New: Adobe CS6 Products Now Available; Links of Interest

By Alicia VanHeulen on May 10, 2012 at 07:13 AM

This page will be continuously updated with CS6 news! Updated May 10, 2012

Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Production Premium software offers a sleek, fresh editing environment in Adobe Premiere® Pro; 3D tracking and extruded text and shapes in Adobe After Effects®; new Content-Aware tools in Adobe Photoshop® Extended; and faster editing in Adobe Audition®. New additions are Adobe Prelude™ for logging and ingest and Adobe SpeedGrade™ for color grading and finishing.

Plug-ins News

CycoreFX HD to be Included with Adobe After Effects CS6, no more sales after May 21, 2012 (April 12, 2012)

What's new in Adobe CS6 At a Glance

Sleek Adobe Premiere Pro user interface

See more of your video and less clutter thanks to an efficient, highly intuitive interface featuring customizable Project panel views, transport controls, an Audio Meter panel, and track headers. Play clips directly in the Media Browser.

Global Performance Cache in After Effects

Create more in less time. After Effects intelligently optimizes and preserves your previews by taking full advantage of the 64-bit power in your computer’s hardware. Now you can beat deadlines instead of waiting for frame updates.

SpeedGrade for crafting the perfect look

Manipulate light and color. Broad format support includes RAW, HDR, and stereoscopic. Apply precise HDR grades to source, or import sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro for more in-depth color grading.

New creative tools in After Effects

Extrude fully ray-traced text and shapes natively while adding reflections, environment maps, and more. Track elements in 3D space with depth of field, shadows, and reflections and apply 3D track points to 2D footage with the 3D Camera Tracker.

Logging and ingest in Prelude

Help ensure your media is tagged with the right information and is easy to find, allowing more efficient post-production workflows and improved lifecycle management of your footage. Adobe Prelude can be used on its own and as an extensible platform that can be customized for virtually any file-based workflow.

Dramatically enhanced editing environment

Edit more fluidly with a streamlined user interface, dynamic timeline trimming, and uninterrupted playback in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, the hub of your post-production workflow. New enhancements include support for MacBook Pro OpenCL GPUs, NVIDIA® Maximus™ configurations, and better integration with I/O hardware.

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