Adobe announced on Thursday that demand for the company’s video production tools had grown 45% year-over-year on the Mac platform,according to a report by The Loop, thanks in part toApple’s controversial release of Final Cut Pro Xearlier this year. Adobe also announced that sales for the company’s Production Premium CS5.5 suite had seen 22% higher sales volume overall in the last quarter, buoyed by the large number of disgruntled Final Cut Studio users switching to its Premier Pro offering....

Adobe announcedin a press releaseon Wednesday that a forthcoming edition of its Digital Publishing Suite will add support for the Newsstand feature of the soon-to-be-released iOS 5. Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite is a package of widely used hosted solutions that has been used to create over 600 digital titles in the publishing industry. With the addition of Newsstand support, “publishers will be able to use Digital Publishing Suite to create files that are detected by Newsstand and automatically downloaded to the Newsstand shelf”....

Adobe’sPhotoshop Expressdidn’t fare too well in our recentround-up of iOS image enhancement apps. There are simply better options out there. Now Adobe has made a push to make it a little more desirable with an update that adds what appears to be the first of a series of plug-ins which will be available as in-app purchases. The ‘Camera Pack’ offers the ability to smooth out grain, speckling and other noise. This noise reduction filter does a great job at smoothing out grainy images....

For those of us who don’t rely on theAdobe Creative Suiteto do our jobs, the pricing is absolutely insane. For those of you who do, it’s still insane, but at least it’s a necessary amount of insanity. However, there have been numerous times that I’d have loved to have had access toPhotoshop, Premiere or something else from CS if only for a few weeks. Fortunately, Adobe has finally answered the call of people like me, with the introduction of monthly subscriptions for the Creative Suite apps....

Adobe has todayannouncedits new Flash Media Server 4.5 and Flash Access 3.0 products that allow content providers to repackage and stream Flash video to iOS devices on the fly without having to re-encode it manually. This doesn’t actually allow iOS devices to play flash content, but it should allow publishers that rely heavily on content delivered in a Flash wrapper to get it out to iPhone and iPad customers in a quicker, easier fashion....