Nonlinear editors like Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro aren't the only solutions for repairing and enhancing video. You can use tools like Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and even Illustrator to correct problems like lens distortion, camera shake, excessive noise and grain, and overblown exposure. This course covers innovative technical and creative techniques for bringing footage back to life. Learn how to clone and heal video, fix alignment, and recover exposure. Instructor Rich Harrington also introduces advanced techniques for speeding up and slowing down 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.

There are many reasons for shooting with multiple cameras. Perhaps it's to save time or achieve multiple angles. Or it might be to capture what's happening across a large area, like a sports arena or the stage during a concert. Luckily for editors, Adobe Premiere Pro supports editing and syncing footage from multiple cameras in situations like these. The multicamera editing process in Premiere is similar to live switching that occurs in mobile studios and newsrooms, and helps speed up the post-processing workflow. In this course, Rich Harrington reviews that workflow, showing you how to ingest footage and align it properly, as well as finish your video with color-correction and color-matching techniques.

Good audio makes for great video, and with Premiere Pro, you can make your audio sound great. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Luisa Winters walks through the process of mixing audio—adjusting levels, adding transitions, and more—and then stepping it up a notch with some commonly used effects, such as EQ, reverb, and de-essing. She also includes tips for changing the length and speed of your audio tracks, recording scratch tracks, and exporting audio separately from video.

To create and manage a regular stream of video content, it takes planning and hard work. Video is a big investment, and Facebook and YouTube are crowded with competitors. You need to do it right. In this course, marketing and media strategist Roberto Blake provides a formula for creating a winning online video content strategy: from planning, production, and post, all the way to delivery and search optimization. Get an overview of the online video landscape, learn how to nail down exactly who you're making content for, discover best practices for production and post, and find out what kinds of content works best on what platforms. High-quality content and attention to detail are the keys to building a large audience-learn the techniques the professionals use to do online video right.

Upgrading from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X gives video editors the newest interface and tools for video editing. Understanding the differences between the two versions paves the way for a painless upgrade experience. Learn how to migrate your skillset and your projects to Final Cut Pro X. Author Jeff Greenberg covers the new features and workflows in version X, including the magnetic timeline, connected clips, and the deep integration of color correction and sound editing.

Making Video: Sell Yourself is a project-based course for non-video people who want to make short videos to promote themselves. Staff author caters to those who need to make a video with minimal preexisting knowledge, limited resources, and little to no budget. The course is presented in a workshop style where Ashley teaches a real-world professional (an executive coach) how to make a video for her website. Like the rest of the Making Video series, this course focuses on teaching video production using a smartphone as the primary camera, and a limited amount of additional production equipment. The focus will be on (a) planning a video project with an eye for success, (b) shooting the best possible videos using very basic equipment, and (c) editing those videos with intention and finesse using free browser-based editing software. Following the same steps, you should be able to create engaging self-promotional videos.

Learn how to use iMovie, the popular video editing software from Apple. Instructor Garrick Chow shares what you need to know to create high-quality, compelling video projects for work or for home. First, learn how to get your footage into iMovie-from a camera or your hard drive-and navigate around the interface. Garrick then provides an overview of the entire editing process-fine-tuning clips, adjusting color, adding titles and music, transitioning from one clip to the next, adjusting the speed of clips, and more. At the end of the course, he shows how to export your movies to share with the world. This course is fully revised to reflect the latest iMovie interface.

Find out how to give a great presentation and captivate an audience—whether online or in a board room—using video. This course teaches the essentials of creating high-quality video content using equipment you already have and a software you can readily download—HitFilm Express. The full range of the production workflow is covered, from setting up a camera, to recording audio, to editing, to sharing your work privately or publicly. Join Simon Jones as he takes you through setup, importing footage, organizing media, editing video, adding transitions, inserting titles, including motion graphics, outputting the final files, and sharing your video presentation.

Explore the new features designed to help video editors unlock the power of Final Cut Pro X and its sidekicks Motion and Compressor. Instructor Nick Harauz covers all the changes (both big and small) in the latest update to Final Cut Pro X, version 10.4. Learn how to speed up your workflow, work in brand-new ways with color and 360-degree footage, and use HEVC, iMovie, and HDR clips in your projects.

Even if you've already established an After Effects workflow that suits you, exploring overlooked features and shortcuts can only help you work more efficiently with this powerful application. In this course, learn tips for creating a fast and efficient motion graphics workflow in the After Effects timeline-leaving you with more time for creativity. This installment of After Effects Guru reveals time-saving features for navigating to specific timecodes, adjusting keyframes, changing layer behavior, working with layer modes, and using composition markers.

Adobe After Effects CC 2018 offers new features that can enhance your VFX and motion graphics workflow. In this course, explore the major new additions to After Effects—including the latest version, 15.1, introduced in April 2018—and discover how to leverage them in your post-production process. Mark Christiansen provides a hands-on look at this update, showing how to edit keyboard shortcuts visually, create nulls from paths, automate motion with data-driven animation, use master properties to animate nested compositions, build smoother deformations with the Advanced Puppet tool, and more. In addition, he explains how to work with immersive video and customize your VR pipeline. To keep you up-to-date on the latest additions to After Effects CC 2018, Mark will update the course when new features are released.

