Premiere Pro work area

Jan Janowski asked in a thread on the Community Help forum if we could provide all of the PDF versions of the Help documents (manuals, user guides, documentation) for the Creative Suite applications in one place.

Here you go, Jan.

User guides (also known as Help)

Here’s a list of user guides (Help documents), with links to the PDF versions. These are just the English-language documents. I gave links to some documents in other languages here.

• Using Adobe Media Encoder (PDF)
• Using After Effects (PDF)
• Using Audition (PDF)
• Using Contribute (PDF)
• Using Device Central (PDF)
• Using Dreamweaver (PDF)
• Using Encore (PDF)
• Using Fireworks (PDF)
• Using Flash Catalyst (PDF)
• Using Flash Professional (PDF)
• Using Flash Builder (PDF)
• Using Flex (PDF)
• Using Illustrator (PDF)
• Using InCopy (PDF)
• Using InDesign (PDF)
• Using OnLocation (PDF)
• Using Photoshop (PDF)
• Using Premiere Pro (PDF)
• Using Soundbooth (PDF)
• Using Adobe CS Live (PDF)
• Creative Suite shared components (including Bridge and Camera Raw) Help (PDF)

Other documents in the Help system, including reference documents

Several applications have additional documents, including API references, programmer’s guides, and other resources for creating and using extensions. For those documents, see the respective home pages for the documents listed above.

Bill Gehrke and Harm Millaard have put together a performance test suite for Premiere Pro CS5 and CS5.5, PPBM5.

You can run the suite of tests and use the results to determine where the performance bottlenecks are with your computer system. The results posted on the website give really good insight into what factors matter for performance, even without you running the tests yourself.

Harm and Bill give good instructions for interpreting results and general hardware advice.

Harm and Bill are also both very active on the Premiere Pro forum, especially the Hardware forum, where performance tuning is always a hot topic.

There’s additional information and links to other resources about setting up a system to optimize performance here:
“optimizing for performance: Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects”