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Let’s Explain Every Tool From The Toolbar In Adobe Premiere Pro

As a beginner video editor you often struggle with finding the right tools to perform certain actions while editing. And once you’ve finally found some tools to edit, you don’t know what they do. We’ve all been there, so here’s a quick and easy explanation of every tool in the toolbar.

Selection Tool (V)

The Selection tool allows you to perform basic selections and edits. This will be your default and primary mouse function when using Premiere Pro, so make sure to remember the short key for it, which is V on your keyboard. Along with making basic selections, you can also select edit points and perform trims where you can increase or decrease a clip’s duration.

Track Selection Tool - Forward (A) / Backward (Shift+A)

The Track Select tool will let you select all of the clips in a sequence, either forward or backwards. All you need to do is use the keyboard shortcut (A) and you can highlight multiple clips at once, in whichever direction you prefer. If you hold shift, the tool will select only one track instead of all of the tracks.

Ripple Edit Tool (B)

One of my favorite shortcut tools in Premier Pro, Ripple Edit is a trim tool used to trim a clip and "wave" the rest of the clips in a timeline. This will effectively close the gap between the two editing points immediately at the point where you will be editing. This can save a lot of time when editing on-the-fly, as you don't have to manually navigate the rest of your timeline — especially if you're dealing with videos or sequences longer than a few minutes.

Rate Stretch Tool (R)

The Rate Stretch tool will help you speed up or slow down the clips in your order. When using the tool, note that the in and out points of the clip will always be the same. You will change the duration and speed of the clip according to the amount you "stretch" through the trim. For example, extending the outpoint of a clip will slow down the speed, while shortening the clip will speed up the duration.

Slip Tool (Y)

For visual editors who prefer to make their cuts based on specific images of the corresponding frames, Slip Tool is a great resource for working directly from the monitor. The slip tool "slips" the source of the clip in and out, but does not move it on the timeline.

Slide Tool (U)

Like the Slip Tool, the Slide Tool allows you to work with your clips drawn on the monitor. However, the slide tool works by "sliding" the clip on the timeline, while keeping the source in and out points the same. After sliding the clip, the tool will also close all the gaps.

Pen Tool (P)

Moving on to editing shortcuts and tools to help with keyframes and other elements (such as audio), the Pen Tool is your best choice for adding keyframes to any clip. By selecting the Pen Tool (P), you can click on any point on your clip to add a large number of features, including the opacity, scale, position, and even volume of the audio clip.

Currently there is a lot of competition in the market. As everybody’s technology and strategies are improving day by day, there is a huge opportunity to learn from the others businesses too. Our biggest learning comes from our Competitors. They can teach us many things which you can easily grasp and improve yourself. User Acceptance Test is a software testing procedure executed in a real-world scenario. UAT has two types - Alpha and Beta testing. Alpha testing takes place in the company whereas beta testing is field testing. The software is tested in real-world working conditions which takes place at the customer’s site.

Below are the followings points which can we learn from other competitors about beta testing.

1. The important thing that you can learn from your competitors is how they proceed with the beta testing and how they strategise their every action. They prepared several instructions before proceeding with the beta testing. Proper project planning should be written down and agreed upon by the other fellow mates. The objective of the beta testing and how you’re going to achieve that goal should be clear.

2. If you’ve ever looked at the team of other competitors who include professional beta testers, they are able to achieve their work more easily. You can also gather a team of professionals with experience in the beta testing. Their opinions and aspects would be totally different which will provide various working conditions which can be used for the beta testing procedure.

3. If you want to improve your structure of software or modifying it, you can learn how the other competitors take feedback from their users. By taking the proper feedback from their users they alter every single of the bugs or error which shows up during the beta testing procedure. You can also improve your software by taking feedbacks from your user when they start using the beta software. The feedback can be in the form of bugs report, quotes, suggestions or surveys.

4. Learn the major tools which are being used by the other software testing companies and try to understand the concepts of different tools which are used in the beta testing procedure. Thus it would be a great thing to learn from the other top companies and follow their footsteps. Try using different tools and adapt them.

