And these costs are not insignificant if you had the manual you desired, you'd end up paying significantly more for the software. We are fully aware that we get loads of questions from potentially irate users such as yourself on the forum - most of which could be answered by a comprehensive manual of the type you are proposing, but even if it existed, it would have to be rewritten on an almost constant basis - even more cost.
And that, I'm afraid, is the harsh reality of life. And Adobe corporate ditched that idea a while ago in favour of employing coders to produce stuff that people could purchase, and paying shareholders dividends. The huge problem with manuals is that to do them well is a specialist job, and costs a lot of money because, inevitably, you have to buy in specialists. Stop everything and do a specialist job that you're not really equipped to do? Users should not have to be making a special request for the most important, fundamental "feature" of any software.
Stop everything else you are doing and issue "complete, referenced, current" manuals for your software. Used F1, typed in bounce (after specifying I did not want all the superfluous forum/community/tutorial clutter in my search) it did not offer Audition (HEY ADOBE! when I'm in a program, using the help requester, I ONLY WANT TO SEE material relevant to that program) a lot of useless references to marketing, metrics, after effects. Today I wanted a quick answer on track bounce mechanics. While I sometimes enjoy taking the time to indulge in the "online" materials as a casual endeavor, it is useless for a mission critical need to get the pertinent reference, now (90% of why I am going to help). I've been begging and bitching for them ever since Adobe made the massive mistake of stopping their inclusion.The materials were hidden, unless you had the direct link. It is the single most important feature of any software package.
I had recently stumbled across links to the PDF manuals for PPro and AE in the twitter Adobe Customer service feed. But there is a lot of online help and tutorials.
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