Adobe released Public Betas of After Effects CS3 Pro and Premiere Pro CS3

Adobe released public betas of two of the major applications in its Creative Suite 3's Production Premium Edition, coming out during the summer of 2007. Both will also be available as stand-alone applications. After Effects Pro CS3 and Premiere Pro CS3 are available for download from this Adobe Web page.

After Effects CS3 Professional Public Beta requires a license for After Effects 7 in order to download it, similar to the requirement to try Photoshop CS3 during its public beta phase. The new application version, in Adobe's words, allows you to "Animate freely and with even more flexibility using new Shape Layers and the new Puppet tool. Use the new Brainstorm feature to naturally evolve animation variations based on parameters you choose."

Premiere Pro CS3 Public Beta does not require a previous license. According to Adobe,

"Tell your story with maximum impact using powerful, flexible editing tools in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Bring new dimension to your projects efficiently and in real time with precise keyframe controls and features like high-quality slow motion with time remapping. Save time creating dramatic effects and get finer creative control thanks to tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software. Achieve your vision with professional color correction, quickly and precisely edit footage from multicam shots, and much more—all from within a familiar, customizable interface."

Note that there is an issue with DV capture in the Premiere Pro CS3 Public Beta with Mac OS X 10.4.9 that requires downgrading to 10.4.8. [Bill Fox]