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The new Beat Detection feature in Final Cut Pro 12 is both simple, elegant and effective. With it, you can not only highlight specific beats in music, you can use these to cleanly edit it as well. Here’s how this new feature works.

Masking is the process of isolating a subject in the frame so you can modify it separately from the rest of the image. In the Premiere 26 release of Premiere, Adobe added the Object Mask whose KEY benefit is to use AI to create mask shapes. Here’s how it works.

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Peter Wiggins is the former webmaster of FCP.co and currently an active developer of Mac applications. He share his thoughts on the new Creator Suite, released this week from Apple.

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Yesterday, Apple released their Creator Studio bundle containing ten media creation and productivity apps. While this is a great way for new users to experiment with excellent creativity software, I’m not planning to subscribe and I want to explain why.

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This week, Apple released Creator Studio, a subscription-based collection of ten media creativity and productivity applications from Apple. Here are the details and links to learn more.

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This week, Apple updated Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, and Compressor, along with other non-media Apple apps. Here’s a list of what’s new and links, including almost 200 bugs in Logic Pro – a mind-bending number of fixes!

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Developers don’t think like media creators. And, in that disconnect, lie many of the problems media creators have with every upgrade or product launch. Developers build for the future, while media creators build on the past.

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Last week, Adobe released the latest 2026 versions of Premiere, Audition and Media Encoder. Here’s what’s new, along with links to learn more and their new logos.

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In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to create rolling credits in DaVinci Resolve 20. Specifically, three different ways to create rolling credits, from really simple to graphically intense.

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Richard writes: I’ve been editing for over 25 years. Recently, I’ve started editing using AI tools as part of my process and having good results. Let me tell you what’s I’m doing.

This session started with a question from a reader: “I’ve heard about markers in Premiere for a long time, but I never bothered to use them. What are they, how are they used, and what are the benefits?” This was such a great question that Larry Jordan answered it in last week’s webinar.

Last week’s release of Adobe Premiere 25.6 contained a powerful new feature: Find and obscure unwanted speech automatically using Adobe Premiere 25.6. In this short video demo, Larry Jordan shows how this new automatic text replacement feature works, along with what makes it so powerful.

Last week’s release of Adobe Premiere 25.6 contained a stunning new feature: Media Intelligence-assisted search. In this short video demo, Larry Jordan shows how this new search feature works and what makes it so powerful.

An amazing new feature Adobe added to Premiere 25.6 is content-sensitive search using Media Intelligence. Search on visuals, audio, text, metadata or all four. Here’s how it works.

Last week, Adobe updated Premiere to 25.6 and simplified the product name to “Premiere.” Here’s the list of new features and links to learn more.

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Adobe improved how keyframes are set and adjusted in Premiere Pro 2025. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates how to set and adjust keyframes in Premiere, as well as the new features introduced in the 2025 release.

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There is a secret to color grading multicam clips in DaVinci Resolve 20 – it can’t be done, unless you click this one icon.

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A detailed, illustrated tutorial on adding and modifying animation keyframes in DaVinci Resolve 20, plus a close look at the new Keyframe Editor which appeared in this latest version.

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A detailed, illustrated tutorial on adding and modifying animation keyframes in Premiere Pro 2025.

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The rules governing closed captions are changing significantly with the WCAG 2.1 spec. Bob O’Brien shared his research. If all this is true, it will affect caption content, timing, video players and, most importantly, budgets.

Earlier this month, Adobe released the latest version of Premiere Pro (25.5). Here is an illustration of its new features.

On Sept. 11, 2025, Adobe released the latest version of Premiere Pro (v25.5) Here’s what’s new. 

Here are all the latest features and bug fixes in the Sept. 25, 2025 release of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor and Final Cut Camera.

Julien Fabbri, with Wisycom, showcases their latest wireless technology at IBC 2025.

Mark Townsend, Studio Technologies, highlights their latest offerings at IBC 2025.

Richard Rees, CEO of QuickLink, explains what’s new at IBC 2025.

Gary Rosen, VP of Global Sales for Pliant Technologies, showcases their latest products at IBX 2025.

Freddie Vinehill-Cliffe describes what’s new from NUGEN Audio at IBC 2025.

Jacob Vernick, Sales Engineer for NewBlue, showcases their latest products at IBC 2025.

Dan Maloney, Matrox Video, describes their latest products at IBC 2025.

Bernie Keech, Marshall Electronics, describes new cameras from Marshall at IBC 2025.

Helga Volha Somava, DPA Microphones, on what’s new for them at IBC 2025.

Michael Cioni, CEO of Strada, comments on the impact of AI on media today.

Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle.AI, explains what’s new at IBC 2025.

Dr. Marc Batschkus, Director of Business Development at Archiware showcases what’s new from them at the show.

Abe Abt, Senior Product Consultant at AJA, on what’s new from AJA at IBC 2025.

Larry O’Connor, CEO of OWC, on the current media trends that he’s watching.

Larry O’Connor, CEO of OWC, shares his thoughts on the current impact of AI on media technology.

Luke Marchant, from OWC, showcases their new ThunderBolt 5 Dock and the latest version of Jellyfish shared storage.

Larry O’Connor, CEO of OWC, showcases many of their latest products at IBC 2025.

Peter Barber, CEO of Atomos, showcases what’s new for Atomos at IBC 2025.

Here are some of the trends we are hearing about at IBC 2025. Please add your thoughts in the comments.

Leanne Tomlin, Marketing Director, Pixit Media, explains what new from them at IBC 2025.

Rich Andes, Telestream, showcases what’s new from Telestream at IBC 2025.

Michael Cioni, CEO of Strada, explains what’s new from Strada at IBC 2025.

Alexandru Niculin, Maxon, showcases what’s new from Maxon at IBC.

Kylee Peña, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Premiere Pro, Adobe Systems, explains how Adobe is integrating generative AI into its media products at IBC 2025.

Kylee Peña, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Premiere Pro, Adobe Systems, introduces the latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro at IBC 2025.

These interviews of leading developers for the media industry were recorded at IBC 2025 by Laura Peters, a member of the Larry Jordan team.

These are the two animated titles we’ll create this week in Larry’s DaVinci Resolve Fusion webinar.

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