Adobe : Preliminary versions of the audio and video editing devices and a new player

21st April 2007

Adobe Systems has released an accessible preliminary versions of the products Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects Professional and Adobe CS3 Soundbooth CS3, which will be included to the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium package. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 is an updated version of a received many awards set of tools for non-linear video editing. The Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional offers everything necessary to create visual special effects and layout video-production intended for publication at DVD-media or websites, as well as for playback on mobile devices. And appliction Adobe CS3 Soundbooth designed for professionals and beginners will allow to solve a wide range of tasks related to the processing of audio data. All the abovementioned products are successfully launched and work under the Intel Mac platforms, Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista, allowing to take full advantage of modern hardware. Adobe After Effects CS3 is also available as a Universal Binary-versions designed for the Macintosh platform. Anyone wishing to participate in the testing can download software from Adobe Labs site : http://labs.adobe.com/. Release of final versions of products are expected in the third quarter of this year. One more innovation, presented by the Adobe, is Media Player-desktop utility for search and playback multimedia content published on the web pages. Adobe Media Player users will appreciate the possibilities to download video and further viewing them offline, a convenient means of searching interesting material and support of full screen playback. In addition, viewers will be able to appreciate the material viewed with just a click on a button and put banners spot in the folder "Favorites" (after which the player can automatically download new episodes of a television show). Video-content Producers, in turn, will appreciate the productâ€™s being cross-platform, as well as the support of the majority of popular open standards and technologies (including RSS and SMIL).