338 LESSON 19
Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your Video Projects
Getting started Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful tool on its own, but it is also part of Adobe
Creative Suite 5 Production Premium. You can purchase Adobe Premiere Pro
by itself and use all its built-in features, or you can purchase it as part of Adobe
Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, where it becomes one piece of a powerful
combination of integrated components.
Anyone who works with print graphics or does photo retouching has probably
used Adobe Photoshop. It is the workhorse of the graphic design industry. Adobe
Photoshop is a powerful tool with great depth and versatility, and it is becoming an
increasingly important part of the video production world. In this lesson, you will
explore how to use the integration features between Adobe Photoshop and Adobe
Premiere Pro.
Adobe After Effects is the
de facto standard in the video production industry for
text animation and motion graphics. In this lesson, you will explore the unique
integration between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects for powerful and time-
saving techniques.
Exploring Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium is not just a collection of software
bundled together in a box. This suite of components is designed to work together
through common interface elements and tight integration to provide you with the
tools you need to move from vision to output on virtually any platform.
Adobe Premiere Pro by itself is a powerful tool for acquiring, editing, and output-
ting video projects. As part of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, how-
ever, it becomes even stronger. If you purchased Adobe Premiere Pro by itself, you
may not be able to follow along with all the examples in this lesson, but please read
through them to understand how Adobe Premiere Pro fits into the larger picture
of this suite of products. If you purchased Adobe Premiere Pro as part of Adobe
Creative Suite Production Premium, read on to experience the impressive integra-
tion and timesaving techniques engineered into the product.
Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium combines Adobe Bridge CS5, Dynamic
Link, and Adobe Device Central CS5, and it includes the following components:
