A detailed, illustrated tutorial on how to create, modify and delete keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Codecs don’t last forever. This article details changes coming to apps and media in future versions of the macOS. This is important for anyone needed to access legacy media files.
Search bins, in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, allow you to quickly find that needle-in-the-haystack perfect clip. And, best of all, they are dynamic, updating as you add clips or modify keywords. Here’s an illustrated tutorial showing how they work.
Nothing causes quite the confusion in video editing as media management. Before we can even begin editing, we need to figure out what to do with all the files that were generated on set. In this short video excerpt, you’ll discover a variety of media management techniques for Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a disk image to preserve and protect media files recorded to a camera card.
This video is from our periodic series called: “Ask Larry Anything.” This is a free-form conversation between Larry Jordan and viewers about, well, anything. In this short video, Larry shows how to create and display video proxy files in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
An in-depth Q&A answering questions about how to pick the right storage for video editing.
Lesser-known tips and techniques to create keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro Cc.
New in-app tutorials, designed for the new user, make getting started with Adobe Premiere Pro CC easier and less threatening.
A quick, illustrated tutorial on how to either select colors using numeric values or sliders using the Mac Color Picker, which works in all applications.
An in-depth review and tutorial of ff-Works, from OSBytes, for audio and video compression.
A very cool effect – that isn’t that hard to create – animating text to reveal itself in the surface of an object then zoom full-screen using Apple Motion 5. The resulting movie can be played in any video editor.
Green-screen keys are increasingly essential in even the smallest projects. In this short excerpt, Larry Jordan explains how to create and adjust a basic green-screen key in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
A detailed explanation, for video editors, of servers and video editing using Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Explained in layman’s terms, hopefully.
An illustrated tutorial on the new GPU monitoring window in Activity Monitor for the Mac.
Adobe introduced a number of new features in the April, 2018, update to Premiere. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use the new Color Match and side-by-side display feature.
The new Color Match in Adobe Premiere Pro CC provides very fast color matching between shots with the ability to make manual corrections as necessary. This illustrated tutorial shows you how it works.
Auto-ducking audio clips is new in the April, 2018, update to Adobe Premiere Pro CC. This new technique can be a huge time-saver, while still allowing the maximum of creating control. This illustrated tutorial shows you how it works.
An illustrated tutorial of the new Timecode panel in Adobe Premiere Pro – an amazingly helpful and flexible tool for editors.
A collection of new products for media creators announced at the 2018 NAB Show from companies you may not have heard about.
Adobe warns that older video codecs will not be supported in the future. Read what you NEED to know here.
Adobe announces and releases significant updates to Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, Audition CC, Character Animator and Adobe Stock. Here are the details of the new features.
Shooting and editing are essential to the production process. But, if you screw up the final compression, all the hard work that went before is lost. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan shows how to compress and automatically publish media files to social media.
There’s nothing harder than struggling to learn a new, complex piece of software. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan shows how to set audio levels for a single clip, or a group of clips, inside Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Instructions on how to turn off auto-updating in the macOS, why this can be a good idea and Larry Jordan’s thoughts on when to update after a new release.
An explanation of the options in the Wrench menu, located in the timeline of Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
At heart, a mask allows us to select a portion of an image. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use a mask to determine the best way to fix a color cast in a video clip.
At heart, a mask allows us to select a portion of an image. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates the basics of applying, modifying and deleting a mask inside Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Larry Jordan recently asked his readers for suggestions on how to improve the Adobe Premiere Pro CC interface. He got buried. Here are their suggestions.
Clip speed changes are surprisingly flexible, easy to create and add depth and interest to your projects. In this excerpt from a recent webinar, Larry Jordan shows how to display a high-frame rate clip in Premiere Pro to create high-quality, extreme slow motion. (This process is also called “conforming.”)
Clip speed changes are surprisingly flexible, easy to create and add depth and interest to your projects. In this excerpt from a recent webinar, Larry Jordan shows how to create variable speed changes in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
An illustrated tutorial on how to prevent illegal luma and chroma levels in both Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Apple Final Cut Pro X using the Broadcast Safe effect. This also explains why we need to use it.
An illustrated review of Luca Visual FX Light Kit 2, which runs in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro X, and Motion.
A first look at the new 1.4 release of Kyno, from Lesspain Software. Media management, transcoding and workflow software.
A detailed explanation of the different configurations for the 2017 iMac Pro, with recommendations on what to buy to optimize your system.
Green-screen keys (also called “chroma-keys”) are key go-to effects. In this excerpt from a recent webinar, Larry Jordan shows how to create a two-color chroma-key effect in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
These two filters – one for Premiere and the other for Final Cut – can make your audio sound great without using keyframes and in a fraction of the time of setting levels manually.
A helpful infographic, explanation and links about archiving media data on LTO tape drives.
You know you can improve the sound of your Adobe Premiere Pro CC projects if you mix them in Adobe Audition – but how? In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan tours the Audition interface and shows how some of his favorite audio editing tools work.
Specific preference settings you can change that will optimize the performance and operation of Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2018).
An in-depth look at Jellyfish – high-performance shared-storage for video editing from LumaForge.
In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan compares Team Projects with Shared Projects in the 2018 update to Adobe Premiere Pro CC, then illustrates how Shared Projects work.
The principle reason for using HEVC to compress video is to decrease the file size of the compressed file. But how does it look? In this First Look comparing HEVC to H.264 using Adobe Media Encoder, you’ll discover the answer.
Any Premiere project can be shared amongst other editors on the same local network. It works great – EXCEPT there is a huge gotcha that will cause you to lose work, if you don’t read this article first.
It seems like a small thing, but the new font menu in Premiere 2018 makes using ALL your fonts a lot faster and easier. Here’s an illustrated tutorial that explains how this works.
Our goal is to tell stories – and the best stories touch our emotions. However, all too often, we overlook a powerful tool that can influence our emotions: fonts. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan showcases different fonts and illustrates how to choose the best one for your next project.
If you are looking for ways to convert speech to text quickly, with reasonable accuracy, easy-to-use editing tools and multiple export options, SpeedScriber is an excellent choice. Here’s an illustrated review that explains how it works.
An in-depth look at a new application that allows creating custom keyboard shortcuts on an iPad which can control any application on an attached Mac.
Three, well, actually, four, hidden media preference settings that make editing in Premiere faster and easier.
For power, flexibility, and color effects, 3D LUT Creator is unequaled. Now, they need to turn their attention to showing the rest of us how to use it.
