As more and more video goes to the web, the quality of our video compression has a direct bearing on the results of all our editing. It is critical that we make our compressed videos look great – whether for YouTube, DVD, or the web. However, figuring out how to make compressed video look great is a bigger challenge than you might expect.

One of the exciting things in every update is discovering all the latest features. And, in the 7.1 update to Premiere Pro, Adobe has added a TON of new stuff. From improved performance, to direct links to SpeedGrade, to improved multi-camera sequences, to a whole host of smaller features. Some are calling this Adobe’s most feature-rich update since the initial release of the Creative Cloud software.

Editing tells the story, but effects add life, energy, and just plain fun to any edit. And, with Final Cut Pro X, there are literally thousands of different effects to choose from; especially when you expand beyond those bundled with the applications itself. This video training looks at 16 different effects plug-ins, from 9 different developers, that can make your projects stand out from the crowd.

All the technical skills in the world won't pay the bills if you can't find a job. That's where this webinar can help. Whether you are just getting started or looking for work – yet again – this webinar is filled with tips you can use today.

Based on all the questions we get every day in our email, lots of folks find media management in Final Cut Pro X confusing. So, this webinar is designed to provide a foundation for organizing, importing, tracking, finding, and managing media, Events, and Projects in FCP X.

Final Cut Pro X provides a solid foundation for editing your video. And, since Apple added the ability to export detailed project information using XML, things really took off. In this video webinar, host Larry Jordan shows you how to use nine different utilities that can take your Final Cut Pro X projects to entirely new levels.

Today, everything we create ends up on the web. This means that if we don't know how to compress our media to make our images look good on the web, all the work during production and editing will be wasted. To make matters worse, compressing video for the web seems like rocket science.

Increasingly, the web is the final destination for all our work. Whether we are posting to YouTube, Vimeo, or a corporate website, the quality of our projects is increasingly determined by the quality of our video compression. Whether you are working in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Prelude, Encore, or simply compressing video from other sources, Adobe Media Encoder is central to your work.

Sometimes our webinars have a plot; but not this one. This session is more like a cookbook – a whole flock of unrelated recipes you can use to create moving text, backgrounds, foregrounds, mid-grounds – we’ve got grounds for some seriously fascinating new effects that are fast and easy to create.

A keyframe is a point of change during playback. If nothing changes, then you never use keyframes. When you need something to change – like an audio level, or the position of text – we use keyframes. And we always use keyframes in pairs; a starting position and an ending position.

Learning video editing is more than just learning Premiere. Included with the CS6 release of Adobe Premiere Pro is a wealth of other software than can make your editing life easier. But learning how to use it isn't easy – good training is hard to find. In this collection of in-depth webinars, we show you how all this software works — quickly, easily, and in-depth.

Color correction is an endlessly fascinating subject and one of our most popular webinars. With the latest release of Adobe Premiere Pro CC, its time to revisit the process of making your images look great. There are three ways to modify the look of your images, and this session covers all of them.

Video engages the mind. Audio captures the heart. The best thing you can do to improve the quality of your pictures is to improve the quality of your sound. And nothing does that better than Adobe Audition CC. Whether you edit with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, or other video editing software, you can use Adobe Audition for your projects.

Video engages the mind. Audio captures the heart. The best thing you can do to improve the quality of your pictures is to improve the quality of your sound. And nothing does that better than Adobe Audition CC. Whether you edit with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, or other video editing software, you can use Adobe Audition for your projects.

“Ingest” is the process of converting tapeless media into something your computer can edit. And the new Adobe Prelude CC is the latest tool to use for ingest — whether into Premiere Pro CC, Premiere Pro CS6, or Final Cut Pro 7. Another benefit to Prelude is that it can be run by a less experienced editor as a way to screen clips before moving them into the editing suite.

In this session, hosted by Larry Jordan, we’ll take a first look at this recharged application. Part training, part guided tour, take a look at the new features and see how they build on the feature-rich power of the CS6 release. This is a great time to watch, ask questions, and kick the tires before deciding whether to upgrade.

In past webinars, we talked about how to read the video scopes and use the color correction tools. This is a great way to learn how the color correction technology in Final Cut Pro X works. But it doesn’t provide a lot of help when you are trying to create a “look” for a scene, or trying to get a bunch of different clips to match.

Sometimes, when production goes perfectly right, we can do our entire sound mix in Adobe Premiere Pro, or Apple Final Cut Pro. But how often is the audio we record on set “perfect?” For those situations where you need to fix problem audio, Adobe Audition can come to the rescue. And showing how that works is what this session is about.

Plug-ins are small pieces of software that are added into an editing application that allow it to do stuff that the editing application can’t do natively. The success of any editing software is often directly dependent upon the number and kinds of plug-ins that are available for it.