Well-done motion graphics have the ability to add interest to even the driest subject matter. In this course, learn how to leverage the 3D options in Adobe After Effects to create a bouncing animated sphere that can make your motion graphics project stand out. To familiarize you with the technical aspects of creating and animating this sphere, Ran Ben Avraham takes you through his creative workflow. He demonstrates how to create a basic sphere, create squash and stretch animation, prepare your sphere for animation, and animate it.This is a project-based learning experience. Each step of the process is rich with object lessons that are applicable to the variations that a motion design and compositing artist will face in the real world.

Working with green-screen footage can be a daunting task. The Adobe suite of video tools provides a wide array of choices, but how do you know which to use? This course aims to answer that important question. Instructor Rich Harrington guides you through the keying process in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and popular third-party keying tools. Get an overview of the import process, and discover the strengths of each keyer. Learn how to use Ultra Keyer, KEYLIGHT, Red Giant Keying Suite (including the Primatte Keyer), and Light Wrap Fantastic, while discovering ways to work with transparency and create great backdrops in Photoshop.

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Do you find mixing music and dialog a frustrating process? Have you ever found yourself constantly turning up your dialog to compete with an overpowering music track? Have you ever struggled to find a music track that perfectly matches the duration of your edit? Adobe Audition: Mixing Music and Dialog is for video professionals who want to take their audio mixes to the next level. Video editor and teacher Paul Murphy demonstrates how to create a music and dialog mix that sounds clear, professional, and sonically pleasing. While demonstrated in Premiere Pro and Audition CC, the techniques shown can be applied to any video- or sound-editing application.

360 video technology offers creative professionals interesting new ways to create immersive content. If you're interested in creating 360 videos, then this course can help you get up to speed with the 360 video process. Instructor Nick Harauz goes over which tools you can use, and how to leverage those tools to create, edit, and export high-quality videos. Nick dives into the differences between AR, VR, and 360; reviews 360 camera solutions; and shares production and post-production considerations. He also shows how to stitch together 360 footage, edit VR clips, add transitions and effects, export your final projects, and more.

Adobe Character Animator boasts tools and functionality that allow you to create striking real-time animation. In this course, discover how to leverage this fun and powerful software throughout the production process—from pre-production to post-production and delivery. Instructor Mark Simon shows how to tackle pre-production tasks such as storyboarding and budgeting. Mark also goes over ways to add value to your production, explaining how to make your characters walk, how to best capture eye movement, and how to create actions that build off other actions. Plus, he demonstrates how to deal with common production issues; shares some cool production tricks; and explains how to handle the delivery of your final product, including how to set up a live-to-presentation production and export to Facebook Live and YouTube Live.

Explore the integration of Substance Designer—a powerful tool for creating textures for 3D art, visualization projects, and games—with Unreal Engine. This course provides a solid foundation of the principles of texture creation in Substance Designer for use in Unreal Engine. Instructor Scott Pagano explains how to import a model into Substance Designer and bake AO, curvature, and ID maps. He discusses the advantages of system-based procedural texture creation, and shows how to create both image file output and substances which can be used and modified directly in the Unreal editor.

Instructor Joel Bradley begins with an overview of a prebuilt substance graph, demonstrating the strengths and nondestructive workflow of Substance Designer, and walking through basics such as navigating the Substance Designer interface, adjusting important preferences, importing meshes and maps, and using the 2D, 3D, and Graph views. He then moves onto the large array of essential "atomic" nodes in Substance Designer, including the Blend, Curve, Slope Blur, Normal, Gradient, and Water Level nodes. These nodes comprise the heart of the Substance Designer workflow. Then learn how to create a custom panorama from scratch, and explore more advanced topics such as MDL materials, functions, and FX maps. Finally, Joel closes out the course by putting a substance to use. Learn about the advantages of using a published substance file (SBSAR) over hard-coded bitmaps for in-game materials, and see how to import a substance package into a game engine such as Unreal.

This course offers mograph designers a quick-start guide to real-time motion graphics in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Scott Pagano shows how to prep and import both static and animated geometry and animate objects and cameras with the Matinee Editor. He shows how to flesh out your scenes with Unreal's lighting and shading tools, and export video files and image sequences for further refinement in software such as After Effects. Following the quick-start chapter are three real-world projects that demonstrate the power of the workflow.

Explore the cool new features in the 2018 and 2018.1 versions of Adobe Premiere Pro. In this course, Rich Harrington covers the April 2018 additions to Premiere Pro CC as well as noteworthy features from the previous release. Rich reviews color correction enhancements, such as the Video Limiter effect and Auto Color matching, and workflow improvements, including Auto Ducking, Match Frame, and changes to markers and dip transitions. Plus, learn about UX changes, such as the new Timecode panel and the Essential Graphics browser, which allows you to create titles and motion graphics right in Premiere Pro. Rich also reviews new video formats and encoding options, publishing tools, labels, project management tools, and virtual reality features like VR headset integration and new VR effects and resolves.

Red Giant Trapcode Particular—an industry-standard particle generator—is one of the most important plugins for Adobe After Effects. In this course, join Ian Robinson as he helps you get up to speed with using Particular 3 for After Effects. To begin, Ian shows how to create a basic emitter and particle system. He then examines different kinds of emitters and particle attributes; shares how to create custom particles; looks at how lights and cameras are integrated with particle systems; and explains how to build complex particles using multiple systems. After building a solid foundation for working in Particular 3, he dives into some short projects, showing how to stop time with Time Factor, create secondary particle systems from other particles, create light streaks, and more.