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January 29, 2009

Fresh Premiere Pro Help build is live

I pushed a new build of Premiere Pro Help to the live server last night. It contains several revised topics. These revisions were based on user feedback. Revised topics include:

Export a still image

Choosing formats for use in other applications In particular, note the third bullet telling which export formats support alpha channels.

Export Settings Format options

Specify the default audio device In particular, note the Note added to step 3 about setting up USB microphones, on Windows systems, for recording audio in Premiere Pro.

Set up a USB microphone (Mac OS)

Work with audio transitions

Audio crossfade transitions

Fade in or fade out clip audio


There are other revisions as well. See if you can find them.

January 21, 2009

Community Help blog

Keep an eye on developments in Adobe's Community Help system. Subscribe to Marius Zaharia's Adobe Community Help blog. While you're at his site, be sure to watch Adobe Community Help: the Movie provided by Adobe TV.

Search Premiere Pro Community Help from your browser search field

In a recent blog post, Marius Zaharia shows how easy it is to install a browser plug-in that makes using Premiere Pro Community Help searches very easy.

Tip: On the Community Help page, from the Product menu, select View All Products > Premiere Pro before clicking the Add It button to which Marius refers.

See: OpenSearch plugins available for your browser.

January 17, 2009

Tutorial for the RED plugin on Studio Monthly

Studio Monthly has posted a text tutorial explaining how to use the RED plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro: http://studiodaily.com/studiomonthly/currentissue/10320.html
and Film&Video tells how the Olson brothers used the RED plugin to finish Fatal Flaw: http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentissue/9893.html

January 16, 2009

Opportunity for Premiere Pro experts: Adobe Community Experts program

Another opportunity for Premiere Pro experts: the Adobe Community Experts program.
If you teach, coach, or advise others in the use of Premiere Pro, participate in forums where Premiere Pro is discussed, write articles, tutorials or books about Premiere Pro, or produce video tutorials about Premiere Pro, you might find this program of interest. It has benefits! Check out Adobe Community Experts.

Premiere Pro experts: resource and opportunity news from Adobe

Are you an experienced user of Adobe Premiere Pro who teaches, coaches, or advises others in its use? Do you participate in forums where Premiere Pro is discussed, write articles, tutorials or books about Premiere Pro, or produce video tutorials about Premiere Pro in English?

If you do any of these things, the Premiere Pro Training blog is for you.

The Premiere Pro Training blog is where I post news about English-language training and documentation materials developed for users of Adobe Premiere Pro. I have a pretty good view of these developments, as an Adobe-employed technical writer charged with monitoring and aggregating these materials, as the lead writer of Premiere Pro Help, and as a user-teacher of Premiere Pro.

Whenever Premiere Pro Help gets updated, I blog about it. Whenever someone, such as yourself, publishes Premiere Pro training materials to the web, I blog about it. Whenever I discover a development, inside or outside Adobe, that can impact creators of Premiere Pro training materials, I blog about it. As an Adobe-hosted blog, Premiere Pro Training has high visibility with the major search engines. When I link to a web-page, the Google ranking of that page usually goes up and traffic to the page increases. No credit to me: it's Adobe magic.

If you want to be kept up-to-date about such things, subscribe to the Premiere Pro Training blog, or visit it occasionally. It is free, of course, part of Adobe's efforts to support the people who represent Premiere Pro in the video-editing world.

When you visit the blog, be sure to click Premiere Pro Experts Group under Categories. That will select posts already made addressing Premiere Pro experts. There you can find instructions on how to get links made from Premiere Pro Help to your websites, and more.

I hope to see you on the Premiere Pro Training blog.

Wanted: Community Help moderators

We’re doing something quite a bit different this cycle with documentation. The changes can be summarized as community, community, and community:

- inclusion of links to external websites (like yours!) in Help
- inclusion of external websites in search results, through the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) service
- inclusion of non-Adobe personnel in the group of folks with the ability to moderate LiveDocs comments and make recommendations to the CSE

The moderation tasks primarily consist of clicking Accept or Reject for incoming comments and suggesting good resources for the database of web addresses that can be searched using the Custom Search Engine. These tasks shouldn’t take more than an hour per month for an Adobe Premiere Pro moderator. Why, then, are we asking for help if the job is so small? We think that you are likely to know about resources that we internal Adobe folks don’t. Also, by extending the power to recommend content to non-Adobe folks, we think that we prove that we’re willing to put non-Adobe resources on equal footing with our own---at least with regard to search.

So, who’d like to be a moderator?

If you're interested, write me at muratore@adobe.com.

January 5, 2009

Layers Magazine video tutorials for Premiere Pro CS4

Back in September, Layers Magazine posted a set of video tutorials for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Yes, indeed, they are still there:

Premiere Pro CS4 tutorials

Enjoy!

Tutorials on Adobe TV

Adobe TV enlisted the services of lynda.com for the CS4 launch. The result is a set of 30 Learn tutorials:

Learn Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Enjoy!

lynda.com tutorials

Back in September and October, lynda.com posted three sets of tutorials for Premiere Pro CS4. Wouldn't want them to escape your notice:

Premiere Pro CS4 Essential Training
Premiere Pro CS4 New Features
Premiere Pro CS4 Getting Started

Enjoy!