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No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith
by Adobe TV
Adobe expert Colin Smith answers the questions he is constantly asked on the road as he educates people in the world of Adobe video and design software.
Episodes
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Audio in Premiere Pro CC
In this episode, Colin will dig deep into all aspects of working with audio in Premiere Pro including the best way to import audio and choose the right track format. You’ll also learn to setup sequences that take advantage of the powerful features in Premiere Pro like Adaptive audio tracks. So if...
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Preparing Dailies Using Prelude and Media Encoder
If you’re preparing and transcoding files from native formats for viewing dailies, the new "Effects Tab" in Adobe Media Encoder can increase productivity by applying LUTs and Looks and Overlays. Combine this with ingesting and adding metadata in Prelude and acceleration with an NVIDIA GPU and...
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Seamless Stabilization On A Single Clip
Sometimes you want to stabilize only part of a video clip and this tutorial will show you how to “steal” the auto scale properties from the Warp Stabilizer and apply it to another part of a clip to create two clips that blend seamlessly. This will work in both Premiere Pro or After Effects. For...
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What Is The Reference Monitor For in Premiere Pro?
The Reference Monitor in Premiere Pro is perfect for comparing frames from different parts of a sequence. It’s also perfect to show any of the built-in scopes for precision color correction. Find out how you can begin using this powerful tool to be more productive and get accurate color. For more...
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Easy And Powerful Media Organizing and Sorting in Premiere Pro
If you’ve ever wanted to quickly see what clips you haven’t used in a sequence, then this tutorial will help to uncover powerful organization tools that you can use right in the Project panel. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com
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How to Bend a Question to an Answer
In this episode Colin shows you how to use the tools in Audition to change the pitch of dialog to make a question sound like a statement. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com
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How to use Keyframes and the Built-In Tracker in SpeedGrade
In this episode Colin shows you how you can add, edit and move keyframes and use the planar tracker in SpeedGrade to color grade specific parts of your video. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com
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How to Record a Voice over Narration in Premiere Pro
In this episode Colin will show you how to record directly onto the timeline from any connected microphone. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com
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After Effects Advanced 3D Camera Tracker for Hard to Track Clips
The new 3D Camera Tracker can give you some amazing results in analyzing 2D footage and creating a true 3D camera to work with. But there are times when the tracker gets “fooled”. In this episode, Colin uses real-world footage that includes a camera pan, moving subject and an escalator and shows...
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Moving Your Video Business to Windows
In another user requested video, Colin answer the question that many Mac users are wondering - how hard is it to move to Windows? Colin explores just how easy it is to move your FinalCut Pro 7 projects into Premiere Pro CS6 on Windows. He also invites Terry Brown from HP to join him to see…
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Importing Photoshop Files in Premiere Pro CS6 Won't Give You FCP7 Headaches
In yet another user requested episode, Colin takes you back to 1994 and shows you all the things your missing if you’ve been flattening, and rasterizing your complex Photoshop layers just to get them to work in FinaCut Pro 7. You might be amazed to see that lots has changed since 1994, including...
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Photoshop CS6 3D Controls - Where Are My CS5 Controls?
The Photoshop team did a fantastic job in unifying the 3D controls in Photoshop CS6 Extended - BUT, if you spent a lot of time learning the controls in version 5, you might be wondering exactly where they are. Colin shows where they are now and why they’re so much easier to use. Normal 0 false...
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How to Blend Two Exposures in "Photoshop"
Many advanced photographers are shooting multiple exposures these days in an attempt to blend them together and achieve the perfect composition. In this episode, Colin will reveal a simple one-click feature that will do all the work for you and the result looks like the same as if you took hours…
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How to Control Motion Blur in After Effects
Motion blur is something that occurs naturally in photography but there are many ways that we can create realistic motion blur in After Effects too. Colin will show you the settings and options to help you control motion blur on animations, graphics and even on videos that don’t contain any...
