In After Effects, for example, you can filter timeline layers to only display tracks where the object’s position has been altered, simply by typing “position” into the search field. Typing information into the search field of a Premiere Pro bin will filter the displayed contents to match your criteria.

Most of the applications have gained search fields that operate like Apple’s Spotlight. This tabbed workspace design is most completely implemented in Premiere Pro, After Effects and Soundbooth. The user interfaces of the various applications continue to move closer to a common Adobe layout. These include user interface changes, searchable metadata based on XMP support and speech-to-text technology. Across the board, Adobe has concentrated on several big improvements and additions between CS3 and CS4.

Going into depth on each application in the collection would require the entire magazine, so I’ll stick to the highlights. In addition, there are also other utilities designed to aid your workflow, such as Bridge, Device Central, Dynamic Link and Adobe Media Encoder. Its main applications include Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Professional, Encore, OnLocation and Soundbooth. I’ll focus my comments on Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium – the collection for video professionals. The Creative Suite family constitutes major growth for Adobe, which expects to ship approximately 500,000 pieces of just the video portion of this software to over 300,000 customers by the end of 2008. All CS4 products will ship by the end of Q4 2008. Once again, these products can be purchased individually or as part of various collections for web, video and print. Hot on the heals of last year’s huge Adobe software release, the company has quickly turned around another batch of impressive updates in its new Creative Suite 4 line-up.

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