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New, Small-but-Powerful Features in Adobe Premiere Pro CC (April, 2019)

An illustrated look at some of the lesser-known, but still powerful, features in Adobe Premiere Pro CC released in the April, 2019, update.

ftrack Review Released

track Review, a Cloud-based review and approval platform, is released. Here are the details.

Avid Moves to The Cloud – with Bebop

Avid moves its media creation tools to The Cloud in partnership with Bebop Technology. Here are the details on this annoucement.

ProRes RAW Expands Its Reach

Significant announcements from Filmlight, Assimilate, Telestream, ColorFront, MTI Film and Grass Valley support Apple ProRes RAW.

Adobe Updates Its Media Applications [u]

Illustrated details on Adobe’s latest updates (April 3, 2019) to Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, Audition CC and Character Animator.

Measure Your System’s Performance

An illustrated guide to free software tools you can use to measure the performance of your computer system, with a focus on video editing.

Workflow: How the Digital Production Buzz Covered the 2019 NAB Show [u]

An illustrated and detailed tour of how the Digital Production Buzz will produce and webcast 27 live shows in 3.5 days direct from the 2019 NAB trade show floor.

Convert Legacy Media Using Apple Compressor

An illustrated tutorial on how to convert 32-bit (or any) media to make it more future-proof using Apple Compressor; plus a description of missing features that are still needed.

Convert Legacy Media Using Apple Final Cut Pro X

An illustrated tutorial on how to use Apple Final Cut Pro X 104.6 (or later) to convert soon-to-be-incompatible 32-bit media into something more future-proof.

Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion and Compressor

Yesterday, Apple issued a mostly minor maintenance update to Final Cut, Motion, Compressor and iMovie with one big feature that is worth discussing. The new feature is that any of these three applications will now automatically detect media which will …

Thoughts on Picking the “Best” Computer for Video Editing [video]

In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan share his thoughts on how to pick the “Best” computer for video editing, what specs are important, and how to spend your money wisely.

Final Cut Pro X: Resize Video Without Losing Image Quality [video]

In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan shows how to resize a video clip without losing image quality in Apple Final Cut Pro X.

How to Remove a Color Blemish Inside a Video Clip [video]

In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan shows three different ways to correct a color blemish within the frame. This technique works in either Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

Final Cut Pro X: Reopening Libraries and Using Timeline History [video]

In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan explains how Final Cut Pro X decides what to reopen when restarting and how the Timeline History works.

Adobe Media Encoder: Share a Watch Folder Across Multiple Computers [video]

In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan shows how to create Watch Folders in Adobe Media Encoder that can be accessed by multiple computers and a shared server to simplify video compression.

Kyno Adds Significant Features in 1.6 Update

Kyno is a full-featured, flexible media manager for both Mac and Windows, with powerful transcoding built-in. Here is an overview of the new features in the 1.6.1 release.

Apple Final Cut Pro X and SDXC Cards

Michael Powles writes about problems using SDXC camera cards with Apple Final Cut Pro X. Larry Jordan provides additional answers.

Editing Issues: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k

A detailed, illustrated look at the different media formats and shooting options with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, along with recommendations for best editing in different NLEs.

Collection: Create Green-Screen Keys

A collection of articles and video demos explaining how to create green-screen keys (chroma-keys) in Apple Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

Product Review: Axle ai 2018, from Axle.ai

An in-depth, illustrated look at Axle.ai, media asset management software for the Mac.