Adobe releases video package

Adobe Systems announced on Monday the release of Adobe Video Collection, a new package that combines several of the company's video-related applications. The standard version of the collection includes the Premiere Pro editing applications, the After Effect 6.0 special effects program, the new Audition sound editing package and the Encore DVD authoring tools. The professional version of the collection adds version 7.0 of Photoshop, Adobe's popular image-editing application.

As previously reported, the collections are available only for PCs that run recent versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system. The standard version sells for $999; the professional for $1,499.