I’ve known since RAW-format media was introduced that we could go from RAW to video, but not video to RAW. In this short tutorial, Larry Jordan explains why.
I made a mistake in this week’s webinar – Apple Final Cut Pro 11 Power Tips – when I said that ProRes did not support Log video. (I corrected this in the edited final version.) It does. WHAT IS LOG …
The new Magnetic Mask in Final Cut Pro 11 is a powerful tool to separate the foreground from background – without a green screen key – so you can alter the look of each layer independently. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates how to create a mask that includes multiple subjects.
There are two principal ways to create moves on stills for a video: the “Ken Burns Effect,” and keyframes. Both have benefits, both have weaknesses and both are used every day. Watch as Larry Jordan shows how to use each technique to create effective moves on a still image.
In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates the differences between duplicating a project and creating a snapshot. There are CLEAR differences and one big winner.
This is a flat-out amazing interview and photographs! Philip Grossman is a documentarian, cinematographer, technology consultant.. and absolutely fearless. His documentaries inside Chernobyl and Fukushima won international praise. Here he discusses his gear, his technique, and his thoughts on media itself.
While much of AI requires the cloud, for media asset management, running locally makes more sense. Here, Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axel AI, shares four benefits to creative workflows: Cost, Trust, Speed and Guilt.
All three NLEs – Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve – provide AI-powered audio tools to remove background noise. DaVinci Resolve 20 provides tools in both the free and Studio versions. Here’s how they work.
All three NLEs – Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve – provide AI-powered audio tools to remove background noise. Here’s how to use Enhance Speech in Adobe Premiere Pro 2025.
All three NLEs – Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve – provide AI-powered audio tools to remove background noise. Final Cut Pro 11 offers three different options. Here’s how they work.
The Channel EQ effect (filter) replaces the Fat EQ effect in Final Cut Pro. You use this to shape your audio, warm voices and make them easier to understand. Here’s how this effect (filter) works for men and women.
In this age of smartphones with incredible cameras, it is easy to take high-quality images for granted. But when working with older film prints or slides, quality is not a given; especially for images shot by non-professionals. In this tutorial, I show how to adjust scanner settings to rescue images and make them look great.
All NLEs today can convert speech to text, then generate captions for video. However, following in the steps of CapCut, which popularized this feature, DaVinci Resolve now animates subtitles in a variety of ways. Here’s how this works.
Media Intelligence is new with Premiere Pro 2025. It searches “for your perfect shot using language based on imagery, spoken words, or content with embedded metadata like shoot date, location, or camera type, all at the same time.” Here’s how it works.
The Magnetic Mask in Apple Final Cut Pro provides fascinating ways to separate foreground from background, then manipulate each separately. In this tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to use the Magnetic Mask to isolate the foreground, change the background, adjust color and add text effects.
Slow motion is as much a trick of the eye and brain, as it is a trick of technology. Nothing in a video actually moves, it’s our brain that adds the movement. Here’s what you need to know to make your slomo look as good as it can.
Sometimes, in spite of our best efforts during production, something gets into the shot that we just don’t notice until it is too late. DaVinci Resolve has two effects that can quickly remove elements from a shot: Patch Replacer and Object Remover. Here’s a tutorial on how they work.
This is such a powerful tool that, if you don’t know about it, then now is the perfect time to learn. Apple has built a single-click, automatic color corrector that works exceedingly well in fixing color problems essentially instantly.
Recently, I contacted Blackmagic Design to learn which features in DaVinci Resolve 20 were powered by AI. Here’s what I learned, along with a video demo at the end of this article.
Recently, my social media team asked me to create several vertical videos with captions. Since I can only shoot horizontal video, here’s how I did it, using DaVinci Resolve 20.
Recently, my social media team asked me to create several vertical videos with captions. Since I can only shoot horizontal video, here’s how I did it, using Premiere Pro 2025.
Recently, my social media team asked me to create several vertical videos with captions. Since I can only shoot horizontal video, here’s how I did it, using Apple Final Cut Pro 11.1.1.
How fast does your storage need to be to support video editing these days. Well, in most cases, not as fast as you might expect, as Larry Jordan illustrates.
Ken Paul Rosenthal is a filmmaker who switched from Canon to Blackmagic Design cameras. In doing so, he found an interested technique to improve exposures for his films.
Sigh… the worst just happened. Your Premiere Pro project is corrupt and won’t open. Now what? There are a number of options you can use to restore your project and get back to work quickly, as Larry Jordan explains.
