Sessions

Session Descriptions

Wednesday, August 23rd

Getting the Best Key in After Effects

Description coming soon.

Speaker: Rich Harrington

Add Spice: Effects Recipes for Trailers & Promos

As visual effects artists, we’re often handed footage for trailers and promos and asked to “ramp it up”, “make it pop” or even the dreaded “just have fun with it”. But what exactly do these things mean?

In this session, After Effects chef Paul Murphy (thepremierepro.com) will open up his creative pantry and demonstrate some of his favorite recipes for adding spice to bland footage, including stylish transitions, striking effects and stunning looks.

Speaker: Paul Murphy

Foundations of VR

Speaker: Jeff Greenberg

Innovative Uses of Markers In Premiere Pro

There are countless creative and practical uses for using markers in Premiere Pro, and this training provides some great tips. Learn to use markers to intelligently label and sort hours of interviews; explore how you can incorporate them to organize different types of footage in creative ways; use them for ultra-fast editing and montage creation… and so much more. Come find out how markers can improve your workflow!

Speaker: Ashley Kennedy

How to Cheat at Color Grading

Color grading is an art and a craft that can take years to perfect but what if you just want to achieve an acceptable result quickly and easily? In this brief and to-the-point session, Maxim Jago introduces the most common adjustments you’ll make to most video clips, and offers fast ways to go ‘from flat to fantastic’.

This session will feature the core color grading skills and the tools professional graders use to assess and adjust footage.

Speaker: Maxim Jago

Type On! Text Layers Crash Course

Text layers are like shape layers, there is a whole world of possibilities buried deep in the layer. This session will expand your mind on what you can do with text. Create amazing text animations with just a couple of key frames. Dive into the expansive world of the Text Layer.

This session will cover a text layer overview, learn how to make “chunky” scrolling like on a computer screen, random text that transitions into your desired words, understanding the range selector, and creating complex animations easily.

Speaker: Mikey Borup

Case Study: MLB Player Intros

This session will explore the creative and technical challenges of creating in-stadium player intro/walkup videos for Major League Baseball teams, with examples from an 8-year history across several teams. These projects often have to be created as templates to be quickly customized for an entire team of players; there will be an emphasis on workflow, building for ease of changes, and harnessing AE’s structural capabilities to save your sanity.

Speaker: Kyle Hamrick

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Speaker: TBD

The Essential Sound Panel and Beyond

With the Essential Sound Panel, Adobe has brought some serious preset power to the audio side of Premiere Pro! In this session you will learn how to use the Essential Sound Panel to clean up, improve clarity, and unify volume levels of common audio like dialogue, music, SFX, and ambiance. You will also learn how the presets are put together in Essential Sound. This is important when you need to tweak things at a more granular level.

Speaker: David Bode

Creating 3D Graphics for Premiere Pro Editors

In this session you will learn how to create memorable and beautiful titles using Photoshop, After Effects. You will also learn about 3rd party plugins that work inside Premiere Pro and can help you design top notch 3D graphics to convey the message of your movie.

Takeaways:
Design and Animate 3D Titles using Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro to uplift your movie.

Speaker: Eran Stern

Illustrator for Video and 3D

Learn how to prepare vector graphics for video usage and animation. Integrate artboards, layers, type, color and paths between Illustrator and After Effects in most efficient way. Learn about 3rd party plugins that will change the way you work with vectors inside After Effects and Cinema 4D and will save you tons of work.

Takeaways:
How to prepare vector graphics from Illustrator to use in Premiere Pro, After Effects and Cinema 4D.

One Man Band – You CAN Make a Feature Film

Making movies – how many of us cracked open After Effects for the first time wanting to make your own personal Star Wars? But the road can be hard and the challenges numerous. See how one artist executed over 70 visual effects shots for the independent (and distributed internationally!) feature film Bokeh with nothing more than After Effects, a large supply of various forms of caffeine, and a very old laptop.

And Mocha Pro. Oh goodness, lots of Mocha Pro.

Speaker: Ryan Summers

Working with 360 in Premiere Pro

360/VR is here and so are the tools to help you in the post-production process through Adobe Premiere. In this session, Nick Harauz will take you through how to work with 360 Premiere from import to export.
Some of the topics covered include:

• What is 360/VR?
• Tip for Optimizing your 360 workflow and viewing 360 footage
• The seam problem with built in effects and transitions on 360 footage
• Working with ambisonic sound
• How to export 360 sequences to youtube

What concrete lessons or skills will attendees take away from this session?

