With the latest Smoke software release running on Mac OS X platform, the Smoke Essentials media is automatically installed with the software as you will see in the Getting Started section.
If you are using a different version of Smoke or have accidently deleted the media, separate instructions are provided in the tutorial so that you may download and install the media manually. Please start the first lesson and follow the instructions.

The Smoke Essentials contains exercises, followed by interface overviews.

Exercises
* Follow the exercises to get practical experience using the software.
Footage for the exercises is automatically installed with the latest version of Smoke running on the Mac OS X.

Overviews
* Watch the overviews to learn more about the Smoke user interface and functionalities.
These overviews are meant to walk you through the interface and therefore no footage is provided.

Although the Essentials Skills tutorials are intended for new users, existing Smoke artists will learn valuable editing and compositing techniques.

In these tutorials, you will learn how to:

• Build a multi-layer timeline and perform basic editing operations
• Create effects using Soft FX and timeline compositing techniques, including color correction, keying, text, tracking and masks.
• Create complex composites within the 3D environment of the Action module.

Additional learning resources are available to develop your skills; please refer to More Resources at the end of these tutorials.

To access a tutorial, navigate the menu on the left side of the page and click on an exercise or an overview in the numbered list.

The exercises are listed in the recommended order of completion. At the end of each exercise, you will find a link pointing to the related overview modules that will provide additional information on the tools that were used in this exercise.