Create a modular grid in InDesign
Here’s a demo for creating a modular grid in InDesign.
Specifically a letter-sized 5-column grid.
Resources
InDesign Basics – John’s handout
Here’s my Google Doc InDesign resource
Tips, tricks and little animated gifs.
Color Grading (changing the “look” of your video)
Examples if a variety of film edits
Here’s a nice video that describes and shows examples for a variety of cuts and transitions including jump cuts, match cuts, smash cuts, wipes, dissolves, etc.
Correcting skin tones in Adobe Premiere
Here’s a good tutorial that shows how to correct and adjust skin tones. The tutorial is a bit technical in terms of talking about cameras and stuff, but it’s a pretty helpful example of using the HSL Secondary color correction effect.
Adobe.com Audition video tutorials
Here is a page on the Adobe site that features video tutorials that range from getting started, to adding effects to noise reduction.
John’s list of free of cheap sound tools
Sure there are expensive pieces of software for making noise, but there are plenty of things you can find that’ll cost you nothing (or next to nothing). This is a link to John’s sound resource site.
Radiolab – Beyond Time
This hour, Radiolab goes to the front lines with men and women who are battling against time — or at least the common-sense view of time.
Export your Multitrack file as a WAV or MP3 audio file
How to export your mulitrack Adobe Audition file as a WAV (uncompressed) or MP3 (Compressed)
Adobe Audition Basics – John’s guide
Here is an evolving “HOW TO” guide for using the sound editing tool Adobe Audition
Adobe Premiere Video Tutorials
Here’s a page from Adobe that features all kinds of videos from the basics to color correction to animating elements
Typography and Layout – Type contrasts, grids, etc
Typography, Carl Dair’s type contrasts and a few videos.
InDesign and Illustrator – The Pen Tool
InDesign essentials on Lynda.com
Acid in your Browser
Canon EOS utility
RadioLab – Time
Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” And it’s still as close a definition as we have. This hour of Radiolab, we try our hand at unlocking the mysteries of time.
Shutter Speed examples
