FINAL CUT PRO X TRAINING THIS WEEK ON 

One of the big new features is a little thing: every effect can now include motion tracking and masking directly inside Premiere Pro. (Well, all except for a very few  effects...)

While After Effects remains the king of motion tracking, many times we just need something simple and easy.

In this article, I show you how this new feature works, what it's good for and what it isn't. Once you understand it, its amazingly easy and lots of fun.

One of the new features in Premiere that I am really excited about is Live Text Templates.

These allow us, or someone more graphically talented, to create an After Effects comp that we can load into Premiere, then modify the text as necessary for our projects.

In this step-by-step tutorial, I explain how this works. It is surprisingly tricky and you need to read this article to avoid making mistakes.

Master clips allow us to apply an effect to one clip, and have that effect instantly applied to all the clips related to that master clip.

This makes color correction a whole lot easier; especially when you are bouncing between two different master clips, each edited multiple times to the Timeline.

This article shows you how this works and gives you ways you can take advantage of it.

New with this version of Premiere is the ability to automatically backup project files to the Creative Cloud.

We've had the ability to share settings between computers using the Cloud. Now, we can automatically backup project files both to a local folder and the Creative Cloud.

This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to set up this entire process. And, once you have it setup, backups become automatic instantly.

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 to add variety:

• FCP X: When to Use Optimized, Proxy, or Native Media  
• FCP X: Preference Settings that Matter  
• FCP X 10.1: Manage Projects 
• FCP X: Those Strange Yellow Dots

For an index of all our articles, visit here.

 

Webinars

• #125: Motion 5: Make Things Move 
• #124: Multicam Editing in FCP X  
• #122: FCP X: Create Better Effects   

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   

• Philip Bloom: On 4K Video (part 1)
• Oliver Peters: What "Avid Everywhere" Means 
• Michael Berenbaum: Inside the Edit Suite

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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