Worldwide Creative Suite Video and Audio Evangelist Jason Levine shows you the latest features and trends in digital video and audio, covering Premiere, Audition, After Effects and more.
Repair AGC (automatic gain control) Clipping Artifacts from DSLR in Adobe Audition CS5.5
In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine demonstrates how to detect, analyze and repair digitally clipped samples and distortions caused by AGC on your DSLR and other video cameras and audio-capture devices. Adobe Audition CS5.5's incredible tools for audio analysis and repair continue the application's legacy of fast, transparent, high-quality restoration.
Multitrack Mixing Automation in Adobe Audition CS5.5
In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine demonstrates how to automate mixer functions using envelopes (incl. basic volume, pan, and individual effects parameters) while differentiating between clip-based and track-based automation. You'll also see Audition's capabilities for creating automated 5.1 mixes using the surround panner on each track.
Dual-System Sound Synchronization without Timecode in Premiere Pro CS5.5
In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine will highlight using updated 'merge clip' options to synchronize externally-recorded audio with your DSLR video clips (and other video formats, without timecode).
In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine will reveal the native import options when working with Adobe Photoshop files (PSD) in Premiere Pro CS5.5. Bring in individual layers, merge your layers together, or create sequences, all the while maintaining transparency, layer styles, animation, even layer sets!
Basic Secondary Color Correction/Grading in Premiere Pro CS5.5
In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine walks you through some basic techniques for using Secondary Color Correction in Premiere Pro CS5.5, focusing on skin tones, as well as individual color selections for more intricate grading tasks…all played in real-time thanks to the amazing, 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine.
Quick-Start DSLR Editing Workflow for Final Cut Users/Switchers (updated for CS5.5!)
In this tutorial, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, Jason Levine will take you 'from the camera to the timeline', showcasing a complete Ingest-Edit-Export workflow when working with DSLR video media, or really any tapeless, file-based format in Premiere Pro CS5.5. Along the way, he'll describe many of the benefits of working natively with Photoshop and After Effects as well. And, if you're coming from Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer, this short tutorial will have you editing and exporting your DSLR footage very quickly.
In this multi-part series, Jason Levine will cover the step-by-step process of working with DSLR video in Premiere Pro CS5, from the Camera to the Timeline to the Web and beyond. If you're a photographer looking to get into DSLR video, or maybe you're already shooting video but just don't know how to get started, Jason will cover all the basics, including tips for adding images, music, text, PSD files and more, all the way through exporting to popular sites like YouTube and Vimeo.
In Part 2 of this multi-part series, Jason Levine will cover the most common editing functions of Premiere Pro CS5, including the ability to set defaults for image and transition durations, adding transitions between clips & images (like cross-dissolves, dip-to-black and more), basic scaling/resizing, rippling, and cutting.
In Part 3 of this multi-part training series, Jason Levine will showcase some common methods for 'telling your story' with motion and sound. Drop music into your timeline, add markers and time images to specific audio events, as well as animation of position, scale, rotation, opacity and more. Here's how you can begin to (easily) bring your stills to life, alongside your DSLR video.
In Part 4 of this multi-part training series, Adobe Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine discusses working with layered Photoshop (PSD) files for lower thirds, stylized text and simple animations, as well as using Premiere Pro's own Titler from within the application.
In the final installment of this series, Adobe Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine takes you through the process of exporting/rendering your DSLR video/stills creations using the 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder. He'll talk about some of the most common formats for going to mobile devices, iPods, blu-ray discs as well as common formats for Web delivery. You'll learn about background rendering and the ability to 'queue' multiple versions of your video edits. Also featured: using *presets* in the Media Encoder for your favorite destinations (like YouTube, Vimeo, HDTV, etc)
DSLR Workflow in Premiere Pro CS5 - Keying, Time Remapping & Stills
In this short video, Jason Levine will show you how to use the new Ultra Keyer in Premiere Pro CS5 to pull quick keys from your footage, even with unevenly lit green screen. Once again, the 'key' here (ha ha) is the fact that Jason is running this process without rendering, leveraging the Mercury Playback Engine solely in software mode.
Staying Native or Going Intermediate? Transcoding and Premiere Pro CS5
In this brief video, Worldwide Product Evangelist Jason Levine will explain the basis of transcoding, showcasing the workflow outside of CS5; he''ll then show you what a native workflow is all about in Premiere Pro CS5, and explain some scenarios for staying native or moving to an intermediate codec. This video also points out some of the misconceptions about transcoding, but also highlights some of the round-tripping capabilities of CS5 with FCP and AMC.
In pt 2 of Photoshop Dreamgirl, Karl continues to go over the new 3D features of CS4 Photoshop Extended and Jason shows how to stylize a 50's audio mix in Audition.
In this episode of Short and Suite, Jason Levine shows you how to create a multicam video using a variety of different cameras so that the frame rates, frame sizes and aspect ratios all match up perfectly.
Jason Levine shows you how Adobe Audition and Soundbooth software let you take command of your audio in film, video, and Adobe Flash software projects.
Finalizing the the Look and Sound of a Multicam Project
Join Jason Levine as he uses Adobe Premiere Pro and Magic Bullet to create the ‘look’ of his finalized video. He also shows you how to use Dynamic Link to modify a logo in After Effects.
Adobe Video Evangelist Jason Levine shows you how the Adobe Media Encoder CS4 can take a single Premiere Pro timeline and quickly export it out to multiple sources and formats.
The new Speech Search Technology in Premiere Pro CS4 lets you quickly and easily rough-cut dialogue in your video productions. Adobe Video Evangelist Jason Levine shows you how.
Learn all the ways Dynamic Link will improve your workflow across Adobe Creative Suite 4 production Premium applications. All this and Jason even invents a new word, “Renderless.”
In this Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Tutorial, Jason Levine gives an in-depth look at how you can quickly efficiently collaborate with clients and team members with Clip Notes in Premiere Pro.
Adobe Evangelist Jason Levine shows off cool new CS5 features for video production pros, including the powerful tools in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, After Effects CS5, and more.
CS5 Production Premium Featuring Adobe After Effects CS5: 64-bit Performance + Roto, Revolutionized
Learn how to put the new features in After Effects CS5 into action: see how the new Roto Brush, Mocha and and the Mocha Shape plug-in, color LUT support, and more can work in tandem with other CS5 Production Premium tools to transform your podt-production workflows.
In this episode of Short and Suite, Jason Levine teaches us how to animate Lower Thirds in Adobe Photoshop and then use that PSD in Premiere Pro and After Effects CS4.
Discover how to take your DVD creations and publish them to the web as a Flash based website. Jason Levine shows you how to do it in this Adobe Encore tutorial.
Join Jason Levine as he uses Adobe Audition to clean up live audio tracks taken directly from the board (Which normally sound dry) and mixes them to sound dynamic and full of life.
Video Noise Reduction (Plug-Ins in After Effects CS4)
In this Adobe After Effects CS4 tutorial, you'll learn how to use Video Noise Reduction plug-ins to clean up any noise you might encounter in your footage. Jason Levine walks you through the entire process.
Learn the basics of normalizing, volume matching and equalizing your audio in Adobe Soundbooth CS4. Jason Levine tells you when each is applicable in this Soundbooth tutorial.
Get all the time saving facts on CS4’s Dynamic Link feature as Jason Levine shows how you can move instantly and seamlessly between Premiere Pro, After Effects and Encore.