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We posted a new build of Premiere Pro English web Help and the Premiere Pro Help PDF yesterday. [The document is officially named Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, but I just can't bring myself to stop calling it simply Help.] The new build contains a number of new topics, and corrections to some legacy topics: all made as the result of feedback from alert users of Premiere Pro everywhere. Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming!
During a workflow study a few weeks ago, I asked a user to import a Photoshop document into Premiere Pro and to animate the layers of the Photoshop document independently of one another, moving a foreground figure over a background image. After successfully importing the Photoshop document as a sequence, the user said, "Now that I've imported it, I need something that tells me how to animate the layers separately from one another." I hope this helps: Moving and scaling Photoshop layers separately.
Importing title templates from Resource Central is easy, but until today, the instructions for doing so did not appear in Help. They do now: Import a title template from Resource Central.
Workflow studies conducted a few weeks ago revealed that it is not immediately obvious how one should select a sequence preset when creating a new sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro. What's more, the information available online about this was not easy to find. To help matters, I've added a new topic to Premiere Pro Help: Selecting a sequence preset, and have slightly revised an existing topic, Create a sequence. Much of this has to do with discerning, up front, the basic parameters of the assets you have to edit: recording format, codec, frame rate, and so on.
If you need Help for Premiere Pro CS3 you can get to it by way of the Help pages for Premiere Pro CS4. That's what the yellow tab (or pod) toward the upper-right of the Premiere Pro CS4 Help pages is for. My questions for you are:
Did you know that before reading this post?
Have you found that tab to be useful?
How often have you clicked the link that takes you to Help for Premiere Pro CS3?
Final Cut Pro users wanting to get a sense of the workflows possible between Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and the other products in Adobe Production Premium CS4 have some free instruction online. For more information, see the documents posted to Life without walls: Open workflows with Avid and Apple