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Looping a Motion Graphics Background

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In this tutorial, see how to generate a seamless loop of background footage for your video productions. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tu....

This tutorial is a single movie from the Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Backgrounds course by lynda.com author Rich Harrington. The complete course is 2 hours and 32 minutes and shows how to create backgrounds for video projects using Photoshop and After Effects.

Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Backgrounds table of contents:

Introduction
1. Background Essentials
2. Gathering Source Materials for Backgrounds
3. Working with Gradients
4. Designing Backgrounds with Photo Sources
5. Designing Backgrounds with Video Sources
6. Designing Backgrounds with After Effects
Conclusion | lynda.com

Useful Websites for MoGraph Source Elements

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Don't have a budget for your video production? Don't let that hinder you. This tutorial provides some excellent resources for source imagery that you can use for free. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tu....

This tutorial is a single movie from the Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Backgrounds course by lynda.com author Rich Harrington. The complete course is 2 hours and 32 minutes and shows how to create backgrounds for video projects using Photoshop and After Effects.

Motion Graphics for Video Editors: Creating Backgrounds table of contents:

Introduction
1. Background Essentials
2. Gathering Source Materials for Backgrounds
3. Working with Gradients
4. Designing Backgrounds with Photo Sources
5. Designing Backgrounds with Video Sources
6. Designing Backgrounds with After Effects
Conclusion | lynda.com

Removing Distortion from a Video Shot with Upright in Photoshop

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There are times when our footage can look a bit distorted and the perspective can be off.  In this movie I show you an example of when this happened with my footage.  Adobe has a number of ways to fix these issues and one tool I’ll explore with you here is called Upright.

Correcting for Lens Distortion - Removing Distortion with Upright

To learn more, I’ve created an exciting course called Repairing and Enhancing Video with Lynda.com. 

http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Removing-distortion-Upright/149128/160032-4.html

Whether you want to fix a problem in post or simply give your video more style, this course will help everyone from motion graphics designers to video editors improve their footage. Rich Harrington uses Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and even Illustrator to correct problems you'd encounter in real-world projects, like lens distortion, camera shake, noise and grain, and overblown exposure. Plus, you'll learn advanced techniques for speeding up or slowing down your 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.

Topics in this course include: 

  • Reviewing the retoucher's toolbox
  • Stabilizing footage
  • Fixing alignment
  • Retiming footage
  • Removing lens distortion
  • Using rotoscoping to enhance footage
  • Recovering exposure
  • Color grading with Photoshop
  • Converting to black and white
  • Creating a film or painterly look
  • Adding depth of field

You can check out the class here —  http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Removing-distortion-Upright/149128/160032-4.html

Recovering Exposure in a Video Shot

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Properly exposure of your footage is everything. The next best thing to do is slightly underexpose and preserve the details.  If you’re shooting RAW video then this becomes less of an issue as you have more latitude.   I will take a few examples of poorly underexposed shots and using Adobe After Effects will bring the details back to life using a few of my favorite tools and techniques including, matching tolerance and the Refined Matte Effect. 

Recovering Video with Exposure

To learn more, I’ve created an exciting course called Repairing and Enhancing Video with Lynda.com. 

http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Recovering-exposure/149128/160041-4.html

Whether you want to fix a problem in post or simply give your video more style, this course will help everyone from motion graphics designers to video editors improve their footage. Rich Harrington uses Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and even Illustrator to correct problems you'd encounter in real-world projects, like lens distortion, camera shake, noise and grain, and overblown exposure. Plus, you'll learn advanced techniques for speeding up or slowing down your 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.

Topics in this course include: 

  • Reviewing the retoucher's toolbox
  • Stabilizing footage
  • Fixing alignment
  • Retiming footage
  • Removing lens distortion
  • Using rotoscoping to enhance footage
  • Recovering exposure
  • Color grading with Photoshop
  • Converting to black and white
  • Creating a film or painterly look
  • Adding depth of field

 

You can check out the class here - http://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Recovering-exposure/149128/160041-4.html

The Paste Attributes Option Dialog for Premiere Pro

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You can now selectively paste attributes from one clip and apply it to another, with the new features added to Adobe Premiere Pro CC.  We’ll explore the Paste Attributes option dialogue in this course and I will demonstrate working with this updated feature.

The Improved Effects Workflow: The Paste Attributes Option Dialog

To learn more, I’ve created an exciting course called Premiere Pro: Creative Cloud Updates, for Lynda.com

http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Paste-Attributes-option-dialog/126763/129887-4.html

Adobe Premiere Pro CC has some very exciting new features and updates.  It’s important to stay on top of these new features so you can maximize your experience and workflow as you’re in post production. This course is dedicated to the video producers and editors who need to leverage the latest Premiere Pro tools and techniques fast.  I will cover all of these new features, which include: a customizable user interface, quality and format improvements like the enhanced Mercury Playback Engine, timeline tricks, and media management techniques, and the best audio, multicamera, and closed captioning workflows.

