PMF Academy

What is PMF Academy

PMF Academy is your built-in learning center inside ProMediaFlow, positioned directly alongside your daily tools. It provides short, narrated video demonstrations—typically 2 to 6 minutes long—that guide you through standard workflows, highlight common mistakes, and show you how to recover if something breaks.

The Academy operates on a "Living Curriculum." Alongside foundational courses created by human instructors, many courses are automatically generated and updated directly from live platform processes. Whenever an underlying workflow updates, its corresponding course automatically refreshes approximately every 6 hours, ensuring your training remains aligned with how your team works.

Getting started

To access the Academy:

1. Click Academy in the ProMediaFlow main navigation menu.
2. Your personal learning dashboard will open, displaying available training programs and allowing you to resume courses in progress.

Credit Usage: Watching video lessons, completing interactive exercises, and earning certificates consume 0 ProMediaFlow credits. The Academy is completely non-metered and free of credit charges.

Key capabilities

• Video Lessons: Watch step-by-step, professional video demonstrations (typically 2 to 6 minutes long) that walk you through optimal workflows, common mistakes, and recovery steps while tracking your completion progress.
• Interactive Video: Engage with video lessons equipped with customizable bookmarks, embedded quizzes, terms search, multi-language support, direct lesson deep-linking, and progress tracking.
• Certificates & Certificate Generation: Earn official recognition upon completing a course. The platform automatically generates and issues downloadable PDF certificates the moment you complete all required lessons.
• Interactive Exercises: Put your knowledge into practice through hands-on assignments and practical exercises directly within the live application environment.
• Learning Paths: Follow structured training paths tailored to specific team roles, ensuring you focus on the exact tools and workflows required for your job.
• Progress Tracking: Monitor completion rates as you learn. Individual users can track their personal progress, while team managers can review completion metrics across individuals and entire departments.
• Course Catalog: Browse and search a comprehensive directory of training programs categorized by ProMediaFlow application modules.

How to use it

Browsing and Searching the Catalog

The main dashboard groups courses under section headers for specific ProMediaFlow tools, including Creator Studio, Discover, Atlas, Treatment, Storyboard, Shot Editor, Media Factory, Blaze, and Workspace + Billing. Any unrecognized tools appear under an Other header.

• Search and Filter: Use the search bar at the top of the dashboard to filter courses by title, description, application name, or course difficulty level (Foundation, Intermediate, or Advanced).
• Dashboard Alerts: If no courses are currently available, the screen displays a "Curriculum is warming up" message. If the catalog fails to load, a red alert banner appears at the top of the dashboard.

Understanding Course Cards

Each course card displays key information about the course:

• Difficulty Level: Displays whether a course is Foundation, Intermediate, or Advanced.
• Lesson Count: Lists the total number of sequential lessons in the course (starting from lesson 1).
• Estimated Duration: Displays an estimated total completion time, calculated at approximately 9 minutes per lesson.
• Auto Badge: Courses updated automatically by the platform display a small 🤖 auto badge along with a "synced" timestamp showing when it was last refreshed.

Taking Lessons and Practicing Live

Click any course card to open its detailed lesson view:

• Sequential Playback: Complete lessons in order starting from lesson 1 to track your progress and unlock your completion certificate.
• Interactive Tools: Search terms, switch languages, save custom bookmarks, and take embedded quizzes during video playback.
• Live Product Practice: Click the Try it in <app> button on any lesson screen to jump directly out of the Academy and into the specific live tool being taught, allowing you to practice immediately in real time.

Tips & notes

• Draft vs. Published Courses: Standard users see only Published courses. Organization administrators and internal team members can also preview Draft courses before they are formally released.
• Protecting Custom Edits: If you manually customize or override an auto-generated course, the system locks your changes so automated background updates will never overwrite your custom lessons.
• Estimated Duration vs. Video Length: Estimated course completion times are benchmarked at 9 minutes per lesson and may differ from the exact runtime of the video files.
• System Limits & Upload Specifications:
  • Automated background syncs refresh course content approximately every 6 hours.
  • Lessons must be numbered sequentially starting at 1 or higher.
  • Supported manual upload file types:
    • Video: MP4, WebM, MOV.
    • Cover Images: JPG, PNG, WebP.
    • Subtitles: SRT, VTT (requires a designated language setting).
  • Automated voiceover text scripts are capped at a maximum of 5,000 characters per entry.
• Recent Updates: Recent releases introduced multi-language support (v1.1) as well as terms search and direct lesson deep-linking (v1.2).