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Adobe

Adobe logoFor more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is clear to anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information.

Demo Available
of Premiere Pro
& Audition
 

Creative power for Axio , Bluefish , Decklink & RTX2

Production Premium boxAdobe Production Production Premium CS3 is a software post-production solution available for both Mac and Windows®. Tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe's all-new video, audio and design tools - now including Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software for rich interactive authoring and Adobe Soundbooth™ CS3 software for audio - helps ensure fluidity in every aspect of your workflow, including capturing, editing, motion graphics, effects, compositing and rich media authoring. Move beyond SD and DVD to HD, HDV, Blu-ray Disc and other emerging web and mobile formats so you can deliver your content to the widest possible audience.
Future-ready tools for delivery of video content anywhere
Meet today's production demands and tomorrow's challenges head on. Broad support for leading standards and formats, an open approach to hardware and platform support, a rich ecosystem of plug-ins and other third-party solutions, and the ability to deliver video content to new types of devices - from mobile to Blu-ray Disc - give you a competitive edge.
Extensive integration for exceptional productivity
Tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe Photoshop® and After Effects® and between After Effects, Illustrator®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, Encore®, Soundbooth™ and Flash® streamlines your workflow, making it easier than ever to move projects and files between component applications and work with a common user interface. In addition, Adobe Bridge offers new file type support and metadata previews.
No more intermediate rendering thanks to Adobe Dynamic Link
Enjoy greater freedom to experiment with new ideas without having to wait for intermediate rendering. Exclusively available in Production Premium, Adobe Dynamic Link allows you to edit a composition in After Effects and view your updates instantly in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore.
Engaging online experiences leveraging new Adobe Flash CS3
Use the industry's most advanced interactive authoring environment to integrate your video content into uniquely engaging websites, presentations and mobile content. Export layered vector animations from After Effects to Flash, import SWF files as vectors into After Effects and encode FLV files with cue points from After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth.
Compositing and animation with new Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional
Innovative new features make the industry standard even more essential. Adobe After Effects CS3 software offers new Shape Layers for drawing and animating vector shapes, an intuitive new approach to shape animation using the Puppet tool, new integration with Flash and Photoshop and dramatically improved performance so you can maintain your creative momentum.
PremPro 2 Colour CorrectionReal-time editing
Now available for Mac and Windows, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software offers scalable, efficient and flexible nonlinear video editing with improved slow-motion capabilities and delivery options. Support for HD, HDV, SD and DV gives you the flexibility to deliver high-quality work. Use Encore CS3 to create full-featured, menu-driven standard-definition DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray Discs and interactive DVD-style SWF-based experiences for immediate use on the web. In Windows, enjoy new direct-to-disc recording and on-set monitoring tools to help produce high-quality video footage with Adobe OnLocation CS3.
Image editing and graphics creation
Integrate images and graphics for use in your productions. With Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, use new video layer support to edit and paint your video frame by frame, or clone between frames. Use advanced drawing, texturing, colouring, tracing, and typography tools to create vector artwork with Adobe Illustrator CS3 software.
Fast, intuitive audio editing and creation
Adobe Soundbooth CS3 lets you take command of your audio in film, video or Flash projects with convenient, task-based tools that make high-quality audio production more efficient, even if audio production isn't your specialty.
Video production and preview for mobile devices
Use the Adobe Media Encoder in After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth to export 3GP and H.264 video for mobile phones, iPods and PSP systems and other mobile devices. Preview the results for supported devices using Adobe Device Central CS3.

 

Production Premium CS3 Student Edition - IMPORTANT NOTE - this version is available to special order and is for STUDENTS ONLY and doesn't contain a serial number. Students who purchase must go through a validation process. A form contained in the box must be faxed to Adobe Customer Services with your student ID or a letter from your institution proving you're a current student. TEACHERS, LECTURERS & INSTITUTIONS DO NOT QUALIFY. If you're not a student and buy this version, you will not be able to pass the validation process, return the product or get your money back. No returns, no exceptions.

What's in the Adobe CS3 bundles...

Premiere Pro OnLocation
(was DV Rack)
Encore After Effects Flash Pro Photoshop Soundbooth
Premiere Pro CS3 CS3 CS3 CS3        
Production Studio Std v2.0     v7.0   CS2  
Production Studio Premium CS3 CS3 CS3 CS3 CS3 CS3 CS3 CS3

Note - all prices quoted on this site are UK pounds - ex VAT & delivery

ITEM PRICE
Premiere Pro CS4 599.00
Audition v2.0 245.00
After Effects CS3 915.00
Production Studio Premium CS3 1,409.00
Production Studio Premium CS3 STUDENT VERSION (see note above for conditions) 220.00
Photoshop CS3 485.00
Creative Suite Std v2.0 705.00
Creative Suite Premium v2.0 895.00
Illustrator CS3 485.00
Flash CS3 489.00
UPGRADES
Production Premium CS3 - from Premiere/Photoshop/AfterEffects 1,159.00
Production Premium CS3 - from Production Studio Premium/Std 599.00
Flash CS3 from Pro/Basic 139.00
Photoshop CS3 upgrade 139.00
Premiere Pro CS3 upgrade 209.00
Audition v2.0 from earlier versions 90.00
After Effects CS3 from Pro/Std 209.00
If you don't see an item that your looking for please phone or email us for price & information
Note - there are quite a few prices to keep up to date here, so please excuse us if not everything is correct
Note - most of the above are not stock items

 What we're about . . .     ZEN is not a traditional Audio-Visual dealer who started selling computers, nor is it a computer shop that also sells video editing systems. You won't get any salesmen giving you the "hard-sell" when you call, just straightforward advice and information - which for some callers is the knowledge that they don't need to buy whatever it is they thought they needed! Above all you'll be dealing with someone with a wide range of experience and knowledge of both PCs and video production. We're not the biggest, nor necessarily the cheapest, but we are one of the longest established computer/video specialists in the UK.

 Company history . . .     ZEN was started in the 1980s by Martin Kay, then working for ITV at Granada's Manchester studios, who built his first 6502-based computer in 1979 from an Ohio Scientific kit, bought in the USA whilst working as a Sound Recordist on a film shoot for World In Action. With the advent of the Amiga, which could be gen-locked to a video source, Martin started writing a variety of video-related software. This included subtitling & tele-prompting, ident clocks, scoring software for sports & gameshows, and specialist software to mimic other computer displays for use in TV film dramas like Cracker, Prime Suspect and A Touch of Frost. Martin left Granada in 1993 to concentrate on his computer-video activities with ZEN, following a natural path into non-linear editing systems, now the main focus of the business, although he still maintains an active interest in video production.

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