No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith

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.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Audio in Premiere Pro CC 06/02/2014

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 your workflow is all Premiere Pro, or if you’re coming from Final Cut Pro, and if you need multichannel QuickTime or OMF compatibility, then Colin has you covered. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869786

Preparing Dailies Using Prelude and Media Encoder 06/02/2014

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 you’ll be amazed at how fast this all happens. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869784

Seamless Stabilization On A Single Clip 06/02/2014

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869780

What Is The Reference Monitor For in Premiere Pro? 06/02/2014

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869776

Easy And Powerful Media Organizing and Sorting in Premiere Pro 06/02/2014

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869775

How to Bend a Question to an Answer 06/02/2014

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869773

How to use Keyframes and the Built-In Tracker in SpeedGrade 06/02/2014

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869769

How to Record a Voice over Narration in Premiere Pro 06/02/2014

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2869766

After Effects Advanced 3D Camera Tracker for Hard to Track Clips 12/12/2012

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 what to do when the tracker gets confused by all that motion. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2155265

Moving Your Video Business to Windows 12/12/2012

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 exactly what all the excitement is over HP hardware and why RED Digital Cinema has chosen a Windows platform for massive performance gains. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2155262

Importing Photoshop Files in Premiere Pro CS6 Won’t Give You FCP7 Headaches 08/11/2012

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 Layer Styles that instantly update and give you complete creative freedom! /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2033134

Photoshop CS6 3D Controls - Where Are My CS5 Controls? 08/11/2012

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2033133

How to Blend Two Exposures in "Photoshop" 08/11/2012

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 to paint a complex Layer Mask. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/2033132

How to Control Motion Blur in After Effects 04/26/2012

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 movement at all. He will also demonstrate how to add motion blur to the many animation presets that ship with After Effects. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1928469

What's New in Adobe Story 01/16/2012

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 templates, the new properties panel, scene properties, non-speaking characters and the ability to create a schedule of scenes, shots and more. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1820725

Super Zoom in After Effects 01/16/2012

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 color correction, this can be achieved to create a seamless blend between video and a still. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1820711

Setting a Custom Scale and Measuring in Photoshop CS5 Extended 01/16/2012

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. Also covered will be out to print our 1:1 so that measurements can be taken from printed outputs. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1820696

Introduction to SpeedGrade 01/10/2012

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1814610

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Pen Tool 01/10/2012

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 and why you should use it. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1814602

Creating Synthetic Backgrounds in Photoshop 01/10/2012

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 dynamically. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1814566

Advanced Roto Brush in After Effects 01/10/2012

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1814553

Mapping and Importing Audio in Premiere Pro 5.5 11/04/2011

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 difference between Track keyframes and Clip keyframes and hot to use fader automation to create them. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1749552

Match Volume 09/20/2011

Match Volume In working with a large multi project, it can be time consuming to try to keep all the dialog the same volume. This episode will show you the power of Match Volume which allows you to designate one track as the perfect volume and have all the others match it including a report that tells you how many dB’s (plus or minus) each track was changed. For more Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1714528

Mocha Eye Tracker 09/20/2011

Mocha Eye Tracker No need for expensive contact lenses, we’ll show you how to use the incredible planar tracker in mocha AE to track your eyes, export them as a Mocha shape layer and apply effects in After Effects to create that “white iris of the zombie” look. Another added feature in this episode is how to use Refine Matte to control the feather, spread and choke of the mocha shape layer. This effect gives you control of how much of the original iris shows around the edge stopping the new white iris from blending into the rest of the eye. For more Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1714523

Time Remapping 09/20/2011

Time Remapping Time Remapping, or “Speed Ramps” in some programs, is a visually dynamic editing technique that we can’t seem to get enough of these days. Premiere Pro has a unique and powerful way to control not only the speed changes, but also the transition from one speed to another. See how easy it is to create and edit time changes directly in the timeline and how to copy and paste this same keyframes right into After Effects. As an added bonus we’ve included Timewarp in After Effects which allows you to create new intermediate frames with the ultra smooth Pixel Motion effect. For more Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1714520

Favorites and Batch Processing Behaviors 09/09/2011

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 saved as a favorite! In our example we’ll Stretch and Pitch so each file will end up with the exact same length regardless how long the original recording was. For more Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1706360

Audition for After Effects Users 09/09/2011

Audition for After Effects Users This episode is for all the After Effects users who want to easily get their audio from the timeline into Audition for editing and multitrack composition. We’ll start with some on location sound and show you now to create a new multitrack version that includes free sound effects from Resource Central which is built in to Audition. For more Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1706327

Advanced Noise Reduction in Audition CS5.5 09/09/2011

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 artifacts like a “burbly background”, then this episode will help you understand powerful settings like Spectral Decay Rate and Smoothing that help control those artifacts and just remove the noise. For more Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV, http://tv.adobe.com /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1706312

Introduction to Noise Reduction in Audition CS5.5 07/20/2011

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 /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1668630

How to Hide a Face in After Effects 07/20/2011

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. /episode/index/show/colinsmith/id/1668616

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