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What's New in Adobe Story
Adobe Story continues to get new features and improvements every other month, mostly due to the fact that it’s a cloud-based service so updates are ready to install when you launch. Colin will take you through some of these updates including auto recognition for scene headings, changing…
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Super Zoom in After Effects
Once again a customer question turns into an episode with the idea of something Colin calls Super Zoom. Colin shows you how to combine a high resolution still image with video so the camera can zoom into macro levels without the image getting pixelated. Using After Effects motion reframes and…
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Setting a Custom Scale and Measuring in Photoshop CS5 Extended
The measurement tool in Photoshop CS5 Extended can accurately measure distance, area and angels in your image but did you know that you can customize the scale that you measure? Colin will show you have to use these tools and accurately measure the height of our stand-in criminal Karl Miller.…
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Introduction to SpeedGrade
Colin is very excited to show you the newly acquired film finishing and color grading application SpeedGrade from IRIDAS. SpeedGrade contains powerful finishing tools to import EDLs from any editing environment and from there, conform, color grade and render out to multiple formats. Normal 0…
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Pen Tool
The Pen tool can be found in many Adobe applications and they way it works can sometimes be a little different. Colin Smith will take you through the similarities and differences with the Pen tool in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and After Effects. Colin also talks about AICB, what it means…
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Creating Synthetic Backgrounds in Photoshop
Many moons ago, Adobe incorporated Aldus Filter Gallery into Photoshop. Colin will show you how these filters may be ready for a rebirth by showing how to combine them with the power of Smart Objects to create new and exciting patterns and backgrounds that can be experiment with and updated...
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Advanced Roto Brush in After Effects
Adobe introduced the powerful Roto Brush in After Effects CS5 allowing you to increase your productivity when compositing layers together. Colin has some great tips to help you get the most out of Roto Brush including how to help After Effects make the best choices when propagating new frames....
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Mapping and Importing Audio in Premiere Pro 5.5
Go beyond the default settings for importing audio in Premiere Pro and control if all audio is imported as mono, stereo or 5.1. Colin will show you how do take control of all your imported audio and how to change and remap the output setting for each clip in your project. He’ll also show you the...
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Mocha Eye Tracker
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Time Remapping
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Favorites and Batch Processing Behaviors
If you’ve ever had to edit numerous audio files one by one, then this episode is going to make you happy. We’re going to show you how to Batch Process as many files as you want out to different formats including sample type, format settings and and the same time, apply any process that you’ve…
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Audition for After Effects Users
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Advanced Noise Reduction in Audition CS5.5
Audition has been the king of noise reduction ever since its introduction from Adobe but sometimes cleaning up noise can be difficult when the background noise overwhelms the foreground audio. If you’ve ever experienced one of these problematic files where removing the noise introduces other...
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Introduction to Noise Reduction in Audition CS5.5
One of the easiest ways to increase the quality of your videos is to have good audio. In this episode of No Stupid Questions, Colin Smith gives you an introduction to noise reduction using Adobe Audition CS5.5
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How to Hide a Face in After Effects
Part three on how to hide someone’s face in a video, this time we’re using Adobe After Effects CS5. If you need to obscure an element in a video, like a face or unlicensed product, this episode will demonstrate how it’s done using an adjustment layer and After Effect’s built-in effects.
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How to Hide a Face in Premiere Pro
Part two on how to hide someone’s face in a video, this time we’re using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. If you need to obscure an element in a video, like a face or unlicensed product, this episode will demonstrate how it’s done using a track matte key and Premiere Pro’s built-in effects.
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Hardware for Audition
Join Colin Smith as he talks about how the new HP workstations powered by Intel Xeon processors can super charge Adobe Audition.
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Camera Lens Blur in AE CS5.5
This new effect gives you the ability to create the optical effect of a real camera lens blur. If you need to add depth to a scene, or obscure something in the frame, Camera Lens Blur will do that and make it look completely realistic. You also have complete control parameters like iris shape…
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Dude Where's My Task?
