PowerPC based Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows
Vista systems.
Adobe After Effects CS4--Create motion graphics and visual effects with the industry standard
Innovate visually
Enjoy creative control over virtually every element in a highly
responsive 2D and 3D compositing and animation environment. With After
Effects CS4, you can create virtually whatever you envision.
Work with efficient tools
Easily handle a wide range of post-production tasks--from keying and
motion tracking to color correction, rotoscoping, and more--using
flexible tools in a user interface optimized to help save you time.
Deliver to virtually any screen
Easily create output for delivery to a wide range of media formats and
platforms--from traditional film and video to the web and mobile
devices--from a single project.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4--Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device
Discover new post-production workflows
Work with the formats you want, from DV and HD to 4K and beyond.
Support for industry standards enables you to interchange more easily
with other industry-standard tools. Powerful new metadata management
features help you deliver video content to virtually any screen.
Work with efficient post-production tools
Edit faster with a broad selection of professional editing tools and
tighter-than-ever integration with other Adobe software. Maintain
pristine quality across the production process with an efficient
tapeless workflow, find specific areas of your content faster with the
innovative Speech Search feature, and stay focused on your work with
background batch encoding.
Achieve creative excellence
Maximize your creative options with powerful enhancements that help you
bring new dimensions to your work. Achieve your vision with
professional color correction, quick and precise multicam editing, and
much more--all from within a familiar, customizable interface. Tap into
a wealth of tutorials, stock footage, visual effects, and more to
elevate your production quality, and connect to the creative community
to share ideas. From acquisition to delivery, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
offers tools that help you deliver excellent results.
Adobe Soundbooth CS4--Create and edit audio with ease
Rapidly enhance and edit audio
Take command of the audio in creative projects with task-based tools
that help you create, clean up, and polish sound. Multitrack support
and automatic volume matching give you more flexibility and control.
Visually remove unwanted noises with the editing tools available in
Spectral view.
Work with ready-to-use audio assets
Personalize your soundtracks with the enhanced Soundbooth Score editing
workflow. Download Soundbooth Scores from Resource Central, and use new
multitrack support to customize, combine, or layer multiple scores. Add
effects to adjust the mood, or stretch or shorten the file to alter
duration.
Use intuitive, task-based tools
Tackle everyday audio editing and cleanup with the power of
nondestructive editing in the new Adobe Sound Document (ASND) format.
Quickly and easily heal sound, match volume levels, create sound
effects, and choose from a library of high-quality audio filters and
streamlined mastering tools.
Enjoy tighter integration
Eliminate the need for intermediate rendering and streamline the
process of editing audio in Soundbooth while working in various Adobe
Creative Suite components with features such as new nondestructive
roundtrip editing and Adobe Dynamic Link.
Adobe OnLocation CS4 for shooting direct to disk and monitoring footage
Adobe
OnLocationCS4 is powerful cross-platform (Windows and Intel-based
Macs), direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software that helps you
shoot better and faster. The completely redesigned interface puts
control of all functions on a single screen and features the familiar
look and feel of other Adobe creative applications. Use the
professional on-set monitoring tools to calibrate your camera, set
levels, and monitor signals to obtain the best quality video and audio
and avoid time-consuming and potentially costly problems.
Shooting
and capturing video directly to disk lets you record a two-hour event
as a single clip or shoot as many takes of a scene as you need to get
it right--no changing tapes, no solid-state memory time limits, no
missed action. It's a director's dream come true--but when you're
editing, finding that one perfect take among dozens of outtakes can be
difficult. To make it easier, Adobe OnLocation CS4 offers a Shot List
that enables you to re-record multiple takes of the same scene
retaining the metadata automatically from the original master shot.
When you edit the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro, you can search for a
favorite take simply by searching for metadata logged while you
originally recorded the footage. Or, run the speech-to-text feature in
Adobe Premiere Pro, which uses new metadata support to find words
spoken by the talent.
Adobe Encore CS4
Use
Encore to create DVDs and high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and with one
click, easily save projects you designed to be delivered to disc as
interactive content compatible with Adobe Flash Player for the web.
System Requirements:
Operating System: Microsoft
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows
Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack
1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista**)
Processor: 2GHz or faster for DV; 3.4GHz for HDV; dual 2.8GHz for HD*
Memory: 2GB of RAM (more RAM recommended when running multiple components)
Hard Drive Space: 24.3GB of available hard-disk space
for installation; additional free space required during installation
(cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
Monitor: 1,280x900 display
Video Card: OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card*** (some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0)
Additional Hard Drive Requirements:
Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk
array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
Additional Hardware Requirements:
For SD/HD workflows, an Adobe-certified card for capture and export to
tapeà; OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to
tape, and transmit to DV device
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM drive (DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation); Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray disc creation
Sound Card: Microsoft Windows Driver Model- or ASIO-compatible sound card
Quicktime: QuickTime 7.4.5 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features