• An overview of how to work in 360 within Premiere • 360 storytelling techniques and best practices
• What Premiere does natively
• The importance of 3D plugins in your 360 workflow

Speaker: Nick Harauz

Fixing Color and Exposure Fast with the Lumetri Effect

Multicamera Editing and Beyond

Multi-camera production is becoming increasingly more common with low cost production cameras as well as everyone having a camera in their pocket. There are a number of things that can be done in pre-production, on the shoot as well as in post-production to make editorial much faster and easier. Adobe Premiere Pro’s multi camera editing tools are second to none when it comes to creative editorial, both from a technical standpoint as well as creatively.

This session will dive into how to use the multicam tools on productions ranging from one camera with secondary sound up to using multicam editing for a music video where you might have 30 + “angles” to edit with. We will also look at a number of tips for more successful multi-camera production which makes life a lot easier in post.

Speaker: Scott Simmons

Raising the Bar with Lower Thirds

The Lower Third (text superimposed on footage) is one of the oldest and most commonly-used graphic in video – and in recent years, we’ve seen it evolve from basic white text with a drop shadow to more elaborate designs and animations.

In this session, editor and motion graphics artist Paul Murphy ( www.thepremierepro.com ) will demonstrate a variety of stylish and creative approaches to lower thirds, how to make them stand out while also fitting in, and how to create easy-to-use templates that you can pass off to editors without them messing up your original design.

Expressing Yourself: Master Expressions in After Effects

Capturing VR: Understanding the Myriad of Recording Options

Speaker: Michael Rubin

Working with Closed and Open Captions in Premiere Pro

Beyond 4k – Proxies, Oversized Footage and Best Performance

Character Animator 101: A New Approach to Animation

Speaker: Dave Werner & Erica Schisler

Video Cartoonification

A recipe to create the Scanner Darkly look (https://youtu.be/TY5PpGQ2OWY) using After Effects and Photoshop

A Stitch in Time: Best Practices for Stitching VR Footage

Before you start to edit 360 footage inside of Adobe Premiere, it needs to be stitched / assembled somehow. This process can be very time consuming and cause quite a bit of aggravation if you’re not prepared.

In this session, we’ll explore preparation techniques on set to minimize the time spent stitching. We’ll look at software currently being used to deal with stitching including After Effects for 2 dome camera setups. We’ll also explore some real world complicated stitch problems and how the stitch was dealt with using a variety of software apps. If you’re looking to spend more time on story and less time dealing with stitching problems in 360, this session is not to be missed.

Hidden Preferences and Killer Keyboard Shortcuts

Speaker: Abba Shapiro

Panels, Panels and More Panels! Third-party Tools to Expand your Premiere Pro Workflow

Beyond the world of filters, plug-ins and templates lies the Adobe Premiere Pro Extension Panel architecture. This architecture is a way for third party developers to add functionality to the application that goes way beyond plug-ins and filters. This might range from interacting with online services to to transcription to working with clips in a unique way to exchanging data with other applications.

This session will look at a number of tools that can both increase productivity and add something unique to the Premiere editing experience. Some of these tools will be paid tools, some free and some part of an online service.

Don’t Fear the Freelance

Taking the leap to freelance can be scary; in this session, we’ll ease those fears by leading a discussion on freelancing from two differing perspectives and in two different mid-sized markets. We’ll focus on the financial and administrative realities, helpful tools and resources, how to manage clients (and their expectations) and how to keep your sanity through it all.

Speaker: Jessica Thomas & Kyle Hamrick

Tripping the Animation Fantastic: A Breakdown of the GOOGLE: Meet Data spot

12 characters, 20 seconds, 3 weeks? Watch as Ryan Summers breaks down one epic shot from a spot for GOOGLE, created directly in After Effects. Pulling together techniques that employ tools like DUIK, Joysticks & Sliders, the Puppet Pin, and Expressions, Ryan will take you from the drawing board to the curve editor and beyond – with a focus on how to improve your character animation techniques alongside your tools knowledge.

