Details on Adobe’s latest updates to the audio and video applications: Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Adobe After Effects CC, Adobe Audition CC, Character Animator and Adobe Stock.
A detailed, illustrated tutorial on how to move sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro CC into Apple Final Cut Pro X.
A detailed, illustrated tutorial on how to move projects and media from Apple Final Cut Pro X to Adobe Premiere Pro CC (or After Effects, Audition or FCP 7).
Mojave will be a great operating system. But… for production systems, it won’t hurt to wait a while after release before upgrading. This article explains why.
A detailed, practical look at working with HDR media in Apple Final Cut Pro X (v.10.4). Guest article written by James Duke.
A FREE 85-page Handbook on how to stage, produce and direct dance for television or video. Written in 1978 by Larry Jordan, based on his experiences at the American Dance Festival. Updated in 2018.
Maxon releases the latest version of Cinema 4D – Release 20. Here are the details of what’s in their newest release.
Twelve thought-providing sayings to help you become a better editor using Adobe Premiere Pro CC, along with links to Larry’s favorite keyboard shortcuts.
Twelve thought-providing sayings to help you become a better video editor; along with special notes for Apple Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro.
A detailed, illustrated tutorial on how to create, modify, and delete keyboard shortcuts in Apple Final Cut Pro X.
A detailed, illustrated tutorial on how to create, modify and delete keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
A step-by-step guide to creating custom keyboard shortcuts for any application using System Preferences in High Sierra.
An in-depth look at the new Blackmagic Design eGPU for MacBook Pro 13″ and 15″ laptops, including a conversation with Blackmagic Design.
HDRinstant is designed to create HDR still images from video footage. However, the current version (v2.2.1) crashes repeatedly, the manual is poorly designed and the software, itself, needs work. Great idea, poor execution.
If you want to fix color problems faster and better, as well as improve the overall look of your media, this session gives you a host of new ideas, tools and techniques you can put to work immediately. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to display, adjust and use the video scopes inside Apple Final Cut Pro X.
If you want to fix color problems faster and better, as well as improve the overall look of your media, this session gives you a host of new ideas, tools and techniques you can put to work immediately. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how and why to adjust the gray-scale values of an image.
If you want to fix color problems faster and better, as well as improve the overall look of your media, this session gives you a host of new ideas, tools and techniques you can put to work immediately. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use two automated color correction tools in FCP X: Match Color and Balance Color.
Codecs don’t last forever. This article details changes coming to apps and media in future versions of the macOS. This is important for anyone needed to access legacy media files.
Search bins, in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, allow you to quickly find that needle-in-the-haystack perfect clip. And, best of all, they are dynamic, updating as you add clips or modify keywords. Here’s an illustrated tutorial showing how they work.
Nothing causes quite the confusion in video editing as media management. Before we can even begin editing, we need to figure out what to do with all the files that were generated on set. In this short video excerpt, you’ll discover a variety of media management techniques for Apple Final Cut Pro X.