Adobe Premiere Pro Training

We're watching you, well, not you specifically, but you in the aggregate. We track the terms for which people search when they are looking for instruction in Adobe Premiere Pro. Better yet, we know when they don't find what they are looking for. This is better because we can do something about it, like tell you where to find the topics.

The stats we have for September show, of course, the topics sought for Premiere Pro CS3. However, if a topic was hard to find for CS3, it might still be hard to find for CS4. So, I offer the following list of topics that have been hard to find, along with links to the topics themselves in CS4 Help:

24p
24p sequences

anchor points
Adjust or animate clip anchor points
Adjust object anchor points and curves

blue screen
Blue Screen Key effect (Windows only)

connect camera
Setting up your system

"Ken Burns" effect
Zoom and pan a still image

Multi-camera sequences
Multi-camera sequences

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 4:02 PM | Permalink

The coolest feature of the Adobe Premiere Pro Help and Support page (see my earlier post on this) is the search field at the top of the page. This is not your typical Google search, oh no. That search field, rather, uses a version of the Google search engine that has been customized by us here in Adobe Learning Resources. It returns highly-relevant results. This is called a custom search engine. In the case of Premiere Pro, it lets pass only results from websites that we know to have good-quality training materials for Premiere Pro. It filters out everything else on the web.

Do you have, or know of, a website containing good-quality training materials for Premiere Pro? If it doesn't appear in the results you get from the custom search engine, let me know. If the site qualifies, I will add it to the engine. Lost that URL? The custom search engine search field appears toward the top of the Premiere Pro Help and Support page, here: http://www.adobe.com/support/premiere/index.html

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 8:59 AM | Permalink

One of the advantages of posting Adobe Premiere Pro Help content on the web is that it allows links from Help to other web resources. That means we could link from a topic in Premiere Pro Help to a related tutorial you created. Premiere Pro users get quicker access to helpful training, and your site gets some additional traffic, driven from adobe.com. Sound interesting?

As the writer of Premiere Pro Help, I reserve the right to decide whether or not to link to a tutorial. However, my inclination is to make links to any Premiere Pro training materials that are accurate, well-presented, and helpful to users of the product. We can link to either written or video tutorials. Currently, we can link only from English-language Help to English language tutorials. However, we have a program in development wherein international Help moderators will be able to point to tutorials in the other languages in which Premiere Pro is released. This won't be ready for a while yet, but it is coming.

The only other requirement is that the tutorials must be located on pages requiring no password or payment to access. Some tutorial producers have made good use of this requirement. They placed a few tutorials from their caches onto free pages to which Adobe can link, but they also placed links from those free pages to materials that require users to subscribe or pay for access. There is nothing wrong with that from our perspective.

If you have Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials scattered around your site, perhaps among training materials for other products, there are a couple of ways we could proceed. Either we could place links in Help to each Premiere Pro tutorial individually, or you could create a kind of landing page with links to your various Premiere Pro materials. We would link from Help to the landing page.

If you have tutorials already on the web that will remain pertinent for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, or if you plan to create tutorials specifically for CS4, I'd love to hear about them. It's easy to get started: just send me an email at muratore@adobe.com.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 8:50 AM | Permalink

This blog is aimed at all users of Adobe Premiere Pro. Among this audience are some individuals who, out of their own expertise in this product, instruct others in its use. This instruction takes many forms: face-to-face workshops, books, magazine articles, blog posts, and tutorials of both the written and video varieties. I have taken it upon myself to dub this non-organized, non-group of people the Premiere Pro Experts Group (PPEG), taking a lead from the world-famous Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

If you fit this description, keep an eye on posts to this blog tagged with the Premiere Pro Experts Group category. They may be of special interest for you.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 8:26 AM | Permalink

Out of over 100 new features in Ppro CS4, the marketing folks thought you should know about these right away. They are listed with links to Help topics explaining how to use each of them:

