As a reminder, I'm speaking at the opening session of The Creativity Conference this Wednesday, Aug. 4. There are more than 60 speakers with topics ranging from Fine Arts to Creativity to Inspiration. All sessions are free. And, I'm delighted that my session: "Create Presentations that Get Results" leads off the conference.
Last week's webinar - Ask Larry Anything! - covered Apple Motion and Final Cut Pro, along with Adobe Premiere Pro. I illustrated animation in Motion, media management in Final Cut and many of the new features in Adobe Premiere Pro. The entire session is now available in my store and Video Training Library.
Tutorials this week include Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion. For Premiere, I have an in-depth tutorial on the new speech-to-text transcription service. Although it has one major limiting bug, Adobe has done an excellent job integrating this with Premiere.
Two other Premiere tutorials include a tutorial on how to export captions from YouTube, then convert them for import into Premiere. A second tutorial is a video overview of the new transcription workflow. My written tutorial goes into more detail, but this video shows you how everything works.
The Apple Motion tutorial shows how to animate an object, like a toy car, to move along a map to illustrate a route.
The Final Cut Pro tutorials cover subjects I've wanted to put on video for a while - and, now, I have: Where to store media in Final Cut, the difference between camera native, optimized and proxy media and understanding Browser clip line colors in FCP. You'll find links to all of these in the Tutorials & Reviews section below.
Over the weekend, I watched an excellent live production from the Directors Guild of America showcasing the state of the art in virtual production. Hollywood is moving from green screens and effects created during post, into virtual sets, LED walls and effects created before production even starts. It is an amazing new world of Virtual Effects Departments, LED Volumes, in-camera effects and batteries of computers rendering images in real-time; even tracking the background as a camera moves in front of it.
I now understood what long-time film people felt as the digital media revolution swept through the industry. These changes will be as dramatic and far reaching as the transition from film to digital. There is much for all of us to learn and much of what we know isn't as relevant anymore. Scary and exciting in equal measure.
I've spent more than 30 years living in or near Los Angeles. Moving is hard work, not least in saying good bye to long-time friends and locations. Still, neither our lives nor our industry stand still. Change is constant. I will miss where I was, but I look forward to where we are going - both personally and professionally.
And, as always, I'm only
an email away. Stay safe, stay hopeful and
edit well.
I'll see you again in September.
