Tutorial: Exporting for Digital Cinema with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014

A key concern for any producer is to ensure that the work you produce will play back on as many platforms (online, mobile, broadcast) as possible. Until recently, delivering content in digital cinema environments was the exclusive province of high-end facilities with specialized equipment. But with the release of Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 and its Wraptor DCP plug-in, DCP has become just another export option, putting digital cinema delivery well within the reach of any Adobe CC user. Here how it you can add it to your offerings when your clients or projects demand it.

Tutorial: Applying Looks and Matching Shots in Adobe CC

Back in May, Adobe added Lumetri Looks to Premiere Pro CC. Just recently, they released another update to the Creative Cloud Suite, and this one provided a streamlined workflow between Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade, the color grading application acquired from Iridas, which until this upgrade had not enjoyed roundtrip functionality with Premiere Pro via a direct link with the application.

For those that aren’t comfortable with color grading by the traditional means, Lumetri Looks and SpeedGrade make it very simple to do some pretty neat color adjustments without a lot of training or a lot of time invested.

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Review: Camtasia Studio 8 and Camtasia 2.5 for Mac

Tutorials, walk-throughs, instructional videos--all of these have been produced in a variety of ways for many years. As video technology changes, so do the methods and tools used to produce these programs. One area that has gotten noticeably better within the last few years is how we capture screens for video.

In the past, producers employed a variety of different screen recording methods. Professional productions may have utilized a video out from the source and recorded directly to tape. In a low-budget model, a camera was simply pointed at a monitor with an agreeable refresh rate.

While these methods got the job done, they’re no longer suitable for today’s viewer expectations of pristine HD-quality images. TechSmith’s Camtasia has been providing producers with quality screen capturing and editing tools since 2006. If you’ve ever needed to record a screen with full motion to illustrate a method or process, then Camtasia may fill that gap.

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Tutorial: Sound Removal, Auto-Speech Alignment, and More in Adobe Audition CC

In this tutorial I'm going to walk you through a couple of the new features in Adobe Audition Creative Cloud (CC). I imagine that lot of you have probably updated, while some of you are still on the fence. I’m going to show you a couple of the new things that you have to look forward to when you decide to upgrade, or when those of you who have upgraded but haven’t explored its features yet start using it in your projects.

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Review: Adobe Lightroom 5 for DSLR Video Producers

At Adobe Max earlier this year, Adobe announced that it was completely dropping development for its Creative Suite software and moving all future users to the relatively new Creative Cloud. This decision has been met with praise, anger, and everything in between. How this move will shape the company and its market position remains to be seen over the next few years, but there are a few changes that are almost universally considered positive.

The Creative Cloud now includes Adobe Lightroom, a product that many video producers might not have considered necessary in the past. If moving to the Creative Cloud is in your future, take a look at some of the video processing found in Lightroom to see if it can fill a gap in your workflow.

If you’re new to Lightroom, you should first understand that it is a photo organizer and editor built with pro photographers with large libraries in mind. Since many still photographers are using DSLRs with HD video capabilities now, Lightroom can also handle these files. However with a product like Adobe Prelude available, is there a reason to consider using Lightroom? Let’s see.

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Greg Howlett Live Concert Photography

Last August, I went to the Atlanta area to attend a concert by Christian pianist Greg Howlett. I got some great shots that you can view in a Google Plus album here. Greg chose one of my pictures to use for the cover of the case as well as the disk image.

To read a review of the recording or enter to win a copy, head on over to Piano Animato: http://bit.ly/12A7M6y

Adobe Lightroom 4 from the perspective of an Elements user

I’ve been an avid user of Adobe Photoshop Elements for over five years.  Adobe has done a good job at continually adding new features to its core consumer imaging product, but at times I’ve been frustrated by its lack of pro support.  When the occasional paid job comes my way, I’ve been unable to process and present my images to a client in a very polished manner.  Adobe’s Lightroom product hit version 4 this year, and I was sent a copy for evaluation.  If you feel that you’re hitting the ceiling of what Elements or another consumer-oriented image management software can do, then read on to find out if Lightroom might be the right upgrade for you.