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A powerful and poetic tribute to the magic that was LACPUG, née LAFCPUG, for 25 years the defining community for video editors around the world. A labor of love and a work of art by Mike Horton.

One of the new features in DaVinci Resolve 20 is animated subtitles. Made famous by ubiquitous social media videos created by CapCut, this feature offers animated, colorful, burned-in video captions. Resolve can now create them as well.

We are shooting more media than ever, distributing it in more ways than ever, and continually returning to our archives for new material to feed to social media long after the original event is done and gone. I asked Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle AI, what questions we should ask in choosing a media asset manager.

One of the themes from multiple interviews at the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas was “data repatriation.” In this short video, Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle AI, explains what this means and the benefits it provides.

“Most video editors are broke by choice,” Brian Alves posted on LinkedIn. “Why?, he continued, because “they panic when it’s time to price.” Here are some pricing tips from my business seminars that can help you make more money on your next project

In my webinar last week, I showed how to use keyframes in Premiere Pro to seamlessly change color in the middle of a clip using keyframes. However, as Reed Brown wrote, there’s a faster way that can be used in any NLE. Here’s how it works.

Adobe Premiere Pro has two ways to change the amount of color in a video clip: Saturation and Vibrance. In this short video, Larry Jordan illustrates the difference between them and explains which one to use when you are adjusting color in a clip. Surprisingly, the choice is not obvious.

Adobe Premiere Pro has vastly improved matching colors between shots – especially when you use Comparison View. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to display Comparison View, how to match colors between shots, then how to make manual adjustment if needed after the match.

One the harder color effects to create in Adobe Premiere Pro is a color change in the middle of a clip. But, it can be done! In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how this feature works, as well as how to color match different sections of the same clip.

Unlike Final Cut or Premiere, DaVinci Resolve does not store libraries (Final Cut) or projects (Premiere) as separate files. However, there are times when you need to save a specific project. Resolve provides three ways to do this: Backup, export, and archive. Here’s how each of these work.

With the 2025 release of Premiere Pro, Adobe has totally overhauled how it handles color. The new pipeline has streamlined settings, and added support for wide-gamut camera raw and log-encoded media. Here’s an overview of how it works.

Generative AI is commanding all the fear and attention in media today. But, there are a wealth of AI-assisted tools in Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve that are enabling editors to do more, rather than replacing them en masse. In this presentation to the Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group, Larry Jordan highlights nearly two dozen AI-assisted tools across all three of these applications.

A big challenge in color grading is how to handle a lighting color change during a shot. A typical example is walking indoors on a sun-lit day. In this short video, Larry Jordan shows how to keyframe a color change, along with how to make sure the actor’s skin tones remain correct.

Apple Final Cut Pro provides three different ways to quickly adjust the look of a clip: Looks, Color Board Presets, and Color Grading Presets. In this short video demo, Larry Jordan shows what these are, where they are located and the differences between them; including one very big advantage!

Comparison view quickly allows comparing the look of any timeline clip to the clips preceding and following it. Even better, it supports building a collection of “looks” you can use to compare any timeline clip to up to 30 timeline images. Larry Jordan shows how this feature works.

Thoughts from Larry Jordan on Apple’s 2025 WWDC keynote presentation.

I found myself giving bad advice recently – which I hate to do – and it started with this panic email which I misinterpreted.

I was worried. My SSD RAID was getting fuller every time I deleted files. This should not happen! It SHOULD get emptier. While I was using an OWC Thunderblade RAID, this problem could apply to any SSD. The answer, I …

One of the themes at the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas seemed to be a reaction against the cloud; a question about whether we’ve moved too much data to the cloud. Several my interview guests  talked about data repatriation, …

Resolve can easily display two timelines using either a single or dual monitor display. But it’s a bit fiddly. Here’s how this works.