Premiere Pro
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Lessons from the Cutting Edge Tour
I spent a half-day at Adam Epstein’s “The Cutting Edge Post-Production Tour” last week. Epstein, who is the editor for the Saturday Night Live Film Unit, has spent the past month and a half traveling the country presenting on how to be a better editor. Unfortunately for me, I couldn’t stay the whole day. Unfortunately for you, the tour ended this week, so you’ve missed it too. If you can come away from an event like this with an actual tip or technique that you start using and with one piece of inspiration to improve how you work, that actually […]
by Michael Murie on Sep 26, 2014 -
A Round-Up of the Last Non-Linear Editor Updates
June proved to be a rich month for non-linear editor users. Adobe released their latest Creative Cloud update, Apple updated Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor, the public beta of DaVinci Resolve 11 was released, and the Mac beta of Lightworks finally appeared. Adobe Creative Cloud On June 17 Adobe released the second major update to Creative Cloud. For Premiere Pro this release adds a new masking feature for effects. You can now easily add an effect mask either using an Oval or a four-point polygon tool. A built-in tracking tool makes it possible to track a shape […]
by Michael Murie on Jul 10, 2014 -
Sony Vegas
I’ve been editing commercials and longform programs with Sony Vegas Pro since 2005. Our latest feature documentary, They Wore the Red Suit, was edited, color corrected and mixed totally in Vegas. Why Vegas? The editor I brought in for this project was experienced with Avid and FCP but had never used Vegas before. I asked him to try it for a few days, and if he wasn’t happy, I’d bring in the system of his choice. After a week, he said he couldn’t have made as much progress with either of his old “favorites.” My initial decision to use Vegas […]
by Larry W. Peter on Oct 22, 2013
