Apple Final Cut Pro provides powerful color tools that improve video. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan demos two quick color tricks that fix color casts and make sure skin tones are accurate.
Final Cut Pro provides powerful color tools that improve video. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to keyframe a color correction, plus an easier way to correct white balance problems.
Final Cut Pro provides powerful color tools that improve video. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan explains what LUTs are, how they can improve your images, how to use them – and what to avoid – plus, how to create a custom LUT for your next project.
The Creatorland platform – currently in development – is a comprehensive tool for creators looking to present their work to a professional audience. Larry Jordan interviews Bob Freeman, CEO, to learn more about their plans.
Audio is a huge part of any project. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to record a voice over directly in the timeline of Adobe Premiere.
Audio is a huge part of any project. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to create audio fades across multiple tracks by setting master track keyframes.
Audio is a huge part of any project. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to create and modify audio transitions in Premiere.
Apple just announced new versions of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for the iPad. The iPad version is a harbinger of things to come; both good and bad. Professional editors are not the market. Here’s what’s in the new software and, more importantly, what it means.
Animated GIFs are short animations that are posted to a web site and viewed in a web browser. Not only can you create stunning animation in Motion, this short tutorial illustrates an EXTREMELY fast way to automate the process.
Changing the playback speed of a clip is a fast and easy way to create an eye-catching visual effect. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to use the rate stretch tool to create clip speed effects on demand.
There are five different ways to create slow motion video effects in Premiere. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates the image quality differences between them.
Changing the playback speed of a clip is a fast and easy way to create an eye-catching visual effect. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to create hold frames to pause, then restart, the action.
As AI continues to sweep through creative industries, I was introduced to a relatively new product specifically for video professionals: Colourlab Ai. To learn more, I interviewed Dado Valentic, CEO of Colorlab. Here is our conversation.
Changing the playback speed of a clip is a fast and easy way to create an eye-catching visual effect. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows the differences in image quality using five different techniques to create slow motion in Final Cut Pro.
Changing the playback speed of a clip is a fast and easy way to create an eye-catching visual effect. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to create fast-motion transitions within a clip to move quickly within a scene.
Changing the playback speed of a clip is a fast and easy way to create an eye-catching visual effect. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to create a Fit-to-Fill edit in the Timeline.
The AI genie is fully out of the bottle. AI is a significant, watershed event for the creative arts. But… it will cost jobs; especially in creative industries. This is very troubling. Share your thoughts in the comments.
Still photographs, slides and digital images are a common component in many video projects. In this short video Larry Jordan shows how to animate their movement, including moving on curves, in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Still photos, slides and digital images are a common component in many video projects. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to use keyframes inside Final Cut Pro to animate still images using straight lines and curves.
Still photographs, slides and digital images are common in many video projects where editors often need to bring them to life. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows three simple, AI-based, Photoshop tools to repair still images for video projects.
Still photographs, slides and digital images are a common component in many video projects. From digital photos to maps to old photos, editors often need to bring still images to life. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how.
The coordinate system in Motion and Final Cut makes creating effects with multiple images simple – once you understand how it works and how to properly scale the video clips. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial that will help you understand this.
Masks allow us to select a portion of a video image. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows a variety of ways to use color, shape and draw masks in Apple Final Cut Pro to create visual effects or fix problems.
Chroma-key allows us to make specific colors in a video image transparent. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows different ways to use chroma-key, which is also called a “green-screen key,” to create useful video effects.
Here are the twelve most popular media tutorials on the LarryJordan.com website for 2022. These include links and short article descriptions. Each of these generated tens of thousands of views.
“Ask Larry Anything!” is a free-form conversation about video editing technology.In this short tutorial, Larry Jordan illustrates how to read the video scopes inside Apple Final Cut Pro and, by extension, Adobe Premiere Pro, because they share similar scopes. He also provides a table describing where to set skin tones to make people on camera look “normal.”
Here’s a collection of two dozen websites with free – or mostly free resources for video editors.
