Larry Jordan's Newsletter

NEWS - May 24, 2021

Today's issue is all about speed, and speed effects, in both Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro. In fact, my lead story is an effect that - for all the years I've been writing about Final Cut - I never discovered until today. It totally surprised me! (And you'll probably say: "Pshaw, I've known about this trick for years....)

Link: Vary the Speed of Video Playback in Final Cut Pro

You'll find seven new tutorials for both Premiere and Final Cut in the Tutorials & Reviews section below.

Turning to the news:

ACD Systems International launched its latest version of its free Luxea Video Editor, which provides users with more tools to produce the best video possible. New features include: Timeline markers, Color LUT opacity, real-time MP4 generation, single input (audio or video) recording, and targeted screen recording. ACD offers versions that are free, paid and subscription.

Link: https://www.acdsee.com/en/video-editing-software/

Autoscript announced "Voice," a teleprompter system that uses revolutionary advanced speech recognition technology to free presenters and production staff from their scroll control devices. As the presenter speaks, the prompter keeps up, even through pauses and ad libs.

Link: https://www.autoscript.tv/voice/

The NAB Show announced registration is now open for the 2021 show. This marks a return to the in-person Las Vegas conference after a year of forced virtual events and is scheduled to take place in less than five months, from Oct. 9-13.

Link: https://nabshow.com/2021/

Veed announced an innovative technology from Dolby.io that helps clean your audio or video files from background noise. It works on Windows or Mac computers, with no software download or plugin required; and it’s FREE!

Link: https://www.veed.io/tools/remove-background-noise-from-audio

Cool news! Pearson, the publisher of my book "Techniques of Visual Persuasion," has invited me to give a four-hour training session on using visual persuasion to improve presentations. This course is available from Safari Books Online (not the same as the web browser). The presentation starts at 10:00 AM PDT, May 27. NOTE: This requires an O'Reilly membership - BUT a 10-day free trial is available. It promises to be interesting! Sign up for a free trial and join us!!

Link: Larry's Safari Books Online Course - More Details

Last week's webinar: "Clip Speed Changes in Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro," covered constant and variable speed changes, still frames, speed effects and more. What I did was take the live presentation and split it in half - Webinar 314 covers Adobe, while Webinar 315 covers Apple. Even better, I cut the price in half for each presentation - pick the one you want and save money!

Premiere Link: Webinar 314: Speed Changes in Premiere Pro

Final Cut Link: Webinar 315: Speed Changes in Final Cut Pro

No webinar this week as I prep for this week's Safari Online training. NEXT week, though, my webinar looks at "Image Editing and Repair using Adobe Photoshop." So many of our projects require stills - either old or new - that it's worthwhile taking time to learn how to use Photoshop to make our stills look great. As always, registration for my live events is free.

Registration Link: https://larryjordan.com/weekly-webinar/

The Inside Tips continues published daily newsletters filled with tips, techniques and interesting stories covering Apple and Adobe software, along with production. Each newsletter is free and we publish tips covering six different subjects each week. Sign up today and put these time-saving tips to work immediately.

Link: https://www.theinsidetips.com

I found myself this last week looking at different ways to change the speed of a clip. I have multiple tutorials covering fit-to-fill edits and extreme slow motion in Premiere, fit-to-fill edits and visual effects in Final Cut - all in the Tutorials & Review section below.

Here in California we are quickly coming out of the pandemic, a situation that is happily occurring elsewhere in the US; though certainly not throughout the world. It is easy to pretend this pandemic never happened and try to go back to the "way things used to be." That's a mistake - we can't go back. We can only go forward - and discover what the latest version of "real-life" is going to look like. It won't be the same - hopefully, it will be better.

Stay safe, stay healthy and, especially, stay hopeful. Until next Monday, edit well.