Adobe Video Workshop
You can use the Adobe Video Workshop to start learning about any application you’re interested in, whether you own it or not. The Video Workshop shares expertise from across Adobe and the Adobe community—you’ll learn tasks, tips, and tricks from leading designers, developers, and Adobe experts. There are introductory videos for new users, and more experienced users can find videos on new features and key techniques. Many videos show you how to use Adobe applications together.
When you start the Video Workshop, you choose exactly the products and topics you want to learn (see Figure 1). You can see details about each video to help focus your learning path. Each video covers a single subject and typically runs about 3 to 5 minutes. Many videos come with an illustrated tutorial and source files, so you can print out detailed steps and try the tasks on your own.
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Figure 1: The Adobe Video Workshop.
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Figure 2: When you select a video tutorial to watch, it opens up in the video player.
Adobe regularly adds new video tutorials online, so check the online workshop to see what's new.
How to use the Video Workshop
The Adobe Video Workshop page is divided into three parts.
Product and Topic menus
At the top of the page, the Product and Topic menus let you chose the product(s) and topic(s) you want to learn (see Figure 3). Click a product or topic to select it. If you want to select multiple products or topics, use Control+click (Windows) or Command+click (Mac OS).
When you select a product, the Topics list typically changes to only show the topics covered for the selected product(s). You can also select all products or all topics. The workshop includes content for novices and experienced users. Use the Topics filter to find the content that you need.
- Select Getting Started from the Topics menu for introductory videos
- Select New Features from the Topics menu to see just what's new in any product(s).
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Figure 3: Choose product(s) and topic(s) you want to learn about from the menus at the top of the workshop.
Video menu
In the middle of the page, you find a list of videos available for the product(s) and topic(s) you chose (see Figure 4). Click a video title to learn more about the tutorial, or double-click the title to play it.
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Figure 4: Click a video in the video menu to find out more details about its content. Double-click the video to watch it.
The video menu is sorted by product. Click a column heading to sort the list differently. You can also sort videos by Level, Topic, or Presenter. Just select Customize Video Menu at the top right of the video list (see Figure 5) to add or delete columns in the video menu.
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Figure 5: Click Customize Video Menu to add additional columns to the video menu.
Video Details area
At the bottom of the page, the video Details area displays information and options for the video you select (see Figure 6). The description, presenter, level, products, and topics appear on the left side. Your learning options appear on the right side.
- PLAY VIDEO: launch the video in the Video player window.
- Bookmark video online: launch an online browser window to play the video and add it to your browser's bookmarks.
- Read the tutorial online: launch an online browser window to view step-by-step directions for the tutorial (not available for all videos).
- Download source files online: download the online source files used in this video (not available for all videos).
- Give feedback: launch an online browser window to share your feedback about this video.
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Figure 6: The Details area displays information about the video, and contains options to play or bookmark the video, download files, read the HTML tutorial, or give feedback.
Video player window
The Video player window has several controls (see Figure 7).
Figure 7: The video player controls, described below from left to right.
Starting with the buttons on the bottom left of the window, you see:
- Skip back to the previous video
- Play or Pause the video
- Stop playing the video
- Skip to the next video
- Video Scrubber: drag the handle to move within a video.
- Volume Control: drag the handle to change the volume.
When you skip back to the previous video, the player loads the previous video listed in the video menu. When you skip to the next video, the player loads the next video listed in the video menu.
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Figure 8: The video player window displays the video. You can also skip to the previous or next titles as listed in the video menu.
Using a video tutorial on your website
If you would like to use an Adobe video tutorial on your website, find out about Adobe's permissions program at: http://www.adobe.com/misc/agreement.html. Proper attribution of Adobe copyright and trademarks is necessary. You can find Adobe trademark guidelines for third parties at http://www.adobe.com/misc/agreement.html.
