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Starting with tips for solo job-hunters, Larry Jordan helps you discover which of your strengths clients are willing to pay for, develop your personal marketing plan, create effective marketing tools, discover what clients really need, learn killer techniques for finding work without asking for a job, and get a detailed look at using social media as part of your marketing plan.

In this Final Cut Pro tutorial Larry Jordan explains what you need to know to take advantage of this new technology. Best of all, you can get started for less than $100!

In this session, Larry Jordan shows you step-by-step techniques to create good looking keys using Final Cut Pro.

In this tutorial, Larry Jordan shows you how to use hot, new third-party software within Final Cut Pro to solve problems, find missing files, get you better organized, make your actors look beautiful, your transitions eye-popping, your effects killer, even create an edit from a written transcript without typing a word! Many of these plug-ins truly are something very close to magic!

n this one-hour tutorial, Larry Jordan shows you how to create some very interesting effects using the tools that Final Cut ships with.

In this tutorial, Larry shows you how to organize your hard disks, set up a working folder structure, presents a consistent project and folder naming system, optimize key preference settings, and trouble-shoot common Final Cut Pro problems

In this video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows you what you need to know to successfully improve the quality of your sound.

You are just back from the shoot and discover that all your footage is blue, or WAY under-exposed. After the screaming stops, what do you do?

In this one-hour video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows you what you need to know to work successfully in a tapeless world.

Video compression is required when posting video projects to the web. In this Compressor tutorial, you will learn common video compression terms, how to diagnose and fix compression problems, how to export from Final Cut Pro with the best quality, how to optimize web video, how to create files for YouTube or other services, and how to improve the look of your video when compressing for DVD.

This session is the third in our Compression Complete series and provides specific examples of how to transcode media using both Apple Final Cut Pro and Compressor; including working with DSLR media.

This session provides theories, suggestions, and examples on how to improve video images quality. It does not discuss specific cameras, video formats, or equipment.

In this session, host Larry Jordan explains why it’s hard to make still images look good, shows how to prep your images for video, illustrates how to size your images properly, and shows how to create moves on stills using Apple’s Final Cut Pro and GeeThree’s PhotoMotion. Plus, this provides extensive tables illustrating how to properly size stills.

This tutorial looks at the relationship between video formats and hard disk storage. In almost every case, a dropped frame error is caused by a hard disk that isn’t fast enough to support the video format you are editing.

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