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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.

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 tutorial on 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.

Blend modes share textures between video layers. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to use blend modes and gradients to improve the look of wide shots.

The Channel EQ filter allows you to mix music and narration which keeps the music loud, yet allows the narration to be clearly audible. This illustrated tutorial covers Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Audition.

If you’ve only been using simple text in your projects, allow yourself to discover some of the amazing flexibility Premiere’s Title Editor provides. This illustrated tour of the Title Editor showcases key functions on how to use text in video.

An indexed and linked list of all technical blogs and articles written by Larry Jordan during August, 2015.

An illustrated explanation of how to measure free space on your hard disk – and why you need to do this – along with an explanation of how to improve performance by minimizing file “swapping.”

It hasn’t drawn the attention of the new Morph Cut, or the new Lumetri Looks, but the recent addition of project consolidation and transcoding to Premiere Pro CC is a big deal. This is because it simplifies our ability to …

Spectrum, from Luca Visual FX, provides endlessly fascinating visual backgrounds and transitions for Final Cut Pro X, as Larry Jordan writes in this article.

A detailed tutorial of the new Morph Cut in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, along with a discussion of the ethical issues in using it and tips to make it look the best.

In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates the new Color workspace in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, along with its outstanding new video scopes and amazing Lumetri color panel.

A short video demo showing how to send projects from Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 to Adobe Audition CC 2015, and how to send the final mix back to Premiere.

An illustrated explanation of video scopes – Waveform Monitor and Vectorscope – and how to read them to better understand your video images. This article applies to all video editing software and images.