This intermediate-level video training is designed for editors who want better control, or more options, when editing audio in Final Cut Pro X. Join host, Larry Jordan, as he illustrates advanced audio editing and mixing techniques that can speed up and simplify your editing.

This video training is designed for editors who understand the fundamentals of video compression, but want to do more, work faster, or push the software further.

Whether you want titles which are clean and simple, or highly formatted and animated, you can create them in Final Cut Pro X. In this online video training, join master trainer, Larry Jordan, as he shows you how to create both simple and complex titles in FCP X. Learn how the formatting tools work, how to modify animation parameters, and how to use the “hidden-in-plain-sight” formatting styles toolbar.

Apple invented Motion to make creating motion graphics easy. Except, well, Motion just plain intimidates a lot of folks. So, this video training provides a cookbook approach to creating motion graphics. In fact, there are so many tips, techniques, and just plain cool tricks in this video, that it is almost impossible to list – Larry’s outline for this session ran more than seven pages!

With the possible exception of media management in Final Cut Pro X, nothing creates more questions than working with still images. In this in-depth video training session, we wade into the quagmire and show you how to import, manage, and edit still images in Final Cut Pro X.

Roles are a new concept in video editing. Introduced with the 10.0.3 update to Final Cut Pro X, Roles allow you to tag similar clips so that you can work with subgroups of your clips based on the tag, not the track.

The images are great, the acting is amazing, and the audio is a disaster! Sigh… Now what? In this video training session, you’ll learn how to use the audio repair tools in Adobe Audition CS6 to fix problem audio. Now, truthfully, the best option is to make a clean recording in the first place. But, when that fails, it’s Audition to the rescue.

Color correction is the process of fixing problems with your images. We never intend to shoot bad pictures, but, well, sometimes bad things happen to good intentions. In this video training, you’ll learn how to use the video scopes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to analyze your images, how and why to correct gray-scale settings, then two different filters you can use to make adjustments.

Watch as master trainer Larry Jordan shows you the basics of creating a DVD in Adobe Encore. Surprisingly, the process starts long before you open Encore. Learn how to create a DVD menu in Photoshop. See how to export sequences in Premiere Pro. Then, learn how to assemble all the elements in Encore. Along the way, you’ll discover the speed and power of dynamic

The hardest part of learning any new software is getting started. This video training is designed to give you the foundation you need to get started right with Final Cut Pro X. This webinar shows you how to configure your system, create a new Event and Project, import media, and how to determine whether to edit using camera native, optimized, or proxy media. If you want to prevent problems and make the most of your system, you need to watch this session.

Adobe made major improvements in multi-camera editing with the release of Premiere Pro CS6. Now, a multicam clip can contain an unlimited number of clips containing audio, video, or stills. This webinar is designed to show you what those new features are and how to use them.

Apple has continued to develop multicam editing since it’s first release in Final Cut Pro X, version 10.0.3. Multicam is the ability to edit recorded media from multiple cameras all at the same time. Typical examples where multicam is used are music videos, theatrical performances, and sports. In all cases, we have a single event recorded by multiple cameras.

It is a truism in media that the best way to improve your picture is to improve the quality of your audio. But how? In this session, we will use Adobe Audition CS6 to examine the process of mixing – combining all the different audio elements in your project so that the audience hears what you want them to hear and doesn’t hear what you don’t want them to hear.

In this session, we will compare three popular video compression software packages – Apple Compressor, Sorenson Squeeze, and Telestream Episode – to see what they do and how they do it. Join master trainer, Larry Jordan, as he compares each package, examines their strengths, weaknesses, tours the interface, and shows how they accomplish common tasks. The purpose of this webinar is not to pick a winner, nor show how to optimize specific settings, but to provide a common ground of how each works, its specific benefits, and operation.

The 10.0.6 update to Final Cut Pro X is the most substantial feature update since Final Cut Pro X was first released. And this webinar provides highlights of all the major changes. The key question we are all wondering is: Can I use this version to do professional-grade work?  And that is the focus of this week’s webinar: What does the new version do? Can it help me work faster? Can it help me work better?  What do I need to know to use these new features effectively?

This session is different from most of our events. Here, I show how I cut an interview featuring a guest, B-roll, and titles. Along the way, I’ll provide tips that can help you become a faster editor, but this session looks more at story-building than technology.

Learn Adobe Story, Adobe Prelude CS6, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, Adobe Audition CS6, Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Encore. All our training starts with the basics and takes you, step-by-step, into mastering all the major features of the software. Whether you are a beginner or experienced user, this training can make you better. The CS6 release of Adobe Production Premium brought a host of new software with new power, new speed, and new features. This training shows you what you need to know quickly, efficiently, and with a sense of humor!