Adobe CS4 Production Premium, Win, CD, ES 65022998 User Manual

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Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium—64-bit Optimization White Paper
64-bit Performance  
White Paper
Modern production workflows benefit tremendously from applications such 
as Adobe CS4 Production Premium that are architected and optimized for 
64-bit operating systems.  HD workflows can show 50% to 200% speedup 
moving from 32-bit with 4GB of RAM to 64-bit with 16GB of RAM1.
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Take advantage of 64-bit operating systems today
Adobe Creative Suite 4  
Production Premium combines the 
full new versions of:
• Adobe After Effects® CS4
• Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4
• Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended
• Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional
• Adobe Illustrator® CS4
• Adobe Soundbooth® CS4
• Adobe OnLocation™ CS4
• Adobe Encore® CS4
• Adobe Device Central CS4
• Adobe Bridge CS4
• Adobe Dynamic Link
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 Please see Jan Ozer’s articles “CS4 and 64-bit systems 
 
and 
” in Digital Content Producer 
Online for more details about his 64-bit benchmarking results.
Performance gains include increased editing speed, rapid switching among tools and faster 
rendering - all of which give you more time to be creative.  Digital Content Producer 
Online’s Jan Ozer tested CS4 Production Premium on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems and 
his “rendering trials clearly show that a 64-bit system will deliver superior performance with 
most formats”1.  
This means that, with Production Premium CS4, moving up to 16GB of RAM could be the 
best ROI investment you make in productivity this year since 16GB of RAM typically costs 
under $500.
Adobe’s 64-bit support:
 •  All Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 applications are tested on 64 bit operating systems (OS).
 •  Photoshop® CS4 software offers native 64-bit support for Microsoft® Windows® Vista
    now. Native 64-bit support on Mac OS is coming in a future release.
 •  Photoshop Lightroom® 2 software supports 64-bit processing, utilizing the advanced
   memory handling capabilities on the latest Mac OS and Windows systems.
 •  After Effects® CS4 software is architected and optimized for 64-bit operating systems.
 •  Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 software is architected and optimized for 64 bit  
    operating systems.
 •  Photoshop, After Effects, and Adobe Premiere Pro are architected for 64-bit today, and
   will be further optimized in future releases (for both Mac OS and Windows Vista).
Why 64-bit operating systems matter in video production
Digital video production’s demand for computing power—necessitated by increasingly high 
resolutions and the expectation of real-time responsiveness—is making 64-bit operating 
systems a core component of the modern editing workflow. The number of processing cores 
per CPU continues to increase, as does the amount of RAM (32GB or more in some cases)
each can access.