5. Many of your competitors may use beta testing as a marketing strategy. They strategise their market planning and create awareness among the users about the beta software. It helps in creating a buzz among the beta users and creates eagerness among them. Thus you can also use this type of strategy to engage your beta users and create more eagerness among them. This will help in the involvement of a beta user if there is a new version of the beta software which is going to update.

6. If you want to make your application more useful, you need to understand what platforms you are using to test your software. Learn from the other competitors and see which platforms they are using for beta testing of their software. You can learn to release an app which can perform on more than one platform with more than one different ways of performance. This is the best way to make your software more usable by doing tests on different platforms which you can learn from your competitors.

7. You can use the tool which your competitors use to save time by taking the valuable feedback from the beta users. This will help you to take valuable feedback from the user directly to your tool services. You don’t have to ask them over a phone or visit them. This tool will help you to set up a particular email ID which can be used to catch feedback from the users.

8. You can learn simple to complex things from your competitors. The simplest thing which your competitors can teach you is the patience and integrity. You don’t have to falter when your QA testified software comes up with a lot of errors and bug while running beta testing. There are many companies which face failures and still come up with a great solution for their services.

9. Your competitors may use quantity of beta testers to test their software in a real You can also get a large number of beta testers who are professional in testing the software under real-work conditions. This will help you to get a plenty of feedback on different aspects of your software. Always look for the quality beta testers and invite them for beta testing.

10. The last thing you can learn from your competitors is how they handle their feedback and bugs reports. How fast they can be to provide the solution to that problem. You can have an effective team of experts which can take this valuable feedback and without wasting any time comes up with a solution and makes your software error Major companies solve their bug issue in just a few times after getting a feedback.

User Acceptance Technique is widely used for its efficiency and effectiveness.If we followed all steps of User Acceptance correctly then it will increase the satisfaction of a Customer.

UAT is a process of verifying that a Software or a System works appropriately as per the User Requirement.The main purpose of this testing is to ensure that a software system is all set to be in front of users in a real world.This testing phase also known as Beta and End-user testing and is mostly considered during the web development process to ensure that software is ready for the final installation for the Client site.

Types of User Acceptance Testing

1. Alpha & Beta Testing: Alpha testing is done by the staff members only on an internal whereas beta testing includes the Customer's environment with the help of some customer who will going to use our System or Software.
2. Black Box Testing: This type of functional testing includes all functionalities of the System without knowing the internal code structure.
3. Contract Acceptance Testing: In Contract type testing, software is tested against some criteria which are already predefined in a proper contract.
4. Operational Acceptance Testing: This type of Acceptance testing ensure that all the workflow used in system are working properly.
5. Regulation Acceptance Testing: Compliance Acceptance Testing helps in investigate the software fulfils all the guidelines of legal and governmental process.

Criteria Before Perform User Acceptance Testing

1. Entire application code should be up to date.
2. Integration testing, unit testing and System testing must be completed before we perform User Acceptance Testing.
3. There should not be any high/medium faults in the Integration phase of Testing.
4. There must be no major defect in the Regression Testing.
5. All the error/defects must get solved which we face during the testing and then testing should be done again to verify the error got fixed or not.

Involvement of Users in User Acceptance Testing:

The group is most essential for the UAT must include real end users that will going to perform a test on your system.The stakeholder and other group must incorporated that means an individual of every group is involved in the development phase must be in the team.

Start User Acceptance Testing:

After the explanation of UAT as above, you must get clear about what and why UAT must include in the software development phase. Mainly there are total of four steps that must be considered but it will depend on the number of user that will take advantage of software. The main criteria that must be followed in the software are the ‘working’ requirement of the assembled application. You can easily get a hang of it from the stories of users or system requirements. The second step is to create some test cases for UAT. User Acceptance Testcases are the test steps sets, expected results and execution conditions must be developed for some specific purpose.

