Quality Training from Moviola Now FREE

Tired clicking on a promising tutorial video for Premiere Pro and then finding a 20 minute dissertation on trimming from a stuttering 13 year old gamer who has no clue what they are talking about?

Yeah, we’ve all been there. How about some solid tutorials with no chaff? Then be sure to check out this awesome freebie.

For years, a noteworthy training institution called simply, “Moviola,” has been providing both live and recorded video training for their customers. Now, they are offering their online training for free.

Why is something so valuable now free of charge? Here’s a quote from Moviola CEO, Randy Paskal, who explains:

“We at Moviola are so excited to be celebrating our 99th year in business.  We thought that with age comes experience, and we wanted to share some of the things we have learned during almost a century of filmmaking in Hollywood!  So our gift to the vast community of filmmakers is to provide moviola.com for free as a way to pay forward our good fortune during the past 99 years!  Years ago apprenticeship was the de facto form of learning, so think of this as our way of continuing that age old tradition.  We are all in this together and hope moviola.com can play a part in your lifelong journey as a filmmaker!”

There are also curated videos and webinars from notable post-production trainers available, so, be sure to head over to moviola now and check out all they have to offer.

Here is the link: https://moviola.com/

Free Motion Graphics Templates from Adobe Stock

A lot of people don’t realize that Adobe Stock has a good number of freebie motion graphics templates—and who doesn’t like free stuff? In upcoming articles, I’ll share more of these free downloads to enhance your motion graphics workflow as time marches on.

To get a sample of some of these free motion graphics templates, here’s some quality motion graphics templates from John Dickinson of Motionworks.

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Creating a Video Slideshow using Adobe Creative Cloud

Creating a Video Slideshow? I created the following workflow for others to use for creating video slideshows using Adobe Creative Cloud tools. Through trial and error, I found the best methods to do these types of videos.

Please check it out by clicking the graphic below!

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What is Adobe Media Encoder?

What is Adobe Media Encoder and what can it do for you? Basically, it’s the exporting “engine” for Premiere Pro and After Effects. It’s rather a simple, yet powerful, post-production tool.

In this video, my friend and colleague Joost van der Hoeven walks you through the basics of Adobe Media Encoder in true Dutch style. Clear. Concise. To the Point. Please watch.

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Adobe Media Encoder CC 2018 New Features

Adobe Media Encoder CC 2018 Releases | October 2017 and January 2018

A brief overview of the new features of Adobe Media Encoder CC 2018 (12.0.1) is presented by Kevin Monahan (that’s me!).

A review of the 12.0 features released in October 2017 is included, as well. Social media publishing options, with features for uploading videos with descriptions directly to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook channels and playlists via Adobe Media Encoder are discussed.

I think that the social media publishing options are the features that most people do not know about, but are critical time savers in today’s social media landscape.

There are even more features that came out in last year’s spring release, as well.

Adobe Media Encoder CC 2017.1 Release | April 2017

  • Collaborating using Team Projects
  • Embedding color profiles in JPEG files from After Effects compositions
  • Relink assets in sequence
  • Publish to Adobe Stock
  • Prevent Premiere Pro from sending pause command to Adobe Media Encoder queue
  • Display Per-Channel Depth and Alpha in Color depth labels

Adobe Media Encoder CC 2017 Release | November 2016

  • Stitching clips on import
  • Destination Publishing Support for Behance
  • Render Alpha Channel Only

For more info, see this link: https://helpx.adobe.com/media-encoder/using/whats-new.html

Premiere Pro and Layer Order in the Essential Graphics Panel

I was just reading a forum post by user asergi who had an excellent question about the layer order in the Essential Graphics panel vs. the layer order of content and effects in the Effect Controls panel. The layer order appears “backward” from each other, and that can be confusing.

“Is there a way to get the layer order in the Effects Control panel to match the logical ordering of the Essential Graphics panel?”

