Listen in on an interview with David Simons, one of the original creators of After Effects, and Steve Forde, After Effect's product manager. They will take you on a trip down memory lane on the thoughts behind After Effects and what its impact has been on the industry.

Through a series of vignettes, the movie explores the memories, emotions, and benefits of eating healthy food. It takes the audience on a journey of savory sweet memories. The movie was a classroom collaboration and a culmination of student learning, field trips, and student writing.

In this movie, author Jan Kabili explains how to import photos from your camera's memory card or your card reader into Photoshop Elements 11. Jan also discusses how to best organize and name your photos when importing them.

Designers share their first memories of using Illustrator and why, after 25 years, it's still the essential design tool.

Video Highlights: Watch how to quickly organize your media in one convenient place. Find your best clips--or the ones that feature specific people--fast, thanks to automated options. Then dive into a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories. Versions 9 and up. http://adobe.ly/zk8Xkf

In the world of video production, time is money. Karl Soule shows you all you need to know to get maximum performance from the applications in Adobe Production Premium CS5.5. Learn all the hardware-related factors that influence how the software behaves, and see how to properly balance a system with Intel Xeon processors, the right amount of RAM, and high-performance Intel solid state drives.

Colin takes advantage of the HP Z800’s massive horsepower combined with the raw speed of the 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder 5.5 to show you how you can output different versions of your comps using a combination of After Effects, Dynamic Link and Media Encoder, while working on new composites, without missing a beat.

Premiere Pro CS5.5 improves the speed with which you can render nested sequences. You can literally nest sequences into sequences and you’ll get the benefits of the Mercury Playback Engine using both the CPU and the GPU or Graphics Processing Unit on an Nvidia card with CUDA. Throw the HP Z800 workstation into the mix and you see rendering speeds like you have never seen before.

Are you looking for the Tasks that you’re used to in Soundbooth when you start using Adobe Audition 5.5? Colin will show you a step by step walkthrough between to the two applications, pointing out where the same operations are in Audition. He’ll also point out that Audition is much more powerful at all the tasks you’re used to using in Soundbooth, including Noise Reduction, Time Stretching, Automatic Click Remover, DeHummer, Looping and more. The fact that he’s demonstrating all this on his “wicked fast” HP Z800 workstation makes Audition all the more powerful.

This new effect gives you the ability to create the optical effect of a real camera lens blur. If you need to add depth to a scene, or obscure something in the frame, Camera Lens Blur will do that and make it look completely realistic. You also have complete control parameters like iris shape, blur maps, super whites, gain and threshold.