Adobe master class CS6 spec’s
o Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor with 64-bit support; Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II
processor required for Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Encore; Intel Core i7 processor required for SpeedGrade
o Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (64
bit) required for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 required for SpeedGrade
o 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended) for 32 bit; 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended) for 64 bit
o 14.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot
install on removable flash-based storage devices)
o Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files; 10GB recommended
o 1280×900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680×1050 display required and second professionally
calibrated viewing display recommended for Speedgrade
o OpenGL 2.0-capable system
o Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
o DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating
Blu-ray Disc media)
o Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
o Eclipse™ 3.7 (for plug-in installation of Flash Builder); the following distributions are supported: Eclipse IDE for Java
EE and Java Developers; Eclipse Classic, Eclipse for PHP Developers
o QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime features, multimedia, and HTML5 media playbackOptional:
Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Premiere Pro; see the latest list of supported cards
o Optional: Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer in After Effects; see the latest list
of supported cards
o Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for Speedgrade
o Optional: For SDI output, NVIDIA Quadro SDI Output card required for Speedgrade
o Optional: 7200 RPM or faster hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, recommended)
for video products
o Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions,
and access to online services.* Phone activation is not available
o Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor with 64-bit support; Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II
processor required for Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Encore; Intel Core i7 processor required for SpeedGrade
o Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (64
bit) required for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 required for SpeedGrade
o 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended) for 32 bit; 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended) for 64 bit
o 14.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot
install on removable flash-based storage devices)
o Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files; 10GB recommended
o 1280×900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680×1050 display required and second professionally
calibrated viewing display recommended for Speedgrade
o OpenGL 2.0-capable system
o Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft Windows Driver Model
o DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating
Blu-ray Disc media)
o Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
o Eclipse™ 3.7 (for plug-in installation of Flash Builder); the following distributions are supported: Eclipse IDE for Java
EE and Java Developers; Eclipse Classic, Eclipse for PHP Developers
o QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime features, multimedia, and HTML5 media playbackOptional:
Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Premiere Pro; see the latest list of supported cards
o Optional: Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer in After Effects; see the latest list
of supported cards
o Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for Speedgrade
o Optional: For SDI output, NVIDIA Quadro SDI Output card required for Speedgrade
o Optional: 7200 RPM or faster hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, recommended)
for video products
o Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions,
and access to online services.* Phone activation is not available