Are you looking for the Tasks that you’re used to in Soundbooth when you start using Adobe Audition 5.5? Colin will show you a step by step walkthrough between to the two applications, pointing out where the same operations are in Audition. He’ll also point out that Audition is much more powerful...
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Premiere Pro to Audition
Colin’s back showing off how fantastic his Z800 workstation performs with the new Adobe 5.5 software. In this episode he shows you how to send a complete Premiere Pro sequence to a multitrack project in the new Adobe Audition 5.5. From there he shows how you can add effects to individual clips…
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Nested Mercury Cuda
Premiere Pro CS5.5 improves the speed with which you can render nested sequences. You can literally nest sequences into sequences and you’ll get the benefits of the Mercury Playback Engine using both the CPU and the GPU or Graphics Processing Unit on an Nvidia card with CUDA. Throw the HP Z800...
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Media Encoder 5.5 on the z800
Colin takes advantage of the HP Z800’s massive horsepower combined with the raw speed of the 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder 5.5 to show you how you can output different versions of your comps using a combination of After Effects, Dynamic Link and Media Encoder, while working on new composites…
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Photoshop Selections
Masking tools in Photoshop are very powerful, but there are times when you need to make manual adjustments. This tutorial gives you the tools you need to understand how to tweak and mask and paint in isolated areas.
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Illustrator Business Cards
This productivity tutorial will show you who to take advantage of Illustrator’s dynamic transform effects to instantly update multiple business cards in any layout.
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Illustrator Appearance Panel
It’s typical to design in Illustrator using multiple layers, but you can dramatically increase your productivity by using the Appearance panel and this tutorial will show you how to get started.
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Photoshop 3D
This tutorial will show you how to get your designs from layered Illustrator files to Photoshop 3D layers and from there apply materials and bump maps and add perspective camera views.
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Photoshop Puppet Warp
For years retouchers have been asked to affect the expressions on subjects faces, making them smile more or open their eyes. This tutorial will show you how you can use Puppet Warp in Photoshop to easily and accurately take control of faces.
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Encore Menus
Have you ever wanted to create hidden “easter egg” menus in your DVDs or Blu-ray disks? This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop layers and Encore button routing to hide secret clickable areas for your disks.
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Encore Dynamic Link
Make your DVDs and Blu-ray discs more dynamic by using After Effects to create live, dynamic menu transitions. An added benefit is this technique uses Adobe’s Dynamic Link technology so any changes you make in After Effects is instantly updated in Encore - no need to render!
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Photoshop Smart Objects
Design changes are inevitable, and it’s all too easy to destroy layers by resizing them up and down. Smart Objects, including live Illustrator artwork, will allow you to keep making changes while retaining the original layers in pristine form.
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Photoshop Photo Restoration
Learn how speed the process of photo restoration using the Spot Healing brush and Content-aware Fill.
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Illustrator to PowerPoint
Have you ever tried to import a graphic into Microsoft Powerpoint, only to discover the areas of the image you expected to be transparent have been replaced by a solid white background? In this episode, Colin shows how to export Adobe Illustrator graphics with transparency using the Portable...
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Photoshop Lens Correction for Video
Learn how to use Photoshop CS5 Extended to remove wide angle lens distortion from high definition video footage shot with a DSLR camera.
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Illustrator Art Brushes as Text
This tutorial will show you how to create great looking type by applying Illustrator art brushes to your text. Learn how to keep your newly decorated text editable and how to prevent the art brushes from distorting along the text path.
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Photoshop Memory Settings & Performance
Getting the most out of Photoshop performance means understanding what settings are the best for you. This tutorial will show you what settings to use for different workflows, from large high resolution images to smaller multi-layered Photoshop compositions. Photoshop is doing a lot of work…
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Adobe expert Colin Smith answers the questions he is constantly asked on the road as he educates people in the world of Adobe video and design software.
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