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Adobe launched an “Adobe Premiere Pro Best Practices and Workflow Guide for Long Form and Episodic Post Production” that it said July 27 was created with film and TV editors specifically in mind.

“As a leader in the post-production industry, Adobe is dedicated to supporting the filmmaking and entertainment community,” the company said in announcing the guide. For almost two decades, Adobe has “evolved Premiere Pro into a trusted editing platform for, amongst other things, long-form and episodic content,” it noted.

To continue Adobe’s support, the company developed the best practices and workflow guide,” it said.

The wide-ranging document was in development for the past three years and takes a deep dive into topics ranging from optimizing Premiere Pro Productions to working with remote and cloud-based workflows to multi-camera editing, along with everything in-between, according to Adobe.

Adobe drew upon insights from longtime Creative Cloud users and early Productions testers including director David Fincher, editor Kirk Baxter and The Coen Brothers, the company said. Also contributing to the guide were Adobe engineers, industry veterans including award-winning editors.

The comprehensive guide is free and available for download online in English now at Adobe’s website.

But the guide will also be made available in several additional languages, including ​​French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian and Spanish.

“Streaming platforms have done so much to globalize a lot of the creation of narrative content in markets around the world, and the demand for content and post-production expertise in long form narrative has grown so exponentially in so many new countries that we knew that it was important to also make this document as inclusive as possible,” Morgan Prygrocki, senior strategic development manager, told MESA just before the guide’s launch, on July 26.

That, she explained, is “why we’re also in the process of localizing these best practice guides into nine different languages over the next couple of months to help support all of the various markets producing long form content, not just those that are producing content in North America.”

Of those versions, “some will come out sooner than others,” she said but noted, “I don’t have an exact date.” Some of them were already completed, she added.

Describing the guide as a “living document” on Adobe’s website, she said it will also be “regularly updated as well as time goes on.” In addition to editors and assistant editors, the guide was also created with visual effects teams in mind, she added.

Editors and post-production professionals who read the guide will learn the ins and outs of features including Productions. First introduced in 2020, Productions has “significantly improved performance and collaboration for long form and episodic editorial teams,” according to Adobe.

“Early versions of the feature were battle-tested on Hollywood productions” that included A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, Paramount’s Terminator: Dark Fate and Netflix’s Mank, Mindhunter and Dolemite Is My Name, Adobe said.

In addition to Productions, other key topics of the guide include hardware and settings, dailies workflows, multi-camera editing, Dynamic Link with After Effects, turnovers, and remote and cloud workflows using tools including Frame.io.