Your project is done and you need to get it to YouTube, Facebook or Vimeo. You are looking at the Share screen and debating between Faster Encode and Better Quality. You spent a LOT of time on this project - which should you pick?

Some of the best and most memorable moments in life are in motion. Unfortunately, digital cameras hate movement. Here's how to avoid blur and get some great shots.

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.

The speed of USB has increased significantly since its initial release. However, recently, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) just renamed virtually all USB versions and made things REALLY confused. Here's what you need to know.

Whether you edit on a laptop or full-size keyboard, there are two Delete keys at your disposal. One is above the Return key, the other is... hidden. Here's what they do.

Ever wonder how many different USB connectors there are and what they are called? Here's a quick illustration.

There are two ways to add perspective to elements in Motion: the Inspector and the 3D Transform tool. The Inspector is more precise, the 3D Transform tool is faster and more intuitive. Here's how the Inspector works.

It is almost always easier to drag an edit point. But it is faster and, more often, more precise to use a keyboard shortcut. Here are some powerful shortcuts.

The first rule of great keys is great lighting. But, there are other things you can do improve the quality of your keys. Here are four tips that can make your keys cleaner and easier.

An Event is similar to a folder in the Finder. But, in Final Cut, they do more - as you'll learn here.

"Indeterminate" sounds pretty squishy. But, when it comes to Premiere, it is a fancy word for still images, or any other file that doesn't have a definite duration. Here's what you need to know.

Library Properties, in Final Cut Pro X, allow you to control where almost all media and work files are stored for each library. Best of all, these settings can vary by library. Here's how they work.

A reader shares his experiences using QNAP serverts to store and edit Final Cut projects. The results have been good so far.

The Project Manager lets you effectively manage media and projects, especially large projects with many clips and different media formats, by transcoding all relevant files in projects and sequences into an intermediate codec. Here's how.

Hidden in Keyboard Settings are special keyboard shortcuts that make trimming clips to the playhead a LOT faster. Learn more here.

Audio skimming, and clip skimming, allow you to preview clip audio at high-speed. Here's how to use them.

As you might expect, storage performance is dependent upon multiple factors - and how it connects is only a part.

Poster frames are a great way to illustrate the contents of a clip. All to often, though, they simply display the first frame in the video, which generally shows us nothing.

Library backups, like saving, are automatic. However, they may not contain everything you expect. Read more here.

All CPUs can edit video, but not all edit, render or compress equally well. Here's how to pick.

There's a hidden menu to configure audio voice-over settings. This explains where it is and how to use it.

Using templates means that you can create a master project with all elements in place, then save it so that when you reopen it, the elements are already there and it prompts you to save it using a new name.

Most of the time, once we create a project, we don't need to change its settings. But, when we do, here are two fast ways to open the dialog.

The Source Monitor allows you to open multiple clips at once, then quickly review and edit them into the Timeline. This is a BIG time-saver. Here's how.

Here's a faster way to apply keywords to one or more clips that doesn't involve any typing.

Walkie-talkies are essential on set. But keeping conversations short is also essential. Here are the meanings to some of the basic radio codes you'll hear in production.

Moving panels in the Premiere interface is a great way to create just the interface you need. And, it's fun! Every panel can be moved. Here's how.

Yellow alerts, indicating missing media, drive us all nuts. Especially when all the media in our project is present and accounted for. Here's another option to consider.

Ever wonder how or when to set "Maximum Bit Depth" and "Maximum Render Quality" when exporting in Premiere? Here's the answer.

While it is true that Premiere now supports opening more than one project file at a time, sometimes you don't need to create a new project. You only need to access a sequence in a different project. Here's how.

You probably know that you can change audio levels by adding keyframes to the audio volume control line. What you may NOT know, though, is that you can add a fade without adding keyframes. Here's how.

There's no perfect place to store your media. But here are some thoughts to consider for your next project.

Preferences are exactly that - your preference on how you want Premiere to work. Based on my experience, I change a variety of preference settings. In this tip, I show you how I set preferences for transitions.

Finder tags allow you to organize media before it is even imported. Given today's cameras, this can be a great time-saver. Here's how.

Auto Reframe, powered by Adobe Sensei AI technology, automates the process of reformatting video in Premiere Pro for square, vertical, cinematic 16x9, or custom aspect ratios - all from the same master sequence or clip. Learn more here.

Premiere has long had the ability to create multiple shortcuts for the same command. What you may not know is that Final Cut does too! Here's how to create them.

Boolean selection allows finding clips that contain any combination of keywords - from one to all... to none. Here's how to use this very powerful feature.

The purpose of a workflow is to make you more efficient by answering this key question: "What should I be doing right now to be as efficient as possible?"

Over the last several versions Premiere has been removing buttons and cleaning up its interface. However, all those missing buttons are not lost - they are simply hiding... here.

You've applied a bunch of keywords, only to discover that one of them is spelled wrong. Sigh... BUT, you are not out of luck. Here's a fast way to rename an existing keyword.

The Premiere Dock icon does more than just launch Premiere. But, you have to know where to look...

The yellow warning alert tracks more than just the media in your project. Here's what to do when that warning just refuses to disappear.

There are about a billion - maybe more - still image codecs for us to choose from. Which ones should we use? Here are some suggestions.

Premiere ships with eight workspaces. Here's how to create one more customized exactly the way you want.

Adding effects to a clip is easy. What you may not know is that removing effects - even individual effects - is equally easy - if you know where to look. Here's how.

Undocking a panel works great for two monitor systems, or where you want one panel to have its own place on your screen - such as a timecode display.

There's a simple keyboard shortcut that applies a transition to any selected edit point(s). It's enabled already, AND you can customize it. But you may not know how.

Audio meters are essential to keeping your sound clean and distortion-free. However, you need to understand what they are showing you. Here are some tips.

A project template is a Premiere project with customized workspaces, settings, bins, even clips saved for use in repetitive projects. The only problem is that Premiere does not create them. Here's how you can.

This tip illustrates two tricks in one: how to see an effect without first applying the effect. Then, how the look of an effect changes as you change its principle parameter, again without first applying an effect. Very useful!

When two letters don't seem evenly spaced, you adjust them using "kerning." Kerning moves the selected pair of letters ("glyphs") - and only those two letters - closer or farther apart.