Asergi explains, “In the Essential Graphics panel (EGP), the top-most layer in the panel corresponds to the top-most layer in the Program window.  However, when I’m animating those layers in the Effect Controls panel (ECP), the layer order is reversed!  The top most layer corresponds to the bottom-most layer in the comp.  Not only is this counterintuitive, but it is also very confusing when moving between the EGP and the ECP.  Is there some way to re-order the layers in the ECP so that the top-most layer corresponds to the top-most layer in the composition?”

No. As far as I know, there is not. It’s something that we should all be aware of when dealing with Essential Graphics panel workflows.

The quick answer as to why is that Premiere Pro has always had effects flowing from the bottom of the stack of effects before processing higher ordered effects processing operations.

Asergi, if you’re reading this, then your request should be mentioned to developers in the form of a feature request. If this bothers you, as well, please file that here.

Selling Adobe Motion Graphics Templates on Adobe Stock

I hope you’ve noticed. Adobe Premiere Pro has new title tools that you may have already been using. However, one feature you should be aware of are motion graphics templates that are made available for your use in any of your projects.

Taking that one step further, you probably figured out that can also create motion graphics templates for your own use. You can make them either in Premiere Pro or After Effects.

Were you aware that you can also sell your motion graphics templates on Adobe Stock, just like selling a photo or video? Well, it appears that you can, however, at this point you have to be invited to the program in order to sell these templates through Adobe Stock.

For more info, check out this blog post from Adobe.

Dennis Radeke, Content Development Manager for video at Adobe Stock writes, “We are looking for qualified content creators to join our motion graphics contributor community. If you have experience creating and selling Motion Graphics templates created in After Effects, and are interested in selling your work through Adobe Stock, please email us at amograph@adobe.com or take this survey and we’ll get in touch with you.”

If you have talent creating motion graphics templates, kindly contact Dennis’ team to be considered for the program. It looks to be an awesome opportunity!

Premiere Pro CC 2018 (12.0.1) New Features

A brief overview of the new features of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 (12.0.1) is presented by Kevin Monahan in this new video published today on Mission Creek Style’s YouTube channel.

Kevin guides you through the new features inside this new release of Adobe Premiere Pro CC, including new text alignment tools!

For a full rundown of the features, see this document, located at Adobe: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new.html

Feel free to leave questions and comments on YouTube or here. You can also ask questions on the forums at https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/content

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Installation of CC applications uninstall previous CC applications by default

An important piece of information that you need to be aware of before installing versions of digital video applications, like Premiere Pro and After Effects, is that the installation of these applications uninstalls the previous version of that application by default.

To install the latest version without uninstalling the previous version:

  1. Click Advanced Options
  2. Deselect the Remove old versions check box in the Update Confirmation dialog box

Previous product versions do not overwrite existing versions. You can have two versions of the same app running simultaneously on your computer.

You can also read about this issue and other reasons why you might want to retain previous digital video application in this post on After Effects team blog.If you have mistakenly uninstalled Premiere Pro or After Effects, and are still using it for some of your projects, you will need to reinstall the application from the Creative Cloud application .

Filing a Premiere Pro Feature Request

Want to see a new feature in Premiere Pro? File it!

Here’s the official feature request and bug report form link: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Sean Schools AKA “Premiere Bro” released an article about how to file an effective feature request for Premiere Pro. I thought it was definitely worth linking to. You can also use the same form to create a feature request or bug report for most other Adobe products.

Keep in mind that we prefer you to fill out the form rather than make feature requests or bug reports in the forum or over social networks.

The form is much more effective is because each request or bug report is read and considered by the product team. A feature request or bug report made on Twitter or Facebook is received by the support team, not the product team. The support team will direct you to the form so that your request or bug is appropriately addressed. Basically, you are saving time and energy in filling out the form directly.

I can definitely understand why people would want to make feature requests wherever they want to, though, especially places like forums and social. We just don’t have that infrastructure in place as we do with the form. My apologies if you were expecting such support over forums and social networks.

Thanks!