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MediaStorm Guide to Nudging Audio in Premiere Pro 2014

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:August 13, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. A quick way to change your audio levels in Premiere Pro is to select a clip in the timeline and use the closed bracket ( ] ) to raise the volume or the open bracket ( [ ) to lower it. You can easily alter a group of clips this way by simply lassoing them first. Unfortunately, this method does not work in Premiere Pro CC if any of the audio contained key frames. This was a real limitation. Thankfully, with the introduction of Premiere Pro 2014, you can now nudge key-framed audio with a user-defined shortcut key. From the Premiere Pro menu select Keyboard Shortcuts… (Option-Command-K) Search…

MediaStorm Guide to Adding Effects to Master Clips in Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:August 7, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. In previous versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CC if you wanted to apply an effect to an entire clip it was necessary to do this before you began to edit. Once you cut the clip into smaller pieces in your timeline, you’d have to apply the effect to each individual instance. For example, say you had a fine cut and you wanted to color correct your main interview. In Premiere Pro CC, you’d apply color correction effects to the first instance of the clip in your timeline, then copy and paste attributes (Command-Option-V) to the next clip and so on throughout the entire edit. The latest update, Premiere…

MediaStorm Guide to Essential Production Software

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:July 31, 2014

Back in February, MediaStorm upgraded its Mac Pro towers for the fiery new models. Here’s a complete list of the applications I installed on my new machine. Backup and File Management ChronoSync ($40) - Handy tool when you need to mirror a group of folders between hard drives. Dropbox (free, paid upgrade for more storage) - We’ve moved away from FTP for file transfers. Dropbox is far easier and much simpler. Hazel ($28) - Automatically organize and copy files according to user rules. (MediaStorm Guide) Space Gremlin ($3.99) - A graphical representation of every file on your hard drive. Great for finding space hogs. SuperDuper! ($27.95) - Industrial-strength backup. Backs up one drive to another. (MediaStorm Guide) Transmit ($33.99) - For those rare occasions when I still need to transfer files via FTP. Editing After Effects - I’m like a teenager with a learner’s permit when it comes to motion graphics. Still, I…

MediaStorm Guide to Using Adobe Lightroom with Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:July 10, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers’ experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post.

Adiós Aperture

Apple recently announced its plans to retire both Aperture and iPhoto. The company will create one unified application, titled Photos, that will be part of OS X Yosemite.

While Yosemite will continue to support Aperture, as well as provide an upgrade path for Photos compatibility, development of Aperture will cease. (It’s worth noting that the last major upgrade to Aperture was version 3.5, released in October 2013.)

Aperture users are left with three basic options:

Continue to work in Aperture, in the same manner that some still use Final Cut Pro 7.
Adopt Photos in to their workflows when it becomes available.
Use an alternative application like Adobe’s Lightroom.

While some suggest that Photos will be a powerful replacement for iPhoto and Aperture, Macworld author David Sparks states, “The desktop Photos app likely won’t offer all the power that currently exists in Aperture; I’m certain its photo-alteration tools will take a hit.”

I hope that’s not the case. Nevertheless, MediaStorm is now considering adopting Lightroom in to our post-production workflow.

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New Features in Premiere Pro CC (2014)

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:June 26, 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. In June, Adobe released major updates across their Creative Cloud suite of applications, including Premiere Pro CC. In the coming weeks, I will show you some of these great new features. First though, here are some highlights that are most exciting: Browse After Effects projects in the Media Browser. Audio pitch remains the same when you shuttle forwards and back. The ability to select all tracks backwards. Select multiple transitions and change their durations simultaneously. Match Frame backwards, from the Source window to the Timeline. Tag ‘favorites’ in the Media Browser. Automatically back up autosave files to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. All video and audio tracks can be locked…