Posts in Category "Tips & Tricks"

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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August 3, 2007

Video Workshop

I just realized that I’ve been remiss in not linking to the excellent Video Workshop that we have posted online at the Adobe Design Center. The Video Workshop is a one-stop shop for all of the videos we have on all the CS3 applications (19 applications in all!) Soundbooth has its own section with a some great introductory how-to videos.

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Building the Pod 100

I’m clearly lacking in timeliness, but Bruce Williams’ podcast series Building the Pod has hit a milestone with its 100th podcast. (Congrats Bruce…and now I see you’ve already moved on to episode 101). Anyway, what’s exciting is this is Bruce’s first venture into video podcasts, and he’s set up a great episode where he takes a promo and remixes it, explaining what he’s doing at every step. If you’ve ever wanted to just watch someone work to learn their tricks of the trade, this is a great place to watch.

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June 25, 2007

3rd Party Effects in Audition

The Adobe Design Center (a place for tutorials and articles on using all the Adobe applications) has just posted a tutorial by Bruce Williams on using 3rd party effects plug-ins in Audition. You might remember that Bruce is the Lynda.com instructor for Audition, and this movie is an extract from that longer Lynda.com training series. This is a great place to start if you’re looking for how to use 3rd party effects in Audition or you’re interested in the general tone of the Audition material on Lynda.com.

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June 13, 2007

Working with Noise Reduction

Graeme Hague over at Digital Producer has posted a 1-page summary on using the Noise Reduction filter in Audition 2. Graeme talks both about how to record less noise to begin with as well as how to tackle hiss and hum after it makes its way into your recording.

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June 5, 2007

Expanded Online Video Seminars

We’ve expanded the number of online seminars in the video area in response to strong demand, so we have a bunch of events coming up in the near future. The registration site is the same as before, but now includes web seminars on:

Introduction to Production Premium CS3
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

Delivering Flash Video – Introduction to Flash Media Server
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

Photoshop CS3 Extended Video features
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

New Features in CS3 – Adobe Media Encoder with Device Central
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

Introduction to Premiere Pro for the Mac user
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT
Thursday, August 30th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

Flash for Video Professionals Part 1 – Introduction/Overview
Thursday, July 19th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

Adobe Media Player
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

New Features in After Effects CS3
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT

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May 8, 2007

On Tour with Matrox

I wrote up the last post and totally forgot we’re also out on tour with our friends over at Matrox. The schedule of the remaining stops is:


  • Boca Raton, Florida — May 22, 2007
  • Seattle, Washington — May 30, 2007
  • Detroit, Michigan — June 5, 2007
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota — June 7, 2007

Information and registration can be found on the Matrox site.

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Upcoming Events and Seminars

We have several events coming up that you may be interested in. First, there’s the CS3 Creative License Conference, a 2-day event for all types of creatives to see what’s new, talk to each other about design and production, and talk to Adobe directly. The full 2-day conference will be held in Los Angeles June 19-20 and New York June 25-26. Conference details are here and you can register here.

In addition to the 2-day conference, we’re holding a series of 1-day events in the following cities:


  • Chicago – May 16
  • Austin – May 23
  • San Jose – May 31
  • Toronto – June 4
  • Boston – June 12
  • Seattle – June 14

All attendees at both the 1 and 2-day events will also receive a Lynda.com training package and some Photoshop plug-ins.

If you can’t make any of the events, or you want to delve into some specific topics, we also have some upcoming eSeminars online. Video professionals can register here for these sessions:

Flash Authoring for Video Pros
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 — 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM US/Pacific

Audio Production for Video Pros with New Adobe Soundbooth
Thursday, May 10, 2007 — 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM US/Pacific

New Productivity for Mac Users with the New Production Premium
Thursday, May 17, 2007 — 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific

Introduction to CS3 Production Premium
Thursday, May 24, 2007 — 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific

24p Workflows with Adobe Production Premium
Thursday, May 31, 2007 — 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific

Note the Soundbooth session on May 10th!

We also have an eSeminar series for web pros coming up so there’s something for everyone:

Hoops&YoYo Creator – Timothy Stout – Case Study ›
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 — 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific

What’s New in Creative Suite 3 Web Premium ›
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 — 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific

What’s New in Flash CS3 Professional ›
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 — 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific

Character Animation with Flash CS3 Professional
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 — 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific

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April 3, 2007

Looping Tutorial From EventDV

Over at EventDV.net, Louisa Winters has posted a great walkthrough tutorial showing how to create some music for your projects using the loops and looping features in Audition 2.0. If you’re a videographer who is looking for a quick leg-up on using that part of Audition, it’s a great read.

Also, looking at what Louisa had written led me to this how-to on Audition’s noise reduction capabilities.

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March 19, 2007

New Audition Podcast

Blair Trosper, an Audition user and radio pro (his day job is as an Imaging Director) has started a new podcast covering Audition. In his first episode he interviews me about the history of Audition back to the Cool Edit days, so if that sounds interesting you should check it out. He promises video tutorials to come–I’m looking forward to seeing what he comes up with!

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