View and Edit 360 video without 3rd Party Effects

A Perfect Mix: Audio Mixing in Adobe Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro offers both fast quick-fix, and slow detail-oriented workflows for your audio mix. This session explores the complete range of audio tools, clip interpretation, restoration, and audio sweetening effects to produce a professional finished audio mix. There are times when you’ll want to jump into Audition for more advanced workflows – this session will also show you how, and why.

This session will feature new audio mixing tools in Premiere Pro, and powerful workflows in Audition.

Mastering the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline

Essential Graphics – Creating Motion Graphics for End Users

The latest and greatest from adobe for AE is the essential graphics panel, with it are new workflows, especially when used with Premiere Pro.

This session will go over the Essential graphics panel, how it works in both AE and PPro, what it can and can’t do. Learn how to create projects that gives the end user flexibility all while keeping within your artistic vision.

Creating Amazing 2D Animations in Cinema 4D

Add the powerful Cinema 4D toolset to your 2D After Effects workflow! In this session, attendees will get an overview of Cinema 4D’s Sketch and Toon module & will be shown how they can utilize it and the powerful tools inside of Cinema 4D to create dynamic and eye catching animations! Attendees will learn how to create brilliant looking 2D animations quickly and easily inside of C4D for their 2D After Effects workflow utilizing Cineware and even Cinema 4D Lite.

Speaker: E.J. Hassenfratz

Mastering Adobe Dynamic Link

Documentary Editing Strategies in Adobe Premiere Pro

Editing a documentary in Premiere Pro can be a rewarding and exciting undertaking—as long as you have the right tools for each phase of the process. In this training, learn valuable techniques for documentary asset organization, project management, editing, refining, and more. Ashley will use her own feature-length documentary as a case studies to show tried-and-true real world examples… so you can feel confident working within a large project containing many moving parts.

Mastering the Lumetri Panel and Scopes

Color Theory for Motion Designers

Color is very important in creating an appeasing body of work. I will be covering color theory concepts that motion graphics artists can utilize to create effective styles in their compositions. I will also be teaching different theory tips and tricks, so you can create the exact mood you want with color.

Speaker: Jessica Thomas

The Paths to Greatness – Different Approaches to Bending Layers Along Paths

Bending, warping and moving layers along defined paths can be surprisingly difficult (if not impossible) to do in After Effects, but there are some great 3rd-party plugins – and a few stock AE features – that give you options for achieving this look. This session will compare and contrast techniques with built-in features, and with the Omino Snake and Bao Boa plugins.

Get Your Head in the Cloud

Did you know that Adobe’s Creative Cloud does more than just install and update your software? A comprehensive cloud-based service, it offers a range of features that can be incredibly useful on any job, wherever you are – and it’s all free with your subscription!

In this session, editor and motion graphics artist Paul Murphy (thepremierepro.com) will discuss the most crucial aspects of Creative Cloud that every creative should take advantage of, including:

• saving frequently-used assets, fonts and looks to your Library
• downloading royalty-free images from Adobe Stock
• using Adobe’s mobile apps for on-location work
• synchronizing your personal settings across multiple machines
• making life-saving project back-ups

Must-Have 3rd Party Filters and Effects for Premiere Pro

De-Noise and De-Reverb Audio in Premiere Pro

Audio noise is a fact of life and dealing with it can be a real pain! Premiere Pro now has the powerful denoising and dynamics processing power from Audition and this makes denoising much easier in right inside Premiere Pro! In this session you will learn how to identify types of audio noise and learn what tools will be effective in reducing or eliminating it. You will learn how to use native tools like Adaptive Noise Reduction, EQ, and Dynamics Processing. You will also see how to de-noise audio using 3rd-party plugins in Premiere, like Izotope RX, for incredible de-noising and de-reverbing!

Tracking, Stabilizing, and Removing Camera Shake with After Effects Native Plugins

Promos & Commercials Breakdowns

Take a closer look at promos and commercials that were created using After Effects. You will be exposed, not only to the technical side of the work, but also learn how to approach various projects such as: Explainer videos, Infomercials, Promos and Commercials. From concept through script writing and draft editing to the design and effects stages. Your brain is going to explode with ideas and inspiration that will lead you to create an impressive result even if the budget is low.

