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Adobe On Location

Tuesday Nov 22, 2011 | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Whether you are a Final Cut Pro user, Avid Media Composer user, or Premiere user, we'd like to introduce you to Adobe On Location. In our opinion, this is an incredible application that is sometimes overlooked in the professional video industry.

It ships with the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium. Trust us on this one, this software is really a nice addition to any video production professional.

Do you own a HDV camera which records to MiniDV cassette tapes, and have wondered what to do about it? I have given my Canon XHA1S the evil eye for some time now, but have not decided to upgrade to another model. The technological advances come so fast that it is difficult to make a reasonable choice, and waiting a few months may be priceless.

Adobe On Location may be the tool that helps you improve your footage until you are certain of what to do after HDV.

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Premiere for FCP 7 Editors: Where's the Motion Tab?

Tuesday Aug 9, 2011 | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

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More and more of our students are exploring a move from Final Cut Studio to Adobe's Production Premium bundle of Creative Suite software–especially with Adobe's 50% discount for pros who switch. If you're an FCP 7 editor, you'll feel right at home in Adobe Premiere, and you can be confident that the features you love most from Final Cut Pro are available, although they're probably hiding somewhere new.

For example, Final Cut Pro 7 places basic clip attributes in the Motion tab of the Viewer. When you rotate, resize, crop or position a clip in the Canvas, you're really just taking a shortcut to set the clip's attributes that appear in the Viewer's Motion tab. In Premiere, it's harder to manipulate clips' geometry directly in the "Canvas."