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Paul Schmutzler
Paul Schmutzler has been involved in various aspects of photography, film, and video production, post-production, and motion graphics for more than 10 years. He reviews tools of the trade as a freelance tech journalist.

Articles By Paul Schmutzler

Tutorial: Exporting for Digital Cinema with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014

A key concern for any producer is to ensure that the work you produce will play back on as many platforms (online, mobile, broadcast) as possible. Until recently, delivering content in digital cinema environments was the exclusive province of high-end facilities with specialized equipment. But with the release of Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 and its Wraptor DCP plug-in, DCP has become just another export option, putting digital cinema delivery well within the reach of any Adobe CC user. Here's how you can add it to your offerings when your clients or projects demand it.

Apple FCP and Compressor vs. Adobe CC, Timeline-to-Transcode Workflows, Part 2: Test Results--UPDATED WITH LINK TO TEST FILES

The results are in! See link to project files, encoder presets, and output files from our test set added at the beginning and end of the article.

Tutorial: Leveraging Expandable Thunderbolt Video Storage with the G-Tech G-Dock ev

G-Tech's G-Dock ev with Thunderbolt delivers high-performance portable, expandable RAID storage tailor-made for the video production market, and accessorizes well with MacBook Pros, iMacs, and other Thunderbolt-compatible systems.

Apple FCP and Compressor vs. Adobe CC, Timeline-to-Transcode Workflows, Part 1: Methodology

We brave the "third rail" by testing two popular NLEs and their companion transcoding tools.

Tutorial: Applying Looks and Matching Shots in Adobe CC

Recent upgrades to Adobe CC make it easy to apply graded looks in Adobe Premiere Pro CC and match shots with different color temperatures via seamless roundtripping between Premiere Pro CC and SpeedGrade CC.

Review: Camtasia Studio 8 and Camtasia 2.5 for Mac

If you've ever needed to record a screen with full motion to illustrate a method or process, then Camtasia may fill that gap.

Tutorial: Sound Removal, Auto-Speech Alignment, and More in Adobe Audition CC

Exploring 3 new key features in Audition CC, the newest version of Adobe's professional audio editing application: Sound Removal for eliminating hums and other variable-frequency unwanted noises, the Loudness Radar Meter for matching and adhering to broadcast volume standards, and Automatic Speech Alignment for ADR.

Review: Adobe Lightroom 5 for DSLR Video Producers

Using Adobe Lightroom 5 to color-grade and apply metadata to DSLR video files is simple and efficient and can benefit live-switchers doing minimal edits, editing novices, and pro editors exploring non-traditional workflows.

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