In this session, Larry Jordan showcases video scopes and color grading with an in-depth tour of the Color page in DaVinci Resolve 20. From reading video scopes, to fixing problems, and creating looks, this session will get you color grading with confidence. Whether you have the free or Studio version, you’ll learn a LOT!
This session focuses on significantly improving the performance of our computer systems by integrating SSD storage without spending a lot of money. Plus, Larry provides an in-depth demo using AI to improve still and video image quality.
Apple updated Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor last week with significant new features. In this session, Larry Jordan illustrates some of the more interesting – and important – ones.
So, this week, we take a detailed look at working with stills inside Apple Final Cut Pro X. What you’ll discover is that the challenge with stills is not the editing, but the preparation and organization.
Adobe Premiere Pro CC can do amazing things. However, when you combine Premiere with some of the powerful third-party tools that a worldwide community of developers has created for Premiere – Premiere's power is magnified. This week’s webinar concentrates on sophisticated tools that enable us to extend Premiere even further.
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 Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion and virtually all other video and graphics editing applications. Larry Jordan shows how they work in this webinar.
Green-screen effects, also called “chroma-key effects,” allow us to easily insert a foreground actor into a different background. But, exactly, HOW do you do this? This session starts by recording green-screen shots in the studio, then creating the finished effects in Apple Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Photoshop is an essential tool for video production, regardless of which video editing system you use. This 4-session video training is designed for editors who are new to Photoshop who need to work with, clean up or repair existing images.
Photoshop for Video Editors: Class 4 – Advanced Techniques
In this free-wheeling session, host Larry Jordan fields a variety of questions about Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro CC.
Many documentaries rely on historical photos for their stories. However, many old photos are falling apart. In this session, you’ll learn image restoration techniques that allow you to salvage even badly damaged photos.
In this webinar, host Larry Jordan showcases how to prepare and size stills for video, how to animate stills using keyframes in Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X. He’ll also showcase a special Photoshop technique that adds depth of field and movement to a still that makes it almost look like it was shot in 3D! (This technique works in both Premiere and Final Cut.)
Whether you use Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro X, most of us only think of using Photoshop for still images. But, hidden deep inside the program is a frame-based video repair facility. This means that the same tools we use in Photoshop to fix still images can be used to fix problems with our video, including pixel-based editing.
In this one-hour online video training, watch host, Larry Jordan, show you how to make things move in Motion. You’ll learn how to animate a dotted line to, say, follow a path on a map. Motion track graphics to move with an object in the frame. Discover the power of simulators and much, much more.
Blend modes, which Final Cut Pro 7 called “composite modes,” combine images based upon their gray-scale or color values. Which sounds weird until you start to play with it. Think of blend modes as "sharing textures between images." What makes blend modes so exciting is that they are easy to apply, yet open up a world of creative possibilities. In this one-hour online training, join host, Larry Jordan, as he shows you how blend modes can take your effects to an entirely different level. You can use them to add texture to text, enhance images, or make images look totally surreal.
Join host, Larry Jordan, as he briefly reviews how to use the video scopes, then color grades three different dramatic scenes showing you techniques you can put to work immediately to catch the eye of the viewer. Along the way, you’ll also learn how to copy effects between clips, adjust color settings inside clips, change effects across a range of clips and use third-party plug-ins to do more than Final Cut can do by itself.
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With the possible exception of media management in Final Cut Pro X, nothing creates more questions than working with still images. In this in-depth video training session, we wade into the quagmire and show you how to import, manage, and edit still images in Final Cut Pro X.
This online session looks at creating titles and effects in Premiere. From simple titles and clip speed changes, to picture-in-picture effects and the brand-new adjustment layers, we’ll showcase the effects Premiere Pro CS6 can do.
Photoshop is an amazing tool for people who want to design beautiful images. But it is also critical in many video productions as well.
Composite modes have been hidden in Final Cut for a long, long time. But while they can create some amazing effects, they are still poorly understood.
One of the significant changes in Final Cut Pro 7 is how it exports still frames (also called “Freeze Frames”) and adds speed changes to clips.
This webinar, which was sponsored by Boris FX, shows you how to use the titling software bundled with Final Cut Pro, then how to extend it when you add the power of Boris Continuum Complete version 7 to supercharge your text effects.
Rotoscoping is the process of manually removing a portion of an image in a clip, without using a green screen.
Have you ever been confused trying to figure out what size to make still images for video?
Creating great-looking freeze frames from Final Cut is difficult because exported video images look stretched, often with thin horizontal lines radiating out from moving images.
Probably nothing is more annoying than having a “perfect” shot – only to discover that a shadow, wire, or car is intruding into your visual perfection.
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!
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.
