When we think about transitions in video editing, our minds usually jump to visual techniques. Crossfades, dissolves, match cuts and carefully timed transitions can all help move an audience from one scene to another. But…
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If you’ve ever explored the audio settings on your camera, microphone or editing software, you’ve probably encountered two numbers that appear almost everywhere: 44.1kHz and 48kHz. At first glance, the difference seems pretty insignificant. After…
Music can completely transform a video. It adds energy to a montage, builds tension during a dramatic moment and helps establish the mood of a scene. But there’s one situation where even the perfect soundtrack…
Imagine you’re editing an interview for a documentary. The person you’re filming gives a brilliant answer, but halfway through they pause, stumble over their words and start again. Naturally, you cut out the mistake to…
Rolling shutter is the image distortion that can happen when a camera records different parts of the frame at slightly different times. Many sensors scan through the image in sequence rather than capturing every pixel…
10-bit video can represent 1,024 values for each colour channel, compared with 256 values per channel in 8-bit video. That extra precision can give editors finer gradations to work with when adjusting colour, especially in…
Adobe and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership on 15 October 2026, including work to optimise Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and Substance 3D for NVIDIA’s RTX Spark system. Adobe says the optimised applications can deliver “up to…
YouTube announced on 14 October 2026 that it was beginning to roll out labels on YouTube Music for songs created primarily with generative AI. The label appears on a track’s player page and can be…
The Doppler effect is a change in the frequency a listener hears when a sound source and listener move relative to each other. When a siren approaches, its waves reach the listener closer together and…
If your phone or screen recording starts in sync but the sound gradually drifts away from the picture during editing, variable frame rate (VFR) is one possible cause. Some recording devices change the number of…
