I am currently on CS5 so the new Production Suite looks very promising indeed. The integration of a 3D camera tracker is huge as it has in the past been a rather convoluted route of different apps. I feel a strong pull toward a Premiere/AE workflow now. I have been a big fan of FCPX but it's handling of .mts HD files leaves a little to be desired. I can watch my HD Driftwood .mts files in real time on a broadcast monitor with Premiere CS5, and have little problems. Can't do this in FCPX on my non Lion machine. Only thing I miss is the fact I am on a mac and CUDA is pretty much essential for the accelerated effects. I really feel Adobe is overtaking Apple in this area, as Apple focusses on perhaps the more lucrative consumer market. Still I have a lot of love for FCPX. Interesting times.

@lpowell--thanks for the tip! That seems more worthwhile than the upgrade to CS6. I can do Dolby by swapping the audio out but having that and the fine control of the video parameters all built in would be very cool. I have a question, however, can you do some scaling, like zoom in and zoom out to 160 percent, and see if you still get the superscaling feature? You have to check the render at max depth boxes I believe to get the scaling benefit.

Looking good! And with Wes (Automatic Duck) now working directly with Adobe I'm assuming he's solved the hand-off issues all the way around including FCP and AVID interoperability with all adobe products.

@Oedipax, just buy a $35 GT 240, don't even bother with ATI. Zoom! @lpowell--can you upload a couple of export presets for mainconcept for 1080/24p? I downloaded the demo but I can't seem to get it to work. I have the red line over anything with effects. The small chunk I did get to work looked good (with a watermark).

No Illustrator in the Production Premium package?

The speed grade PDF (http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/guides/SG_CS6_Intro_Reveal.pdf) says "Intel® Core™ i7 processor with 64-bit support" under Windows system requirements. Surely this must be oversight, I find it hard to imagine it's written to run on just one type of processor.

grace period started: I just upgrade from Photoshop 5 to Production Suite 5.5 including free update to CS 6. Last chance to get a full version suite for half of the price from a single product. Adobe changed the upgrade policy from CS6 on

@johnnym afair Lightroom was never part of the suite

@duartix

This cards list is for CS 5.5, not upcoming CS6.

@peaceonearth I know, but i would think they would include it by now. Oh well, it's not all that expensive anymore.

You don't need a fast card, you just need a GT 240, 1gB. No one in their right mind would run Mercury in software mode when you can get the full engine screaming along on a GT 240. The supported card list is incorrect, almost any Nvidia card will work with 1gB.

Thanks @lpowell !

Any good videos showing how to use Adobe Prelude and SpeedGrade?

Thanks, I've wanted to get into Resolve, but the workflow is too annoying. It doesn't read my native files. The interface seems to be designed by someone whos never used a modern computer. My hopes is that SpeedGrade is well integrated with Premiere and After Effects.