No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

In this episode Colin will show you how to record directly onto the timeline from any connected microphone. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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! For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,

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. For more helpful Adobe tutorials, visit Adobe TV,