Adobe Creative Suite, can it be used?

Hi, Can my copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS3 be installed for Linux and if not, are there any equivalents that Linux has that can replace the functions of Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Soundbooth, Encore and After Effects?


P.S. What about my copy of Microsoft Office 2007 for windows, can that be installed? And if not, what is the equivalent?

Would be thankful for quick responses.

 

I know that Office 2007 work with some tweaking with Wine but I'm not too sure about the CS3. I'll try installing the trial of cs4 and see how it goes.

 

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GIMP for photoshop
Inkscape for illustrator
PiTiVi, Kino, and Cinepaint for Premiere pro/ after effects
Ardour 2 to replace sound booth
blender to replace maya

maybe it's just because i don't use these programs enough (hardly at all really), but i don't feel they're as good as the adobe ones. But that as i eluded to is probably just because i don't know how to work them as well as the adobe ones.
My friend uses all open source programs to replace his adobe suite and he doesn't seem to have a problem with it.. but i'm like a mule, it took a long time to learn the suite and now i'm sorta mentally locked into it.


though for the record, i use cakewalk as opposed to soundbooth and have never used soundbooth or Ardour 2.

as far as office goes, it might work, but if it doesn't there is openoffice.org for linux which has all the stuff you'd ever need (spreadsheets, word processor, data base creation, power point, some other stuff)

to replace outlook most people just use the mozilla program thunderbird



if you're into these types of programs you might want to look into ubuntu studio as it's a distro geared towards content creation.. You can always dual boot and keep your windows partition as your "adobe creation" partition should you decide you want to (which is what i use mine for)

 

Thanks. Do you guys know how well those video editing programs capture and handle HDV footage?

 

Why not run a virtual machine in the linux system? Or just use windows and run linux in a virtual machine. That way, you can use both linux and windows at the same time and still be able to run all your softwares.

 

From what I understand, virtual machines do not perform as optimum as if you were using the OS as a dual boot. Also, some features are not fully usable, such as USB devices and sound.

 

Well. that depends on which VM software you're using and your hardware.
Nowadays, hardware have hardware virtualization support. E.g. intel vt technology. The Virtual machine performance isn't very far away from dual boot.

BTW... sound and usb devices are fully supported in most virtual machine softwares. E.G. Vmware workstation. It's 2009 now. If you said that in 2004, then you'd be correct.

 

VMWare workstation is non-free. But even so, virtual performance is nowhere near on par with native performance, especially on the graphics arena. 2D picture editing benefits greatly from GPU acceleration, and video editing absolutely requires it. Virtual machines don't do a very good job of transferring hardware graphics acceleration to the guest system. The CPU receives a significant performance hit too, even with the AMD/Intel hype technologies. I personally haven't found any noticeable performance difference between having Intel-VT enabled or disabled.

 

Did you enable "direct X 9" in Vmware? I have tried editing 1080i HDV videos in premiere cs3 in virtual machine. It proved to be no problem. Average cpu utilization was under 5 percent. Playing 1080P videos in virtual machine also works effortlessly. I can't say the graphic capabilities are on par with a sepearte OS install, but it's perfectly capable of doing anything in short of heavy CAD/3D work.

 

I haven't found many good video editing programs for HD video. I typically end up just using mencoder to cut and transcode the videos I take (AVCHD from a Canon HF100). I don't want to do many fancy effects But the only good video editing system I've heard of on Linux is Cinelerra, and that apparently has a huge learning curve. Most others don't directly edit H.264 encoded video, which is what most HDV is from my experience.