Last week's webinar on "
Working with Still Images in Adobe Premiere Pro" was fun and well attended. I covered the entire workflow from scanning and prepping images, through to import and animation in Premiere. Along the way I was able to demo software and techniques that I haven't covered before. It was a compelling session which is now available in my
store and
Video Training Library.
Webinars will be back in two weeks. There's construction this week in my office which makes it too noisy to present a webinar.
Two weeks ago, after my presentation on using stills in Final Cut, Dave McCollum took exception to my recommendation to scan still images at 2x the project frame rate. He felt it degraded image quality when displaying stills that don't move. He had some good reasons behind his arguments. So, this week, I decided to test this and discovered there's only one thing you need to know to create the highest quality stills for a video project.
Thinking of webinars, I have two excerpts from last week's webinar on Premiere. The first is a demo of Topaz Photo AI, an AI-assisted tool to improve image resolution and decrease visual noise for both scanned and digital images.
The next excerpt shows how to animate images in Premiere, along with generating movement along a curve.
NAB is arriving in four weeks. To me, this marks the start of "hardware upgrade season." While computers are at the heart of any editing system, it's the gear we attach to it that makes our work possible - from monitors, to storage, to all those helpful devices that make editing faster and fun. Personally, I'm looking forward to new monitors, SSDs with greater capacity (and, hopefully, lower prices) and those unheralded tools that you never knew you needed until you saw them.
Plus, it's getting warmer. These are all good reasons to look forward to spring. Until next Monday, stay healthy, stay hopeful and edit well.
