Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection Read Me
Welcome to Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Master Collection. This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips not covered in the Master Collection documentation.
Creative Suite 5 Master Collection components
Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 Extended
Adobe® Illustrator® CS5
Adobe® InDesign® CS5
Adobe® Acrobat® 9.3 Professional
Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5
Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5
Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4 Standard
Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5
Adobe® Fireworks® CS5
Adobe® Contribute® CS5
Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5
Adobe® After Effects® CS5
Adobe® Soundbooth® CS5
Adobe® OnLocation™ CS5
Adobe® Encore® CS5
Adobe® Bridge CS5
Adobe® Device Central CS5
Adobe® Media Encoder CS5
Adobe® Extension Manager
Integrates with Adobe® CS Live online services*
*Adobe CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time and include Adobe® BrowserLab, Adobe® CS Review, Acrobat.com, Adobe® Story and SiteCatalyst® NetAverages† Learn more.
Minimum system requirements
Windows®
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II recommended); Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Phenom II required for Adobe Premiere Pro
Processor with 64-bit support required for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
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
64-bit edition of Windows Vista or Windows 7 required for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
24.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
1280x900 display (1280x1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit www.adobe.com/go/premiere_systemreqs for the latest list of supported cards
Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
Some features in Adobe Bridge rely on a DirectX 9-capable graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM
7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
Adobe-certified card for capture and export to tape for SD/HD workflows
OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for DVD burning; Blu-ray burner for Blu-ray Disc media)
Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features
Adobe Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files and to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
Broadband Internet connection required for online services MasterCollection_CS5.part01
