Recently, Adobe and our partners sponsored “Adobe Tips & Flicks”, a seminar in which luminaries from the video production and post-production industry shared tips about their workflows using Adobe tools.

Here are links to the individual recordings for the sessions:

• Overview of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, with Colin Smith
• Beautiful Graphics for Video Editors, with Rich Harrington
• Act of Valor. A case study in out of the box filmmaking, with Shane Hurlbut
• Mixing formats, frame-rates, and bullets in Act of Valor, with Jacob Rosenberg
• panel Q&A, with Jacob Rosenberg, Rich Harrington, Shane Hurlbut, and Christina Clapp
• highlights from all five sessions

In Colin’s session, he covered a lot of what’s new and improved in the CS5.5 video and audio applications. For details about each of these features, check out the following:

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5: What’s new and changed
• After Effects CS5.5: What’s new and changed
• Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5: What’s new and changed

Colin also talked about the Mercury Playback Engine and what red and yellow render bars mean. You can get the details about these subjects here:

• CUDA, Mercury Playback Engine, and Adobe Premiere Pro
• Red, yellow, and green render bars and what they mean

Much of what Rich talked about is covered in even more detail in his excellent books and video training series. Here are a few links, but you can find even more on Rich’s website:

• Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5: Studio Techniques
• An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro
• Photoshop for Video