Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection (Select Higher Ed Schools Only)

System Requirements:

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor with 64-bit support; Intel Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II processor required for Adobe® Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, and Encore®; Intel Core i7 processor required for Adobe SpeedGrade™
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (64 bit) required for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore; Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 required for SpeedGrade
• 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended) for 32 bit; 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended) for 64 bit
• 14.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
• Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files; 10GB recommended
• 1280x900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680x1050 display required and second professionally calibrated viewing display recommended for Speedgrade
• OpenGL 2.0–capable system
• Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft WDM/MME
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• Java™ Runtime Environment 1.6 (included)
• Eclipse™ 3.7 (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 Optional: 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
• Optional: Adobe-certified GPU for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer in Adobe After Effects® visit www.adobe.com/go/aftereffects_ systemreqs for the latest list of supported cards
• Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for Speedgrade
• Optional: For SDI output, NVIDIA Quadro SDI Output card required for Speedgrade
• Optional: 7200 RPM hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, recommended) for video products
• 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.

Note: Microsoft Update KB930627 is required for Adobe Acrobat® for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (64 bit).

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
• 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
• 15.5GB of available hard-disk space 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 disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files; 10GB recommended
• 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
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• 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
• Optional: 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
• Optional: Adobe-certified GPU for GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer in Adobe After Effects®; visit www.adobe.com/go/ aftereffects_systemreqs for the latest list of supported cards
• 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
• 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.