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Find out how to get Creative Suite 5.5 software now at 20% off and protect your upgrade path pricing in the future before it’s too late.
Whether you’re using CS2, CS3 or CS4, you can take advantage of upgrade pricing for CS5.5 right now and get the latest software capabilities and performance. But don’t wait too long. With future versions of Adobe Creative Suite software you’ll only receive upgrade pricing if you’re on the latest version.

Don’t risk paying full price later on. Upgrade to the latest version now – and for a limited time get a 20% discount – while protecting your ability to enjoy lower upgrade pricing in the future.

With future versions of Creative Suite, customers will only receive the upgrade price if they are on the latest version.

• Offer Time Frame: 3rd October until 31st December 2011
• For customers currently on CS2, CS3 and CS4

Contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

Colorista II brings the power of high-end color systems to your desktop. For the first time, you can perform professional color grading in your favorite editing applications and move between them with consistent, quality results. Colorista’s easy-to-use interface is equally good for quick adjustments on a deadline or finessing your footage without limitations. Use the 3-Way Wheels for easy adjustment of balance and luminance; a powerful new Keyer for precision editing; and Power Masks to isolate an area for perfect finishing. Whether you are a color expert or an aspiring colorist, Colorista II will redefine how filmmakers everywhere do color correction.

It’s compatible with Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Visit the Red Giant Software website for more information.

Enhance your home entertainment experience with DirectX® 11 and Windows® 7

• Low profile graphics card, perfect for small form factor or home theater PCs.
• Play the latest games across 3 monitors with ATI Eyefinity Technology.
• Full support for DirectX® 11 and Windows® 7 for a complete experience.

Features & Benefits

• Enhance your entertainment experience with Windows® 7 and DirectX® 11, watch Blu-Ray and HD video with incredible realism.
• Use ATI Stream technology, to accelerate demanding applications and do more than ever with your PC.
• Expand your desktop across up to three displays to see more, and get more done with ATI Eyefinity Technology.
• Consumes less than 39 watts under full load, and provides superior stability and reliability with ATI Catalyst™ software.

Visit the AMD website for more information.

The new DeckLink HD Extreme 3D adds new dual stream 3D capture and playback! Get 12 bit architecture and a build in up, down, cross converter! Now it’s easy to edit stereoscopic 3D work to HDCAM SR.

The new DeckLink HD Extreme 3D features single and dual channel SDI capture and playback for both regular 2D and new 3D stereoscopic workflows! Includes dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, HDMI and analog component/composite/s-video connections. Work in SD, HD, 3 Gb/s HD-SDI and 2K in 4:2:2 or 4:4:4. Also includes AES and analog balanced audio, 16 channel SDI audio, genlock and deck control. SDI, HDMI and analog component works in all video formats up to 1080p60. Includes broadcast quality up, down and cross conversion, plus built in SD/HD internal keyer.

DeckLink HD Extreme 3D works with most video software and has special support for some of the most popular features in leading software applications. Check out how DeckLink HD Extreme 3D enhances some of the industry’s best software.

Visit the Blackmagic Design website for more information.

Join online for the exclusive global launch of Adobe Creative Suite 5 that will take place on Monday, April 12, 2010.

You’ll find out about:

• New features in Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, and Flash Catalyst CS5.
• New capabilities for web designers and developers, including features in Flash Professional CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Flash Builder 4, and Flash Catalyst CS5.
• New features for video pros including tools in Adobe Premiere Pro Cs5, After Effects CS5, and more.

Visit the Adobe website for more information.

According to an article published on Daily Tech, Microsoft’s Director of Developer Platform Marketing, Brian Goldfarb, and Adobe’s Director of Technology Strategy, Anup Murarka, recently participated in an interview together about their competing rich web formats and what the future holds. Currently, Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash both are well entrenched, with a legion of developers sitting on each side of the fence.  However, Microsoft and Adobe are both warily eyeing HTML5, an open standard that could unravel support for their proprietary platforms.

In terms of PC user base, Microsoft’s latest figures show it to have 45 percent market penetration for Silverlight worldwide and 60 percent in Europe and Asia.  Meanwhile Adobe, benefiting from 10-plus years on the market, is in 98 percent of computers worldwide. Reportedly, it was able to bump 95 percent of users worldwide to Flash 10 within a year of its release.

Adobe has a large developer base, but it isn’t releasing exact figures.  Microsoft openly claims a developer base of 500,000 developers. Its recent high profile content victories have included using Silverlight for coverage of the Winter Olympics, the upcoming March Madness (college basketball’s annual championship tournament), Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and the Netflix Watch Instantly service.  Adobe, meanwhile, continues to control the rich content backend for some of the web’s biggest sites like YouTube and Hulu…..

Visit the DailyTech website to read the full article.