Takeaways:
Inspiration between Adobe tools, Design Ideas and workflows, Learn about useful Plug-ins and Overlooked Tools, Complex Projects Management, 3D Integration and Compositing Methods

Postproduction Interoperability

One of the stand-out features of Adobe Creative Cloud is the way multiple applications can share media, creative decisions, presets, and more. In this fast-paced session, Maxim Jago will take you through the best-practice workflows to move your creative work through Prelude, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition, and Media Encoder. Create once, use multiple times and work in an unbroken flow from one application to the next.

This session will take you through multiple video applications to include more of Creative Cloud in your postproduction workflow.

Commonsense Compression for Video Editors

Compression affects every aspect of video work. Compress too much and lose quality, and compress too little and the file size is too big. Use the wrong compression, and your client cannot see the video at all! In this course, Luisa Winters explains what compression is, how to use it, and how to optimize it to give your work the greatest impact. Learn how to finesse export settings in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder for the best-looking video.

Topics include:

• Types of compression
• Bitrates
• VBR and CBR
• Export settings for video, audio, captions, and more
• Using Adobe Media Encoder for compression
• Tips to make your video look better

Speaker: Luisa Winters

Keeping Your Sanity: How to Dig into a Mountain of Footage for the Craft Edit

We are living in a world of ever increasing amounts of footage that come into the edit suite. We are also living in a world of shorter windows in which to deliver a cut as well as shrinking budgets for the editor. How do you make sense out of all that footage in order to even begin the edit?

This session will look at different ways to organize, tag and log footage in order to speed along editorial and get the cut out the door. We will take a deep dive into many of Adobe Premiere Pro’s logging and organizational features and how to use them sort footage. Productions covered will range from the single camera corporate shoot to multi camera “spray and pray” reality-style shoots. Real world projects will be used to illustrate many of the techniques talked about in this session.

Digital Texturing in After Effects

You can create amazing depth and interest in your work by just adding texture into your animated elements. In this course I will demonstrate different techniques to add texture to your motion graphics compositions.

I will show some techniques using the built in capabilities of after effects as well as covering some great scripts that speed up the workflow.

Son of 50 In 50: Production Tips From The Trenches

Building on several successful Cinema 4D presentations at SIGGRAPH & an After Effects version at AVW 2015, Ryan Summers is back presenting 50 production tips in 50 minutes — bite-sized tips on workflow that he’s learned over the last 10 years of working with After Effects & Cinema 4D in tight production timelines at the highest levels of design and animation.

7 Tools Every Editor Should Know in Adobe Audition

For editors wondering how (or even why) they should integrate Adobe Audition into their editing workflow, this is the session for you!

Since Adobe added it to their collection in 2003 (before then it was Cool Edit Pro), Audition has emerged as an incredibly powerful and versatile digital audio workstation that integrates harmoniously with Premiere Pro. Rather than covering the fundamentals, this session (presented by Paul Murphy, author of Lynda’s Audition Essential Training course) will highlight the crucial tools and magic fixes in Audition that will help editors improve their audio beyond the limits of Premiere Pro, including:

• Efficiently moving between Premiere and Audition
• Noise reduction and repair
• Editing music to fit your edit
• Batch processing files
• And more!

Cutting Interviews – Best Practices, Strategies, and Techniques

Fix it in Post: After Effects to the Rescue

When you hear the phrase: “Don’t worry we’ll fix it in post” A red light should appear above your head. Those who say that, don’t solve the problem – apparently the burden will fall upon you. But despite all this, there are still quite a few things that can be solved at a post stage, and this workshop will use After Effects as a post-fixer tool to overcome common problems such as Match Moving, Bad pixels, Motion blur, Green Screen issues and more

Takeaways:

Easy Tracking, Add Motion Blur, Fix Bad Pixels, Add Camera Blur, Create Better Keying

Animating Your Client’s Logo

Your client asks you to animate their logo and “make it look cool.” Then they send through their logo as a tiny .gif embedded inside a PowerPoint slide. What do you do?

In this session, editor and motion graphics artist, Paul Murphy ( www.thepremierepro.com ), will demonstrate the different styles and approaches to logo animation, how to choose the right one for your client, and getting by with low resolution sources. Beyond simply “looking cool”, learn how to impress your client with an elegant animation that captures the company’s brand and style.

