Adobe Premiere Pro Training

One of the benefits of inserting speech-to-text metadata into your videos is that doing so can make them searchable by your audience members. Try out this demo by entering search terms into the Search Text box:
The future of video is searchable.

Looking for more instruction on how to transcribe speech to text in Premiere Pro? See the following resources:
Using Speech Search to Speed Editing by Paul Trani on Adobe TV

Edit Dialog Faster than Ever by Jason Levine on Adobe TV

XMP metadata in Creative Suite 4 Production Premium an article by Dan Ebberts

Creating searchable video with Adobe® Creative Suite® Production Premium, a white paper

Convert Speech to Text Metadata, the Premiere Pro Help topic

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS29F692D2-7A49-44db-A109-AE016B766767.html

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 11:30 AM | Permalink

On Sunday, we updated the English version of Premiere Pro CS4 web Help. It contains dozens of small corrections. See if you can find them: Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

A shout-out to engaged user Kurt Potschka, who, in recent days, wrote at least half-a-dozen improvements to Help topics in his comments on the Help pages. His corrections have been remarkable, not only in their accuracy and thoroughness, but in their adherence to Adobe's writing style! (Something certainly not required of a comment.) Kurt's revisions have now been incorporated into the Help documentation itself. Thank you Kurt! May many other users follow your example in helping us improve Premiere Pro Help.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 10:57 AM | Permalink

Adobe tests Premiere Pro with a variety of camcorders, cameras, and other hardware devices. Apparently, there are users who don't know we report the results of that testing on the Third-Party Hardware Support page.

Now, you do.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 9:43 AM | Permalink

The February Search stats are in, and the February Search stats show that there were a few Help topics that Premiere Pro users had a hard time finding. They had a hard time finding instructions for cutting clips with the Razor tool, as well as instructions for importing and exporting various types of files. I've made some revisions to Premiere Pro Help that should make these topics easier to find henceforth. Following are direct links to these once-buried topics:

How to cut a clip in a sequence with the Razor tool
Split a single clip or multiple clips with the Razor tool

There seems to be some confusion over what Help calls "capturing," what Help calls "transferring," and what Help calls "importing." Hopefully, the next three topics can dispel the clouds.
About capturing and digitizing
About transferring files
About importing files

About importing various types of files
Import CMX3600 EDL projects The simple instructions for importing EDL projects into Premiere Pro.
Importing assets from tapeless formats
Importing still images
Importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro

Some had a hard time finding instruction on how to import OMF files, and for good reason: Premiere Pro does not import OMF files, though it does export OMF files. This is now noted here.
Exporting OMF files for Pro Tools

Speaking of "exporting," users searching for this word apparently were unhappy with the search results. Perhaps they were looking for one of the following.
Types of exporting
Workflow for exporting files
Export a still image
Exporting editable movie or audio files

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 2:58 PM | Permalink

Adobe yesterday integrated the former Macromedia user forums with the Adobe user forums, and has converted to a different forum software package. The new package promises the following:

• Email participation, including starting a new discussion and alerts
• RSS feeds for many parts of the forum (topics, users, announcements, and more)
• Integration of Adobe ID for true single login to all forums
• Rich text options: inline images and videos, file attachments, code samples
• File Attachments
• Updated look and feel, more consistent with other forum systems
• Improved moderation capabilities (hosts can delete inappropriate content)
• Improved search capabilities:
o Wildcard searches (Multiple or single character)
o Fuzzy Search (search for "foam" also retrieves "roams)
o Proximity, weighting, date range, specific user

Try the new Premiere user forums for yourself.

Posted by Stephen Muratore at 10:47 AM | Permalink