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September 29, 2008

CS4 Coverage

As you might expect, there's been a ton written about the Production Premium CS4 releases over the last few days. I've attempted a quick roundup of some of the ones that have come across my desk, although I fear I'm already a days behind in the roundup!

September 26, 2008

Dig Deep into CS4

I know some of you are chomping at the bit to see what you can do in our new releases. Well, some of your curiosities can be answered now--the documentation team has posted the full documentation for Premiere Pro CS4, After Effects CS4, and Soundbooth CS4. More documentation will be coming soon.

You can also take this as your first chance to play around with our new Community Help which is linked from the first page of each product's help section. The idea is that the community can, in aggregate, document how to use Adobe tools far better than we can on our own. So we start with all the documentation that we normally have and add a single search that can turn up results in our own help, knowledgebases, blogs, and other web sites and then we merge in tutorials and how-tos from community sites. As more tutorials are suggested we'll be adding them into the search results. One day someone might post a great tutorial on, say, noise removal in Soundbooth and a couple days later that might be the highest hit in our community help search for "noise reduction."

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September 25, 2008

CS4 Launch Webcast

If you wanted to check out the CS4 launch webcast on Tuesday morning but missed it you now have a second chance: the whole stream has been posted to Adobe TV. Enjoy!

Posted by Hart Shafer at 9:35 AM | | Comments (1)

September 23, 2008

Production Premium CS4 is Official

It's always hard to believe when a launch finally comes, but it's here! This morning we unveiled the whole CS4 lineup in our webcast and all the juicy details have been posted. There's a lot out there so I thought I'd point all of you information-hungry folks to the places you can learn more.

First, check out the official products sites. You can start on the main Production Premium site to read about the suite features, and there are links there to all the individual components. There's also features list for the suite, and below I've got links to the main pages and feature lists for all the point products as well.

You should also check out Adobe TV, our (relatively) new video site that's now been filled with CS4 videos. Start with the video professionals page, which includes feature tours of the suite, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, Soundbooth, and the rest of the gang.

And remember, the new feature overviews are just the highlights. There are hundreds of details throughout the suite that don't get mentioned in the high-level overviews. Dig in and enjoy!

September 2, 2008

Creative Suite 4 Announcement

I can't say anything specific, but here's a heads up for those of you who don't visit the Adobe.com main page often: we'll be announcing CS4 via webcast on September 23rd. Sign up now for your invitation!

Posted by Hart Shafer at 12:40 PM | | Comments (1)