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Adobe® Soundbooth CS3 Read Me
Welcome to Adobe® Soundbooth CS3 . This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips not covered in the Soundbooth CS3 documentation. Minimum system requirements Install your software Install your scores Uninstall your software Purchase from a trial Electronic licensing Registration information Known issues Customer care Other resources Minimum system requirements Windows® • Intel® Pentium® 4 (1.4GHz processor for DV; 3.4GHz processor for HDV), Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon® (dual 2.8GHz processors for HD), or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor; SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD systems • Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions) • 512MB of RAM (1GB for DV playback; 2GB for HDV and HD playback) • 4GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation) • 1280x900 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card and 16MB of VRAM • Microsoft DirectX or ASIO-compatible sound card • DVD-ROM drive • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features • Internet or phone connection required for product activation • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services Mac OS® • Multicore Intel processor • Mac OS X v.10.4.9 • 512MB of RAM (1GB for DV playback; 2GB for HDV and HD playback) • 4GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation) • 1280x900 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card and 16MB of VRAM • Core Audio compatible sound card • SuperDrive required for installation • QuickTime 7 software required to use QuickTime features
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation • Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services * Online services, including, but not limited to, Adobe® Stock Photos and Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™, may not be available in all countries, languages, and currencies. Availability of services is subject to change. Use of online services is governed by terms and conditions of a separate agreement and may be subject to additional fees. For details, visit www.adobe.com. Install your software 1. Before you install, close all applications currently running on your system—including other Adobe applications, Microsoft Office applications, and browser windows. 2. Do one of the following: o Windows: Insert the DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. If the installer does not launch automatically, navigate to the Adobe CS3 folder found at the root level on your disk and double-click Setup.exe to start the installation process. If you downloaded the software from the web, open the folder, navigate to the Adobe CS3 folder, double-click Setup.exe, and then follow the on-screen instructions. o Mac: Insert the DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. If the installer does not launch automatically, navigate to the Adobe Soundbooth CS3 folder found at the root level on your disk and double-click the Setup file to start the installation process. If you downloaded the software from the web, open the folder, navigate to the Adobe Soundbooth CS3 folder, double-click Setup, and then follow the onscreen instructions. Notes: In order to install additional components or reinstall your software after your original installation, you will need access to the original installer (CD, DVD or the download from the web). Before you begin additional installations or reinstallations, please make sure the installer is in the same drive or location it was during the original installation. Install your scores 1. During installation from the DVD, select the option to install Adobe Soundbooth Scores from the Installation Options part of the installer. If you choose not to install the scores during the installation of Soundbooth CS3, you can always go back and install them later by doing one of the following: o In Windows, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs (for Windows XP), or Programs and Features (for Windows Vista). Select Adobe Soundbooth CS3, click Change/Remove, and then choose Install or Reinstall. In the Installation Options step of the installer, choose Adobe Soundbooth Scores and click Next to begin the installation. o In Mac OS X, double-click Add or Remove Adobe Soundbooth CS3 in Applications\Utilities\Adobe Installers. Authenticate as an administrator, then select Install or Repair. In the Installation Options step of the installer, choose Adobe Soundbooth Scores and click Next to begin the installation.
