In this Premiere Pro Basics series we'll cover these two useful and powerful features. Automate to sequence can help you get a jump start on framing out the story or timeline while applying an effect across multiple clips (like a cross dissolve) will speed the editing process along.

What is a J or L cut? Why do I need it? Join Dennis in Adobe Beginner Classes as he tackles the tough questions that face editors who are just starting out. In this Premiere Pro Basics episode, Dennis will discuss what these edits are and how they can be used in the story telling process to good effect.

Join Dennis as he discusses and shows a workflow that provides flexibility when using Dynamic Link and After Effects. After Effects plus Premiere Pro make for a unique and powerful combination for content creators. This workflow provides flexibility within Premiere Pro to allow users the ability to jump back or rebuild the effect if they find their first attempt wanting.

Photoshop is the most powerful image editing software in around so it stands to reason that it would be very useful in creating titles and graphics for a video production. Watch this inaugural episode of Premiere Pro Basics in Adobe Beginner Classes to get some of the essential skills necessary to become a productive editor.

Wish you could render After Effects comps in the background? Wish you could create a watch folder to batch convert media? Wish you had a 64-bit capable application to do all of these things? Well, Adobe Media Encoder is all of that and more. In this episode, Dennis delves into what he thinks are the hidden gems of this under-appreciated application.

Many times, I've seen great work that was somewhat spoiled by the fact that it employed a reflection as part of the design. Creating a reflection on any image is a fairly easy thing to do and in this episode we'll look at some techniques to make a convincing and realistic reflection within Adobe Photoshop.

Motion Graphics is tremendous fun and you never learn enough to satisfy you. But what if you're just getting started? This tutorial gives you some basic ideas on building a simple motion graphics composition - in this case a wedding type theme. Simple, easy and hopefully entertaining.

Picking up from the last time, watch Dennis as he takes the Photoshop file created from our picture and bring it into After Effects to give it life, movement and the pursuite of 3D. Learn some basics of animating a still inside of After Effects with this tutorial.

Many times, we've seen a photograph brought to life and given movement and depth. How do you do it? With Adobe CS5, some new tools have come around to make this process easier than ever before. Join Dennis as he takes you through the first of two parts in creating an animated clip from a single photograph

Picking up from the last episode, learn how to take your custom DVD menu designed in Adobe Photoshop into Adobe Encore to author it as part of a DVD. Then jump into Adobe After Effects to create an animated menu open that will make your final product pop.