Adobe Premiere Pro Training

The 4.0.1 update becomes available today through the updater. The web Help for all the supported languages has been updated to include documentation for the new features deployed in this update. An early review of the update appears here: http://www.studiodaily.com/blog/?p=744.

Help documentation for the new features

Maximum Render Quality options
Sequence Presets options revised for Maximum Render Quality option
Tab menu settings revised for Maximum Render Quality option
You can improve rendering of motion, improve deinterlacing, and improve scaling of video. Select Maximum Render Quality in your sequence settings or Use Maximum Render Quality in your export settings.

Edit In Adobe Audition
You can export the audio tracks from a sequence directly from Adobe Premiere Pro into Adobe Audition, for full-featured sound editing and sweetening.

16-channel audio support
Pan or balance a 16-channel track
Map sequence audio channels to audio device hardware channels revised for 16-channel support
You can map audio channels to 16 channels of audio, when a 16-channel device is installed.

Exporting OMF files for Pro Tools
Export audio from any sequence to an OMF file for sweetening in DigiDesign Pro Tools.

Importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro
You can import Final Cut Pro projects into Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, as a shortcut to the full range of features in Production Studio CS4.

The supported languages
English
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/premierepro_4.0_help.pdf

French
http://help.adobe.com/fr_FR/PremierePro/4.0/
http://help.adobe.com/fr_FR/PremierePro/4.0/premierepro_4.0_help.pdf

German
http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/PremierePro/4.0/
http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/PremierePro/4.0/premierepro_4.0_help.pdf

Japanese
http://help.adobe.com/ja_JP/PremierePro/4.0/
http://help.adobe.com/ja_JP/PremierePro/4.0/premierepro_4.0_help.pdf

Italian
http://help.adobe.com/it_IT/PremierePro/4.0/
http://help.adobe.com/it_IT/PremierePro/4.0/premierepro_4.0_help.pdf

Spanish
http://help.adobe.com/es_ES/PremierePro/4.0/
http://help.adobe.com/es_ES/PremierePro/4.0/premierepro_4.0_help.pdf

Korean
http://help.adobe.com/ko_KR/PremierePro/4.0/
http://help.adobe.com/ko_KR/PremierePro/4.0/premierepro_4.0_help.pdf

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 10:22 AM | Permalink

Users of Premiere Pro CS4 have discovered that the sequence presets use pixel aspect ratios slightly different from those used in Premiere Pro and After Effects for years. This tutorial dispels the resulting clouds of confusion: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/player/?id={50AEFD66-0E51-4246-9660-4D44F53A490E}

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 11:02 AM | Permalink

This blog is aimed at providing information about documentation and training resources for Adobe Premiere Pro. The focus is narrow, but Adobe does provide other resources to meet your other Premiere Pro informational needs:
For technical support questions, you may qualify for some free technical support. For the guidelines, see Adobe Getting Started Support.
For customer service, see Customer Service.
For tips, tricks, and debugging help, try the User Forums
To file a feature request or report a bug, use the Feature Request/Bug Report form.
For Help, there is Adobe Premiere Pro Web Help
As mentioned in an earlier post, the Adobe Premiere Pro Help and Support page gives you access to all of these, and all the varied training resources on the World Wide Web.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 3:56 PM | Permalink

Web-based Help for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, have gone live. See:

Utilisation d’Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Verwenden von Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Utilizzo di Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 ユーザガイド

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 사용

Uso de Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

If you have a website of your own, feel free to link from it to relevant pages of Help, as appropriate, in these languages. Links to Help drive up its rank in search engines, such as Google.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 3:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Through the good old days of CS3, Adobe had several portals through which one could find Adobe Premiere Pro documentation and training materials: online Help, the Support page (Knowledgebase technical support documentation), the Design Center, the Developer Center, and the user fora ("forums" for those who didn't suffer Latin classes). As a Premiere Pro user myself, I found this array confusing, and didn't even know some of these resources existed until I came to work at Adobe Mecca.

All of that has changed with the CS4 release. No, the variety of resources has not disappeared. Instead, all the Adobe resources are funneled through a single web page for each product. We Premiere Pro users need bookmark only one URL to get access to all the Adobe resources related to Premiere Pro: The Premiere Pro Help and Support page.

But wait, there's more. This very same Help and Support page features links to the best non-Adobe websites and tutorials aimed at Premiere Pro users. And it's all topped off with a Premiere Pro-customized community search engine. Type in search terms, and search both Adobe and non-Adobe sources simultaneously.

As a user, I like this, and hope you like it too.

Before you ask: no, the Premiere Pro Help and Support page does not quite render this blog obsolete. I'll continue to post news about Premiere Pro training resources here, in a casual, non-scheduled way, but will change the contents of the Premiere Pro Help and Support page more systematically. Also, the loose blog format here allows me to point out interesting details that have no place in the Help and Support page.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 3:31 PM | Permalink