NAPP Instructor RC Concepcion goes over the benefits of rendering Previews in Lightroom4.

Master the 3D Camera Tracker in After Effects CS6 and use 3D Extrusion and Rendering for True 3D Graphics. You'll also learn how to integrate 3D content from leading applications like 3D Studio Max.

Adobe Edge is not limited to sexy web animations; you can also build apps and integrate third-party APIs easily. In this lesson, connect to Twitter, pull tweets, and visualize them using an item renderer built using Edge, thereby learning how to consume APIs and create elements programmatically within Edge.

Get familiar with the After Effects CS6 workflow in this brief overview of the tools, project windows, elements, compositions, nested comps, effects, keyframes, the timeline, expressions, exporting and the Render Queue.

3D has been altogether revamped in Photoshop CS6. One of the best enhancements is the program's ability to preview shadows and reflections before you render the scene, particularly those cast onto the ground plane. You can even drag a shadow to change the angle of a light.

Learn about the Gaussian Blur effect, which provides instant previews and vastly improved render time.

This movie showcases the drag-and-drop video effects, effect acceleration, and video adjustment layer controls in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. It also shows the new Mercury Playback Engine's ability to play back effects with no dropped frames. Finally, it goes on to show how to effectively render out playback when needed.

Sr. Product Manager Patrick Palmer takes a closer look at the render output option in SpeedGrade CS6.

Try multiple scenarios without waiting for frames to rerender.

Learn how Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder leverages background rendering to save you time.

Learn how to use the power of Dynamic Link to eliminate intermediate rendering between applications.

Lee Brimelow and Thibault Imbert discuss the enhanced graphics rendering engine and the Stage3D API, enabling developers to port their Flash games to mobile with up to 60 frames per second.

In this episode of CSInsider, Rufus Deuchler, Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe, introduces you to how easily you can extrude text in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to create fully fledged 3D objects. These 3D objects can then be rendered using Photoshop's own Raytracing engine, including cast shadows. This feature lets you add a 3D flair to your 2D images.

In this lesson, Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to optimize graphical elements for more efficient rendering with Adobe Flash player. See how you can create a more responsive user experience.

Piotr Walczyszyn explains the process of creating custom ItemRenderers in ActionScript3 for Flex mobile applications, as well as the functionality they add to your projects.

Content providers can take advantage of Adobe AIR to deliver console-quality games, rich media apps with premium video across televisions, Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes. Take a look at successful AIR apps for iOS.

Learn from the Flash Player team how this new innovative feature in Flash Player will change how developers use 3D on the web and change the landscape of 2D and 3D game development.

This episode will teach you tips about how to speed up your renders in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Renaun Erickson, Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist, demonstrates faster AIR 2.7 app performance on iPad.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn how to create a skin for the SkinnableDataContainer and how to further modify the associated item renderer.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn how to apply a custom item renderer to two Spark List-based controls.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn about the basic building blocks for creating your own custom item renderers.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn about the DataGroup container and how to use two default Spark item renderer to define a uniform, repeatable display for each record in a dataset.

Ryan Stewart explores a handy optimization technique for the Blackberry PlayBook that allows you to easily incorporate images into list components for your mobile applications.

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.

Colin’s back showing off how fantastic his Z800 workstation performs with the new Adobe 5.5 software. In this episode he shows you how to send a complete Premiere Pro sequence to a multitrack project in the new Adobe Audition 5.5. From there he shows how you can add effects to individual clips, or complete tracks with lots of built-in effects or support for VST and AU plug-ins. Once complete, this project can be send back to Premiere Pro CS5.5 or exported to OMF or Final Cut Pro XML.

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.

Gain a better understanding of how After Effects takes advantage of both RAM and disk caching for both individual layers and entire compositions to improve performance and reduce rendering times.

See how After Effects CS5.5 greatly eases the creation and control of stereoscopic camera rigs for 3D layers. Chris Meyer explains the resulting chain of compositions, including how to preview, where to add stereo footage, and what to render.

Learn how an entry-level workstation built with the brand new Intel Xeon E3 processor can give you unprecedented editing performance in Premiere Pro CS5.5 at an unbeatable price.

After Effects CS5.5 features some great new features such as Warp Stabilizer and Camera Lens Blur. Learn how a professional-class workstation with Intel Xeon processors can give you blazingly fast previews and rendering to let you get your work done faster than ever before.

