A collection of more than 40 articles covering video editing, Adobe and Apple software, written over the summer of 2016 by Larry Jordan. Designed to make it easy to see any you may have missed.
A quick tip that can help dial out color problems during video editing, quickly and easily.
The Top Ten most common mistakes that affect video editing.
A step-by-step guide to transferring projects between Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Apple Final Cut Pro X; along with an explanation of what transfers and what doesn’t.
EditReady is a fast, flexible, simple to use video converter and created by the same folks that created ClipWrap. This utility can help speed your editing, provide greater flexibility over clip naming, change the timecode of a source clip or simplify media management.
Closed captions are intimidating! But, closed captions are also vital to understanding a movie for anyone who has trouble hearing or speaks a different language. In this short video excerpt, discover what captions are and the key terms you need to know.
An explanation of the difference between I-frame and GOP video compression and why it matters to video editors.
Just about every video editor wants to know more about audio, and just about every one of them doesn’t have the time to study audio repair and mixing as much as they would like. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to move projects between Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Pro X.
Dialog conveys information, while reaction shots convey emotion. In this short video excerpt from a webinar on creative video editing, Larry Jordan analyzes a scene from “The Battle of Five Armies,” and shows how it used reaction shots to heighten emotions.
Dialog conveys information, while reaction shots convey emotion. In this short video excerpt from a webinar on creative video editing, Larry Jordan shows how changing the position of the same two shots changes the emotional meaning of a scene.
With the June, 2016, update to Premiere Pro CC, Adobe added several new shortcuts that speed using keyframes inside the application. This illustrated article explains what and where they are.
Last week, Adobe released updates to all their audio and video software. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan showcases the new dynamic link between Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Audition CC.
If you are looking for visually interesting ways to style, degrade, or spice up your images, Rampant Edit Essentials is a great place to start. Here is an illustrated review of the product.
A variety of media creators explain how they archive their media and projects for the long-term.
In a discussion at the 2016 Creative Storage Conference, I discovered the answer to: “How long can we store flash media on a shelf without losing data.”
The Audio Track Mixer in Premiere allows us to control our sound in some very sophisticated ways. One of which uses Sends and Buses. This illustrated tutorial explains what audio buses are and how to use them. This tutorial is still relevant ten years later.
Masks allow us to modify or hide portions of an image. While most often used in chroma (or green-screen) keys, masks have a wide variety of uses. In this short video excerpt Larry shows how use masks to exclude sections of the image in a chroma-key effect.
An illustrated tutorial showing how to import selected sequences, media and projects into a separate project in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
An illustrated explanation of those weird, obscure settings at the bottom of the Sequence and Export dialogs in Premiere Pro that no one understands… and that you can’t find in the Adobe Help Files.
An illustrated tutorial on how to convert stereo audio to dual-channel mono for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
The Library panel allows you to add and share media and assets between the various Adobe applications. While currently designed to enable still artists working with Photoshop, libraries can still be useful to video editors. This illustrated tutorial explains how.
About 200 of Larry Jordan’s favorite keyboard shortcuts for Apple Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro CC. (Available as two separate PDFs and formatted for both printing and reference.)
Blend modes allow us to add texture to text, change the look of clips, even create unusual and eye-catching effects. Blend modes exist in virtually every video and graphics editing application. In this short video Larry Jordan shows how to access, modify and use blend modes in Adobe Photoshop CC.
An illustrated tutorial on how to convert files from Apple Soundtrack Pro to Adobe Audition CC.
A detailed explanation of what video frame rates are, why and when we need to convert them; and why you shouldn’t.
A detailed Q&A on media, media management and key preference settings in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Loudness Normalization in both Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Premiere Pro CC allow you to control audio levels to meet broadcast and cable specs in the US, Europe and around the world.
A step-by-step tutorial by Larry Jordan on how to create a green-screen, or chroma-key, in Premiere Pro CC.
The Loudness Radar is available in Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Audition CC. It allows us to measure average audio levels and meet the requirements of the CALM Act.
Why become a member of Larry Jordan’s Video Training Library? Because you can learn exactly what you need to know from our library more quickly and better than you can learn it on your own.
In this short video demo, Larry Jordan shows how to shoot a green-screen in studio, then how to create a green-screen effect using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
When speed is everything, and distortion is not an option, normalization can wrangle all your selected audio clips and even out their audio levels in a heartbeat. This illustrated article explains how.
NOTE: This Macintosh technique requires a Blu-ray Plug-in and BD-R or BD-RE Burner, both of which are sold separately. Without these, a Blu-ray Disc can not be created on a Mac. As Apple moves ever farther from supporting optical media, …
Delivered, maintained and updated via The Cloud, but stored locally, Red Giant Universe provides a wealth of high-quality effects and transitions in an easy-to-manage package at a very affordable price. A product review by Larry Jordan.
An illustrated explanation of the Video Limiter filter, why and how it is used and the new settings which automate this process in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
A list of, and links to, the Top 20 tutorials on Larry Jordan’s website for 2015.
A look at the new H.265 compression settings in the Nov. 2105 update to Adobe Media Encoder and why they aren’t working… yet.
The best drama, dance and music videos all start with a story. But, from there, they quickly diverge. This webinar looks at the differences between drama, music and dance. Watch as Larry Jordan explores how to create a variety of visual effects that are often used in dance and music videos.
The best drama, dance and music videos all start with a story. But, from there, they quickly diverge. This webinar looks at the differences between drama, music and dance. Watch as Larry Jordan explains the differences between editing drama, music and dance.
In this short, illustrated video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates the amount of storage that’s needed for 4K video files. Use this to plan your next project.
In this short, illustrated video, Larry Jordan shows two ways to transfer 4K media from an iPhone 6s (or 6s Plus) to a Macintosh. (These techniques do not require video editing software on the Mac.)
There are four ways we can change the speed of a clip in Premiere Pro CC 2015: freeze frame, hold frame, constant speed change and variable speed change. This article illustrates how to create all of them.
In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use the Loudness Radar in Premiere Pro CC to determine average audio levels.
This short video tutorial illustrates how to work with multichannel audio in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
There’s nothing more fun than discovering a new plug-in that helps you work faster, create unusual effects, or solve a nagging problem. In this short video excerpt, Larry illustrates the FX Factory interface, shows how to enable and disable plug-ins and demos a very useful plug-in called "Timecode."
Recently, Premiere totally overhauled its video scopes and color correction software to integrate features from SpeedGrade into Premiere Pro. In this article, I want to showcase these new Lumetri video scopes. NOTE: If you want to learn how to use …
With the 2015 release, Adobe massively improved their color correction and grading tools in Premiere Pro CC. For the first time, video scopes and tools that were only available in SpeedGrade are now available in Premiere. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use the new Lumetri video scopes to analyze clips and determine any problems they may have.
With the 2015 release, Adobe massively improved their color correction and grading tools in Premiere Pro CC. For the first time, video scopes and tools that were only available in SpeedGrade are now available in Premiere. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to analyze skin tone values to determine whether corrections need to be made.
Rampant Design Tools makes thousands of visual effects for all major video editing systems. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to use some of their fire and film burn effects.
LightLeakLove makes “light leak” effects for all major video editing software. In this video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows what these effects are and how they can really enhance your images.