Topics in this course include:

  • Switching between audio waveforms and video
  • Creating a new sequence
  • Integrating scripting with the Story panel
  • Working with different camera formats
  • Selecting and nudging clips
  • Using dupe-detection markers
  • Copying and pasting ranges
  • Nesting sequences
  • Relinking offline sequences
  • Color grading with the Lumetri Deep Color Engine
  • Adjusting clip volume
  • Automatic syncing with audio waveforms
  • Recording multicamera edits
  • Adjusting timing and display of captions
  • Exporting multiple clips/sequences

You can check out the class here - http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Paste-Attributes-option-dialog/126763/129887-4.html

Higher Quality Encodes with Variable Bit Rate Encoding

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When time is on your side and you’re looking for the highest quality compression, then you want to go with variable bit rate encoding.  Working with high quality encoding is time consuming but worth the time.  Join Jason Osder in this course as he takes you through the necessary steps to properly encode using the variable bit rate method.

Adobe Premiere Pro Working with Photoshop: Higher Quality Encodes with Variable Bit Rate Encoding

To learn more, Jason Osder has created an exciting course called: Premiere Pro Guru: Outputs and Media Encoder with Lynda.com http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/use-codecs/149702/154476-4.html

Outputting video is one of the most important yet misunderstood parts of the creative process. If you work with Adobe Premiere Pro, it's critical to understand how to choose a format, convert frame rates, and work with Media. In this course Jason Osder covers encoding 101 and shows you how to access Media Encoder from inside Premiere Pro or as a stand-alone program, create an efficient export workflow and encode for formats such as broadcast, DVD or Blu-ray, YouTube, and mobile devices. 

Topics in this course include:

  • Understanding compression terminology
  • Exporting directly from Premiere Pro
  • Using the Media Encoder interface
  • Outputting media for Apple and Android devices
  • Adjusting settings
  • Automating compression workflows

You can check out the class here -  http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/use-codecs/149702/154476-4.html

Rough Cutting with Prelude

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Adobe Prelude allows you to jump start your post production process and make very rudimentary rough cuts using sub clips of your footage.  If you’re out in the field and want to start putting your footage into an ordered sequence, Prelude works great for this.  In this course Jason Osder walks you through the easy steps of putting together a very basic rough cut using Adobe Prelude.

To learn more Jason Osder has created a new course called Premiere Pro Guru: Organizing Assets, with Lynda.com

http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Rough-cutting-Prelude/149680/154101-4.html

Organization is key to a successful post-production workflow. And you will feel good knowing your footage is organized and logged properly. This course picks up where the end of your shoot leaves off and before editing begins—when you need to import, organize, and log your footage. Jason Osder shows how to import all different types of assets, from stills to soundtracks, and how to sort and annotate your footage in Adobe Premiere Pro. Plus, learn a few tricks involving Bridge and Prelude (like batch renaming) that will cut your logging time in half. He'll walk you through the critical steps of metalogging and organizing your footage even before any editing takes place.

Topics in this course include:

  • Using the Media Browser and Metalogging workspace
  • Importing from a drive
  • Importing bins with a CSV file
  • Batch renaming in Bridge
  • Logging and pre-editing footage
  • Using clip makers
  • Working with metadata

You can check out the class here - http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Rough-cutting-Prelude/149680/154101-4.html

Expanded Format Support in Adobe Premiere Pro

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Functionality and multi format support are two of the signature features of Adobe Premiere Pro.  With the new features, there are additional supported formats with two important post production codecs both being Avid MXF Media and Apple ProRes.  In this course we’ll explore the expanded format support in greater detail.

Quality and Format Improvements: Expanded Format Support

To learn more, I’ve created an exciting course called Premiere Pro: Creative Cloud Updates, for Lynda.com

http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Expanded-format-support/126763/129864-4.html

Adobe Premiere Pro CC has some very exciting new features and updates.  It’s important to stay on top of these new features so you can maximize your experience and workflow as you’re in post production. This course is dedicated to the video producers and editors who need to leverage the latest Premiere Pro tools and techniques fast.  I will cover all of these new features, which include: a customizable user interface, quality and format improvements like the enhanced Mercury Playback Engine, timeline tricks, and media management techniques, and the best audio, multicamera, and closed captioning workflows.

Topics in this course include:

  • Switching between audio waveforms and video
  • Creating a new sequence
  • Integrating scripting with the Story panel
  • Working with different camera formats
  • Selecting and nudging clips
  • Using dupe-detection markers
  • Copying and pasting ranges
  • Nesting sequences
  • Relinking offline sequences
  • Color grading with the Lumetri Deep Color Engine
  • Adjusting clip volume
  • Automatic syncing with audio waveforms
  • Recording multicamera edits
  • Adjusting timing and display of captions
  • Exporting multiple clips/sequences

You can check out the class here - http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Expanded-format-support/126763/129864-4.html