I just skimmed the Pro Pack book at B&N tonight, and a couple observations struck me. First, effective demonstrations of some features can't be done as effectively in static media. A RealPlayer slideshow with embedded movies would work a hell of a lot better. Second, these books are at a disadvantage because whether it's the reasonably well-written Pro Pack f/x book or the excreta of R. Shamms Mortier (folks, how bad could your first name be that 'Shamms' is preferable?), they both mistakenly assume their readers have no internet access and have never read an online tutorial or asked a question on the forums, so they spend considerable time reinventing the wheel. There really isn't that much in PPPf/x that's Pro Pack specific. This is my plea to CL: put their manual in RealPlayer multimedia on our hard drives at installation and a copy on CD. Show more, tell less.