TLP or CLP customers who order Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium and/or Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection receive multiple serial numbers for each product. This document helps identify the correct serial number for each product, as well as serial numbers for Color Finesse and the 32-bit video support package for CS5 Production Premium and CS5 Master Collection.
There are three ways to locate TLP and CLP serial numbers on the Adobe licensing website:
Production Premium CS5 and Master Collection CS5 purchases include two serial numbers for Color Finesse. These serial numbers can be found under product name After Effects and begin with “CFL”.
- Color Finesse serial numbers that come with CS5 are available in LWS as After Effects 10.0
- Color Finesse serial numbers that come with CS4 are available in LWS as After Effects 9.0.
The Windows versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 require a 64-bit edtion of Windows Vista or Windows 7. These applications will install and run only on computers that use these operating systems. Mac OS users are not affected by this requirement.
To support users with 32-bit Windows operating systems, Adobe includes a support package for CS5 Production Premium and CS5 Master Collection that includes 32-bit versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4.
The serial number for the 32-bit support package is labeled "Production Premium CS4." You can differentiate a Production Premium CS4 serial number from a 32-bit Premiere Pro/After Effects CS4 serial number by looking at the SKU description of your product.
The license certificate and the purchase history report include the SKU description. The Retrieve Serial Number report does not.
Use these tables to help you find serial numbers in license certificates, Purchase History reports, and Retrive Serial Number reports.
| Serial number for: | License certificate
Use the serial number from the SKU Description row for: |
Purchase History
Download the report to .csv and filter as follows: |
Retrieve Serial Number |
| CS5 Master Collection | Master Collection CS5 5.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > Master Collection 2. Column AJ > CS5 3. Column AK > your desired language 4. Locate the serial number in column AM (Windows) or AN (Mac OS) |
1. Product Name > Master Collection 2. Version > 5.0 3. Choose a Platform 4. Click Search 5. Choose the serial number for the desired language version |
| Acrobat 9 Pro | Acrobat Pro 9.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > Acrobat Professional 2. Column AJ > 9.0 3. Column AK > your desired language 4. Locate the serial number in column AM (Windows) or AN (Mac OS) |
1. Product Name > Acrobat Pro 2. Version > 9.0 3. Choose a Platform 4. Click Search 5. Choose the serial number for the desired language version |
| Color Finesse CS5 | After Effects 10.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > After Effects 2. Column AJ > 10.0 3. If the serial starts with"CFL" then it is a Color Finesse serial number, not an After Effects serial number |
1. Product Name > After Effects 2. Version > 10.0 3. Choose a Platform 4. Click Search 5. Choose the serial number for the desired language version |
| 32-bit support for Premiere Pro/After Effects | Production Premium 4.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > Production Premium 2. Column AJ > 4.0 3. If the SKU description in column AH is Master Collection CS5 5.0, then you have the correct serial number. If it says Production Premium CS4, then it's the wrong serial number. Keep searching. |
Do not use the Retrieve Serial Number report to find this serial number. |
| Color Finesse CS4 | After Effects 9.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > After Effects 2. Column AJ > 9.0 3. If the serial number starts with "CFL" then it is a Color Finess serial number and not an After Effects serial number |
1. Product Name > After Effects 2. Version > 9.0 3. Choose a Platform 4. Click Search 5. Choose the serial number for the desired language version |
| Serial number for: | License certificate
Use the serial number from the SKU Description row for: |
Purchase History
Download the report into .csv format and filter as follows: |
Retrieve Serial Number |
| CS5 Production Premium | Production Premium CS5 5.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > Production Premium 2. Column AJ > CS5 3. Column AK > your desired language 4. Locate the serial number in column AM (Windows) or AN (Mac OS) |
1. Product Name > Production Premium 2.Version > 5.0 3. Choose a Platform 4. Click Search 5. Choose the serial number for the desired language version |
| Color Finesse CS5 | After Effects 10.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > After Effects 2. Column AJ > 10.0 3. If the serial number starts with "CFL" then it is the Color Finesse serial number and not an After Effects serial number |
1. Product Name > After Effects 2.Version > 10.0 3. Choose a Platform 4. Click Search 5. Choose the serial number for the desired language version |
| 32-bit support for Premiere Pro/After Effects | Production Premium 4.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > Production Premium 2. Column AJ > 4.0 3. If the serial number in the SKU Description is Master Collection CS5 5.0, then you have the correct serial number. If it's Production Premium CS4, then it's the wrong serial number. Keep searching. |
Do not use the Retrieve Serial Number report to find this serial number. |
| Color Finesse CS4 | After Effects 9.0 AOO License ALL | 1. Column AI > After Effects 2. Column AJ > 9.0 3. If the serial number starts with "CFL" then it is the Color Finesse serial number and not an After Effects serial number |
1. Product Name > After Effects 2. Version > 9.0 3. Choose a Platform 4. Click Search 5. Choose the serial number for the desired language version |

