A nice tutorial on YouTube which shows how to generate slow motion effects with footage from DSLR cameras with 50p/60p frame rates like the Canon 7D.
Editing video footage from a DSLR HD camera with Adobe Premiere versions like CS4 and smaller was definitely a pain. Incredible slow when working with the native material, incredible complicated when working with proxy files etc.
Now with Adobe Premiere CS5 editing DSRL HD footage is working more smooth. Jason Levine shows how footage from different cameras with different resolutions and frame rates can be edited now. Sure a 64-bit machine with sufficient RAM and CPU power helps.
You have purchased a new camera and the RAW or NEF pictures are not opened in Adobe Photoshop or Bridge CS4?
This is the case when you have e.g. a Canon 5D Mark II or Nikon D3S. What helps is a upgrade of Adobe Camera Raw. This can be done either manual using the download from Adobe or using the upgrade function in Photoshop (Help->Upgrades).
The update from Photoshop version 11.0 to 11.0.1 should also be done, a few stability issues should be fixed.
CS3 users will have a problem because Adobe Camera Raw is no longer developed for CS3. If you really want to use RAW/NEF then a upgrade to CS4 seems to be needed.
It may happen that the workspace of Adobe bridge gets damaged. In such a case thumbnails on the right corner of the Bridge window will be cut and the preview/metadata etc. windows will no longer be displayed. I’m not sure if this was caused by Bridge, Windows 7 or by myself. Also restarting bridge doesn’t help.
What helps is to reset the workspace. This function is hidden behind a small black triangle on the upper right side of the Bridge window. After clicking “Reset workspace” everything gets fine (see picture).
Don’t ask how long it took until I found this small triangle…
Adobe has many free training and workshop videos in the Internet for all major Adobe products like:
Quite useful stuff with many useful information.
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