The Inside Tips are taking a hiatus for the month of August. We'll be back the first week of September with more Inside Tips.

The Inside Tips are taking a hiatus for the month of August. We'll be back the first week of September with more Inside Tips.

Paisley patterns, recognizable for the unique figure at its core, can be lush with dense swirls and intricate lines or comprised of sparse shapes set on a placid background. It has a history.

Not all codecs support large frame sizes, but for those that do - such as ProRes and HEVC - Adobe Media Encoder will compress them. Learn more.

The Inside Tips are taking a hiatus for the month of August. We'll be back the first week of September with more Inside Tips.

Have you ever wondered what "Range Check" does in the View menu? It's actually really useful - it flags excessive white and chroma (color) saturation levels. Here's what you need to know.

The Inside Tips are taking a hiatus for the month of August. We'll be back the first week of September with more Inside Tips.

PBS adds a VR component to their 10th Annual Short Film Festival. Watch using WebXR and a headset or web browser.

The Write-on behavior is automatically attached to every Paint Brush stroke. This animates the stroke and you can edit it. Here's how.

Myst, a beautiful island world where there is no violence, no time limit, the player never dies, and there's no "game over," expands into VR.

In 1977, the author writes, I was 14 years old and desperately wanting to work in radio or TV. He landed in local access cable. Here's a story about the early days of local cable media.

The Pfeiffer Report was commissioned by Adobe to analyze the efficiency and productivity gains of the Speech to Text feature set in Adobe Premiere Pro. The results are impressive.

Here's a fast way to see all the captions in your Final Cut Pro project, along with an equally fast way to correct them.

1 Beyond Inc. makes automated cameras, cameras that follow a speaker's movements without requiring an operator. Last week, they announced two new, lower-cost cameras: The Hawk and the Falcon.

A Final Cut Generator is the most flexible of the four Final Cut templates in Motion. While Effects, Transitions, and Titles have very specific functions, a Generator can be anything.

AEJuice provides hundreds of free and paid plugins for After Effects, plus hosts the world's largest motion graphics community. Learn more.

NBC Olympics announces they have selected Avid for content production and media management for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Learn more.

Premiere provides a fast and easy way to move multiple clips at the same time: the Track Select Forward/Backward tools. Here's how it works.

One of the new timeline features Apple added recently to Final Cut is invisible, unless you know where to look. Here's where it is and what it does.

Blackbird published a free, 14-page report looking at the total cost of ownership comparing different methods of editing video in the cloud. Learn more.

Not all Mac keyboards support Function keys (F-keys). But, for those that do, Motion has built in F-key shortcuts. Here's what they do.

Render times in After Effects can vary a lot. There are five criteria that determine render speed. Here's what they are and how to optimize them.

A recent forum thread on MacRumors discussed low-cost options for batch importing VHS tapes of home movies into an iMac using HDMI or S-Video connected via USB.

Most of the time, Premiere can play back your sequence in real-time displaying high-quality, full frame-rate images by harnessing the power of the Mercury Playback Engine. But, when it can't, it needs to render. Here's what you need to know.

Hidden in a corner of the Final Cut Pro interface is the Quick Export button. This is a fast way to get your projects out of Final Cut using just the mouse.

FilmmakerIQ goes in-depth on color theory to examine why yellow is so pervasive in television graphics.

Color Burn is a blend mode that intensifies the dark areas in two superimposed images. Here's an example.

A bit earlier this year, a wave of ransomware attacks hit QNAP servers. Robbie Coblentz's company was attacked and he discovered he wasn't ready. Read how he recovered and how he protects his company now.

One of the most helpful tools in Premiere Pro is the Slip tool - yet it is often overlooked when working with B-roll. Here's what it does.

Vimeo recently published a guide to embedding videos for a variety of websites. Here's how to get this free report.

Keywords are a very flexible way to organize clips and clip segments. They are also very, very fast. Here are more tips on using keywords.

Much of script writing concentrates on the main plot. But subplots support and expand the main plot. Learn more.

HDR Tools is a filter that exists for both Final Cut Pro and Motion that converts HDR media into different formats. Here's how to use it.

TEDxREAL explores reality through the work of 10 VFX studios. Here's an analysis of what they created and why.

