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OCTOBER 09, 2002 Everyday more and more companies are putting video content on their site. Often it is in the form of a QuickTime movie, or streaming media files like Windows Media or Real. Providing content to viewers in this fashion is great as it allows the visitor to get more information than they would be able to simply by reading words. |
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NOVEMBER 08, 2002 Everyone wants their video to look more like film. There is no way to make your video look exactly like film because of the inherent differences between the two media, but with some tweaking, you can emulate the look of film transferred to video. This tutorial discusses five tips for shooting on DV to make it more film-like. |
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NOVEMBER 15, 2002 I just finished a major video project and for the delivery requirements the client stated she needed 120 VHS tapes and 40 DVDs. The VHS tapes were not a problem; there is a dubbing facility next door. However, trying to find a place locally that could duplicate DVDs in a short turn around time (clients always need it tomorrow) is impossible. Fortunately I was armed with a couple of Macs and lots of blank DVDs. |
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NOVEMBER 20, 2002 In addition to the many improvements discreet has made to cleaner 6, one of the nice new features is the ability to have cleaner automatically upload your streaming file after it has been encoded. |
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November 11, 2003 While Premiere Pro may be the bee’s knees for editors who are eager to take advantage of some of the higher functions of the inexpensive non-linear editing system, Adobe has taken out one of the features that made Premiere a fun program to use. With the built in Stop Motion Capture feature of previous versions, the ability to capture time-lapse video directly from your DV camera was great. If you still have a copy of Premiere 6.5 sitting around, you may want to keep a copy on your system for just this reason. |
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December 4, 2003 particleIllusion 3.0 is a great particle system for generating effects such as fire, laser blasts, smoke and more. With the emitters in PI3 you can create source shapes that are points, lines, circles, and squares. But what if you want to have the emitter be a custom shape? What do you do if you want to create set something on fire and have the fire emit from the shape? |
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JANUARY 19, 2004 It is no surprise when I say 3D animation is everywhere. Nearly every show, commercial, and movie you see has some type of 3D work in it. While processor speeds have increased our productivity, those speeds also cause us to want to do more, which just so happens to increase render times. One of the more render intensive aspects of 3D animation is applying Depth of Field. This greatly increases render times and if done wrong guarantees you’ll be going back to re-render again. What would be better is to take a single frame (or series of frames) and apply DOF in a compositing application. In order to do this, you need to save it in a RPF or RLA format. In the first of this three part tutorial, we’ll create an animation in NewTek’s LightWave 3D (v. 7.5) so we can then take those frames into After Effects for 3D depth work (part 2), and even add some 3D text using Invigorator (part 3). |
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APRIL 10, 2004 When you create a QuickTime VR movie you provide your audience with a unique way to explore an environment. This environment could be your brick and mortar store, a special event location, or even a television studio. While your user may be able to navigate around the area, what really makes a QuickTime VR movie shine is the ability to create interactivity via hotspots. |
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August 4, 2005 In addition to the slew of new features and tools in NewTek’s LightWave 8, improvements to the type of information exported with a file also received a boost. With L[8] you now have the ability to export camera data with your RPF file and have that information interpreted by Adobe After Effects 6.5. |
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August 05, 2004 Made most famous in the film Saving Private Ryan, the bleach bypass method of treating film gives a very unique look to a project. Since most videographers don’t have the luxury of spending money on film to achieve this look, they usually turn to mimicking the look in post. In this exercise, I’ll show how to do the effect in Adobe After Effects, Avid Xpress DV, discreet’s Combustion, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro 4. |
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September 10, 2004 When you post a streaming or downloadable file online for the world to view, who’s to say some nefarious no-do-well won’t pilfer your work and claim it as their own? Or even worse, what happens if someone downloads your opus and then forgets what website they got it from? To protect your media or to ensure that users remember your site, you should watermark your media. With Squeeze 4, you have the option to do this built right in. |
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April 10, 2005 So you’ve played all the games currently available for the PSP (all five of them), and you’ve watched Spider-Man 2 on your UMB. Now you want convert and import your own movies into your PSP. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to customize the thumbnail used for the movie file. |
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August 28, 2005 Within the last two months, podcasting has become the fastest adopted new technology. Until a recently, podcasting was only known to the audiophiles, bloggers, and Adam Curry fans. But what is it, and more importantly how can you do it? In this first installment Stephen Schleicher pulls aside the curtain. |
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September 14, 2005 Now that you have had some time to explore the world of Podcasting ( see Podcasting 101 ), you are ready to do your own show. But where do you start? How do you record your own show? In this installment, Stephen Schleicher talks about some of the ways you can get your wonderful voice into a file ready for podcasting. |
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September 27, 2005 In the last installment of the podcasting series, I walked you through some of the options available for recording your totally awesome podcast. While that article focused on single and multi mic recording when everyone is in the same location, what happens if you want to do an interview with someone who is on the other side of the world? |
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October 11, 2005 You’ve made it this far. In this mini course you have learned how to subscribe to a podcast, how to record your own show, and even how to hook up interviews from across the miles. You are now ready to create your RSS/XML feed. There is a bit of coding involved, but it’s easy once you follow these steps. |
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November 30, 2005 You have made it through our Podcasting 101 series, and have successfully been creating a podcast that everyone enjoys. Now it is time to move to the next level, creating enhanced podcasts. What is an enhanced podcast, and why should you be creating them? |
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February 17, 2006 Say the name Ken Burns and most people instantly recognize the documentary story telling style of zooming and panning still images. Scanners now have the capability of capturing high quality images without a camera. If you want to mimic the Ken Burns effect, then look no further than Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. |
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August 19, 2006 Whenever you install GarageBand, or the numerous Jam Packs available from Apple, the primary hard drive is the only option available. This can quickly lead to a hard drive full of files that may not be used that often. Since there is no other option available for storing these loops during the install, what is a budding musician or podcaster to do? |
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August 26, 2006 I received a great deal of feedback regarding my quick tutorial on getting GarageBand to recognize loops on an external hard drive, and several follow up questions asking if it was possible to do something similar with iPhoto. The answer is yes, with a but… |
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October 10, 2006 My sister got married a couple of weeks ago, and during the rehearsal dinner the families played a nice slideshow of the soon to be married couple. It was a trip down memory lane filled with pictures of the two when they were younger, dating, engagement, and so on. But then I discovered the entire production was built in PowerPoint. |