Conclusion

These are some main points of the User Acceptance Testing that is used in the development cycle. The projects are reduced to the like of any errors that are elevated and it will reduce the total work required in the maintenance or development phase. On above all of that , you will get a happy and satisfied user that will give you more revenue.

In the previous article, we learned 5 areas or tips on Best practices for React JS developer.

In this article, we will learn more about areas or tips

6. Object Destructuring.
7. When pass value in props
8. Tags close it self.
9. Do not use underscore in any method name.
10. Use alt in img tag.

Object distracting

You can use object distracting

Not Good

return (
  <>
   {user.firstName}
  </>  
)

Good

const { firstName } = user;
return (
  <>
   {firstName}
  </>  
)

When pass value in props

When pass the data between two component that time use camelCase for prop names.

Not Good

<Home
  UserName="demo"
  phone_number={9898989898}
/>

Good

<Home
  userName="demo"
  phoneNumber={9898989898}
/>

Tags close it self

Any component in not use children so closing it self

Not Good

<Home userName="demo"></Home>

Good

<Home
  userName="demo"
/>

Do not use underscore in any method name

You don't need underscores in any React method.

Not Good

const _onClickHandler = () => {
  // Your code
}

Good

const onClickHandler = () => {
  // Your code
}

Use alt attribute in img tag

Do use alt attribute in the img tag. and don’t use picture or image name in your alt property.

Not Good

<img src="hello.png" />

Good

<img src="hello.png" alt="This is hero image" />

Finding new customers or retargeting the previous customers to buy your products or services is an important part of the entire sales process.

It may be tough for every people of your target to buy your product or service but to increase sales, you find which strategy works for you and try to use different types of a strategy used for buyer's intent.

Do you have great products but may not increase sales as you want? That's okay so don't worry below techniques maybe work for you.

Use the following marketing strategies to increase sales and gain the right customer who can buy your products or services easily.

First of all, we define customer journey in various steps:

1. Awareness of product
2. Interest in products
3. Evaluation of customer
4. Commitment about product or services
5. Sale products your buying intent person

Marketing strategies to increase sales

1. People want to benefit from buying products

People never buy products, they buy results that the product will give so start to identifier your customer and talk about the benefits of products.

Think you are buyers and you want to purchase products like TV so think about what benefits I will get If I buy a TV. Always people thoughts about If they buy a product from you then what benefits they will get and validity of the product.

2. Define customer

Who is the person who is interested in your products and buying them immediately?

Think about that person in your mind create a visual picture of that person.

Ask some specific questions

1. How old are they?
2. Are they male or female?
3. Do they have children?
4. How much money do they make?
5. Do they have an education?
6. The working field of the person?
7. Are they interested in your products?

3. Create videos of products

Video of product can give some extra benefits over photos so try to create an amazing video of particular products working or anything else.

In digital marketing, video is most popular to attract customers to buy products.

Short video or long video marketers use this media to convert more leads.

Types of video content for different use

• Client testimonials video
• Product review video
• Animation video
• How to use products video
• Videos for PPC advertising

4. Organic traffic through SEO

Create a blog content of products and describe of products in a blog how to use, which material used in this products, how they can benefit you, reviews of products, etc using best practices of SEO.

They take a long time to search for an appearance on first-page google but when it comes it gives you more benefits than paid services.

Best practices of SEO

• Optimized your image or video
• Best title tag that users can easily attract
• Always try to get benefits of users
• Create user-friendly content
• Links to other pages on your website that might interest the viewer

5. Pick the right price for a product

If you pick a high price of products then market rates, so definitely your product doesn't sell so choose price customer can afford it and you will get some income using sell products.

Do market research on your competitor and pick the right price for your products.

If you can make your product seem superior to your competitors, you can charge a higher price as you want but first, do market research.

In this chapter, learn about complete black hat SEO and solve your query related to this topic.

Black Hat SEO is a type of SEO technique that google doesn't recommend for sites ranking.

These techniques play with google algorithms and manipulate them for ranking in SERPs.

What is black hat SEO?

