Adobe Ships Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection

one free upgrade to me AE coming up :D

Yes, I`v ordered my upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, it certainly looks good. Uk shipping I have been told, will start on July 12th.
All I`m waiting for now is the "Total Trainings" dvd "Whats new in CS3"
Regards Mike

I've just had an e-mail from Adobe Customer Support saying "Your order has been released and should be with you soon.", whatever that means...

It's all right for some! I bought PPro, Encore, and Audition 2 upgrades from V1.5 in February this year, but would have to pay the full upgrade price again for the new versions.:(

If the price for the upgrade had been reasonable. I might have forked out, but as things are, I will stick.

it means they just spent MILLIONS adapting the US versions to UK English, and will be charging all their customers accordingly.

Oh yeah? A pity that all this expensive effort will not have enabled them to change the spellings of color, center, etc!

yep, very strange that. a complete mystery.

Hi
Well Adobe have obviously needed to employ several thousand oompa-lumpas to change the xxxx700Uxxxx USA serial numbers to xxxx720Rxxxx, or whatever, in the past for the EU versions of their software. I'm sure they're paying the price and being highly ethical, and haven't outsourced that essential job to an asian sweatshop.... ;)

I'm in the same position as Alan and they can whistle for it. If I buy into it at all it will be in the US.

I tried to contact DVC about their offer to upgrade to Prem. Pro 2 at about £175. I seem to have missed the boat. The only upgrade now looks like pro 3, and a few more pennies. I`m sure the offer was there a few days ago….

I failed to send DVC a query about this, as I keep getting a server error 4—whatever that means.

John, I'm afraid you have missed the boat. As soon as Adobe announces a product is shipping the free-upgrade-from-the-previous-version-if-you-buy-the-previous-version-now offers get withdrawn. Your only upgrade option now will be straight to Premiere Pro CS3.

Thanks Mark, I thought that was the case. I have been too long making my mind up.

What an awful company. I guess the learning curve for A.N.Other NLE just got that bit easier.

I don't agree with their policies either. But having used Premier for several years, I have found Pro 2 very easy to get to grips with.
One thing I don't like is the time line audio is very difficult to see, especially if the amplitude is low. Premier 6 was much better in this respect.

£233 for the upgrade is still cheaper than another NLE, plus the re-learning. No decision is easy!!!

Hi John,
I hops this isn't egg sucking.. but I'd had premiere a while before I realised you can stretch down the lower audio track divider to make wave form bigger.

Hi Dave, not at all! It`s often the simple things that get missed. However I have changed the height of the audio track, it`s the waveform itself that is faint.
Double clicking on the audio clip brings it up in the source window, where it is much darker than the background. Changing the waveform colour doesn't help either.

I usually find it quicker to cut out the odd clicks and thumps in the time line. But it`s hard to see them. I can`t find a way to do this in the source window, as an out point removes the remainder of the clip….i`m sure there`s a way, I just havn`t found it.

The fact remains that this is a classic example of rip-off pricing. With the dollar at over two to the Pound today's pricing on Adobe's websites for the full Creative Suite upgrade is £599 and $799 (both ex tax) I.e. £600 compared with £400. 50% more expensive!

The full versions are £1410 and £800 respectively 75% more expensive!!!

(all stirling figures rounded for convenience)

just waited before it arrived before I chipped in. Took delivery of production premium cs3 yesterday. It took three weeks to get to me because videoguys put NI on the address (for Northern ireland) and it got sent to nicaragua. Clever.

Anyway, it cost me $1700 with a free shuttle pro and I had to pay £168 import tax and VAT.

Only problem is I installed it all and when i started up premiere to activate it was in Japanese. I think I may have hit a drop box by accident so i'm reinstalling all four DVD's again. Hopefully its not a weird bug.

I would have normally bought from bhphotovideo but they had a waiting period of two weeks. Turns out after the division to South America I would have had it from there first. ah well.

M

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Just spotted it. It asks you for the language for the user agreement and then a few pages later asked you again. I didn't notice it and the default was japanese.

Michael,

More power to your elbow!

Anyone know if you can buy a US upgrade and upgrade a UK installation?

I bought an RT.X2 from the USA for $ 2100 in a bundle with Production Studio Premium after CS3 was announced, so I was entitled to free upgrade to Creative Suite 3 Production Premium. All I had to do was ring up Adobe customer services here, fax them a copy of my invoice for the RT.X2 / Production Studio, and then they shipped me the upgrade.

Michael, your Japanese issue very common. So much so Adobe have posted a technote on their website. I got caught out too. The installation routine asks too many times for language, and then the last, small box defaults to Japanese. I installed in Japanese too! I uninstalled, reinstalled, and then all was OK expect for Bridge which was still in Japanese. Tech support sorted me out by telling me to alter a registration key as follows:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Bridge CS3\Preferences". Find the key named "Language" and change its value to "en_US"

I was amused that, after all Adobe's "it costs so much because we have to do regional variations" stuff that there is no UK english option at all in this!

Adobe says on website:

'Upgrade Eligibility
The installation process for an upgrade requires that you enter the serial number from a qualifying product, on the same platform and for the same language version, as the upgrade product being installed.

Products within a Suite cannot be upgraded individually.'

I wouldn't be surprised if all media was the same and 'language version' is only differentiated by 'registration/product activation' country.

So, yes - be good to hear if any uk upgrader does so successfully from US package.
..and presumably once you do it the first time, upgrades - every 18months etc, are consequently easier/cheaper.

The answer to this is yes, as detailed in my post above.

Mark,

I think the issue is the other way around, i.e. can you upgrade a version bought in the UK with a US upgrade? If anyone has done this successfully please let us know. I'm holding off ordering until it's clear.

Sorry, I should have said that the RT.X2 bundle with Production Studio Premium was an UPGRADE from a UK bought and registered Premiere 5.1 licence I had hanging about.
(At least Adobe, unlike Apple and especially Canopus, are happy to let you upgrade to the current version from very old ones).
Installing and registering the US bought Production Studio Premium using the UK bought Premiere 5.1 SN was just fine.

Thank-you for the background Mark.
I did read your earlier post, but it looked like you were accepted as 'us' in adobe eyes in view of your matrox purchase (with 'us' invoice).
Reading your last post, I now wonder if you got through their defences as you didn't buy direct from them, but from an approved agent??

Thanks Mark. On that basis I'm really tempted to go for it.

i bought mine from videoguys. but i have also held good things about bhphotovideo too.