* 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
* 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 1GB of VRAM recommended); visit
www.adobe.com/products/premiere/extend.html for 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.