Welcome to the Solace of Simple Solutions!
Here our impatience and annoyance with the shortcomings of our favorite post-production tools is transformed into actual solutions.
Right now, a few plugins are already available for download. If you have suggestions for other products, place them on the future ideas page.
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Dr SG, or How I Learned to Love SpeedGrade…
Some time ago I mentioned that due to certain turn of events I ended up learning more about SpeedGrade than I ever expected. Since the cat is out of the bag now, let me elaborate. I was contacted - of all days on April 1st - with an offer to…
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Warning about using RGB and Luma Curves in Premiere Pro CC
Update: The 7.1 version due out in October is going to fix the issue altogether. Great job, Adobe! Update: The 7.0.1 patch for Premiere Pro CC fixes some of the below mentioned issues, although unfortunately not all of them. To my great chagrin Premiere Pro CC changed the way curves…
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D is for “Deselect Before Applying a Default Transition”
The very first thing that you should do... no, let me try again. The very first thing that you must do after installing and opening the new Premiere Pro CC is to set a keyboard shortcut for Deselect All. Trust me. This will save you a lot of trouble later. This is…
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Apple’s move to FirePro GPUs in the new Mac Pro
Perhaps one of the biggest surprises during the recent sneak-peek of the new Mac Pro was the inclusion of AMD FirePro GPUs. While at first it might look like Apple again showing the middle finger to all CUDA users, and perhaps to Adobe or BlackMagic, "it ain't necessarily so". Personally,…
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Label users, beware!
Beware of a nasty bug in CS6: If you import the footage in such a way that a bin or a number of bins is created upon import, and you label your clips on the timeline, you might be in for a nasty surprise at some point. If you choose…
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I stand corrected…
In an excellent recent article on Pro Video Coallition Alexis van Hurkman explained how the terminology which I use in my Power Window filter, and in my Lift, Gamma, Gain tutorial is incorrect. The control called "Lift" should in fact be called "Offset", based on the way it works. Similarly,…
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The Case For Three-Button Mouse Editing
Mouse-driven editing has usually been associated with the lower end of video editing, and to a certain extent justifiably so. If I see a person using only his or her mouse to edit, I don't consider them very seriously. Editing is a tough job, and a human being has two…
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Adobe Anywhere – Currently An Enterprise Solution Only
On NAB we've seen a few reveals from Adobe, and among them also the premiere of Adobe Anywhere. I speculated extensively on Anywhere in the past, and I was perhaps a bit too optimistic in my assessment for required hardware and bandwidth, motivated mostly by the hope that we would…
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NAB Special – KEM roll and a multicam trick in Premiere Pro next
No typical tutorial this week, but a small demonstration of the KEM roll (sequence editing) feature in the next version of Premiere Pro, and a little multicam trick which can help you to "unnest" your clips from a sequence. I hope you'll enjoy it, even if the software is not…
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NAB Special – SpeedGrade revisited
Today at NAB Adobe revealed the next version of their video tools. From my perspective, the most interesting developments happened on the Premiere Pro front, and the next note will deal exactly with that. As of now, let's take a look at another promising part of the suite - the…
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NAB Special – the next release of Premiere Pro
My post with speculations for what's coming in the next release of Premiere Pro turned out to be one of the most popular articles I've ever written. I'm happy to say that out of the little screenshot I got quite a few things right - and a few things wrong.…
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Applying the Power Window effect
I've been both terribly busy and sick lately, thus the lack of the tutorial last week. Hopefully, something interesting will come out of my business next week, and I would advise you to follow my blog during NAB, if you are interested on my take on a few things that…
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Understanding Lift, Gamma and Gain
In this installment of our weekly tutorials, I aim to explain the concepts of three basic controls in the Power Window filter, namely Lift, Gamma and Gain. It's a bit longer than usual, and more theoretical, but I hope it serves well as an introduction to this topic: http://youtu.be/lFjO2zFYRgo
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Major improvements in Vignette and Power Window
Some of you have complained that my plugins sometimes take a lot of memory to run, and that they are not CUDA accelerated. Well, GPU acceleration will have to wait for a moment longer, but I have coded a few improvements to the Power Window and Vignette which will result…
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Vignette tutorial – making an elliptical mask
This time I'm going to show you an unconventional use of the Vignette filter to create an elliptical feathered mask around the footage. I hope you're going to enjoy it: http://youtu.be/ygfWLpw9uVA
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