Find Duration Between Keyframes in After Effects

This tutorial teaches you how to easily find the duration between two keyframes in After Effects. This is one of those After Effects tricks that you didn’t know you need and didn’t know even existed. It’s simple to do. Let’s get into it.

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Duplicate Layer Shortcut in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to duplicate a layer in Photoshop using the keyboard shortcut. It will also show you why duplicating a layer is usually better than copying and pasting a layer. Lastly you’ll learn how to copy a layer and paste it in place.

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Import PSD with Layers in After Effects

The tutorial teaches you how to import a PSD with layers in After Effects while keeping all of it’s layers intact. When you import a PSD with layers in After Effects you can manipulate each individual layer in AE instead of running back and forth into Photoshop.

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Some Brief Thoughts on Having a Clean Edit Bay

Being a video editor sucks every ounce of creativity from us. We must do everything we can to be as imaginative as possible at all times. Proper sleep, nutrition, and health are no-brainers when you’re trying to have your brain work at max capacity. But what about our environment? Having a clean edit bay is absolutely vital to being a creative video professional. Let’s discuss.

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How to Adjust Volume in Premiere Pro CC

This tutorial will teach you how to adjust volume in Premiere Pro CC. Audio in Premiere Pro can be changed a couple of different ways. I’ll show you how to change the audio levels through the Effect Controls Panel, by clicking on the clip in the timeline, and by using keyboard shortcuts.

I started editing in Premiere Pro with version CC 2015. And the process hasn’t changed since then. So no matter what version of Premiere Pro CC you’re working in, how to adjust the volume will be 99.9% identical at the time of this writing.

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