Sigh… the worst just happened. Your Final Cut Pro library is corrupt and won’t open. Now what? There are a number of options you can use to restore your library and get back to work quickly, as Larry Jordan explains.
Far too often, you need to change color settings in the middle of a clip so that the colors change during playback. While you can simply dissolve between two clips, using keyframes gives you more control – allowing you to change settings multiple times during a clip. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to create color keyframes and change settings to convert a clip from daylight to indoor lighting.
All recent versions of DaVinci Resolve provide an outstanding motion tracker. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to configure a Power Window (mask) for tracking, then, seconds later, apply a secondary color correction effect. The whole process takes less than a minute and can be used with any Power Window!
DaVinci Resolve is an industry-legend as color grading software. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to transfer projects from Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro into Resolve, then how to transfer them back.
We are shooting more media than ever, distributing it in more ways than ever, and continually returning to our archives for new material to feed to social media long after the original event is done and gone. I asked Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle AI, what questions we should ask in choosing a media asset manager.
One of the themes from multiple interviews at the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas was “data repatriation.” In this short video, Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle AI, explains what this means and the benefits it provides.
In my webinar last week, I showed how to use keyframes in Premiere Pro to seamlessly change color in the middle of a clip using keyframes. However, as Reed Brown wrote, there’s a faster way that can be used in any NLE. Here’s how it works.
Adobe Premiere Pro has two ways to change the amount of color in a video clip: Saturation and Vibrance. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates the difference between them and explains which one to use when you are adjusting color in a clip. Surprisingly, the choice is not obvious.
Adobe Premiere Pro has vastly improved matching colors between shots – especially when you use Comparison View. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to display Comparison View, how to match colors between shots, then how to make manual adjustment if needed after the match.
One the harder color effects to create in Adobe Premiere Pro is a color change in the middle of a clip. But, it can be done! In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how this feature works, as well as how to color match different sections of the same clip.
Unlike Final Cut or Premiere, DaVinci Resolve does not store libraries (Final Cut) or projects (Premiere) as separate files. However, there are times when you need to save a specific project. Resolve provides three ways to do this: Backup, export, and archive. Here’s how each of these work.
With the 2025 release of Premiere Pro, Adobe has totally overhauled how it handles color. The new pipeline has streamlined settings, and added support for wide-gamut camera raw and log-encoded media. Here’s an overview of how it works.
Generative AI is commanding all the fear and attention in media today. But, there are a wealth of AI-assisted tools in Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve that are enabling editors to do more, rather than replacing them en masse. In this presentation to the Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group, Larry Jordan highlights nearly two dozen AI-assisted tools across all three of these applications.
Apple Final Cut Pro provides three different ways to quickly adjust the look of a clip: Looks, Color Board Presets, and Color Grading Presets. In this short video demo, Larry Jordan shows what these are, where they are located and the differences between them; including one very big advantage!
Comparison view quickly allows comparing the look of any timeline clip to the clips preceding and following it. Even better, it supports building a collection of “looks” you can use to compare any timeline clip to up to 30 timeline images. Larry Jordan shows how this feature works.
I found myself giving bad advice recently – which I hate to do – and it started with this panic email which I misinterpreted.
I was worried. My SSD RAID was getting fuller every time I deleted files. This should not happen! It SHOULD get emptier. While I was using an OWC Thunderblade RAID, this problem could apply to any SSD. The answer, I …
One of the themes at the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas seemed to be a reaction against the cloud; a question about whether we’ve moved too much data to the cloud. Several my interview guests talked about data repatriation, …
Resolve can easily display two timelines using either a single or dual monitor display. But it’s a bit fiddly. Here’s how this works.
Adobe Premiere supports displaying two or more timelines at the same time. For example, this can help when you need to compare two versions of an edit. This isn’t hard to do, but it isn’t obvious. Here’s how this works.
While Final Cut does not allow displaying more than one project in the timeline at the same time, it does make switching between projects easy. Here are some secret tips.
The latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro (v25.2.1) has a totally revamped color engine. Which is excellent, actually. But, if you are shooting iPhone video, when you load that clip into Premiere, it will look, ah, terrible. Here’s how to fix it – quick.
All the hype surrounding AI presents software developers making tools for creatives with a dilemma. How do they find the right balance between creating features that improve their tools versus replacing the editor?
One of the tasks editors are increasingly asked to do today is convert a horizontal timeline to vertical to post to social media. Premiere makes this process easy using Auto Reframe. Here’s how this works.
One of the tasks editors are increasingly asked to do today is convert a horizontal timeline to vertical to post to social media. Apple Final Cut makes it easy using Smart Conform. Here’s how.
