A revised Adobe TV

The "new and improved" Adobe TV is now live in English, and it is faster. But the forced commercials are still there and it could be me, but many web videos seem to suffer from AV sync issues. And it's odd that there are no poster frames on embeds.

But wait, there's more (and not so essential):

Adobe Premiere Pro Training

Stephen Muratore, Todd Kopriva's counterpart on the Premiere team, also has a blog, Adobe Premiere Pro Training. So far he's posted on CS4 Help, community matters, and Premiere Pro CS4 Top 10 New Features.

Free Combustion 2008 videos

The Street Productions has some free training videos as well as DVDs for Combustion 2008, compositing software from Autodesk. Back from what seemed the brink of death, Combustion is in many ways more powerful than After Effects -- it's as if Adobe had bought, upgraded, and integrated Commotion into AE (instead of Commotion languishing in a DVE engineer's cube at Pinnacle). Though the rendering engine and other features like nodes are enticing, I'm not sure it's worth more than a peak if you're invested in AE (check out the responses to the release on fxguide). Anway, here's the blurb from TSP:

"The tutorials cover all the new UI improvements and workflow such as being able to drag the size of the workspace panel and the control panels in the UI. Drag and drop operators from the workspace panel to a viewport to target that operator, playing back multiple viewports synchronized plus others. Then there is a tutorial on the new schematic improvements which I think anyone who uses the schematic a lot is going to love. ...these lessons are the exact same ones that are now shipping with my Combustion 2008 Complete DVD set"

Also, there's more video at the Combustion page at Autodesk.

CS3 training: movies and more

Adobe Design Center's Video Workshop now has training movies for the Production Premium video apps, in addition to training movies for the other bundles. And there's other new training content and extras all around, like a Production Premium Workflow Guide, Color Management Workflow in AE CS3, and additional presets and tutorials.


Lynda.com's Online Training Library also has training for Adobe CS3 video applications (for $25/month).

Ninja on training

Ko Maruyama blogs on 4 mostly new training products for After Effects.