2. If you downloaded the software from the web, open the folder, navigate to the scores folder, double-click Setup (Mac), or Setup.exe (Windows), and then follow the on-screen instructions. Uninstall your software 1. Before you uninstall, close all applications currently running on your system—including other Adobe applications, Microsoft Office applications, and browser windows. 2. Do one of the following: o In Windows, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs (for Windows XP), or Programs and Features (for Windows Vista). Select Adobe Soundbooth CS3, click Change/Remove, and then follow the on-screen instructions to Remove Adobe CS3 Components. o IMPORTANT: Mac OS has new uninstall functionality. DO NOT drag applications to the trash to uninstall them. To safely uninstall on Mac OS X, double-click Add or Remove Adobe Soundbooth CS3 in Applications\Utilities\Adobe Installers. Authenticate as an administrator, then select Remove Adobe Soundbooth CS3 Components to start the uninstall. Note: If you activated Soundbooth from a trial version you will need to run two different uninstallers in order to remove all installed components. Please uninstall in the folowing order to ensure that all files are properly removed: First: Uninstall Adobe Soundbooth CS3 Codecs Next: Uninstall Adobe Soundbooth CS3 We also recommend that you check your drive to make sure all other Soundbooth related files have been properly removed. To find out how, please see the "Cleanup hard drive space" section of Known issues. Purchase from a trial • Choose Activate from the Help menu and follow the on-screen instructions. • After activating Soundbooth you will prompted to install additional codecs that come with the purchased version of the product. Click OK to the message that appears and wait while these files are installed. After installation you will need to restart Soundbooth in order to use the full functionality of these codecs which includes import and export of MPEG video.. Note: If you decide to purchase a different product than you installed for the trial, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the software. For example, if you download and install a trial of Adobe® Creative® Suite 3 Design Premium, but you decide to purchase only Adobe® Illustrator®, you will need to uninstall the trial version of the Suite before installing the standalone version of Illustrator that you purchased. For more detailed information, visit www.adobe.com/go/tbinfo Volume licensing customers cannot purchase from a trial directly. After evaluating a Creative Suite 3 product, you must uninstall the trial and install the product using the volume licensing media and serial number. Refer to the “Uninstall your software” section of this document for instructions. Please contact your reseller or authorized Adobe licensing center to place an order for a volume license. To find a reseller in your area, go to http://partners.adobe.com/resellerfinder/na/reseller.jsp. Electronic licensing
Adobe software may include electronic license (e-license) management technology to ensure compliance with the Product License Agreement. When present, this technology prompts you to verify the license of your product within 30 days after you start it for the first time. If prompted, verification is mandatory. The on-screen prompt may ask you to activate the software. This verification process does not collect, transmit, or use any personally identifiable information. To learn more, visit the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com/activation. Activate software: 1. If the Activation dialog box is not already open, choose Help > Activate. 2. Follow the on-screen instructions. Note: If you want to install the product on a different computer, you must first deactivate the software on your computer. To deactivate, choose Help > Deactivate. Registration information When you install your software, be sure to register to get up-to-date product information, training, newsletters, and invitations to Adobe events and seminars. You will also receive a complimentary benefit such as the new Hypatia Sans font and a Dreamweaver Plug-In. Known issues Please refer to Adobe Support for additional late-breaking information and known issues for all Creative Suite 3 applications. Repairing installation on Mac When choosing to do a repair or re-installation on Mac OS, a dialog will appear stating "Please insert Adobe Soundbooth CS3 to continue installation". When this occurs you will need to insert your original Adobe Soundbooth CS3 DVD or re-mount the Adobe Soundbooth CS3 image that you downloaded after purchase. Once you insert the DVD or mount the image, press OK to continue with the installation. ASIO driver vs Soundbooth Windows Sound For the highest level of compatibility, Adobe Soundbooth automatically assigns your default Windows sound card as its default inputs and outputs. If your audio hardware supports the ASIO driver model, we recommend that you choose it in the Audio Hardware preferences dialog instead of the Soundbooth Windows Sound, as this will give improved performance in most cases. Note: Soundbooth CS3 will not be able to launch if you have Total Recorder installed on your machine. Total Recorder is an application that creates virtual inputs on your computer that Soundbooth does not support. To resolve this problem you will need to uninstall Total Recorder. DirectSound® support on Windows Vista Some audio devices do not show up within the Soundbooth Windows Sound device driver on Windows Vista due to changes in the core of Directsound itself. In these situations, using the ASIO driver for the soundcard is suggested and will work properly within Soundbooth. If an input on a sound device is not set as the default for that device within Windows Vista, Soundbooth will present a warning dialog for each unavailable input chosen in the Soundbooth Windows Sound driver. We suggest only selecting the input you intend to use within Soundbooth.
