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N E W S S AN JOSE — Adobe's much-anticipated Cre- ative Suite 4 family of products is just about ready for shipping.The new suite of tools fo- cuses on speeding up workflow — taking something that had typically taken five steps and making it three — and allowing users to create and monetize con- tent while improving workflow across print, Web, mo- bile, interactive, film and video production. CS4 ships sometime this month with availability through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store (www.adobe.com/go/gn_store). Creative Suite 4 includes CS4 Production Pre- mium, CS4 Master Collection, CS4 Design editions, and CS4 Web editions, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services. There are six suites or full version upgrades of 13 stand- alone apps, including Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, InDesign CS4, Illustrator CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver CS4, After Effects CS4 and Premiere Pro CS4. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium fea- tures Speech Search within Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4. Essentially transcription in a box, it makes spoken dialogue within a video recording searchable, reducing the time spent looking for clips and creating rough cuts. It also makes content search- able when delivered online. Powered by XMP meta- data suppor t, the production workflow is simplified, resulting in online content that gives viewers new ways to interact with and search for video. Premiere Pro CS4 features over 50 general editing improvements, many of them coming directly from Adobe's par tnership with broadcasters like the BBC. "One of the larger features is sup- por t for Photoshop video layers," says Adobe's Simon Hay- hurst."This means that you can pull a movie clip into Photoshop as a video layer, making it very easy to do frame- to-frame clean-up and just pull the PSD with those adjustments right into Premiere Pro rather than having to save it out as a movie clip first." Adobe also supports Photoshop blend modes on all clips in the Premiere Pro timeline. This allows cus- tomers to match the looks that they create in Pre- miere and After Effects. After Effects CS4 has enhanced suppor t for Flash CS4 workflows providing new paths for creating inter- active content. Also within AE is the new Car toon Effect, Bilateral Blur and Turbulent Noise, all of which take advantage of GPU acceleration. An expanded version of Dynamic Link in Pro- duction Premium allows users to move content be- tween CS4 versions of After Effects, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth and Encore, so updates can be seen in- stantly without rendering. For those working in 3D, CS4 provides the abil- ity to paint, composite and animate 3D models. Users of Flash CS4 Pro can apply tweens to ob- jects instead of keyframes. In Flash, the Bones tool helps create more realistic animations between linked objects. Adobe Device Central CS4 allows users to easily test mobile content designed using many of the CS4 products. Phil Price of NY's Price Digital was one of the lucky few who got his hands on an early version."In beta testing CS4, I've found Adobe has put a major emphasis on making the programs like Photoshop, Flash, After Effects, etc., more streamlined and inte- grated. I really appreciate the little additions that make things less repetitive and easier to use. There's also a few new blockbuster features, like In- verse Kinematics in Flash and the Speech Search tool in Premiere, which allow the editor to search the audio dialogue for words and phrases." CS4 Production Premium costs $1,699. Other products in the line are priced this way: CS4 Design Premium is $1,799, CS 4 Web Premium is $1,699 and the CS4 Master Collection is $2,499. Adobe's long-awaited CS4 arrives 20 Post • October 2008 www.postmagazine.com Order Online @ www.sound-ideas.com Telephone (905) 886-5000 Fax: (905) 886-6800 Order Online @ www.sound-ideas.com Telephone (905) 886-5000 Fax: (905) 886-6800 30 Years of Audio Excellence Sound Effects, Royalty Free Music and Production Elements 30 Years of Audio Excellence Sound Effects, Royalty Free Music and Production Elements AUDIO VIDEO VFX FILM D-CINEMA STUDIO MADRID — SGO (www.sgo.es) showed a new release of its Mistika system at IBC. Mistika is a time- line-based, realtime editing, conforming, compositing, restora- tion, mastering and color grading system. Version 4 adds 3D stereoscopic capabilities to its ex- isting toolset. Mistika's open structure allows for easy interfacing with other products.The system can work natively in a SAN in- frastructure while sharing standard for- mat files without any import/export process required for coping with other open systems. Mistika provides realtime conversion between 4K, 2K, HD and SD. SGO claims that Mistika has no resolution limits.The 64-bit-system runs on Linux and provides re- alistic production times for projects as high as 8K in resolu- tion.All standard output formats, in- cluding PAL/NTSC SDI, HD-SDI RGB 4:4:4, 2K DVI output, 4K HDSL and 3D stereo dual HD-SDI can be supported. MISTIKA TOOLS ADDRESS ENTIRE POST PIPELINE

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