Adobe Premiere Pro Training

Karle Soule published a tip for using Premiere Pro to edit video shot on the ever-so-cute Flip camera. Maybe you, also, got one of these for Christmas. Check out Karl's tip on his blog, The Video Road: Using a Flip MinoHD Camera with Premiere Pro CS4.
Happy new year!

Premiere Pro and its CS4 siblings played their parts in the making of Avatar. See the Adobe and Avatar customer story posted on Adobe TV.

Dave Helmly has posted a demo, Sneak Peek at the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine Technology, on Adobe TV. The program description states:

The Adobe Mercury technology also allows users to get more power from their CPUs. By using GPU and CPU in parallel, you get unbelievable performance running in a clean 64 bit operating system (remember, all future versions of Premiere are 64 bit only OSX 10.6 or Win7 64). By running in parallel, the CPU can take over tasks where the GPU isn't used.

Don't miss Dave's Demo.

Are you considering creating written or video tutorials for Premiere Pro CS5? If so, Adobe is willing to collaborate with you toward the following ends:
• We can point out to you new features in Premiere Pro CS5 in need of tutorials.
• We can let you know of some tutorials already in production, in case you'd like to avoid duplicating the efforts of others.
• We can create links from the Premiere Pro Help system to your tutorials, to drive traffic to your site.
• We can help you post your video tutorials to Adobe TV, if that is something you would like to do.

Here are some of the common characteristics we have found in the most successful video tutorials:
• Video duration is 5-8 minutes. Users resoundingly prefer short content.
• Steps present real-life workflow, avoiding tangent information or alternate workflows.
• Voiceover is clear, in sync, and descriptive of each step on screen.
• Speed of voiceover is not rushed and is appropriate to understanding of content.
• Product UI is legible in video after compression (see Learn CS4 shows for examples).
• Avoid long (4+ seconds) narrated sequences without action.
• Use of overlays of pointers or highlights does not distract from content.
• Assets are simple and relevant to the task. Aesthetics and design quality of assets are relevant to the user audience.
• Credits are brief (around 10 seconds) so users don't give up before the content begins.

If you are interested in coordinating your tutorial efforts with Adobe's in-house documentation efforts for Premiere Pro CS5, please drop me a line at muratore@adobe.com. After we receive your signed NDA, I can share more specific information.

Let us hold an end-of-year review of the various documentation, training, and tech support resources Adobe makes available to users of Adobe Premiere Pro.

Adobe Premiere Pro Help: Using Adobe Premiere Pro
Note the "This Help System Only" check box. If you check it, you search the Help contents only. If you leave it unchecked you search a hand-picked (by yours truly) set of websites that provide quality training materials for Premiere Pro users. (If your favorite training site does not come up in these searches, please let me know.)
Note also that you can leave comments of your own on the Help pages (and on the tech support pages as well). If you find an error on a Help page, by all means post a comment to that page. If you have a technique that elaborates upon the instructions given on a Help page, by all means post your tip to that Help page. If you know of an article or tutorial that provides further instruction, by all means post a link to that article or tutorial on the relevant Help page.

Adobe Premiere Pro Help and Support
When I find training materials of particular merit for Premiere Pro users, especially materials that can help you get started with the product, I post links to those materials on this page.

Premiere Pro User-To-User Forum
The Premiere Pro forum is a place where a large number of knowledgeable users congregate. Often this is the best place to get technical questions answered, quickly, and for free.

Premiere Pro Forum FAQs

Feature Request/Bug Report Form
If you'd like to see a new feature in Premiere Pro, or have discovered a crazy-making bug, don't just vent in the user forum: submit a feature request or bug report. Real Adobe humans review the bug reports and feature requests regularly. This helps us prioritize bugs to fix and features to add. When reporting bugs, include information about the version number of your software, the name and version of your operating system and the significant hardware details of your computer.

Adobe Getting Started Support
Although many do not realize it, most Adobe customers are entitled to some free tech support. Check this page to see whether you qualify, and to learn how to contact tech support. Note that you must register your product before you can open a technical support case for it.

Adobe Customer Service
Having trouble, say, installing your software? Customer service is the place to go.

Adobe Premiere Pro Product page
Visit this page for general information about Adobe Premiere Pro, including the ever-popular Premiere Pro System Requirements.

Premiere Pro Training Blog.
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