Complex Particle Systems in After Effects

Particles can add energy and magic to any composition. To produce reliable results, it is often necessary to combine them with live footage, 3D renders or even with themselves. Those situations may preset challenges. The fact that the particles are applied to 2D layers and lives in it’s own 3D world may break the illusion you’re trying to create. In this session, you will learn how to overcome these scenarios, and integrate complex particle systems using Particular, Form, Element and Stardust. This session will change your approach to creating particles in After Effects.

Takeaways
Work with auxiliary particle system, Integrate 3D Objects using, Overcome Unified 3D space limitations

Working in Adobe Premiere Team Projects

Adobe Team Projects is a hosted collaboration service provided by Adobe If you have an enterprise or creative cloud teams license. It allows editors and motion graphic designers to share a project seamlessly and without having to worry about duplicating or overlapping another team member’s efforts in the post-production pipeline. In this session, Nick Harauz will introduce to the audience the features of working in team projects by creating a fictional project to be shared between a few video editors and an After Effects artist. We will explore inviting team members to collaborate, sharing edits and resolving common conflicts that could occur in a team environment, utilizing Adobe Dynamic Link and managing media in several different work environments.

Mastering Three Point Editing & Trimming

All About Audio Effects and Plugins

Premiere Pro has got some seriously great new audio effects from Audition that offer incredible power and flexibility without leaving Premiere! In this session you will learn about the new audio effects in Premiere Pro, like EQ, Dynamics Processing, and more as well as some of the other great audio tools like Loudness Radar, Multi-Band Compression, and Convolution Reverb. These are the core tools you will be using all the time! You will also learn how to stack and order the effects to get the best result. Dialogue, music, and SFX will never be the same after this session!

Taking Shape: A Beginners Workshop of Shape Layers

Shape layers, YIKES aren’t they scary and complex? They may be complex (in a good way) but they don’t have to be scary. This is an overview of shape layers and why you should be using them. They are not as scary as you think 🙂

This session will cover general overview, organization tips, best practices, working with vector files and much more.

To Tomorrow & Beyond: Imagining After Effects CC 2022

Based on experiences of working freelance over the last three years as well as working directly with the After Effects development team, a TED Talk style where we imagine where After Effects could be headed in five years — from an everyday user’s perspective rather than the development side — focused on workflow, efficiencies, and new technologies that we would like to see integrated into our favorite motion design tool.

Essential Photoshop Skills for Premiere Pro Editors

This session will cover basic image concepts light color depth, pixel aspect ratio and additive and subtractive colors. Adobe Premiere Pro Master Instructor Luisa Winters will also cover basic image adjustments (exposure and contrast and color), designing and animating a logo and Photoshop’s editing tools for video editing, such as lens distortion, color grading, LUTs and enhancing depth of field.

• Resolution, Pixel Aspect Ratio and bit depth
• Matching your sequence settings
• Content-Aware Scale
• Raster and vector images
• Creating custom gradients
• Performing automatic lens correction
• Actions
• Color Correction

Beyond Dissolves: The Best Transitions Out There

The built-in video transitions in Premiere Pro are good but very basic, some of them show their age and not always helpful at telling the story. In this session you will learn various techniques to create unique transitions with the help of Photoshop, After Effects and 3rd party plugins.

Take away:
Improve your movie with cool transitions. Save money using built-in and free tools. Learn about advanced options

Using Frame.io for Dynamic Post-Production Collaboration

Dynamic collaboration in post-production has never been easier or more seamless than with applications like Frame.io. In this training you’ll see real-time collaboration in terms of sharing, providing frame-specific feedback, versioning, comparing changes, creating cloud dailies, and more. We’ll cover both the standalone version of the software, as well as the Premiere Pro-integrated Frame.io plug-in.

Compression for the MoGraf Artist

Character Animator 202: Advanced Rigging & Behaviors

Photoshop Techniques for Premiere Pro & After Effects Users

Compositing. Blending Modes Masks in Adobe Premiere Pro

Master compositing and masks using the native effects in Adobe Premiere Pro—with no third-party plugins. Adobe Premiere Pro Master Instructor Luisa Winters shows how to make these crucial techniques part of your everyday editing workflow. She covers creating and modifying alpha channels, keying blue and green screen footage with Ultra Key, using track mattes to affect moving parts of clips, changing the look of footage with blend modes, and so much more.

