Teaching Audition

After some prodding, my station cluster has FINALLY decided to migrate toward Audition.  Most people here are using SAW Plus 32 from 1998, so I know this move will take a long time, and people will be unhappy about it.  At present, I am one of four people in this building that uses Audition.  Most use SAW.  We have one guy who uses Vegas.  One guy who uses Audition came over from Pro Tools...He's gotten very good with Audition, but he has been using it less than a year.  The other two Audition users understand only the bare minimum and use it for specific tasks.  And all three we're taught by me...So I am the obvious choice to lead the migration, as I have been using Audition (or Cool Edit Pro) for about 8 years.

I would like to lead a small seminar with our production staff to get them started on the program.  My question is, are there any tools to help me teach?  Or are there any resources that they could keep handy to help them?  I know the help files are very good, but I'd like something easier.  I couldn't find Total Training DVDs for 2.0, which is what will be on all machines.  I have considered writing a short (7-10 page) quick reference guide...But if someone has already written "Audition for Dummies" or something similar, then I may not need to do all that writing.  Or anything to suppliment my information would be a help.  I'll have about 90 minutes, I think, to get people going and anything that would help people migrate would help me!

Thanks!

Emmett

Emmett, I don't think there is a TT for Audition 2. There is a combined section in TT video production suite and you can also check out Audition 2 from Lynda and Digital Doctor. The latter is very basic and cheap but it's a get you started one with no mention of Radio or anything. The Lynda session is with Bruce Williams who I think may have been involved in radio at some point. Check it out, it has a few free samples. http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=253

Emmett, I can make animated Flash tutorials which can be distributed via email, CD and put on web pages. Been looking for a good excuse to make these .. email on the way.

[may have been involved in radio at some point.]

The Lynda session is with Bruce Williams who I think may have been involved in radio at some point.

Hehe! I think that noddy may be slightly amused by this!

"Bruce Williams began his professional radio career in 1987 as a "carting guy," transferring commercials from quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape to broadcast cartridges. Over the two decades since then, Bruce has worked for a multitude of commercial and non-commercial radio stations across Australia as a carting guy, commercial producer, and production manager. In May 2005, Bruce began producing a weekly tutorial on how to use Adobe Audition, which he distributes to the world via his podcast."

You could do an awful lot worse than using noddy's stuff. We never managed to get radiokenny's tutorials back, which is a shame - they would have been excellent as a starter. And for most people, that's all they need - once they've got the basics, then most of the rest falls into place quite easily - unlike what happens with a lot of other software, where it doesn't, always. It's also worth noting that for basic edit view operations, AA2.0 is conceptually no different from 1.5, so existing tutorials will get you a long way here.

...Most people here are using SAW Plus 32 from 1998, so I know this move will take a long time, and people will be unhappy about it.  At present, I am one of four people in this building that uses Audition.  Most use SAW.  We have one guy who uses Vegas.  One guy who uses Audition came over from Pro Tools...He's gotten very good with Audition, but he has been using it less than a year.  The other two Audition users understand only the bare minimum and use it for specific tasks.  And all three we're taught by me...So I am the obvious choice to lead the migration, as I have been using Audition (or Cool Edit Pro) for about 8 years.

At least your station has someone familiar with the software.  When we switched in Oct. '06, I had been using various incarnations of SAW since '97 or '98.  I had to figure out Audition on my own.  Needless to say, I was a very grumpy person for about a month! 
Good luck with the change over!

...Most people here are using SAW Plus 32 from 1998, so I know this move will take a long time, and people will be unhappy about it.  At present, I am one of four people in this building that uses Audition.  Most use SAW.  We have one guy who uses Vegas.  One guy who uses Audition came over from Pro Tools...He's gotten very good with Audition, but he has been using it less than a year.  The other two Audition users understand only the bare minimum and use it for specific tasks.  And all three we're taught by me...So I am the obvious choice to lead the migration, as I have been using Audition (or Cool Edit Pro) for about 8 years.

At least your station has someone familiar with the software.  When we switched in Oct. '06, I had been using various incarnations of SAW since '97 or '98.  I had to figure out Audition on my own.  Needless to say, I was a very grumpy person for about a month! 
Good luck with the change over!

At my last station cluster, we switched in 1999 to CEP.  They had decided to upgrade and had planned to just buy the latest version of SAW.  I asked for the opportunity to try out everything available before they bought, and they agreed.  I had been using Pro Tools for awhile, and liked it.  But during my testing, I discovered CEP.  I thought everything was so incredibly logical that it was the obvious choice.  They day we got it, I sat in the air studio and read the manual cover-to-cover between my breaks.  I had no problem at all making the switch.  I always thought SAW was kinda stupid.  CEP worked much more like I thought it should. 

This will be a little harder.  At that time, I was learning as well as everyone else.  This time, I know the program so well that I'm sure I'll forget basic things that are so deep in my mind that they are second nature for me!

Thank you all for your help!  We're doing this in mid-June, so I have some time to prepare!

Emmett

[may have been involved in radio at some point.]

The Lynda session is with Bruce Williams who I think may have been involved in radio at some point.

Hehe! I think that noddy may be slightly amused by this!

I'm still laughin' now!

I'm still laughin' now!

It's as well I didn't say anything bad about you, Bruce