This video training is different from most of our other webinars. Rather than look at a particular aspect of technology, this examines how the craft of editing helps tell a story. In fact, in this webinar, the specific editing software you are using doesn't matter at all.

Multicam editing is ideal for sports and live performance, where you are covering the action with more than one camera, because it allows us to edit all those cameras at the same time. With recent upgrades and improvements from Adobe in multi-camera editing, its time to take another look at it in Premiere.

In this video training, Larry takes you deep into the world of 3D space using Motion 5.1. Building on the belief that the best effects are composed of simple steps that are combined to create stunning visuals, Larry shows you the building blocks of 3D. In fact, he starts by showing how to achieve killer 3D looks without even using cameras, or lights, or sets.

In this video training, Larry shows you dozens of ways to change the speed of a clip, starting with a very simple freeze frame in the Timeline, then moving into the far more flexible options of a Hold frame. After that, Larry really gets rolling illustrating all the different speed effects in Final Cut Pro X.

Double-system sound means recording the video on one device (a camera) while recording the audio on a separate device (a digital audio recorder). The benefits to double-system recording are the potential for much higher audio quality, coupled to a wider selection of cameras. The disadvantage is getting all these files synced for editing.

Plug-ins add exciting new effects and capabilities to any software; and the 3rd-party developer community for Final Cut Pro X is especially dynamic! Discover new products from: NewBlueFX, Stupid Raisins, Digital Anarchy, Intelligent Assistance, Tiffen, FXFactory, Red Giant, and Coremelt.

Whether you use Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro X, most of us only think of using Photoshop for still images. But, hidden deep inside the program is a frame-based video repair facility. This means that the same tools we use in Photoshop to fix still images can be used to fix problems with our video, including pixel-based editing.

The latest 10.1.2 update to Apple Final Cut Pro X added new features and extended existing ones. Plus, it continued to improve media management with the addition of the new Library Properties panel and refined import options. All in all, lots of new things to learn.

The new 2014 updates to Adobe Premiere CC and Adobe Audition CC added a ton of new features to both programs. This new session showcases what's new.

The latest update to Final Cut Pro X contains dozens of new features, including media management, import and export, effects, and much more. Get the latest training for a VERY SPECIAL PRICE!

Apple Motion intimidates a lot of editors, but it shouldn’t. We can use Motion to easily create fascinating effects without requiring the programming skills of a rocket scientist or the design skills of a graphic artist. In fact, creating motion graphics to add life to your projects is pretty simple; if you know how.

Shooting with multiple cameras is increasingly common, especially for performances and sports. However, editing multiple cameras – called “multicam editing” – can be challenging, especially as the number of cameras you are editing increases.

The media world is not yet ready to abandon optical media. In fact, many editors depend upon DVD or Blu-ray Disc sales for a large portion of their income. But the world HAS moved from the standard-definition world of DVD to the high-definition world of Blu-ray Disc.

Blend modes, which Final Cut Pro 7 called “composite modes,” combine images based upon their gray-scale or color values. Which sounds weird until you start to play with it. Think of blend modes as “sharing textures between images.” What makes blend modes so exciting is that they are easy to apply, yet open up a world of creative possibilities.

Text is critical to video projects today. Many of us create titles in Photoshop, but one of the very cool features inside Premiere Pro CC is its built-in titler. In fact, you can do things with titles in Premiere that you can’t do in Photoshop! In this one-hour online webinar you’ll learn how to put Premiere’s Titler to work in your projects.

Color correction fixes mistakes. Color grading uses color to enhance the emotion of your story. In this one-hour video training, discover how the color effects, third-party filters and Color Board inside Final Cut Pro X can reinforce and emphasize the story you're creating.

A BRAND-NEW MOUSEPAD FOR FINAL CUT PRO X 10.1! All New Design – More Keyboard Shortcuts Than Ever!   Can you answer these questions: What do I put under my mouse? Where can I go to find keyboard shortcuts when it’s …

One of the features that makes Final Cut Pro X so exciting isn't even created by Apple. It's the thousands of third-party plug-ins and applications that work with Final Cut. These add effects and capabilities far beyond the basics shipped with the software.

All effects in Final Cut Pro X are first created in Motion 5, then saved so that Final Cut can use them. This is great news for anyone wanting to create custom Final Cut effects. Except… how? Even worse, what if you can’t draw a straight line without mechanical assistance?

The most powerful, yet confusing, new feature in Final Cut Pro X, v.10.1, is media management. The new library, event, and project structure is a big change from earlier versions of Final Cut. This video tutorial takes you inside the application and gives you an in-depth look at how the new media management system works.

The latest update to Apple Compressor – 4.1 – brings with it a whole new interface, faster performance, more compression presets, and a different way to monitor your work. Join host Larry Jordan as he explores the latest features in this software and shows you how to put them to work in your projects.

Apple just released its latest update to Final Cut Pro X and this webinar gives you a first look at all the new features. We designed this webinar for those that need more than YouTube, but don't yet want to invest in full-on training. The latest update to Final Cut Pro X sports more than 200 new features; including a totally revised system for media management. This webinar provides an in-depth look at many of them, including several existing features that you may not already know about.

Join Master Trainer Larry Jordan as he takes you step-by-step through the latest version – 4.1 – of Apple Compressor. This training, which is designed for both beginning and experienced users, starts by explaining terms and concepts to build a firm foundation for the rest of this training. Then, Larry illustrates virtually every feature in the program – from simple settings to full-on automation – that Compressor offers to simplify your compression tasks.

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.