Our August workshop is off and out the door and what a workshop it was! 31 attendees spread out over 4 classes.
For those of you who have never attended a Videomaker Workshop the idea is to hunker down and drill as much knowledge into the brains of our readers that we can! Read the rest of this entry »
Class on Demand has announced new training materials for Adobe CS4 Production Premium. The DVD includes over four hours of instruction by industry vet, Tim Kolb.
Press Release Below:
CS4 guru provides expert instruction for latest Adobe® release
Hoffman Estates, IL – February 10, 2008 - Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, announced today it has released its much-anticipated “Basic Training for Adobe® CS4 Production Premium” title. Class on Demand has once again turned to award-winning industry veteran and recognized CS4 guru, Tim Kolb, as the on-camera instructor for the title.
“Class on Demand has a great reputation for delivering high-quality video-based training. We’re pleased to see them deliver the latest title that will help our customers get the most from their Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software,” said Ginna Baldassarre, senior product manager, Creative Suite Production Premium for Adobe Systems.
“Basic Training for Adobe® CS4 Production Premium” provides over four hours of instruction covering each application within the integrated suite of tools. Kolb teaches users new to Adobe Creative Suite the features of each application, how and when to use each feature, and how to work between applications. Creative elements that Kolb uses for instruction are included on the disk so that students can follow along and compare results. Class on Demand’s training features overlays that call out keyboard shortcuts and tips that are often overlooked by other training materials. The self-paced course is suitable for both new users and producers moving from earlier versions of Creative Suite.
“The training titles covering Adobe’s products are an important part of our business. We have enjoyed tremendous success with our other Adobe titles and early orders for our CS4 product indicate that this will be no exception,” says Paul Holtz, founder and CEO of Class on Demand. “We are constantly receiving emails from our customers telling us how our training has really helped them grasp the fundamentals of the product and become proficient users. Tim has once again delivered an outstanding training program for this exciting addition to Adobe’s product line.”
About Class on Demand
Class on Demand is a leading producer of education and training programs. Its products and services address the needs of individuals, professionals and corporate training. Current programs cover a broad spectrum of content including video capture and editing, computer animation, federally mandated training, customized corporate training and vocational education. Please visit our web site (www.classondemand.com) for additional information regarding our products and services. Class on Demand is a registered trademark of Class on Demand, Incorporated
In a move that will be applauded by many (including this editor), Adobe was the first software company to focus a release an update to their editing software that focuses on COMPATIBILITY! Yes, even with other software packages. This newest update to Premiere Pro CS4 allows you to exchange projects with Avid and Final Cut Pro systems. While I don’t expect that every single effect, color correction, or special properties will come through the process perfectly, even simple timeline exchange with cuts and dissolves would be an incredibly useful feature to have in your NLE. And Adobe deserves some respect for being the first out the gate with this type of upgrade.
In addition the 4.0.1 upgrade provides support for the RED camera’s R3d files directly, with no transcoding necessary. Greatly simplifying what was once a pretty unnecessarily complicated Post process when shooting with RED. This latest upgrade adds to Premiere’s support of AVCHD, P2, HDCAM EX, all natively making it the current king of compatibilty among all the editing programs out there. If your camcorder can shoot it, it looks like Premeiere can edit it.
In addition there were stability enhancements and full support for 64 bit systems included in this release. You can read the full release below:
NVIDIA has just released it’s new Quadro CX graphics card. It’s been designed in conjunction with Adobe to specifically accelerate certain features of the recently announced CS4 suite. I attended an online demo yesterday and the technology involved looked very impressive.
The Quadro CX allowed very fluid interaction with your content in Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. Many of the simple tasks, such as resizing and rotation were instantaneous, and certain time consuming tasks such as h.264 encoding were greatly accelerated. The Quadro CX is squarely aimed at Adobe professionals, where time is money. We hope to get one in soon to test out for you.
The card itself has 1.5 Gigs of graphics memory and is priced at $1,999, and has drivers for both XP and Vista. A Mac version is currently “under discussion”.
You can read more details in the press release below:
The wait is over, Adobe has announced the immediate availability of CS4, the largest release of software in the company’s history. Adobe has pretty much updated all their flagship applications, the new features of which, you can find out in our previous post. The Production Premium bundle will be of most interest to Videomaker readers, with new versions of Premiere, Encore, Soundbooth, On Location, After Effects, Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator ready to go out the door today.
We’ve been playing around with the Beta for a while, and we’re taking a look at the final versions right now, and with so many apps to review, it looks like we have our work cut out for us.
Read the Press Release Below:
It’s been a busy time at Adobe lately, as they’ve released today new versions of just about every piece of software that they make. But for Videomaker readers, lets break down their new Creative Suite 4 Production Premium bundle, available in October for $1,699.
We managed to finagle a beta version of CS4, that we’ve been playing with for a while now and I’ll go through some of the new features of each part of the package below. But first off, a broad overview is in order. As you may have heard already, there’s been a shift to a new interface across the board for all apps. This common interface makes working in each individual program a lot easier, especially as most users might not be as savvy in one app, as they are in another.
Talking with Adobe about CS4 in a general sense revealed that this release was all about stability and work flow enhancements, rather than new features. That’s not to say there’s not anything new (I highlight these below), but I applaud the effort in refining the core usefulness of the programs. Many people make their living in Adobe applications, and solving work flow issues is by far more important on a day to day basis than the latest effect.
Adobe will release CS4 on September 23rd 2008.
That is all we’re allowed to tell you 
Keep checking back at here for updates as the NDA’s expire…
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