Applications
Local and Web-based applications
Software Directories
Need to get better about software that fulfills two categories.
Software Licensing Best Practices
There are four main types of Software licenses, and this is my preference order: Cloud sign-in...
Software To Design, Create, & Edit
A lot of this software is cross-platform. If it isn't, chances are there's an analog with a diffe...
Software To Display, Interact, & Perform
A lot of this software is cross-platform. If it isn't, chances are there's an analog with a diffe...
Software For Data & Management
Software For Data, Numbers, & Management AirTable Super powerful spreadsheet adjacent t...
Software Utilities
General Use Tools 1Password If you’re not using 1Password, or a program like it, do so immedia...
Adobe After Effects
All Things After Effects
After Effects Introduction & Hotkeys
Learning After Effects, and becoming really good in After Effects is maybe the best gateway drug ...
After Effects Scripts & Plugin Directory
Scripts are additional tool panels in After Effects that allow you to speed things up. Scripts ar...
After Effects Expressions
Expressions in After Effects is basically in-line scripting (language = JavaScript) within an eff...
After Effects Gotchas
Color After Effects and Premiere interpret color differently for some, but not all, footage type...
After Effects Randos
Want to create a 360 scene so someone can watch your video in VR or pan and scan? Here’s How to ...
Adobe Premiere Pro
The world's most commonly used NLE
Premiere Introduction & Hotkeys
Think Final Cut Pro 7 circa 2006, but with bugs that have been unsolved for over a decade. If you...
Premiere Plugin Directory
Premiere Pro Plugins Many of these also work in After Effects, with more advanced functionality....
Premiere Gotchas
Network Drive Won’t Show Up in PR Media Browser You want to link media from a network drive, but...
Adobe Others
Some other software that is less used, or is very simple.
Adobe Audition
Someone should do a write up here. It's a perfectly fine audio editor with some pretty good frequ...
Adobe Lightroom
I use Lightroom (not classic tho) to store all of my photos and I pay for the 2TB plan as part of...
Adobe Illustrator
I know Illustrator pretty well. Some dumb gotchas over the years. Here are some of them. SVGs f...
Google Sheets
Formula Hot Sheet
Formula HotSheet I’ve been using Excel / Google Sheets since 2002 or so. This isn’t a breakdown ...
Google Sheets How-To
Need Leading Zeros? Set number format to “custom number format” and enter the number of zeros f...
Google Sheets - Super Menu w/ Apps Script
Add a sweet fuckin' menu in Google Sheets that will shave off hours of your life. After all, time...
Misc
AirTable
Wow wow wow AirTable continues to impress. Formula Things Formula Reference Formulas in AirTa...
PDF Hell
Editing a PDF If you need to edit a PDF, you can manually add text, remove text, or move element...
Screen Sharing
Definitely recommend ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect most. TeamViewer is good, too, as it allows for ...
Ripping
Ethical Consideration I know, it’s 2023 2025, and ripping continues to be “not a cool thing” to ...
Vectorworks
Vectorworks Pro Tips
Start building and refining your workspace immediately - panel layout, contextual menus, etc. ...
Vectorworks for Projection Design
If you want to learn VWX as a tool for projection design. I can teach ya the basics to get starte...
Vectorworks Plugins
ProjectionViz 1 or 2 This is a paid plugin for Vectorworks that does a much better job at ...
Vectorworks Projector and Hardware Library
VWX has done a pretty good job of putting projectors and cages in their built-in library, but it’...
Vectorworks Round-Tripping
VWX to GrandMA Workflow To export model, must be in SPOTLIGHT workspace (or add MVR functionalit...