You need to animate some text. It needs to be flashy. It needs to be colorful. And, most importantly, it needs to be done yesterday. Apple Keynote to the rescue! In this short video tutorial, Larry provides an overview on how to create animated text using Apple Keynote for use in any video editor, such as Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro or Media Composer.
In this illustrated tutorial, learn how to animate multiple elements in the same graphic using Adobe Premiere Pro.
Here’s an illustrated tutorial on how to animate multiple elements in a bar graph to illustrate a scientific concept. While this will work with most video editing software, I use Apple Final Cut Pro in this example.
Apple Keynote, like Apple Pages, supports text styles. However, these are more limited than you might at first think. Here’s a tutorial that explains more about how to create and modify them.
August is vacation time. Still, over these five weeks, we published 19 tutorials and product reviews. Here’s a summary of everything we released this month. Something to look through during the holiday weekend.
In this illustrated tutorial are three interesting, but little-used, effects in Apple Final Cut Pro that create interesting backgrounds or change the mood of a scene.
There are seven Stylize effects in Apple Final Cut Pro that create illegal video levels. This tutorial shows what they are, the problems they cause and how to fix them before final export.
Four classic production stills that showcase how much video production has changed over the last 40 years – along with some core ways it hasn’t changed at all.
In this highly-illustrated tutorial, I showcase what the “Light” effects do in Final Cut Pro, along with the settings used.
The reason we use effects is to help us tell our story more effectively. While creating effects can take more time than we expect, the results, when effects are chosen wisely, can be amazing. Here are a baker’s dozen of little-known effects in Apple Final Cut Pro.
I think these four skills are essential for every video editor to master. I also think it is impossible say that one is more important than the other, because if any one is missing, the project suffers.
In these troubled times, it is easy to get depressed. Let us not forget that our job is to bring great stories to the world. And that transcends technology.
Particle Illusion is a free, powerful particle generator that runs on both Macs and Windows with hundreds of presets for 2D or 3D particles. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to get started using it.
BorisFX Continuum is the “Swiss Army Knife for visual effects for video editors and motion graphics creatives. In this short video tutorial Larry Jordan shows how to create a complex effect using blurs, color effects and multiple masks, plus Mocha mask tracking in BorisFX Continuum 2022.5 and Final Cut Pro.
BorisFX Continuum is the “Swiss Army Knife for visual effects for video editors and motion graphics creatives. In this short video tutorial Larry Jordan shows how to create a simple blur effect using masks and Mocha mask tracking in BorisFX Continuum 2022.5 in Final Cut Pro.
BorisFX Continuum is the “Swiss Army Knife for visual effects for video editors and motion graphics creatives. In this short video tutorial Larry Jordan shows how to create a simple “Day-for-Night” color effect using Continuum in Final Cut Pro.
Here’s an illustrated tutorial on how to slow a video clip from full-speed to a standing stop, then back up to full-speed, while inserting a freeze frame in the middle that can be any duration you want using Apple Final Cut Pro.
This illustrated tutorial on creating retro film effects using Final Cut Pro was written by Burkhard Berger.
This tutorial creates a 3D text template in Apple Motion that allows Apple Final Cut Pro to put moving video inside adjustable, textured 3D text. There are many creative variations on this idea.
Multicam recording captures an event using multiple cameras. Multicam editing displays all those angles during the edit. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to create virtual angles in a multicam clip to provide more diversity in shot selection, as well as how to create a montage using multicam in Final Cut Pro.
Almost all digital video cameras shoot video levels with excessive levels for any project destined for broadcast, cable, streaming or digital cinema. The highlights are too bright and the shadows are too dark. Here are two ways to control them.
Apple Motion is powerful software that can be used to create motion graphics for any video editor, not just Final Cut Pro. For example, you can use Motion to create animated text and graphics on a Mac, then export it …
Adobe morphed Auto Tone into Auto Color with the 22.3 update to Premiere Pro. The new Auto Color works, but it doesn’t work well. Here are some examples that illustrate this point.