Last week, Nielsen unveiled the first true independent measurement of cross-platform viewing on TV, The Gauge. The viewing results were surprising.

In the beta release of Adobe Premiere Pro last week, Adobe cleaned up the Header Bar. Here's an explanation of what's new.

We are all familiar with importing clips using the Media Import window. However, there are two lesser known ways to import clips; one of which was broken until the latest release. Both of these are faster.

Holograms are closer than you think. In fact, holographic content can be derived today from existing production techniques and technologies. Here's a report on the state of the art.

Parameter behaviors are an advanced technique that can create some very subtle effects. Here's how they work.

We used to think HD would be enough. Now, we're streaming 4K, with cameras shooting 6K, 8K and 12K. Do we really NEED that much resolution? Um, yes.

New with the 4.5.3 update to Compressor is a setting to modify a job’s starting timecode in the timing area of the Job inspector. Here's how.

There are six icons, tucked into a corner of Premiere, that can help you better find and organize the media in your project. Learn more.

The latest version (10.5.3) of Final Cut improves searching in the Browser. Here's what's new and how it works.

With the entire season of "Mare of Easttown" now available on HBO Max, DP Ben Richardson talks the difficulties of a six-month COVID-19 pause, the benefits of Leitz Summilux lenses and his tricks for assigning the right level of suspicion to your red herrings.

Here are four dragging tips when resizing media in the Motion Viewer that can make image handling faster and easier.

Despite the ability to create fantastical worlds, the majority of the work for the visual effects industry is focused on making unnoticeable alterations. Here's a status update.

Hidden in plain sight in the top left corner of the timeline is the "Nest Switch." Here's what it does.

TVTech reports that the NBC Olympics will use Signiant's File Transfer Software for the Tokyo Olympics to enable remote productions.

Attached, but hidden, to each clip in the Final Cut timeline is the Video Animation Editor. This "bar" provides anther way to adjust keyframe effects over time. Learn more.

Frame.io announced version 3.7.1 with a redesigned Adobe Premiere Pro extension, improved navigation and dozens of other improvements.

It's possible to change the duration of a Motion project - but it isn't always wise. Learn more.

Take a break from reality with a 61-second plunge into summer, where nothing is what it seems and everyone is having fun. (From Yeti Pictures.)

Sometimes, the simplest shortcuts make the biggest difference. Here's one option I can't live without.

Transmitting data has a cost — in terms of bitrate and budget which CTOs of streaming media services need to carefully weigh. Bitmovin has crunched the numbers - learn more.

Normally, when you import a two-channel audio clip, Final Cut Pro treats it as stereo. But Final Cut makes working with multi-channel audio easy. Here are some tips.

High production value is what is going to draw viewers in and keep them there. Here are ten tips to high production value on a budget.

Particles, like cameras, lights, replicators and 3D Objects, can expand into 3D space. However, by default, all particle systems are set to 2D. Here's how to make the switch.

Tom Teller & Julian Connor created "Jisei" - an animated short. Here, Motionographer interviews them in-depth about how they created their film.

Here are some intriguing icons in the Essential Graphics panel that can simplify aligning text (even though two of them are wrong). Here's what they do.

Camera makers are rushing to support ever larger frame sizes. But, I wondered, what impact does increasing frame size have on storage requirements? The answer is: a LOT!

Here's a very handy keyboard shortcut to help you move quickly around the Timeline.

This Filmmaker Magazine interview, with first-time director David Weil discusses his approach to directing Solos for Amazon.

Creating a variable speed change to a video clip in Motion is involved and somewhat hidden. Here's how.

DesignBuckle created a tutorial showing how to add fonts to Photoshop from Adobe Stock.

One of the exciting features in mobile phones these days is the easy ability to shoot high-frame rate videos. Here's how to display that glorious slomo in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Jan Ozer analyzes the likelihood of success for the newly-announced VVC codec, in this article from TechRadar.com.

A Fit-to-Fill edit automatically alters the speed of a clip in the Browser to fit a specific duration in the Timeline. Here's how to create it.

Documentary filmmaking can oftentimes require a unique set of needs, skills, and demands on any production. This is especially true when it comes to the camera. Here are some top choices.

Here's a quick tip on how to create a default duration for any Motion project.

Toolfarm has added or updated 8 demos to their ever growing collection of free trials. Here's the list and the link.