Prompt's TechBlog
24 October 2008
Posted by Rob F24 October 2008
Adobe's developed a reputation for doing things on short notice and this time was no different. Creative
CS4 is the latest version of Adobe's award winning Creative Suite solution, and it's carrying some nice new changes. CS4 now supports 64-bit and multi-core processors, and early tests showed performance increases of up to 12%. For those who work with really large files, digital video and the like, CS4 renders and processes up to 10 times faster.
CS4 also boasts nice, shiny features like a 'Unified Application Interface', as well as 'Adobe Dynamic Link'. This means that CS4 launches within a central program, and all the other Adobe programs, like Photoshop or InDesign, will be tabs within it. Once you have multiple programs running, the Dynamic Link means you can work on the same thing in different programs without having to render or save first. Recording a digital video? Save it directly to disk with On Location - no time-capture needed. Once that's done, fire up Premiere. Any edits you make will be exactly the same when you open After Effects. Photoshop a title frame? No problem. That frame will automatically update in Premiere as you change it in Photoshop. As will audio, while you work on it in Soundbooth. Seamless integration.
Impressed yet? I am.
Photoshop, Premier, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash, have all been tweaked and touched up. Photoshop does 3-D, for example. Premiere can turn spoken audio in a video directly into text. There are new features galore. Check them out here:
The Adobe website seems to use certain phrases a lot. Integrated. Dynamic. Intelligent. Flexible. With CS4 I can see why.
Comments:
I'm personally psyched to see CS4.
I think that the tabs feature makes complete sense. It just really simplifies everything. I remember sometimes I'd be working on a document in InDesign, have to switch to Photoshop and then back, which would be mildly annoying. I think that's great.
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