Sometimes, your project needs more than a simple cut, but a flashy transition is too much. Enter the audio ramp-up transition. This is by far one of my favorite transition processes, and it has nothing to do with the visuals. It’s super powerful, and the best part is that hardly anyone uses

Blackmagic Design has just released Resolve 15.2, and in grand Blackmagic fashion, the update is jam-packed with new features, improvements, and fixes. From a timeline that now animates forward when you insert a new clip onto the timeline to the useful addition of being able to open two dock

There are dozens of ways to reduce noise in your footage, but today, we’re diving into DaVinci Resolve for one of the most power noise reduction techniques around. In this article, we’ll take a look at DaVinci Resolve for some powerful tricks for isolating and reducing distractin

Here’s the post-production guide (and photo tour) to how and why you should incorporate opacity blending into your next project. Opacity blending isn’t something I hear editors or colorists talk about all that much. The 27 opacity blend modes in Premiere (or those found in any ot

Bring some movement into your video projects and guide your viewer’s eye with this fun motion graphics technique. Speed lines serve a number of purposes. Not only do they indicate motion, they also draw a viewer’s eye into a specific area of the frame. Used in conjunction with sound ef

Speed up your edit with custom image overlays and export presets. Whether it’s a logo bug, a watermark, or a custom border, it’s quite common to use image overlays on a video project. If you’re exporting a lot of videos, however, adding images to each video can be tedious and time-consuming.

Will Smith is a natural storyteller and world-famous movie star, and now he has a successful YouTube channel. So what can we learn from his team? Will Smith’s YouTube channel launched in December 2017 and, in just under one year, has amassed nearly 4.2 million subscribers and 150,623,0

There are many elements that you can change in post-production with a little forethought. In this case, the color of the sky. A pink sky has become a predominant feature in many music videos. Is it a symbol of teenage freedom, late evening adventures, innocence of youth? I’m sure there are e

Did you format your CFast Card the wrong way when setting up a new project? Yeah, we did too. Here’s are a couple of ways you can fix it. I’m even not going to hide behind a pretense here. I made this mistake last week, and after connecting the CFast Card reader to my Windows computer

In part two of our six-part video series The DaVinci Resolve 15 Crash Course, we cover the edit page — and how to get your timeline the way you want it. In episode two of PremiumBeat’s Resolve editing crash course, we’re going to look at the edit page, creating a new timeline, ed

In our latest video tutorial, learn how you can adjust hue, saturation, and luminance values with Adobe Premiere Pro 2019. With Creative Cloud 2019, Adobe has outfitted Premiere Pro with five new curve tools. These new tools allow users to perform selective color grading via the hue, saturat

We all want a cinematic look for our online videos, but letterbox PNG overlays for YouTube uploads are a bad idea. Here’s why. Before we begin, it’s important to note that this article is for those uploading media solely for online viewing — especially for YouTube. Since most bro

In this video tutorial, learn how you can use the Layer Styles menu in Adobe After Effects for your next film or video project. If you are familiar with Adobe Photoshop, then you may be well acquainted with Layer Styles. However, in After Effects the Layer Styles menu often goes unused becau

The imperfections are part of the charm of archival footage. However, sometimes they can be a bit much. Resolve has the solution. There is a refined beauty to archival footage, despite how often it’s spoiled with wear, dirt, grain, and other imperfections. Historical footage can transp

Do you dislike 360 and VR video? In this video tutorial, we’ll show you how to get creative with some alternative uses for these formats. With the polarizing rise of 360° video and VR, you’re likely either a supporter or someone who believes it’s all just a fad. Regardless

While Adobe Creative Cloud 2019 won’t be available until later this year, let’s take a sneak peek at what Premiere Pro will have to offer. It’s that time of year again—Adobe has announced all of the latest features for the upcoming version of their Creative Cloud suite of program

In this After Effects video tutorial, learn how to make your titles and graphics really pop with this amazing glow effect technique. In this video tutorial, we’ll take a step-by-step look at how to create an awesome glow using Adobe After Effects. Ready? Let’s get started. Use

In this video tutorial, learn how you can capture and animate a website presentation for your projects using Adobe After Effects. Whether you are a video editor or a motion graphics artist, at some point, you may need to display a website in a video project. A simple way to do this is to vid

In this video tutorial, learn how you can harness the power of motion graphics by creating your own templates in Adobe After Effects. Premiere Pro’s Essential Graphics panel gives editors a wide array of tools they can use to create graphics. You can use these premade templates to create som

The LUT Browser in Blackmagic Design’s new DaVinci Resolve 15 can seriously streamline your workflow. Here’s everything you need to know. One of the best features of DaVinci Resolve 15 is the new LUT Browser, which offers a real-time way to preview your LUT collection on the imag