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Premiere will be accompanied by two applications that have never before been available to Mac users: the Encore DVD authoring tools and Soundbooth audio studio, as part of a new Adobe Production Studio suite that will be previewed in San Francisco next week before shipping towards the middle of this year. New versions of After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator will complete the suite, while Soundbooth will replace Audition.

Production Studio will also include Adobe Dynamic Link, which eliminates the need for rendering when moving motion graphics and visual effects from Adobe After Effects to the real-time HD, SD and DV editing environment in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore DVD.

'Our customers wanted all the components in Adobe Production Studio to be available on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms,' said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. 'We listened and believe that an innovative new cross-platform video suite, anchored by powerhouse releases of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects, will really shake up the industry.'