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The Future of Creative Education

At this year's NAB, I was invited to kickoff the conference as a guest on their live broadcast.  I had a chance to talk about changes in the world of educating creative professionals.  I shared some of my own view points about where things are going and how the changes affects students and working pros alike.  My interview starts around the 22 minute mark.

Removing Distortion from a Video Shot with Upright in Photoshop

There are times when our footage can look a bit distorted and the perspective can be off.  In this movie I show you an example of when this happened with my footage.  Adobe has a number of ways to fix these issues and one tool I’ll explore with you here is called Upright.

Correcting for Lens Distortion - Removing Distortion with Upright

To learn more, I’ve created an exciting course called Repairing and Enhancing Video with Lynda.com. 

http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Removing-distortion-Upright/149128/160032-4.html

Whether you want to fix a problem in post or simply give your video more style, this course will help everyone from motion graphics designers to video editors improve their footage. Rich Harrington uses Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and even Illustrator to correct problems you'd encounter in real-world projects, like lens distortion, camera shake, noise and grain, and overblown exposure. Plus, you'll learn advanced techniques for speeding up or slowing down your video, rotoscoping footage, and using the numerous creative color and texture effects in Photoshop and After Effects. If your footage has ever needed some extra attention, this course is for you.

Topics in this course include: 

  • Reviewing the retoucher's toolbox
  • Stabilizing footage
  • Fixing alignment
  • Retiming footage
  • Removing lens distortion
  • Using rotoscoping to enhance footage
  • Recovering exposure
  • Color grading with Photoshop
  • Converting to black and white
  • Creating a film or painterly look
  • Adding depth of field

You can check out the class here —  http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Removing-distortion-Upright/149128/160032-4.html

Recovering Exposure in a Video Shot

Properly exposure of your footage is everything. The next best thing to do is slightly underexpose and preserve the details.  If you’re shooting RAW video then this becomes less of an issue as you have more latitude.   I will take a few examples of poorly underexposed shots and using Adobe After Effects will bring the details back to life using a few of my favorite tools and techniques including, matching tolerance and the Refined Matte Effect. 

Recovering Video with Exposure

To learn more, I’ve created an exciting course called Repairing and Enhancing Video with Lynda.com. 

http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Recovering-exposure/149128/160041-4.html

Whether you want to fix a problem in post or simply give your video more style, this course will help everyone from motion graphics designers to video editors improve their footage. Rich Harrington uses Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and even Illustrator to correct problems you'd encounter in real-world projects, like lens distortion, camera shake, noise and grain, and overblown exposure. Plus, you'll learn advanced techniques for speeding up or slowing down your video, rotoscoping footage, and using the numerous creative color and texture effects in Photoshop and After Effects. If your footage has ever needed some extra attention, this course is for you.

Topics in this course include: 

  • Reviewing the retoucher's toolbox
  • Stabilizing footage
  • Fixing alignment
  • Retiming footage
  • Removing lens distortion
  • Using rotoscoping to enhance footage
  • Recovering exposure
  • Color grading with Photoshop
  • Converting to black and white
  • Creating a film or painterly look
  • Adding depth of field

 

You can check out the class here - http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Recovering-exposure/149128/160041-4.html

The Paste Attributes Option Dialog for Premiere Pro

You can now selectively paste attributes from one clip and apply it to another, with the new features added to Adobe Premiere Pro CC.  We’ll explore the Paste Attributes option dialogue in this course and I will demonstrate working with this updated feature.

The Improved Effects Workflow: The Paste Attributes Option Dialog

To learn more, I’ve created an exciting course called Premiere Pro: Creative Cloud Updates, for Lynda.com

http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Paste-Attributes-option-dialog/126763/129887-4.html

Adobe Premiere Pro CC has some very exciting new features and updates.  It’s important to stay on top of these new features so you can maximize your experience and workflow as you’re in post production. This course is dedicated to the video producers and editors who need to leverage the latest Premiere Pro tools and techniques fast.  I will cover all of these new features, which include: a customizable user interface, quality and format improvements like the enhanced Mercury Playback Engine, timeline tricks, and media management techniques, and the best audio, multicamera, and closed captioning workflows.

Topics in this course include:

  • Switching between audio waveforms and video
  • Creating a new sequence
  • Integrating scripting with the Story panel
  • Working with different camera formats
  • Selecting and nudging clips
  • Using dupe-detection markers
  • Copying and pasting ranges
  • Nesting sequences
  • Relinking offline sequences
  • Color grading with the Lumetri Deep Color Engine
  • Adjusting clip volume
  • Automatic syncing with audio waveforms
  • Recording multicamera edits
  • Adjusting timing and display of captions
  • Exporting multiple clips/sequences

You can check out the class here - http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Paste-Attributes-option-dialog/126763/129887-4.html

Higher Quality Encodes with Variable Bit Rate Encoding

When time is on your side and you’re looking for the highest quality compression, then you want to go with variable bit rate encoding.  Working with high quality encoding is time consuming but worth the time.  Join Jason Osder in this course as he takes you through the necessary steps to properly encode using the variable bit rate method.

Adobe Premiere Pro Working with Photoshop: Higher Quality Encodes with Variable Bit Rate Encoding

To learn more, Jason Osder has created an exciting course called: Premiere Pro Guru: Outputs and Media Encoder with Lynda.com http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/use-codecs/149702/154476-4.html

Outputting video is one of the most important yet misunderstood parts of the creative process. If you work with Adobe Premiere Pro, it's critical to understand how to choose a format, convert frame rates, and work with Media. In this course Jason Osder covers encoding 101 and shows you how to access Media Encoder from inside Premiere Pro or as a stand-alone program, create an efficient export workflow and encode for formats such as broadcast, DVD or Blu-ray, YouTube, and mobile devices. 

Topics in this course include:

  • Understanding compression terminology
  • Exporting directly from Premiere Pro
  • Using the Media Encoder interface
  • Outputting media for Apple and Android devices
  • Adjusting settings
  • Automating compression workflows

You can check out the class here -  http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/use-codecs/149702/154476-4.html