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No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith

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.

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 choos...

49:30Jun 2, 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...

09:59Jun 2, 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...

06:00Jun 2, 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 t...

05:09Jun 2, 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 organizatio...

14:58Jun 2, 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. Fo...

07:19Jun 2, 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 pa...

09:50Jun 2, 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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials...

07:37Jun 2, 2014

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 ar...

06:04Dec 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 expl...

31:59Dec 12, 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...

06:03Aug 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...

08:19Aug 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 composit...

06:37Aug 11, 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 Effe...

08:53Apr 26, 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 upda...

08:20Jan 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 hig...

08:12Jan 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...

07:11Jan 16, 2012

Introduction to SpeedGrade

Colin is very excited to show you the newly acquired film finishing and color grading application SpeedGrade from IRIDAS. SpeedGrade contain...

21:09Jan 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 th...

13:47Jan 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...

11:56Jan 10, 2012