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After checking This Help System Only and running a search, you would get a page showing your search results. That much you expected. What you didn't expect was that if you ran a second search from the search results page, you would not get results only from "this Help system." Rather, you would get results from a broad search of community content.

At least this was the case until a few minutes ago. Because most of you, most of the time, wanted to stick with "this Help system" unless you intentionally chose community search, sticking has become the new default after you check This Help System Only . Now, after checking the box and running a search, your next searches, from the search results page, will filter out all results not from "this Help system," i.e. not from Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

What if you want to switch to searching all of Adobe.com content, or all of community Help? You have those options too, depending on whether you uncheck the box Show Only Content From Adobe, or leave it checked.

Clear your browser cache, and check it out: Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 2:39 PM | Permalink

Our friend, Todd Kopriva, over at the After Effects region of interest, made a post so pertinent to visitors to Premiere Pro Training that I'm stealing it and re-posting it here, thinly disguised as a post from me to Premiere Pro aficionados. Thanks, Todd!

As you (I hope) already know, anyone can add comments to Premiere Pro CS4 Help on the Web.
What you might not know is that you can subscribe to a feed for these comments.

Here's the URL. Add it to your RSS reader:
http://community.adobe.com/help/rss/comments.html?label=premierepro_product_adobelr&language=en_US

While we're commenting about commenting, let me renew my invitation: please comment. Don't be shy. We want you to use the comments to show off, to advertise your materials, to promote yourself... as long as your doing so helps the Premiere Pro user. If you wrote a tutorial about Premiere Pro, point to it. If you watched someone else's video tutorial about Premiere Pro and thought that it was good, point to it. If you think that you can explain something better than we (I) can or did, then add a comment and show the world how knowledgeable you are.

And don't think that you can only point to brand new information created for Premiere Pro CS4. As we all know, most of the fundamental features of an application don't change from one version to the next. So most of the tutorials and examples that were made for Premiere Pro CS3 are still good for Premiere Pro CS4. So go ahead and point to older material if it's still valid and good.

And to keep abreast of resources posted by others, subscribe to Premiere Pro Help comments.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 12:08 PM | Permalink

Our great friends over in tech support have posted three articles detailing how to optimize your operating system to get the best performance out of Premiere Pro:

Optimize Windows XP for Adobe Premiere Pro
Optimize Windows Vista for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Optimize Mac OS X for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Here's a tip of my own for optimizing XP. This turns off the various visual effects of the XP UI, leaving Windows looking flat. However, it can make a slight-but-noticeable improvement in the speed at which your computer performs its tasks.

1. Open the Windows Control Panel.
2. Click System.
3. Select the Advanced tab.
4. In the Performance pane, click Settings.
5. On the Visual Effects tab of the Performance Options dialog, select Adjust For Best Performance.
6. Click OK.
7. Click OK again.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 10:04 AM | Permalink

OK, this resource is not about Premiere Pro per se: it's about Photoshop. But Photoshop is a great tool for Premiere Pro users, and I would hazard that many, if not most, Premiere Pro users do use Photoshop as well. Thus runs my justification for telling you about Creative COW leader, Richard Harrington's Photohop for Video blog

For example, who doesn't need to make lower thirds occasionally? If you want to learn how to make them with Photoshop, you already have one good reason to visit Photohop for Video. See Making Lower Thirds Part 1 - Photoshop for Video

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 9:37 AM | Permalink