• Working with alpha channels
• Keying blue and green screen footage with Ultra Key
• Affecting a moving piece of video with Track Matte Key
• Creating a composite with the Difference Matte effect
• Using Luma key for a brightness-based composite
• Changing the character of footage with blend modes
• Masking effects to certain portions of your footage

Moving an Edit from Offline to Online

While many editors these days never leave the system they are working on there are times when an editor has to send a project to online, graphics, color correction and audio mixing. This could be a conform to a more powerful system for working with 4K media or color correction at a dedicated color grading suite.

This session will look at how to take a finished offline edit and move it from the creative stage of editorial into the finishing stages of audio mixing, color grading and online. We’ll look at sequence preparation, list generation, supporting files and communication with the online artists. This topic is becoming increasingly important as we move more and more into beyond HD finishing.

Dynamic Effects (without Tons of Precomps)

You’ve just create this most amazing motion graphic, but now the client needs a word change, or a font change, or a different picture, now its time to redo all of that work. But with some added skills, knowledge and a bit of clever thinking, we can create effects that are dynamic, that will update with changes of fonts or images, that automatically create our desired look without a lot of key framing. All while not using tons of precomps that can be confusing if you need to work on the project months later.

Topics covered are keeping down layer numbers, compositing, per effect masks, driving effects based on velocity or speed, and more.

Shape Layers Advanced Tips & Tricks

Shape Layers can definitely be dense and intimidating, but they’re also an extremely powerful feature once you know how to properly manage them. This session will explore a variety of advanced techniques and workflow tips to make you a Shape Layer master!

Core Editing Skills for Motion Graphics: Make the Tools Do the Work

For motion-graphics editors and animators; In this session, Maxim Jago teaches the core editing skills you need to work with editors, extract content from projects, and supply content in project form. 50% core editing skills, 50% team workflows, this session will set you up as a creative collaborator when working with video editors.

This session features the new Essential Graphics panels in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, and several solutions for collaboration.

Premiere Pro Color Boot Camp

Have you ever made some color tweaks on footage and then experienced that sinking feeling when you see your project on other screens and the color is off? Not awesome. In this session you will learn how to manage color so that doesn’t happen! In this jam-packed session you
will be learning how to setup your space and workstation for color, monitor calibration, how to use Lumetri Scopes and Lumetri Color to color correct and color grade your footage! You will see several examples of how to correct and tweak footage to make it look great!

Smart Masking and Tracking Techniques in Premiere Pro

Often, you need to alter something visually within your footage—dynamically changing specific parts of the frame while leaving other parts alone. Fortunately, there are many powerful masking and tracking options available right within Premiere Pro. In this training, we’ll explore both automatic and manual strategies for tracking masks on a variety of different types of effects (color correction/obscuring/etc.). We’ll look at several different types of situations—many containing special motion and rotation scenarios. We’ll also explore when you should use masks in Premiere… and when you’ll want to switch over to After Effects.

Streamline Your Workflow from Concept to Animation

A motion graphics artist’s job can be in 2 parts: designing and animating. I will go over tips of how to design in such a way that your comps go straight into After Effects without having to rebuild.

The applications used in this course will be Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.

Utilizing the Powerful Dynamics Tools in Cinema 4D

In this session viewers will learn some tips and tricks that will allow you to achieve amazing animations super fast utilizing the real world physics engine in Cinema 4D, called Dynamics Module, that normally would take a very long time or impossible to do in After Effects alone. This sessions will feature a variety of quick and easy tricks using the powerful Cinema 4D Dynamics Module to apply real world physics to your animations that you can implement in your 2D or 3D workflow right away!

Mastering Master Clips

Proxy and Transcoded Workflows for Adobe Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro allows you the ability to create transcoded or proxy media on import. If you generate proxy media, you can easily move between your full resolution and master clips with the click of a button. In this session, learn the in and outs of working with both proxy and transcoded media in Premiere Pro that you can use in a variety of different workflows. We’ll also take a look at creating ingest presets with the handy assistance of Adobe Media Encoder to help you easily identify which media your working with in the timeline.