In this write-up, we’ll take a look at three builds that you can order and assemble to get your home editing bay up and running. I get it. Your boss may have ordered you to work from home, but you don’t have the infrastructure at home for a good edit. If you’re lucky, they

In this tutorial, you’ll learn some nice and easy practices to simplify your life when working with images in Adobe Premiere Pro. I’m putting together a short video piece about Abraham Lincoln, which will naturally consist of still images. Working with stills in Adobe Premiere Pro is a

Are you seeing a random single frame of the “Media Pending” error screen on your Premiere timeline? Here are some quick ways to fix the problem. In the last couple of Premiere releases, I’ve often encountered a strange bug: after pre-rendering my timeline, there is one sing

In this write-up, we’ll show you how to chroma-key your video footage in Premiere Pro without sending your clips to After Effects. In the past, chroma-keying was a job for After Effects. However, with some updates over the years, Premiere Pro has also become an extremely useful tool fo

Is your computer having a hard time handling high-res video files? Let’s take a look at how you can work with proxies in Premiere Pro. You may have heard about editors working with a “Proxy Workflow.” This is something that editors do to downgrade their footage if they̵

In this tutorial, I’m going to share my secret cinematic weapons that give your footage character, without costing you a ton of time. Gritty footage is one of my favorite stylistic features in a movie. Having elements like film grain, film burns, light leaks, and 8mm projector assets availab

Today we’re going to look at Accusonus’s ERA 4 Pro bundle and discuss how it operates within Resolve, focusing specifically on noise removal. As a solo filmmaker, I do my best to steer away from audio noise removal, as I’m never able to produce adequate results. As a result

The Face Refinement Tool allows for a quicker coloring process, while putting those tools into the hands of non-colorists. DaVinci Resolve is probably the most widely used grading program on any platform, in part because it’s free. Resolve Studio is a paid upgrade and includes some special f

In this NLE showdown, we compare the text and title generators in Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve — and there’s a clear victor. Earlier this year, I attended London’s VidCon with Blackmagic to demonstrate Resolve to the passing youngsters — or as many companies view them,

“Without music, life would be a mistake” ―Friedrich Nietzsche. Without music, animation and motion graphics would also be a mistake. This is why Davey.Studio created the FreqReact script for Adobe After Effects. This helpful little tool allows you to harness specific sound frequencies and us

In this video tutorial, learn some basic compositing techniques to create better titles in Adobe After Effects — includes free project file! Creating professional-looking titles in After Effects is a lot easier than most people think. The key is knowing a few basic compositing principles — o

Shaky footage can totally throw off the momentum of your video. Here’s how you can stabilize it in post in Adobe Premiere Pro. One of the most basic must-know video editing tricks is stabilizing shaky footage. You may have shaky footage because you were shooting handheld or you didn

Audio repair tools are always in demand. The ERA 4 Bundle audio repair plug-ins claim to be simple and fast. So, let’s put them to the test. More often than not, it seems like it’s impossible to fix bad audio in post. However, more and more audio repair tools are coming to the ma

In this video tutorial, learn some creative new ways to use RocketStock’s FREE Prism Bokeh Overlays pack in Premiere Pro! RocketStock recently released a new freebie pack — 35 Free Prism Bokeh Overlay Effects. In this tutorial, we’ll look at all the different creative ways we can

In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to build an editing sequence that helps you learn your footage while also selecting the best clips for your edit. I call this a Cherry-Picked Timeline, and it has saved a ton of projects I’ve worked on. Editing big projects can be daunting, especially whe

Just announced at Apple’s WWDC, the all-new, completely redesigned Mac Pro is stacked with heightened performance updates and new hardware features. With this massive list of updates, this machine is poised to become the workhorse of the film production industry and a video editor’s dr

So you need two clips from the same video file at different frame rates in your DaVinci Resolve timeline? No problem — here’s how you do it. I would be hard-pressed to admit that I don’t love Resolve — because I do. It’s been a pleasure to watch it grow from “just” color-gr

Using three different portrait shots in this tutorial, I’ll teach you the basics of using a match cut sequence in your video. In this tutorial, I’ll be using these portrait shots to create a sequence I like to call a “Triple Face Match Cut.” It’s All about Thinking Ahead!

Check out the new impressive features in Adobe’s 2019 release of Premiere Pro. The Essential Graphics Panel is, well . . . essential. When the Essential Graphics panel was first introduced in Premiere Pro several years ago, it was lacking some critical features. Over the last few updat

Here’s a quick introduction to the four main types of tools you need to know in order to calibrate footage, sound, and monitors. Whether you’re in the field or the in editing bay, your eyes and ears alone are never enough to accurately judge the fidelity of your images — or sound