How to Create and Adjust Captions Using Subtitle Edit (Free)

While video editing suites like Premiere Pro are catching up, they come at a price, and the majority of editors still make it quite difficult to create and edit captions. Many are put off making subtitles because, let’s face it, it’s a long hard slog to include them.  Subtitle Edit is a free and open-source… Continue reading How to Create and Adjust Captions Using Subtitle Edit (Free)

21 Top Workflow and Animation Scripts for After Effects

Scripts are add-ons that load extra functionality and enhancements, ranging from little things like better note-taking, to big things, like help with managing layers and keyframes in large compositions, into Adobe After Effects. It’s a big program for complex work; using scripts in After Effects can make life easier. Top Scripts for Adobe After Effects… Continue reading 21 Top Workflow and Animation Scripts for After Effects

How to Add Free Animations to Live-action Video in 30 Minutes With After Effects

Create your own animations with this quick tutorial: you’ll learn how to combine free characters from Reallusion with live-action stock video from Envato Elements using Adobe After Effects. We’ll show step-by-step how to download and add the free 2D cartoon animations to a live action video, in about 30 minutes start to finish. To celebrate… Continue reading How to Add Free Animations to Live-action Video in 30 Minutes With After Effects

How to Export Smaller Files and Better Quality Video from Premiere Pro Using HEVC/H.265

In this lesson on from David Bode’s free course, Ultimate Premiere Pro FAQ, you will learn how to export your projects using the successor to H.264: H.265. H.265, or High Efficiency Video Coding, is 25 to 50% more efficient. This means you can have the same size of a file and you’re going to get… Continue reading How to Export Smaller Files and Better Quality Video from Premiere Pro Using HEVC/H.265

How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. Photons have an electromagnetic field that fluctuates as it moves through space.  In this lesson, you’ll find out why that matters to photographers. Noticing Polarised Reflections Polarised light refers to the… Continue reading How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light

Noticing Absorption and Reflection: a Photographer’s Guide to Light

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our free course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson, you’ll learn about light absorption and reflection. Noticing Absorption and Reflection A white object appears white because it reflects almost all of the light that strikes… Continue reading Noticing Absorption and Reflection: a Photographer’s Guide to Light

How to Color Balance a Video for Accurate Skin Tone Using Premiere Pro

In this lesson on Check Skin Tone from David Bode’s How to Color Correct Video with Adobe Premiere, you will learn how to use the vectorscope to check if the skin tones in your videos are accurate. Finding the Neutrals If you have something in your shot that is supposed to be in neutral colour,… Continue reading How to Color Balance a Video for Accurate Skin Tone Using Premiere Pro