Adobe CS4 & Ultra

In CS3, Adobe Production Premium and Master Collection included a nice little application called Adobe Ultra. This application was quite separate from the rest of the suite(s), and although it performed well on its own, the workflow between Ultra and other applications wasn't great.

For better or for worse, the folks at Adobe decided to drop Ultra from the CS4 lineup while they figure out how to better integrate it. Parts of the program have been incorporated into Premiere Elements and Visual Communicator, but as yet it has not been incorporated into any of the CS applications.

In September 2008, Adobe described Ultra as "sleeping but not dead".