How to Use Proxies for Faster Editing in Premiere Pro

In this lesson from David Bode’s FREE Ultimate Premiere FAQ course, you will learn how to create and use proxies in Premiere Pro for a faster editing experience. What Is a Proxy? A proxy is a duplicate of a project’s source footage that is smaller and lower-resolution than the high-resolution original. Video proxies are created… Continue reading How to Use Proxies for Faster Editing in Premiere Pro

How to Export ProRes, CineForm, and Other Pro Formats With Premiere Pro

In this lesson from David Bode’s Free Ultimate Premiere Pro FAQ Course, you will learn how to export your projects to an intermediate codec like ProRes, CineForm, or DNX. What Is an Intermediate Codec? An intermediate codec is something you use in the post-production process. It’s not something you’d typically use to deliver a final… Continue reading How to Export ProRes, CineForm, and Other Pro Formats With Premiere Pro

The Laowa 10mm f/4 ‘Cookie’ lens looks mighty tasty

We know one Sesame Street character who’d be all over this. Laowa Apparently, it’s wide-angle, crop-sensor mirrorless lens week and we didn’t get the memo. Having just finished telling you about Meike’s new 10mm f/2 lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras, we now have another crop-sensor 10mm prime to share with you. Yet, although it’s aimed… Continue reading The Laowa 10mm f/4 ‘Cookie’ lens looks mighty tasty

5 Top 2D Animation Apps for iPad for Beginners

What You’ll Be Creating Have an iPad and looking for some animation apps for animation? In this article, we’ll showcase our top five animation apps (in no specific order) that are perfect to use for Apple’s iPad. Recommended Animation Apps for the iPad Apple has added features to make drawing and animating on the tablet… Continue reading 5 Top 2D Animation Apps for iPad for Beginners

A guide to get your creative juices flowing

Julia Margaret Cameron taught herself how to use a sliding-box camera. Edward Steichen famously photographed the same cup and saucer more than a thousand times. For fifteen years, Edward Weston wrote in a diary—about his personal life and creative struggles. More recently, Stephen Shore challenged himself to share a daily iPhone photo on social media.… Continue reading A guide to get your creative juices flowing

How to Motion Track Colour Grades in DaVinci Resolve

Learn to colour correct like a pro with our free course DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading for Beginners. You’ll learn how to use each important tool in Resolve, including how to set up your project using scene cut detection, how to get clean skin tones with noise reduction, and how to create cinematic looks. In this… Continue reading How to Motion Track Colour Grades in DaVinci Resolve

What Do Photographers Want in Cameras? It’s Really Not Difficult

Content creators are wonderful at what they do. But at the same time, so too are photographers. If you’re a photographer and identify as one, you’ll know that we have much different needs from content creators. We care about documenting a moment and freezing it in time; and we’re also probably annoyed by all the… Continue reading What Do Photographers Want in Cameras? It’s Really Not Difficult

How to Use Dynamic Link to Share Projects Between Premeire Pro and After Effects

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Adobe’s dynamic link feature to get your project or even parts of your project over to After Effects for additional graphics, animation, colour correction, grading, and more. Adobe Dynamic Link Adobe Dynamic Link is found under the File menu. With Dynamic Link, you can: Create a… Continue reading How to Use Dynamic Link to Share Projects Between Premeire Pro and After Effects

Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN Contemporary: Beautifully Crafted

The seventh of Sigma’s I series of prime lenses, the Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN Contemporary follows the same exquisite design language. Does it also inherit the excellent performance of the others in this series? K Madhavan Pillai puts it to the test. The Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN | C, available for the Sony… Continue reading Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN Contemporary: Beautifully Crafted

NFT trends: Digital architecture

A pink chair overlooking a vast blue glacier. A view of an ice floe under a blazing golden sky. A bathtub in the middle of a picturesque wetland. These places might not exist in the “real world,” but last year, they were brought to life by the influential artist Alexis Christodoulou. A collection of nine… Continue reading NFT trends: Digital architecture