Can Premiere Pro CS6 still be bought and registered ??

[Robert Hart]

Does anyone know if Premiere Pro CS6 can still be paid for, installed and registered as an upgrade from CS5 or is that horse a long gonner? The Adobe site is all cryptic worse than it used to be. I simply cannot find a page which says CS6 and talks about dollars to be paid. I am not the sharpest splinter in the woodheap internet-wise so something could be getting past me.


I would re-register my CS5 if I could but when the passwords were stolen, I followed the Adobe email and re-did the password. Since then my computer died and with it the Adobe information. I think it was registered to my email address but how to get at my Adobe membership, redo the password and re-register a clean re-install of Premiere Pro CS5 is also eluding me.

Given my replacement editing computer is capable of using CS6 and nVidia CUDA cards which I fitted for Resolve, I might as well go with CS6 if it can still be had.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Samir Patel]

http://www.adobe.com/products/catal...sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuite6.html

looks like you can still upgrade from CS5 production premium to CS6 production premium for about $750
only Premiere CS6 upgrade for $300

I would think as long as you have your serial number you should not be required to reinstall just to install cs6. You probably will be asked for your CS5 serial when you try to install the CS6 upgrade fresh.

 

[Stacey Spears]

While you can still get CS6, it's not really worth it since it's using such an old Red SDK and they won't update it. While I hate
paying the subscription model on CC, it's a much better product. I do hope one day their honor their promise of more frequent upgrades as so far they have not.

 

[Robert Hart]

Thank you Stacey and Samir.


The RED SDK is not an issue for me as I am still back in the dark ages shooting on SI2K. Premiere Pro CS5 is fine with the cineform codec but renders and exports are a bit slow as in watch cactus grow in the dry season.

I have had a bit of a play with Premiere Pro CS6. Because it can use the CUDA video cards it is so much faster on renders and exports. I'm not so fond of it for being too different in ways of doing things but that is learning laziness on my part at play, not the software feature set.