NEWS - December 27, 2021
This is a special week for many of us - the time between Christmas and New Year. There's not a lot of work that needs to be done. It's a chance to catch up with friends and family and think about the coming year.

My lead story this week is a list of the Top 20 tutorials on my website this year. These twenty titles alone had almost half-a-million views, which just amazes me. If you want to know what "everyone else" was reading, here's the list:


In the news:

Digital Anarchy alerted me to a significant bug in a recent version of Premiere Pro. "Adobe released Premiere 22.1.2 yesterday which fixes a major bug that broke Beauty Box in Premiere Pro 22.1.1 (along with a bunch of other plugins from other developers). [Adobe] took down 22.1.1 several days ago, but if you have it installed and want to use Beauty Box, or any of the other dozen plugins it affects, you'll want to upgrade immediately to 22.1.2."


Digital Anarchy link: https://store.digitalanarchy.com

Helge Malmgren continues his one-man campaign to keep FCP 7 editors informed of lurking traps. Recently he discovered a problem when upgrading Wondershare. He's added it to his blog: "Editing in FCP 7 in 2021?" which is available as as PDF, below.


Peachpit is offering a special 45% discount on all their eBooks, including mine. Enter the code NOSHIP to get free shipping. Offer ends January 8, 2022.

Peachpit eBook link: http://peachpit.com/ebooks

Larry's book link: Techniques of Visual Persuasion
I finished my three-part webinar series on how to integrate DaVinci Resolve with an existing Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro workflow. These sessions look at using the Cut page for faster editing, the Color page for better color grading and the Fairlight page for better audio sweetening and mixes. To celebrate, I created a bundle where you can get all three and save 50%! Here are the details.


By they way, I enjoyed presenting these sessions on Resolve - and I'm grateful to Mary Plummer from Blackmagic Design for sharing her insights on the software. The response to all three sessions was very strong, so I'll be back with more Resolve sessions in the future.

For now, webinars are on hiatus until January 12. If you have suggestions on what you would like me to cover, please email them to me. I'm always interested in new ideas!

This holiday week, I celebrated another milestone: 2,500 published tutorials! I wrote my first tutorial in January, 2004. 18 years later, I'm still writing. That's pretty amazing to me. I never expected to create that large a body of work. All of them are available on my Free Resources > Tutorials page.

I have four new tutorials for you this week, including two that were submitted by other writers. Lloyd Walker found a quick work-around for the Spinning Beach Ball of Death when you see it in Final Cut.


Rebecca Alston has suggestions on where to search for creative ideas. 


And, with the New Year upon us, I show how to create a fun "Happy New Year" animated video in Motion to celebrate the season.


Plus, if you are looking for ways to polish your skills, remember all the training that's available in my store or the Video Training Library.

Sigh... The pandemic looks like it will be with us for a while longer, theaters are struggling to find audiences, budgets are down for everyone not named "Spiderman," and production crews around the world are struggling to make ends meet. It is a difficult time to feel like celebrating. But, rather than focus on everything wrong, let's look for opportunities to use the skills we have in new ways. Video is the dominant communication medium on the planet. There are a lot of people looking for better ways to reach audiences. And, to me, that means each of us has an opportunity to help them find it.

Until next week, Happy New Year! (May it be better than the last!) Edit well.
TUTORIALS & REVIEWS
» Top 20 Media Tutorials for 2021 on LarryJordan.com (List)
  » Here's a list of what everyone was reading for the past year.

» A Fast Workaround for the Spinning Beach Ball of Death (Tutorial)
  » Lloyd Walker discovered this quick trick which you can easily apply.

» How to Come Up With Unique Ideas for Your Next Film (Comment)
  » Rebecca Alston has a variety of ideas on where to find creative ideas.

» Playin' Around with Motion - for the New Year (Tutorial)
  » Here's an easy way to combine text, particles and animation.

Explore the Fairlight Page in DaVinci Resolve
Our three-part look at DaVinci Resolve 17 concludes with an exploration of the Fairlight audio mixing page. The best way to improve the quality of your video is to improve the quality of your audio. Learn how the Fairlight page works.

Everything you need - all in one place!
Explore DaVinci Resolve 17

This three-webinar bundle covers the Cut page, the Color page and the Fairlight audio page. All designed to help you integrate DaVinci Resolve into your current NLE workflow.

SAVE 50%!

Everything you need - all in one place!
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