Timecode is what makes precision video editing possible. While the timecode of all video projects today start at 00:00:00:00, this wasn’t always the case, as Larry Jordan explains.
Trimming is where the real magic happens in editing. It adjusts where two clips touch. Generally, you can drag the edges of a clip to change where an edit occurs, but Final Cut provides a wide variety of other tools that make trimming faster and, most often, more accurate. Larry Jordan demos how these work.
In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to optimize preference settings, which options to choose, and what they do. He also explains the settings in the Media Import window, which can make a major difference in how easily you work with the media you are importing into your project.
A common support question that Larry Jordan gets is how to work with media in Final Cut Pro. In this short video, Larry Jordan provides a background on where to store media, which format to use, when to optimize it and other media questions.
Auditions make it easy to compare multiple audio or video clips to see which works best for your projects. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates how to create, preview, select and finalize Auditions in Final Cut.
In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use Apple Final Cut Pro to display and read audio meters, where to set audio levels, and how to adjust the volume settings for multiple clips at the same time.
3D text is built-into Final Cut Pro. In fact, ANY text can become 3D text. It is easy to create and modify, with customizable lights and surfaces, as this short video hosted by Larry Jordan illustrates.
Strada is introducing a new, collaborative file-sharing service that bypasses Cloud servers to provide secure, private, and fast peer-to-peer media review and file transfers between Mac, Window, iOS and Android devices. Here’s a first look.
One of the long-time features in Apple Compressor is the ability to harness multiple computers to speed video compression tasks by creating a compression network. In this tutorial, I examine if this can make your compression tasks faster or easier.
The digital video landscape evolves constantly. The result: creators must manage multiple aspect ratios, audio levels, compression rates, and export standards — all while preserving brand consistency. Here are some tips to help optimize your projects for social media.
Resolve has lots of titles available in its Effects panel. But, most times, you want something custom that matches the look of your project. Fusion templates are exactly what you need – they are shared between projects and you can customize them as much as you want. The only problem is that they are impossible to figure out without a map.
This illustrates different workflows for transferring media between DaVinci Resolve and Axle AI, a popular media asset management system. It also provides recommendations on working with metadata.
Bill Clough is a retired journalist, having spent 60 years behind a viewfinder, a microphone or a keyboard. He’s developed two acronyms to prevent problems during production and post.
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.
Glenn asked: “There are a number of ways to set audio levels for dialog clip in Adobe Premiere Pro 2025. What’s the best way? In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates a much faster – and better – technique to set audio levels in Premiere.
In the earliest days of film, silent movie cameras were hand-cranked, yielding jittery, unevenly exposed film. In this short video, Larry Jordan show hows to create a similar look by animating parameter behaviors in Apple Motion.
While not as critical as in years past, the goal of compressing video is to make a very large file as small as possible. In this short video, Larry Jordan explains what factors determine the size of a compressed file
Whether you love it, hate it, or simply accept it as “the way things are,” vertical video is everywhere – especially on social media. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan shows how to create vertical video projects in Apple Final Cut Pro 11.
Regardless of which video editing software you use, safely archiving your media and projects when the editing is done is always a priority. But, what should you archive?
There seems to be a problem in Final Cut Pro 11.2 which prevents exports if deinterlacing has been enabled. Learn more here.
