WEBINAR ON ADOBE ENCORE NOW AVAILABLE

Whether you use Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition or other software, we all want our talent to sound as good as possible.

I've taught these techniques in my classes for a long time, but I've never written about them.

Here, I showcase what you need to do to make a voice sound friendlier, or improve clarity. Often you can use this technique to clean up someone who mumbles, or adjust your mix for an older audience.

I give examples using Audition, FCP, and Premiere. Frankly, virtually everything I do has this effect, or something like it, applied.  Because if the audience can't understand what they're hearing, they won't watch.

This short video illustrates how to export a project from Adobe Premiere Pro CC for one of three uses:

• Create a master file to compress in other software
• Compress a file for DVD
• Compress a file for Blu-ray Disc 

The direct link between Premiere and Encore disappeared with the CC release. Now we need to export projects for optical media the same as for the web - but with different compression settings.

Here I'll show you what settings to use, what to adjust and where to adjust it -- all in preparation for moving a file into Adobe Encore.

As I was researching this week's webinar, I discovered that Adobe Encore could do something I didn't think it could do: create stories.

A "story" allows you to use your existing media for a different purpose. For example, group all fight scenes together, or reorganize a training disc, or anything where it is helpful to view your media in a different order than the one you edited.

In this short video, I show you how this works.

A feature that you may not know Final Cut has is the ability to spell-check and replace text.

This is especially helpful when checking titles.

In this article, I explain how both of these work.

A poster frame is the frame under a chapter marker that is displayed in a scene selection menu for a DVD or a Blu-ray Disc.

Most of the time, that frame is fine. But, sometimes, its in the middle of a dissolve or where the scene has not fully developed.

In this short video, I show how to create chapter markers in Adobe Premiere, then change the poster frame using Adobe Encore.

I don't use this technique very often, but when I need it, I REALLY need it.

Here are the most popular articles, webinars, and audio interviews for the past seven days across all my websites.

Articles

We expanded this list to the Top 4 for more variety:

• Media Management is the Biggest Change in Final Cut Pro X v10.1
• FCP X: When to Use Optimized, Proxy, or Original Media 
• FCP X 10.1: Manage Projects  
• Do You Have Enough RAM? 

For an index of all our articles, visit here.

 

Webinars

• #122: FCP X: Better Effects with Blend Modes 
• #119: FCP X: 3rd-Party Plug-ins 
• #120: FCP X: Color Correct a Scene 

This list is based on the webinars watched most often by our monthly subscribers. For a list of all our webinars, visit here.

 

Digital Production Buzz Audio Interviews   

• David Newman: New Software and Techniques from GoPro
• Marty Murray: Producing  "Kill Game" 
• Bruce Nazarian: Creating DVD and Blu-ray Discs 

For a list of all the audio interviews we've conducted on The Buzz, visit here. 

With the release of Final Cut Pro X v10.1, Apple also updated Compressor to version 4.1 An all new interface, improved compression settings and better monitoring. So much changed, in fact, that we went back and re-recorded all our training for the new version.

• Better organized
• More informative
• Tighter focus on making your images look great.

These days, everything we do ends up on the web.
Which means that if we don't know how to compress our video to make it look good, all our work during production and post is wasted.

In this in-depth video training, Larry Jordan shows you how to make the most of Apple Compressor 4.1.

Whether you are a new or experienced, this training will help you make your media look and sound great!

Larry Jordan

Larry Jordan & Associates

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