CS3 System Requirements
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 (1.4 GHz for DV; 3.4 GHz for HDV),
Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon® (2.8 GHz dual-core for HD), or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible);
AMD processor based systems require an SSE2 supported processor.
CS4 System Requirements
Processor 2 GHz or higher for DV; 3.4 GHz processor for HDV; dual-core 2.8 GHz processor for HD
- Microsoft Windows XP with SP2 (SP3 recommended) or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate or Enterprise with SP1 (certified for Windows XP and Vista 32-bit operating systems)
- 2 GB RAM (with When working with multiple components, it is recommended to increase the RAM capacity)
- 24.3 GB of free hard disk space for installation; additional free space required for installation (not installed on flash storage devices)
- 1280x900 monitor resolution, OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics card
- Some GPU acceleration features require Shader Model 3.0 graphics support
- Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; disk array with data striping (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem recommended
- For SD/HD workflows: Adobe certified film capture and export card
- OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, film export and transfer to DV device
- DVD-ROM drive (DVD+-R burner required for DVD burning)
- Blu-ray burner for writing Blu-ray Discs
- Microsoft Windows Driver Model or ASIO compatible sound card
- QuickTime 7.4.5 software required for multimedia features and QuickTime playback
- Broadband internet connection required for online services
CS5 System Requirements
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); Adobe® Premiere® Pro requires Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II
Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects® require 64-bit capable processor
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended) or Windows 7
Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects require a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows 7
2 GB RAM (at least recommended) 4 GB)
24.3 GB of free hard disk space for installation; additional free space required for installation (not installed on removable flash storage devices)
Monitor resolution 1280x900 (1280x1024 recommended), graphics card supporting OpenGL, hardware acceleration and 16-bit colors, 256 MB video memory
Adobe certified GPU card for GPU acceleration features in Adobe Premiere Pro; For a list of supported maps, see the Adobe Premiere Pro System Requirements* page.
Some GPU acceleration features in Adobe Photoshop® Extended require support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 graphics.
Some Adobe Bridge features require a DirectX 9-capable video card and at least 64 MB of video RAM.
Hard drive (7200 rpm) for editing compressed formats. video; RAID 0 for uncompressed formats
For SD/HD workflows: Adobe certified film capture and export card
OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, film export, and transfer to DV device
ASIO sound card or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
DVD-ROM drive with support for reading dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R writer required to create DVDs, Blu-ray writer required to create Blu-ray Discs)
Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
Software QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features and QuickTime playback
Adobe Flash® Player 10 for exporting SWF files and playing DVD projects exported as SWF files
Broadband Internet connection required for online services
System requirements CS5.5
•Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™ i3, i5, i7 or AMD Phenom® II recommended); Adobe Premiere Pro requires Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II; Adobe Premiere® Pro and After Effects® require a 64-bit capable processor
•Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate or Enterprise with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7; Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Master Collection Subscription Edition require a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows 7
• 2 GB of RAM (4 GB minimum recommended)
• 24.3 GB of available hard drive space for installation; additional free space required for installation (not installed on removable flash storage devices)
•1280x900 monitor resolution (1280x1024 recommended), video card supporting OpenGL, hardware acceleration and 16-bit colors, 256 MB video memory
•Adobe certified GPU card for GPU acceleration features in Adobe Premiere Pro; For a list of supported cards, see www.adobe.com/go/premiere_systemreqs_en
• Some GPU acceleration features in Adobe Photoshop® require support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 graphics
• Some Adobe Bridge features require a DirectX 9-capable video card and high-capacity VRAM at least 64 MB
•Hard disk (7200 rpm) for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed formats
•For SD/HD workflows: Adobe certified film capture and export card
•IEEE 1394 OHCI compliant port for DV and HDV capture, film export, and transfer to DV device
•Sound card with support for ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
•DVD-ROM drive with support for reading dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R writer required to create DVDs, Blu-ray writer required to create Blu-ray Discs)
•Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
•Eclipse™ 3.6.1 software required for installing plug-ins
•QuickTime 7.62 software required for multimedia features and QuickTime playback
•Adobe Flash® Player 10 for exporting SWF files and playing DVD projects exported as files SWF
•Broadband Internet connection required to use online services and check Subscription Edition (if necessary) on an ongoing basis*
CS6 System Requirements
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor with support for 64-bit computing; Intel Core2 Duo or AMD Phenom II required for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore; Intel Core i7 required for SpeedGrade
- Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or Windows 7 SP1; Windows 7 SP1 x64 required for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore; Windows 7 SP1 required for SpeedGrade
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) for 32-bit version; 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) for 64-bit version
- 14.5 GB free hard drive space for installation; additional free space required for installation
- Additional disk space required for caching, preview files and other work files (recommended capacity: 10 GB)
- 1280x900 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card and 512 MB VRAM; requires a monitor resolution of 1680x1050, it is recommended to use an additional professionally configured monitor to run SpeedGrade
- System with OpenGL 2.0 support
- Sound card with support for ASIO or Microsoft WDM/MME protocol
- DVD-ROM drive with support for reading dual-layer DVDs (for creating DVDs DVD+-R burner required, Blu-ray burner required to create Blu-ray discs)
- Java Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
- Eclipse 3.7 (to install Adobe Flash Builder plugins); The following versions are supported: Eclipse IDE for Java EE and Java Developers, Eclipse Classic, Eclipse for PHP Developers
- QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime features, multimedia capabilities and HTML5 media playback
- A dedicated GPU card is required to run SpeedGrade ( For optimal SpeedGrade performance and GPU acceleration features in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, we recommend: NVIDIA Quadro 4000, 5000, 6000 or other Adobe certified GPU card with at least 1 GB of video RAM)