PMF Academy

What is PMF Academy

PMF Academy is your built-in learning center designed to guide you through the fastest, most effective paths for using ProMediaFlow applications. Conveniently located right next to your daily tools, the Academy provides short, narrated video demonstrations that show you standard workflows, point out common mistakes that might disrupt your work, and explain exactly how to recover from them.

The Academy features a "Living Curriculum." Along with foundational courses recorded by human instructors, many courses are automatically generated and updated directly from live business processes running inside ProMediaFlow. When a system process is updated, its corresponding course automatically refreshes, ensuring your training always stays current.

Getting started

To begin your learning journey:

1. Open the Academy application from your ProMediaFlow main navigation menu.
2. This opens your personal learning dashboard, where you can browse the course catalog or resume any course you have already started.

Note on Credits: Watching lessons or completing interactive exercises does not consume any of your ProMediaFlow credits. There is no direct credit cost charged to you.

Key capabilities

• Certificate Generation & Certificates: Earn official recognition for completing your training. The system automatically generates and issues downloadable PDF certificates the moment you finish a course.
• Video Lessons & Interactive Video: Watch professional, high-quality video demonstrations (typically 2 to 6 minutes per lesson) to learn standard workflows. Enhance your learning experience using interactive video tools, which include progress tracking, customizable bookmarks, and embedded quizzes to reinforce your understanding.
• Interactive Exercises: Put your knowledge to the test with practical assignments and hands-on exercises that let you practice directly inside the live product.
• Learning Paths: Follow structured learning paths tailored specifically to different team roles, ensuring you learn the exact tools you need for your job.
• Progress Tracking: Monitor your learning journey as you go. You can track your own completion rates, while team managers can monitor progress across individuals and entire departments.
• Course Catalog: Browse a comprehensive, easily searchable catalog of training programs covering different ProMediaFlow tools.

How to use it

Browsing and Searching for Courses

When you open the Academy dashboard, courses are grouped under application headers representing different ProMediaFlow tools (such as Creator Studio, Discover, Atlas, Treatment, Storyboard, Shot Editor, Media Factory, Blaze, Workspace + Billing, and more). Any unrecognized tools are grouped under a section labeled "Other."

• Filter Courses: Use the search box at the top of the screen to filter the catalog by title, description, application, or course level.
• Status Alerts: If the catalog is empty, you will see a "Curriculum is warming up" message. If there is a loading issue, a red alert banner will appear at the top of the dashboard.

Reading Course Cards

Each course card on the dashboard displays important details to help you choose the right training:

• Level: Courses are classified as Foundation, Intermediate, or Advanced.
• Lesson Count: Indicates how many lessons (starting from lesson 1) are contained in the course.
• Estimated Duration: Shows an estimated total completion time (calculated at approximately 9 minutes per lesson).
• Auto Badge: Look for the small "🤖 auto" badge with a "synced" timestamp. This indicates the course is automatically kept up to date by the system.

Taking a Lesson

Click on any course card to open its detailed view and play your first lesson.

• Sequential Learning: Play through lessons in order to complete your assignments and unlock certifications.
• Hands-on Practice: Use the Try it in <app> button visible on the course screen. Clicking this will jump you directly out of the Academy and into the live feature being taught, so you can immediately practice what you just watched.

Tips & notes

• Drafts vs. Published Courses: By default, standard users only see "Published" courses in the catalog. If you are an administrator or a member of the internal organization, you may also see "Draft" (unpublished) courses, allowing you to preview new training before it is finalized for all users.
• Preserving Your Edits: If you manually customize or edit an automatically synced course, the system will respect your work. Once a course is manually edited or overridden, the automation will never overwrite your custom lessons.
• Estimated Times: The duration listed on a course card is a standard estimate (9 minutes per lesson) and may not exactly match the combined running time of the video files.
• System Limits & Rules:
  • Automatic course synchronizations run on a regular cadence approximately every 6 hours.
  • Lessons must be numbered starting at 1 or higher.
  • Manual upload files must adhere to supported formats: video files must be MP4, WebM, or MOV; cover images must be JPG, PNG, or WebP; and subtitles must be SRT or VTT (and require a specified language).
  • Text provided for automated voiceover scripts must not exceed 5,000 characters.