Black Hat SEO is totally against search engine guidelines that are used for website higher ranking in google SERP in a very short time.

Google does penalties that site that uses black hat SEO techniques for higher ranking in the search results.

What are black hat SEO techniques?

Black hat SEO techniques are techniques that manipulate google algorithms and play with the searcher's intent.

8 Different types of black hat SEO techniques

1. Use of paid links

Quality-related links drive traffic to websites also get ranking in search results page that's good.

People think if they buy backlinks from others then their websites get a higher ranking in google but paid links are against webmaster guidelines.

So that website never ranks but deindex in google is a high possibility.

So be avoid getting paid links from others that don't relevant to your niche.

If you do SEO for your site or client's website then avoid buying backlinks from others because google rank that site that matches user intent.

If buying links don't have quality content and do not match user intent that also affects your site so be aware when buying paid links.

2. Hidden text in a website

That is another black hat SEO technique that against search engine guidelines.

In white background put white text is a hidden text practice that user can't see but search engine crawler detects them and mark them as unwanted.

Putting text on behind images is also hidden text practice so avoid them getting penalties from Google.

Hidden text google guidelines

• Don't use a font size as 0
• Don't put text behind on image
• Don't use white text for white background

3. Article spinning

Article spinning is a technique that re-writes content synonyms as source information using tools or manually.

Copy article from other sites and do article spinning of copy content and put a new article on website but if you think Google doesn't catch this technique then you are totally wrong because google's algorithm is more powerful than you think.

So be avoid doing article spinning of content and don't paste in websites.

4. Cloaking

Clocking provides different results than users and search engines expected a per search intent that is a violation of webmasters guideline.

Clocking is an old technique of black hat SEO but today as well use this technique by people to manipulate google's algorithm and get the top ranking on SERPs.

But Google can easily catch this technique using powerful algorithms and do penalties that websites that use this types of techniques for ranking.

5. Keyword stuffing

Use the same keyword use several times on one page for most visibility in SERPs it's called keyword stuffing.

Using this content doesn't like natural and user friendly.

Keywords use in articles that should be natural, don't put anywhere that like spamming content.

6. Duplicate content

Duplicate content is that content that is copied from different sources and merges into one content but search engines prefer unique content for the webpage so avoid this technique for better results.

Duplicate content can't rank in google so focus only on unique content.

7. Link Farming

Create a thousand quantity backlinks for ranking in google. But 99% of backlinks are spamming and usually use black hat software like Scrape box, SEnukeTNG to create spamming backlinks.

Backlinks like comment backlinks, social bookmarking backlinks, web profile, article directory, wiki backlinks, gov., and education sites backlinks are automatically created using this software.

If you want to use then there is 4 way to use backlinks

1. Never use such backlinks on money sites. Use only on short-term micro-niche sites.
2. Never use such backlinks on your main website
3. Use it for 2 tier backlinks
4. You can get brand mentions from selected sites on your main site but without a hyperlink

8. Content Farming

Generated automatic content on websites using activated plugins.

Two disadvantages of auto blogging

1. Your visitor never become your audience
2. Rare chances of ranking an auto blogging site on google

Is black hat SEO illegal?

Black hat SEO is not illegal but try to avoid use, which violet search engine guidelines or go against the rules.

If Google catches this technique then will get a penalty or punishment from google in cases your site rank can down or the site can be removed in search engine.

At some time your site can rank using black hat SEO techniques but when googling algorithm catch then suddenly down your site or maybe removed in search engine.

What is a black hat tool?

Black hat tool using this you can do keyword stuffing, link spam, buy unethical link, etc.

Black hat SEO tool list

• XRumer
• SeNukeXcr
• Rankwyz
• GSA Search Engine Ranker
• Scrapebox
• Market Samurai
• The Best Spinner
• Tweet Attacks
• Traffic Booster Pro V3
• GScraper

Does black hat SEO Still Work?

The answer is yes because some money-making sites use black hat SEO for their website and get ranked in search engines and make money from this.

