All NLEs today can convert speech to text, then generate captions for video. However, following in the steps of CapCut, which popularized this feature, DaVinci Resolve now animates subtitles in a variety of ways. Here’s how this works.
Media Intelligence is new with Premiere Pro 2025. It searches “for your perfect shot using language based on imagery, spoken words, or content with embedded metadata like shoot date, location, or camera type, all at the same time.” Here’s how it works.
The Magnetic Mask in Apple Final Cut Pro offers all kinds of interesting ways to play with our video. Here are two examples, featuring background changes, color correction and text effects.
Slow motion is as much a trick of the eye and brain, as it is a trick of technology. Nothing in a video actually moves, it’s our brain that adds the movement. Here’s what you need to know to make your slomo look as good as it can.
Upgrades, whether for the macOS or your favorite NLE, are always a balancing act. We need to decide whether the new features (and security improvements) are worth risking breaking a feature we depend upon. Here are my recommendations.
Sometimes, in spite of our best efforts during production, something gets into the shot that we just don’t notice until it is too late. DaVinci Resolve has two effects that can quickly remove elements from a shot: Patch Replacer and Object Remover. Here’s a tutorial on how they work.
This is such a powerful tool that, if you don’t know about it, then now is the perfect time to learn. Apple has built a single-click, automatic color corrector that works exceedingly well in fixing color problems essentially instantly.
Recently, I contacted Blackmagic Design to learn which features in DaVinci Resolve 20 were powered by AI. Here’s what I learned, along with a video demo at the end of this article.
Recently, my social media team asked me to create several vertical videos with captions. Since I can only shoot horizontal video, here’s how I did it, using DaVinci Resolve 20.
Recently, my social media team asked me to create several vertical videos with captions. Since I can only shoot horizontal video, here’s how I did it, using Premiere Pro 2025.
Recently, my social media team asked me to create several vertical videos with captions. Since I can only shoot horizontal video, here’s how I did it, using Apple Final Cut Pro 11.1.1.
How fast does your storage need to be to support video editing these days. Well, in most cases, not as fast as you might expect, as Larry Jordan illustrates.
Ken Paul Rosenthal is a filmmaker who switched from Canon to Blackmagic Design cameras. In doing so, he found an interested technique to improve exposures for his films.
Sigh… the worst just happened. Your Premiere Pro project is corrupt and won’t open. Now what? There are a number of options you can use to restore your project and get back to work quickly, as Larry Jordan explains.
Sigh… the worst just happened. Your Final Cut Pro library is corrupt and won’t open. Now what? There are a number of options you can use to restore your library and get back to work quickly, as Larry Jordan explains.
Far too often, you need to change color settings in the middle of a clip so that the colors change during playback. While you can simply dissolve between two clips, using keyframes gives you more control – allowing you to change settings multiple times during a clip. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to create color keyframes and change settings to convert a clip from daylight to indoor lighting.
All recent versions of DaVinci Resolve provide an outstanding motion tracker. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to configure a Power Window (mask) for tracking, then, seconds later, apply a secondary color correction effect. The whole process takes less than a minute and can be used with any Power Window!
The free version of DaVinci Resolve 20 is amazing. But the Studio version will blow your mind! In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan showcases four color effects only available in the Studio version of Resolve that will alter your view of reality and leave your jaw on the floor!
The Color page in DaVinci Resolve 20 is jam-packed with features to adjust color. Because of this, the page is totally overwhelming. To overcome this, Larry Jordan shows how to use four automatic features in Resolve – Auto Color, Auto White Balance, Auto White Level, and Auto Black Level – to fix common color problems without requiring learning how the rest of the Color page works.
DaVinci Resolve is an industry-legend as color grading software. In this short video tutorial, Larry Jordan shows how to transfer projects from Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro into Resolve, then how to transfer them back.
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