In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use the Loudness Radar in Premiere Pro CC to determine average audio levels.
An illustrated tour of all the different options in the Color Picker in Final Cut Pro X or Motion 5.
In this short video excerpt from a recent webinar, Larry Jordan shows how to work with multichannel audio in Final Cut Pro X.
This short video tutorial illustrates how to work with multichannel audio in Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Plug-ins are easy to use and can give your projects a unique look; and these four free plug-ins from FX Factory are a great place to start. This is an illustrated tour of what they can do.
An illustrated guide to moving iMovie projects and media from iMovie into Final Cut Pro X.
There’s nothing more fun than discovering a new plug-in that helps you work faster, create unusual effects, or solve a nagging problem. In this short video excerpt, Larry illustrates the FX Factory interface, shows how to enable and disable plug-ins and demos a very useful plug-in called "Timecode."
A product review of the NewTek TalkShow by Larry Jordan, based on eight months experience with weekly live broadcasts. (Updated 12/19/15 with new Firewall information.)
An illustrated and in-depth tour of the Timeline Index in Final Cut Pro X.
Recently, Premiere totally overhauled its video scopes and color correction software to integrate features from SpeedGrade into Premiere Pro. In this article, I want to showcase these new Lumetri video scopes. NOTE: If you want to learn how to use …
With the 2015 release, Adobe massively improved their color correction and grading tools in Premiere Pro CC. For the first time, video scopes and tools that were only available in SpeedGrade are now available in Premiere. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use the new Lumetri video scopes to analyze clips and determine any problems they may have.
With the 2015 release, Adobe massively improved their color correction and grading tools in Premiere Pro CC. For the first time, video scopes and tools that were only available in SpeedGrade are now available in Premiere. In this short video excerpt, Larry Jordan illustrates how to analyze skin tone values to determine whether corrections need to be made.
Archiving media for the long-term is neither simple, nor cheap. In this article, Larry Jordan explains what you need to know to protect your precious media for the long-term.
There’s nothing worse than returning from a shoot to discover that all your images are blue, or green. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates how to use color and shape masks in Final Cut Pro X to adjust a portion of an image.
There’s nothing worse than returning from a shoot to discover that all your images are blue, or green. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates how improve your images by adjusting their gray-scale values; what Final Cut Pro X calls "Exposure."
Rampant Design Tools makes thousands of visual effects for all major video editing systems. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to use some of their fire and film burn effects.
LightLeakLove makes “light leak” effects for all major video editing software. In this video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows what these effects are and how they can really enhance your images.
Blend modes share textures between video layers. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to use blend modes and gradients to improve the look of wide shots.
A short video, by Larry Jordan, showing how to use the Multicam Angle Editor in Final Cut Pro X.
The Channel EQ filter allows you to mix music and narration which keeps the music loud, yet allows the narration to be clearly audible. This illustrated tutorial covers Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro CC and Adobe Audition.