Adobe released Creative Suite CS5
There has been some buzz about CS5 on twitter etc. with Adobe pushing for it (with an own CS5 launch page etc.). Now Adobe finally released it today – with free trials available now.
So what’s new in Production Premium? Performance for once but also great new features:
Premiere Pro
- 64-bit GPU accelerated Mercury Playback Engine - promises great performance with all kinds of mixed media.
- Ultra Keyer
- improved RED .r3d support, XDCAM HD 50 and support for the very popular DSLR formats
- Workflow enhancements for NLE (with EDL roundtripping)
- improved Media Encoder
After Effects
- 64-bit (see a list of 64-bit plugins here)
- Roto Brush (let’s see if it holds up in production, could be a killer feature)
- AVC-Intra and improved RED .r3d support
- Color LUT support (3DL and CUBE)
- Color Finesse
- mocha for After Effects v2 (including the shape plugin)
- DigiEffects Freeform
Photoshop Extended
- 64-bit
- improved HDR features
- tools for complex selections
- Content aware fill (this should be awesome!)
- Paint Effects
- Puppet Warp
- new 3D tools (like 3D extrusions and enhanced 3D objects)
There is nothing like the smell of new software in the morning but especially with tools like After Effects there is always that bad taste of plugin compatibility. That’s even more important with CS5 going 64-bit, leaving all those 32-bit plugins a thing of the past. So it is great to see that there are already CS5 compatible upgrades available.
As Red Giant Software is hosting many of the all time favorites plugins it’s great to see a list of CS5 compatible plugins from them also:
- Magic Bullet Colorista 1.1
- Magic Bullet Mojo 1.2
- Trapcode 3D Stroke 2.6
- Trapcode Echospace 1.1
- Trapcode Form 1.1
- Trapcode Horizon 1.1
- Trapcode Lux 1.1
- Trapcode Particular 2.1
- Trapcode Shine 1.6
- Trapcode Soundkeys 1.2
- Trapcode Starglow 1.6
- (Trapcode Suite 10)
Read Red Giant Software’s FAQ for the small print. Most other plugins are announced for Summer 2010.