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Cloud AI Is The Wrong Place For The Media Industry

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.

How to Reduce Background Noise Using DaVinci Resolve 20

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.

How to Reduce Background Noise in Adobe Premiere Pro 2025

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.

How to Reduce Background Noise in Apple Final Cut Pro 11

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.

Use Channel EQ to Improve Voice Quality in Apple Final Cut Pro

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.

Atomos Announces Ninja TX, Next-Generation Monitor-Recorder

Atomos announced the Ninja TX, a completely reengineered member of the Ninja family of camera monitor-recorders featuring a brand-new industrial design, improved thermal efficiency, reduced weight, and enhanced portability, all in a compact 5-inch form factor.

How to Use a Scanner to Rescue a Too-Dark or Too-Light Still Image

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.

Create Animated Captions Using DaVinci Resolve 20

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.

AI-Powered Media Intelligence Search in Premiere Pro 2025

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.

Three Intriguing Uses of Magnetic Mask in Final Cut Pro

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.

Caution: Slow Motion in Apple Final Cut Pro Tends to Hallucinate

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.

To Upgrade, or Not to Upgrade – That is the Question

Upgrades, whether for the macOS or your favorite NLE, are always a balancing act. We need to decide whether the new features (and security improvements) are worth risking breaking a feature we depend upon. Here are my recommendations.

Two Amazing Ways to Clean Up a Shot in DaVinci Resolve 20

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.

Quick Fix One-Click Color Trick for Final Cut Pro

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.

AI-Powered Features in DaVinci Resolve 20

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.

Transform Horizontal to Vertical Video and Create Captions in 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 DaVinci Resolve 20.

Transform Horizontal to Vertical Video and Create Captions in Adobe 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 Premiere Pro 2025.

Transform Horizontal to Vertical Video and Create Captions in Apple Final Cut Pro 11

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.

Sometimes, Good Enough is Good Enough

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.

Tips to Better Exposure with a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K Pro Camera

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.