Premiere Pro CS5.5 and it's faster-than-ever Mercury Playback Engine, provides unprecedented productivity. Learn how a professional-grade workstation with Intel Xeon processors, combined with CS5.5, enables you to work faster and be more creative than ever.

What are Solid State Drives and how do they impact your workflow? Karl Soule shows you how to get maximum productivity in your video editing and motion graphics workflow by using this exciting new technology.

Edit in a new dimension – 3D Stereo! Immerse yourself in a true stereoscopic 3D, collaborative visualization experience, and see remarkable detail with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Pro solutions, Adobe Premiere Pro and Cineform Neo3D.

Adobe Press and video2brain teach you about frame rates for footage items, compositions, and rendered movies, and how to modify each kind of frame rate to achieve the desired result.

Not all browsers work the same.  See how you can use tools found within Dreamweaver such as the browser compatibility panel to check for errors or compatibility issues and look for possible solutions.  You’ll also learn how to use BrowserLab – a CS Live service – that lets you test out how the site renders in various browsers on different operating systems to further investigate potential issues or visual discrepancies.

Before diving in to the details, you'll want to get a big-picture view of After Effects. In this video, you'll see how the pieces fit together and learn the basic terms that will be used throughout this training.

Work in 10-bit color with Premiere Pro CS5 and Quadro solutions. In this brief video, learn how to improve your workflow by viewing and editing content from a rich, 10-bit color platform.

Learn how Jacob Rosenberg and the Bandito Brothers power their Adobe CS5 and Canon 5D Mark II commercial and feature film workflows with HP Z800 workstations and HP DreamColor displays.

Learn how the Bandito Brothers ensure color accuracy both on location and in the edit suite with their Adobe CS5 and Canon 5D Mark II feature film workflow.

See how Rudy Sarzo, Heavy Metal Rocker-turned Video Editor, harnesses the power of Adobe CS5 Production Premium and HP Mobile Workstations to fuel his creativity.

Wish you could render After Effects comps in the background? Wish you could create a watch folder to batch convert media? Wish you had a 64-bit capable application to do all of these things? Well, Adobe Media Encoder is all of that and more. In this episode, Dennis delves into what he thinks are the hidden gems of this under-appreciated application.

In the first part I'll demonstarte how to work with Adobe Illustrator in order to prepare vector graphics so it can be extruded to multiple 3D objects using the BCC EPS Extrude plug-in. Then inside Adobe After Effects I'll show how to dress your logo, work with the various Extrusion options, Materials and Render settings. I'll create a fancy camera moves using the built in camera and lights, and end up rendering 4 different scene.

Speed up production with GPU-Accelerated plug-ins This brief tutorial provides an overview of the benefits of choosing CUDA-enabled plug-ins, that include increased productivity to a more fluid workflow.

Dive deep into the Adobe Flash Player renderer with Lee Thomason, Flash Player architect, and see how to optimize the rendering performance of your applications. Thomason will cover mechanisms like the display list, text rendering, shaders, GPU hardware acceleration, and exclusive features coming in a future version of Flash Player. After this session, Flash Player rendering will no longer be a mystery.

Learn how to tune your applications to provide an optimal user experience within the performance limitations of a device's hardware and software. We'll share tips and tricks for how to build Android applications powered by Adobe AIR that respond quickly. Discover best practices for how to troubleshoot performance problems such as rendering bottlenecks and occasionally connected networks.

Join us as top casual game publisher PopCap covers a wide variety of topics about porting bestselling "Plants vs. Zombies" from its proprietary C++ framework to ActionScript and the Adobe Flash authoring environment. This session will cover traditional game architecture and the update loop, tradeoffs in the Flash graphics API versus PopCap's native PC graphics API, animation, font rendering, sound and music systems, and resource management.

We will cover techniques from projects that use alternative means of creating 3D objects, compositing rendered stills into a 3D-like environment, displaying 3D assets in a non-3D environment and adding 3D as a detail or interactive component in the Flash experience. This video brought to you by our friends at Aquent.

In the final installment of this series, Adobe Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine takes you through the process of exporting/rendering your DSLR video/stills creations using the 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder. He'll talk about some of the most common formats for going to mobile devices, iPods, blu-ray discs as well as common formats for Web delivery. You'll learn about background rendering and the ability to 'queue' multiple versions of your video edits. Also featured: using *presets* in the Media Encoder for your favorite destinations (like YouTube, Vimeo, HDTV, etc)

It's time to Finish up your project. You'll start by fine tuning your composition using adjustment layers. Then you'll adjust the timing of various transitions to sync better to music. Finally you'll learn how to render out your finished video as a standalone file.

