What is Master Collection?

Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Master Collection software delivers unprecedented performance with blazing-fast 64-bit native support and GPU acceleration. Groundbreaking new creative tools provide innovative ways to design for the latest devices. With exceptional power and precision, you can create inspiring experiences that go anywhere.

Design without limits:

• Content-aware technologies in Photoshop Extended
• Simplified 3D design in Photoshop Extended
• Intuitive video creation in Photoshop Extended
• Blur Gallery in Photoshop Extended
• Seamless vector pattern creation in Illustrator
• Powerful image tracing in Illustrator
• Gradients applied to strokes in Illustrator
• Adobe Premiere Pro multicam editing
• Dynamic timeline trimming in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Video stabilizing tools
• 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects
• Ray-traced, extruded text and shapes in After Effects
• Variable mask feathering in After Effects
• SpeedGrade for powerful color grading

Work at the speed of your imagination:

• Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine in Photoshop Extended
• Adobe Mercury Performance System in Illustrator CS6
• Global Performance Cache in After Effects
• Blazing-fast FTP performance in Dreamweaver
• Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro
• New, modern interfaces
• New and reengineered design tools in Photoshop Extended
• Accelerated, nondestructive image cropping in Photoshop Extended
• Linked content in InDesign
• Content Collector tools in InDesign
• Efficient, fluid video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
• After Effects and Illustrator integration
• Rolling shutter repair in After Effects
• Advanced motion tracking in After Effects
• Sprite sheet generation in Flash Professional
• Faster, more precise audio editing in Adobe Audition
• Real-time clip stretching in Adobe Audition
• Real-time performance in SpeedGrade
• Footage ingest and logging with Prelude
• Auto-save and recovery in Photoshop Extended

Deliver virtually anywhere:

• Alternate and Liquid Layout in InDesign
• Fluid Grid Layout for devices in Dreamweaver
• Support for the latest HTML5/CSS3 standards in Dreamweaver
• jQuery and PhoneGap support in Dreamweaver
• Broad format support in Adobe Premiere Pro
• PDF forms within InDesign
• Common Library elements in Fireworks
• Mobile platform and device support in Flash Professional
• Single-codebase mobile applications in Flash Builder Premium
• Business Catalyst integration
• Integration with other tools and services

• Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended
• Adobe Illustrator CS6
• Adobe InDesign CS6
• Adobe Acrobat X Pro
• Adobe Flash Professional CS6
• Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 Premium Edition
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
• Adobe Fireworks CS6
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
• Adobe After Effects CS6
• Adobe Audition CS6
• Adobe SpeedGrade CS6
• Adobe Prelude CS6
• Adobe Encore CS6
• Adobe Bridge CS6
• Adobe Media Encoder CS6

Processor:

• Multicore Intel with 64-bit support

Operating System:

• Mac OS X v.10.6.8 or v.10.7

Hard Disk:

• 15.5 GB for installation
• Additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• Additional space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files (10 GB Recommended)

Memory:

• 4 GB RAM (8 GB Recommended)

Optical Drive:

• DVD-ROM compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)

Others:

• 1280x900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680x1050 display required and second professionally calibrated viewing display Recommended for Adobe SpeedGrade
• OpenGL 2.0-capable system
• Java Runtime Environment 1.6
• Eclipse 3.7 Cocoa version (for plug-in installation of Adobe Flash Builder; the following distributions 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, and HTML5 media playback
• Dedicated GPU card Recommended (for optimal performance in SpeedGrade and for GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 or other Adobe-certified GPU card with at least 1 GB of VRAM Recommended)
• Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for SpeedGrade
• Optional: 7200 RPM hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, Recommended) for video products

Note:

• This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services. Phone activation is not available