New tapeless camera support
Take advantage of the efficiency of tapeless cameras. Edit files from the latest tapeless formats natively, including AVCHD, P2, and XDCAM EX, without transcoding or rewrapping. With the integrated Media Browser, you can browse your hard disks from inside Adobe Premiere Pro, find footage, and then import the content directly into your Adobe Premiere Pro project.
File-based workflows
File formats supported for import
About transferring files
About importing files
Import files from the Media Browser
Importing assets from tapeless formats
Map P2 audio for export to P2

Batch encoding
Save time by automating the process of creating multiple encoded versions of your content using the new batch encoder. Use any combination of sequences and clips as sources, and encode to a wide variety of video formats, including FLV and F4V, Windows Media, MPEG-2, H.264, QuickTime, and more. Maximize your productivity by continuing to work while files encode in the background.
Adobe Media Encoder

Improved integration
Tighter-than-ever integration among Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe OnLocation, Encore, and Soundbooth™ ensure end-to-end workflows that are smooth and efficient. The innovative Adobe Dynamic Link allows you to move seamlessly among Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore eliminating intermediate rendering so you can work quickly and stay focused. Save rendering time by natively importing Photoshop® PSD files with video and blend modes, sharing more effects with After Effects®, and importing video sequences in Encore without having to encode them. With new Adobe Premiere Pro integration in Adobe OnLocation, you can send entire shot lists directly to Adobe Premiere Pro, complete with all the metadata that was logged during the shoot. Export interactive DVD elements created with Encore as SWF files for online viewing.
Cross-application workflows
Adobe Dynamic Link
Editing audio in Adobe Soundbooth
Exporting to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or CD

Improved editing efficiency
Work faster with powerful and flexible editing enhancements. Adobe Premiere Pro includes over 50 of the most requested enhancements that make the editing workflow more efficient. Apply effects to multiple selections, get timecode information faster, speed up work in the timeline with new keyboard shortcuts, and much more.
Applying, removing, and organizing effects
Clip details in the Info panel
Keyboard shortcuts

Speech Search
Quickly find the specific area of a shot by searching for keywords within the content. Adobe Premiere Pro speech recognition technology converts your audio to a transcript and synchronizes it to the video. This allows you to go directly to the place of interest, and even cut video based on the script.
Convert speech to text metadata
Find a word in any clip
Search metadata

Completely new and improved Adobe OnLocation CS4
Adobe OnLocation™ CS4, now cross-platform, is powerful direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software to help you produce superior-quality results from your video camera. Featuring a completely redesigned interface, Adobe OnLocation CS4 gives you an impressive array of production tools to help you shoot better and faster while saving you time and money. Easily manage shots and takes with the new shot list. Adobe OnLocation automatically creates metadata that speeds your workflow at every step of production.
Basic workflow
Importing clips from OnLocation

End-to-end metadata workflow
Easily track video metadata throughout your workflow. Import metadata into Adobe OnLocation while you’re shooting, log clip information directly in the project panel using a unique spreadsheet-style interface that speeds up the process and eliminates re-entering the same information for each clip in Adobe Premiere Pro. Then, pass metadata through, on export, for publishing to the web.
Managing metadata
Exporting XMP metadata

Faster, customizable SWF output
With one click, easily create SWF versions of your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects for the web, without opening another application. Now with added flexibility, you can create content compatible with Adobe Flash® Player, complete with DVD interactivity, menus, URL links, and HTML templates. Export different video sizes for FLV streaming or progressive download, customize SWF player skins and reduce FLV encoding time by using optimized encode settings in Adobe Media Encoder. Build new revenue sources based on secure streaming or protected download delivery models.
Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, or SWF file
Sharing markers with After Effects, Encore, and Flash
Moving content between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Flash
Tips for creating FLV files
Exporting for Adobe Media Player

Industry-leading Blu-ray Disc output
Create high-definition Blu-ray discs with advanced pop-up menus and subtitles with Adobe Encore CS4 software, included with Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4.
Export files for DVD, Blu-ray, videoCD (Windows only), super videoCD, or CD-ROM

Thousands of visual and audio effects via Adobe Resource Central
Create or customize existing video and audio using numerous effects available via Adobe Resource Central. Get live access to fresh, new content and news. Get helpful tutorials and training materials without leaving your workflow. (Internet connection required.)
See the new Resource Central panel in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 10:05 AM | Permalink