Premiere Pro Help And Support page is live
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.