Learn how the Avatar post-vis and post-production pipelines used Adobe video tools to save time and facilitate efficient workflows.

Learn how to create an animated DVD menu quickly, by using After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Encore.

Learn the advantages of a 64-bit After Effects application, including longer RAM previews and the ability to render larger frames. See how to allocate memory to After Effects and other applications for optimum performance.

Learn about the After Effects workflow. Import footage into a project. Create layers in a composition by dragging footage into the Timeline panel. Render and export a movie by using the render queue.

Render and export a composition as a playable movie file. Change output module settings in the Render Queue panel to choose output format and file destination.

Learn how to set up your system to play back video, even layered HD video with effects, without rendering. This tutorial describes the best hardware and settings for getting the Mercury Playback Engine to deliver great performance and stability.

Watch this fun HP video, developed by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. Adobe After Effects and PhotoShop were utilized to create animated characters who interact with the real world.

Watch how photographer Sally Wiener Grotta has taken advantage of "invisible technology" in order to save money, time and better be able to follow her inspirations.

Key HD footage in real time with the new Ultra Chroma Keyer in Adobe Premiere Pro. Optimized for footage that includes uneven lighting, wrinkled backgrounds, and frizzy hair, Ultra preserves shadows and can achieve complex keys on smoke, liquids, and transparent objects. GPU acceleration dramatically increases rendering speeds, whether you’re keying DV or HD.

Go behind the scenes on the ambitious new superhero film, Scubaman! See how the new HP Z800 workstation and Adobe CS5 Production Premium made the entire production possible.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase demonstrates techniques of measuring the performance of animations, and shows how the performance of effects, render events, and the SWF frame rate relate to each other.

Kevin Hoyt launches a series about the challenges of rich internet applications.  In this episode he explains how virtual lists improve application performance by reducing rendering time.

Save time by designing your web pages under real-world browser conditions with Live View in Dreamweaver CS4. Changes to the code are instantly reflected in the rendered display.

Exchange data between Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore using Dynamic Link, without rendering and exporting intermediate files.

Tour the inner workings of Flash Player through the eyes of one of its architects and see what happens after you've written your code. You'll learn about the rendering model, text engine, new acceleration features, and how Flash Player has evolved.

Exchange data between Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore using Dynamic Link, without rendering and exporting intermediate files.

Matt Kloskowski teaches you how to install camera profiles in Lightroom 2 at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Exchange data between Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore using Dynamic Link, without rendering and exporting intermediate files.

Exchange data between Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore using Dynamic Link, without rendering and exporting intermediate files.

Exchange data between Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore using Dynamic Link, without rendering and exporting intermediate files.

PlexiGlass is a sub-project of OpenFlux using the same reusable MVC based components but replaces the view with a 3D renderer.

PlexiGlass is a sub-project of OpenFlux using the same reusable MVC based components but replaces the view with a 3D renderer.

Join RJ Owen and Brad Umbaugh, Senior Developers as they explore in depth exactly what happens every time a component is created and rendered in Flex.

Join Sean Christmann in this advanced session as he explains the main event loop model that drives the Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtimes and moves into how this model affects the three core areas of a SWF file lifecycle.

Join RJ Owen and Brad Umbaugh, Senior Developers as they explore in depth exactly what happens every time a component is created and rendered in Flex.

Shot on location in New Zealand, home of such movies as the Lord of the Rings and theChronicles of Narnia. What a great place to showcase Adobe CS4 Production Premium's truly tapeless video workflow with no rendering!

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows you how to take advantage of the Flash rendering engine by creating filters, which are simple image processing operations you can perform on arbitrary graphics.

Exchange data between Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, and Encore using Dynamic Link, without rendering and exporting intermediate files.

Export audio to multimedia formats such as Blu-ray and YouTube. Launch the Adobe Media Encoder. Adjust the format and preset settings. Render video.

Learn how to add Footage into a 3D scene. Utilize news bumper C4D tags and After Effects nulls to add 2D content into the 3D scene without re-rendering.

Learn how to use C4D Render Passes in After Effects and import C4D files utilizing shadow, diffusion, specular and depth passes for post- processing.