When google penalty these sites that already make money from this and they don't worry about that.

But most of the sites are made for the long-term future and they worry about that so these techniques are only for short-term results. Don't get long time results using this.

What are black hat backlinks?

Black hat backlinks are types of black hat SEO using keyword stuffing, cloaking, content scraping made backlinks for the website.

These types of backlinks create a negative effect on google SERPs.

Why you shouldn't use black hat SEO?

Create short-time results using this technique.

Poor experience for users using this black hat SEO technique.

The site can deindex or disappear in SERPs.

Reputation and authority of website can be down.

Conclusion:

After that question in your mind is should we use some black hat SEO techniques for the website but the answer is no because black hat SEO is temporary and after some times googles algorithm capt them and down your site from the search engine.

Today we are going to see best practices for React JS developer

1. Passing a boolean variables.
2. Do not define a function within a render
3. Naming of the components
4. Use of the Ternary Operators
5. Don’t Need Curly Braces in string

Passing a boolean variables

Passing boolean variables in to two components.

Not Good

return (
   <Home showTitle={true}/>
); 

Good

return (
   <Home showTitle/>
); 

Do not define a function within a render

Don’t define a function inside render.

Not Good

return (
    <button onClick={() => dispatch(ACTION_TO_SEND_DATA)}>
      Example
    </button>  
)

Good

const submitData = () => dispatch(ACTION_TO_SEND_DATA)
return (
  <button onClick={submitData}>  
    Example 
  </button>  
)

Naming of the components

You can use PascalCase for name of the components and camelCase for name of the instances.

Not Good

import createCard from './CreateCard';
const ReservationItem = <ReservationCard />;

Good

import CreateCard from './CreateCard';
const reservationItem = <ReservationCard />;

Use of the Ternary Operators

Developer how can use ternary operator in React js.

Not Good

const { role } = user;
if(role === 'ADMIN') {
  return <AdminUser />
}else{
  return <NormalUser />
} 

Good

const { role } = user;
return role === 'ADMIN' ? <AdminUser /> : <NormalUser />

Don’t Need Curly Braces in string

When developer passing string props to a children component

Not Good

return(
  <Navbar title={"My Special App"} />
)

Good

return(
<Navbar title="My Special App" />  
)

Hope this helps for React js developer

What is software marketing?

The process of creating a market for any software leads to software marketing. Simply put, it is a way to market any software in the digital space for more sales and promotion of software.

Every startup software company uses a variety of methods and techniques to harness the marketing resources available in the digital marketplace.

Each software has its own user goals and benefits. Target customers are also defined according to the software. You cannot market software like other products. There are specific strategies that every startup software company needs to follow. Every company wants to increase its profits. Investing in product marketing increases profits.

There are some rules before you devise a market strategy

• Create your story before you appear
• Set goals before you plan to achieve
• Create an excellent website
• Keep the website SEO friendly
• Email marketing campaigns

Create your story before you appear

There is a story behind every creation and also of your software. Think about your startup and the software you want to market.

Software companies make the mistake of giving too many technical explanations in their communications before the customer understands the operation of the software and what it does.

You need to create and tell a story that explains the idea of ​​software, its functions, what it offers to its customers, and ways to differentiate businesses from competitors.

Set goals before you plan to achieve

Before formulating a marketing strategy, you need to set goals. Why? It is not possible to know success unless the goal is to be achieved.

Setting goals is one way to understand what you want from a marketing strategy. Ask yourself, what are you planning to achieve with the market strategy? Is it to increase sales or to reach more target customers or is it a brand awareness marketing strategy?

Keep the website SEO friendly

You need to try to make your website SEO-friendly. It helps with organic traffic to websites. Visitors coming through organic traffic are mostly your potential customers. Give them what they want.

Email marketing campaigns

Email marketing is one of the best marketing strategies for startups. It helps build a database of potential customers as well as convert potential customers into sales. Drip email leads to sales leads by downloading sequence content or providing trial software links. Offering something for free in an email leads to your website.