Also make sure this input is also set as the default for the specific device within the Windows Vista control panel. Optimize your system for recording Recorded audio can contain audio dropouts in certain situations while processor intensive applications are running. This is particularly noticeable with USB hardware such as microphones. Try closing other applications such as anti-virus, software firewalls, and browsers that may be obtaining information from the Internet at certain intervals. If that does not help, turn off the Aero interface on Windows Vista while recording as it is also processor intensive. AutoComposer behavior Within the Autocomposer, the "Intro\Outro" setting for a score may be overruled if the variation for the score is set to "Automatic". Automatic is meant to allow easy manipulation of the length of the score, but depending on the length, there may not be enough audio data to retain the Intro and Outro. Multichannel file support AIFF files that contain multiple streams of audio cannot be imported into Soundbooth. This includes 5.1 .aif and .aiff audio files. Video Formats The XVID AVI compressor is not supported within Soundbooth and may cause the application to hang or crash. When saving AVI files, please use a different compressor for export to avoid this problem. QuickTime support QuickTime must be installed in order to open or save .mov files. This means you will need to install QuickTime on your Windows operating system in order to obtain this functionality. QuickTime files which have a filename with 60 characters or more on Windows XP or Vista cannot be imported. This is a limitation of QuickTime on Windows. Cleanup hard drive space Soundbooth CS3 will create several files within your user folder that help speed up the import process of audio and video files. These files can be shared by all DVA products to help optimize the import process across the applications.However, in some cases this can lead to the consumption of a large amount of hard drive space. If you would like to delete these files to clear some hard drive space: Windows XP: • Open Soundbooth and go to Edit > Preferences > Media. Click any of the three buttons offered in this dialog to remove the files they associate with (see tooltips for descriptions). • Another option is to manually delete these files by deleting the "Media Cache Files" and "Adobe Soundbooth Preview Files" folders in this location: [WindowsLocation]:\Documents and Settings\[YourUserName]\Application Data\Adobe\Soundbooth\1.0\. • If you had previously saved files to this location, please be sure to move them to a safer location before deleting this entire folder. Windows Vista:
• Open Soundbooth and go to Edit > Preferences > Media. Click any of the three buttons offered in this dialog to remove the files they associate with (see tooltips for descriptions). • Another option is to manually delete these files by deleting the "Media Cache Files" and "Adobe Soundbooth Preview Files" folders in this location: [WindowsLocation]:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Soundbooth\1.0\. • If you had previously saved files to this location, please be sure to move them to a safer location before deleting this entire folder. Mac OS: • Open Soundbooth and go to Soundbooth > Preferences > Media. Click any of the three buttons offered in this dialog to remove the files they associate with (see tooltips for descriptions). • Another option is to manually delete these files by deleting the following folder: /[YourUserName]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Soundbooth/1.0/. • If you had previously saved files to this location, please be sure to move them to a safer location before deleting this entire folder. Note: These files are not harmful to delete and will be re-generated the next time you open the audio or video files they associate with. Once these files are removed however, Soundbooth will require more time to open the original audio or video files while the audio is re-conformed. Customer care Customer Service Adobe Customer Service provides assistance with product information, sales, registration, and other non-technical issues. To find out how to contact Adobe Customer Service, please visit Adobe.com for your region or country and click on Contact. Support Plan Options and Technical Resources If you require technical assistance for your product, including information on free and paid support options and troubleshooting resources, more information is available at http://www.adobe.com/go/support/. Outside of North America, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/intlsupport/. Free troubleshooting resources include Adobe’s support knowledgebase, Adobe user-to-user forums and more. If you are having any issues with installing or uninstalling any of your Creative Suite 3 applications, please try rebooting your system prior to contacting Support. Other resources Documentation Order printed documentation at www.adobe.com/go/buy_books. Online Resources Creative Experience Adobe Design Center Developer Center User Forums Training Adobe Certification Program
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