A film school grad contacted me recently and told me how he was really getting into compositing and color correction. He really enjoyed Adobe After Effects and edited with Premiere Pro. His dilemma was as a recent grad he really wanted to start making money but all his opportunities were from people who cut their projects in Final Cut Pro. How was he to do his work, including some audio tweaks if he was not an Apple guy?
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This week's podcast is part 2 of a 2 part series on how to create a slide show in Premiere Pro CS3. Last week, Host Jeff Schell showed you how to use the Automate to Sequence utility that quickly builds a slide-show in your sequence with transitions between each image. This week, Jeff focuses on adding scale and position keyframes to those images to achieve slow zooms into and subtle pans across the images. ...Read More »
In this week's podcast, host Jeff Schell shows you how to create a photograph slide-show in Premiere Pro CS3. In this part 1 of a 2 part podcast, Jeff walks you through the best methods for using the "Automate to Sequence" feature. Jeff introduces some of the advanced preferences available when working with still images in Premiere Pro CS3, such as the "scale to frame size" option. ...Read More »
In this week's podcast, host Jeff Schell shows newcomers to Premiere Pro CS3 how to use the Audio Gain feature. Audio Gain analyzes your audio clip, and determines how much it can increase the loudness of the audio clip, up to the digital threshold. Clips that are already loud will only increase a little bit in loudness; quiet clips can increase much more. In the end, the goal of the Audio Gain is to have all of your clips output at equal volume levels....Read More »
Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 is consumer video editing application that is designed to make it fairly easy to edit digital video for playback on the web, video tape, or on your computer. The application has been updated with a new interface and some new enhancements as well. Within the scope of this first look, some of the new features to this editing tool will be discussed as well as the workflow for those who are not familiar with this consumer level NLE....Read More »
In this week's podcast, Host Jeff Schell walks you through the many options available for exporting your finished program in Premiere Pro CS3. Jeff explains when to use each option, and the differences between exporting via File > Export > Movie, and File > Export > Adobe Media Encoder....Read More »
Fake MP3 files have duped thousands of computer users into download
annoying and potentially dangerous malware into their systems. People
expecting free music are instead directed to download ...
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As a sinus sufferer, I don't like earbuds either for my music player or as a mobile phone headset. You continually feel as if you should be blowing your nose, every sound echoes around inside your skull and when you speak, because you cannot hear yourself properly, you tend to shout; the more you shout, the more it rattles around your head.
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In the past I have queried whether people would actually watch video on a small screen; I d now say they will as long as the quality is there. Today though, a player even smaller than a Zune or an iPOD " more like two match boxes end to end " arrived called a T.sonic 850 and it is astonishing.
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The Kodak EasyShare line of digital cameras is one of the most successful digital camera line for the company because they are really easy to use, and their user interfaces are some of the easiest to navigate. The company has recently shipped the Kodak EasyShare M1033, a sub $200, 10 megapixel digital camera that features a 3X optical zoom lens (35-105 35mm equivalent) and a 3-inch wide angle LCD.
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Want to make a dynamic photo slideshow and put it on Youtube? Sure you can do that by means of many flash slideshow software. This guide explains how to do that with Wondershare Photo Story Platinum in a few simple steps without Flash skills.
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