I love my GoPro camera. It takes amazing pictures and captures incredible videos, and can get into some extreme situations that other cameras probably would not survive – no wonder it is one of the best selling cameras in the world. I also love the fisheye lens, but there are times when the fisheye effect […]
Category Archives: Premiere
Salisbury Festival Time-lapse
Every year the town I live in has a weekend-long spring festival. There are rides for the kids, live music, beer, and lots of food. This year I have a great view overlooking the carnival area, so I decided to do a time-lapse video capturing all of the activity. The trucks pulled in before I […]
Improving The Quality Of Your Video Compositions With Creative Cloud
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Adobe video tools lately… everything from videos for the blog, to promotional videos, to help/technical videos. Here are a few topics that beginners in video production need to think about… audio processing and color correction. First, you can make so-so video look great with a few simple […]
Time-Lapse Photography with Creative Cloud
In addition to my addiction to aerial photography, I’m also fascinated by time-lapse photography. With time lapse photography, you set up your camera to take pictures on an interval. This could be every few seconds, every few minutes, every few hours, or heck, once a day. It’s really up to you how you want to […]
Color Key/Green Screen Video Techniques with Creative Cloud
In my last post, I talked about masks in After Effects, specifically the new motion tracking feature for rigid masks. In this post, I’m again focusing on video composition, but instead of compositing using masks, I’m going to talk about keying. Keying is a technique for selectively removing areas of a video based on content […]
Video: GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters & Creative Cloud
Last week I had the opportunity to present an incredibly fun topic to the DC/MD/VA Creative Professionals user group… GoPro Cameras, Quadcopters, and Adobe Creative Cloud. Thanks to everyone who attended. This topic is a personal interest of mine, and I had a great time. There were great questions and great conversations all around. For […]
Creative Cloud Helps Me Fulfill My Creative Vision
In my last post, I proclaimed my love for Adobe Creative Cloud. This post will show you the reason why. I was playing around with some of the aerial footage I captured last week in San Francisco. Just for fun, I wanted to create a HUD (heads up display) to add to the first-person experience […]
Coming Soon – RC Aerial Photography in Adobe Inspire Magazine!
This week I was in the video studio recording some content for Adobe Inspire magazine on creative uses of quadcopters, GoPros and Creative Cloud for aerial photography and videography. Adobe Inspire is a great place to get new ideas or learn tips and tricks with Adobe Creative Cloud tools. Subscribe to the free Adobe Inspire […]
Review: Beholder Lite Gimbal For DJI Phantom Quadcopter
I recently purchased a Beholder Lite camera gimbal for my DJI Phantom quadcopter, and I am very pleased with it. Bottom line for those that don’t want to read this entire post… The Beholder Lite is hard to beat for the price, as long as you have some time to tune the gimbal. Output video […]
A Crash Course in Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Adobe’s video production tools are among the best in the industry. These tools (Premiere Pro, After Effects, SpeedGrade, Photoshop, Audition, and more) have been used in countless videos and movies, including theatrical releases such as Avatar, Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Life of Pi, and many, many more. Just because these tools are often used in making […]