I've covered Ratings and Keywords a lot in my video training, but I've never written about Ratings.

In this article, I explain what they are, how they work and how you can use them to manage your media quickly and easily.

Read the article here.

This article began with a question from a reader.

I've written a lot about keywords in Final Cut over the years, but never this specific technique.

What makes this especially powerful is that we can use it to create subclips for use in drop zones and select reels.

This article, too, was suggested by a reader.

In this example, two editors are working on the same project at the same time. One is logging and the other is editing.

They need to exchange logging data, but not events, projects or libraries. Transferring libraries won't work, but there's still a way.

This article explains how to do this successfully, without wasting time or losing work.

In this video excerpt from a recent webinar, I showcase a new plug-in from Sheffield Softworks: Artitude.

This plug-in works in FCP X, Premiere Pro CC and After Effects. So, while I demo this in Final Cut, if you are a Premiere user, you can get the same effects for your system.

And what this does is really cool - it is an artistic  painting and texturing program; with an attitude.

These are some brand-new transitions from a brand-new company.

LightLeaksLove specializes in creating transitions and effects using organically-generated light-leak footage.

Its the sort of effect you need to see to understand. But, once you see it, you'll want a copy for yourself.

Smooth Skin is a skin-softening plug-in that reduces blemishes, reduces bags under the eyes and makes most actors look a bit younger.

While I am not a fan of making all female actors look like Barbie with excessive softening, all of us can use some help. Take a look at this demo and see if you agree.

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

Articles

This list expanded to the Top 4 to add some variety:

• CAUTION! SSD Drives and Yosemite
• Why Should Final Cut Pro 7 Editors Consider Adobe Premiere Pro CC?
• Why Should Final Cut Pro 7 Editors Consider Final Cut Pro X?
• Mac OS: Turn Off Drive Ownership

For an index of all our articles, visit here.

 

Webinars

• #137: Timing is Everything (in Editing)
• #144: Ask Larry Anything (Members only)
• #145: New Features in Adobe Software

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    

• Larry O'Connor: Problems Between Yosemite and SSD Drives
• Philip Hodgetts: Creating a Really Small On-Location Production Kit
• Boris Yamnitsky: Why Boris FX Acquired Imagineer Systems

For a list of all Buzz audio interviews, click here. 

Apple continues to update Compressor with an all new interface, improved compression settings and better monitoring. This application has some much new stuff inside that we went back and re-did 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.x.

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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