Open beta-testing of Premiere Pro and After Effects CS3 has begun

21st April 2007

Adobe Company has released beta versions of programs Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional and Adobe Soundbooth CS3. Programs belong to announced today package of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium. All comers can try to work with beta-versions. For that you need to register on site labs.adobe.com. The new programs support Windows XP and Windows Vista, and also run under PowerPC and Mac with Intel processors. Among new features of video editor Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 there are: close integration with the program for DVD-authoring Adobe Encore CS3, more precise tools for managing key frames, rapid counting of the effects. Among features of the new version of the program for creating special effects CS3 After Effects Professional there are: close integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, new tool Shape Layers for drawing and animation of vector curves, with the possibility of adding and animating of traits, filling, gradients and vector effects. Puppet Tool is designed to create animation and allows the user to stretch images or text in various directions. Among the new features of audioeditor Adobe Soundbooth CS3 we can note integration with Adobe Flash and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Final versions will appear in the third quarter of this year.