This video lays out many of the newer methods you can use to fix perspective issues in composite panoramas, straighten out areas of distortion and fill in blank spaces.

Master Curve Adjustments to selectively alter the contrast and exposure within an image. This tool gives you more points of control than a simple Layers adjustment, expanding your creative scope.

See the Cloning tool in action in this video and discover how to remove unwanted pixels. A separate layer makes it easy to isolate and create a smooth, blended effect.

This movie teaches how the Blur and Sharpen tools can be applied non-destructively by using layers to soften textures and sharpen details in your images.

The Dodge and Burn tools let you selectively tone an image. As these are destructive changes, this video shows how to use them with layers in a way that will allow you to return to your original image.

It’s easy to build an After Effects project that includes many layers of objects being animated in different ways, and it’s easy for all of those layers to become disorganized. In this movie, Ian Robinson fully explains how to use precompositions to nest multiple layers together. With precompositions, you can animate, transform, manipulate, and apply filters to multiple layers all together as if they were one single layer.

Take a look at the new 3D Material properties and get an understanding of how they work to make your scenes look their best by creating realistic sharp or diffuse reflections. Learn to adjust the refraction properties of transparent layers to get a nice looking final composition.

Explore the various ways you can set up projects in After Effects including importing individual or multi-layered files from Illustrator and Photoshop. Review some of the options for sorting folders and elements in the project window to keep you organized. Plus take a look at the Flowchart panel and get an understanding of the value of flowcharts as a visual reference to easily see how your project elements relate to each other.

This movie showcases the drag-and-drop video effects, effect acceleration, and video adjustment layer controls in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. It also shows the new Mercury Playback Engine's ability to play back effects with no dropped frames. Finally, it goes on to show how to effectively render out playback when needed.

This tutorial by trainer Tom Green introduces states and layers, the basic building blocks of all Catalyst projects. He also explains how this functionality has changed in the CS5.5 release.

Gain a better understanding of how After Effects takes advantage of both RAM and disk caching for both individual layers and entire compositions to improve performance and reduce rendering times.

W3Conversions' Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis lays down the ground rules for video and HTML5 in a four-part series. First, she provides a crash course on how to think about HTML5 when delivering video and dynamic content for the web.