Markers are an invaluable navigation and commenting aid in Premiere. My problem with markers is that I can never put them where I want them. Or find them, once I’ve got them put. Fortunately, Adobe added some new features that make working with markers in Premiere Pro a lot easier.
The 10.8 update extended the number of ways we can organize timelines in Final Cut Pro to three. This tutorial shows you the options, their strengths and weaknesses and how to create them.
It is always good to know your audience. So, in July, 2024, I created a survey to learn more about the readers of my “Edit Smarter” weekly newsletter – and, more generally, the tools used by professional media creators. Here are key results.
Files stored on hard disk or SSD are always bigger than the original file. Why? Because of “block size.” This article explains what block size is and how it affects storage.
How do lists sort in Apple Final Cut Pro? If you don’t understand the importance of column headers, you can get some confusing results. Here are the details.
Discover the tools that harness AI for seamless VFX integration. More than just Generative AI, these can profoundly amplify your capabilities in visual storytelling. By automating labor-intensive tasks like rotoscoping, texture generation, and object tracking, you can focus more on the creative aspects of your projects.
My “Edit Smarter” newsletter survey is a wealth of useful information. Here’s one result that immediately jumped out at me.
Three years ago, I purchased and reviewed the Stream Deck from Elgato. I thought it was fine – but not particularly helpful to me. Until this week. Suddenly, I’m finding ways where it can save me a ton of time in ways I totally did not expect. So, time to revise my review.
Andy Wilson asked an interesting question recently. He wrote: “I shoot outdoors in sunlight in HDR on my iPhone 13 Pro Max (so nothing gets overexposed) and edit on a SDR timeline for publication to the web. I find that …
More stories from the early days of video production and video tape. This one from Warren (“Butch”) Nelson.
New effects features in the 10.8 update to Final Cut Pro, when combined with existing effects features, can make your post-production life faster and more consistent. These include renaming custom effects and building effects presets.
Regardless of which NLE you use for media editing, you’ve probably suffered through the hassle of relinking media. This tutorial explains what caused it, how to fix it, and how to prevent it in the future.
In this tutorial, I tested different export options to see which is the fastest way to create an H.264 or HEVC compressed file from a Final Cut Pro project. Several results surprised me.
This week, Apple released Final Cut Pro 10.8. While this significant upgrade contains multiple new features and lots of fixes, here are the key features and how to use them.
Apple Final Cut Pro 10.8 no longer supports DVD burning. However, Apple and Corel teamed up to provide a 50% discount to Roxio Toast for all FCP users. Here are the details.
This week, Apple released updates for Final Cut Pro (Mac & iPad), Compressor and Motion. Here are all the details of the June, 2024 updates.
Apple announced macOS Sequoia at WWCD 2024. The big question for media creators is: Now what? Here’s the answer.
Virtual production has really changed the way films are made. It’s a major shift that’s redefining the entire industry. In this overview, written by Margo Chelsey, learn how virtual production can benefit your next project.
Last week, news broke of a change to Adobe’s Terms and Conditions for all Creative Cloud applications granting Adobe a ‘non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.’ What does this mean for the safety of your data?
As I was writing about using Auditions in Final Cut Pro to compare different audio clips, I started wondering whether we could use auditions to compare different visual effects. The answer is that we can, but the process is not intuitive. Here’s how this works.