Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase By Kevin McAuliffe
We AVid users have had a BIG problem, and that was working with footage that was not OMF or (now) MXF. Any footage that wasn't captured via the digitize tool needed to be imported and converted to either OMF or MXF, and in many cases, the process was excruciatingly long if files weren't rendered with the Avid Codec. Thankfully, with Media Composer 5, that is no longer the case.
...Read More »
Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase Part 2 By Kevin McAuliffe
With Media Composer version 5, Avid is moving in not only a forward direction, but in a bit of a sideways direction as well. Premiere Pro CS5 and Final Cut Pro are drag-and-drop editing applications. This means that you can not only drag clips from the preview window and drop it into your timeline, but you now have an extensive amount of flexibility when dragging clips around in your timeline as well.
...Read More »
Converting Flip Video To Other Video Formats By WIKI
Flip video converter is seen as the best way to convert flip video files. All Flip family support: Flip Mino, Flip Ultra, Flip MinoHD, Flip UltraHD, and new Flip SlideHD. Transfer and convert Flip video with Flip video converter!
...Read More »
Neo 3D Tutorial -- Muxing 2D CineForm clips for 3D By David Newman
Cineform CTO and co-founder David Newman demonstrates a brief tutorial for those getting started with 3D. This explains how to take separate Left and Right eye CineForm AVI or MOVs and multiplex them into a single CineForm 3D clip.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Creating a freeze frame and still image By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro looks at how to create a freeze frame and a still image in Final Cut Pro. He iterates that you can park the playhead to any part of the video and grab a still image. He shows how to grab the freeze frame using the Modify>Make Freeze frame drop down command. He then shows how to create a still image and how to choose the file format that Final Cut enables you to save to.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Variable Speed By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro shows how to use Final Cut Pro's variable speed control, showcasing how to change the speed of a clip over time. He detqails this with a clip, applying a qucik burst of speed, and then slowing down the clip again over time.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Rippling Delete By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro discusses ripple delete to have the markers move. He shows how to turn the ripple delete off and on, so you can have your markers move and not move, depending if the feature is turned on.
...Read More »
Slip Trim to Fit Music in Vegas Pro By Jeffrey P. Fisher
One advantage to being a Sony Vegas Pro user is how efficient the software makes you. By learning a few keyboard shortcuts, you can finish your projects faster.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Navigating your timeline with markers By Abba Shapiro
When you start getting a lot of markers in your timeline, being able to get from one marker to the next marker easily is pretty important. In this clip, host Abba Shapiro covers the three basic ways that you can navigate through your timeline with markers.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Exporting markers By Abba Shapiro
If you use markers a lot, you've probably put a lot of hard work into your notes and details as well as your transcriptions, and being able to export this information into a spreadsheet is incredibly useful In this clip, host Abba Shapiro discusses how to export all that information into a tab delineated file using the Markers List as text feature.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Transcribing into markers By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro shows how to transcribe narration or interviews into markers. He shows how to control Final Cut behind the Edit marker so he can type in the interview information, transcribing into markers.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Snapping and Markers By Abba Shapiro
Another great use of markers is being able to be precise in matching a video event with that of an audio event. In this clip, host Abba Shapiro shows how to use snapping and markers to match audio with video.
...Read More »
Shine in Vegas Pro By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Confession time. This tutorial's subject remains one of my favorite effects to use with titles. The essential look is to animate a light streak that travels across the surface of the title. You've seen this a million+ times, yet it's still an effective way to add a touch of pizzazz to otherwise static graphics.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Moving markers By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro specifies how precisely move markers to where you want them to be. He details several ways to move them, the first of which is numerically via the Edit Marker window, (which was the procedure to move markers in Final Cut Pro 1-6) as well as dragging them on the Timeline via the command key and dragging them on the Timeline, new in version 7. He also details how to remove markers from the Timeline.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Markers in use By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro specifies what each marker is supposed to be used for, such as color correction, fixing a shot, adding a title graphic . He details a shortcut on how to open up a marker, how to modify a marker, and change the color of the marker.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Markers By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro explains how to work with markers in Final Cut Pro 7. He explains what a marker is and why you would use it. A marker is a way that you can write a note to yourself when you are editing. He shows how to make a marker as well as how to modify a marker. He then looks at markers in a bit more detail, including how to add chapter markers, compression markers and Scoring markers, and what they do.
...Read More »
How to Convert MPEG to DVD on Mac OS X By WIKI
This step-to-step guide helps you to convert MPEG file to DVD on Mac and the output files can be played on a TV or on portable and home DVD players.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Colorizing black and white objects By Chad Perkins
In this clip, host Chad Perkins discusses how to colorize black and white objects, footage, and effects. He covers hue, saturation, and lightness. He applies tint to the footage to remap white to a color and black to another color. He also works with tri-tone, which enables you to map the midtones; color balance to colorize an object that has a lot of gray in an image.
...Read More »
How to Burn JVC MOD videos to DVD on the Mac By WIKI
So anyone who has purchased a JVC Everio HDD video camera has probably learned that they chose to use some god forsaken proprietary video format ? the .MOD extension. Many people would be happy with the .MOD file format if the software that came with the JVC Everio actually worked, and they have to seek converter software to convert MOD files to AVI, MPEG, RM, etc in order to playback and edit the videos they record. However, the conversion is actually unnecessary.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Luminance Correction By Chad Perkins
In this clip, host Chad Perkins looks at how to correct luminance, or brightness problems in your footage. He shows you the color corrections panel and discusses the auto levels and other auto effects, but also works in the levels effect, detailing the histogram which shows what is going on in your image, shadow areas, mid tones and highlights of the histogram.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Slowing down and speeding up video By Chad Perkins
In this clip, host Chad Perkins covers the task of slowing down and speeding up video. He details how to slow down video footage and work with the stretch values in a clip, which expands the duration of the clip, or shortens the duration of the clip. He also works in the Time/Stretch dialog box, and the Time Warp effect as well.
...Read More »
Slow, Fast, Reverse, and Freeze Motion in Sony Vegas Pro By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Changing the playback speed of video clips is a versatile way to either condense or extend them. You can accelerate sequences to show more in less time and you can slow down a section to reveal more detail. Even slight increases or decreases can be useful, such as slightly slowing down a clip to make a pan seem smoother or to lengthen a stock footage clip to fill a specific duration.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Applying video transitions By Chad Perkins
In this clip, host Chad Perkins shows how to apply video transitions in After Effects, which is a bit more complicated than applying video transitions in a video editing application. He shows the transitions category in After EFfects, and details how most transitions work in After Effects, detailing the parameters and transition completion, wide angle, feathering the edge, and so on.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Replace footage already in the Timeline By Chad Perkins
In this clip, host Chad Perkins details how to replace footage that you've already edited. He shows how to replace a clip with another clip, and the problem is he's already color corrected the footage and removed the green screen footage, and edited and trimmed the clip in the timeline. He then shows how to delete and replace a layer, and selects the footage that will be used to replace what is in the timeline.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Video Concepts By Chad Perkins
In this clip, host Chad Perkins shows how to create a brand new composition from scratch, and in so doing, will teach some of the essential concepts for working with video. He details the presets, how they are divided into categories, the difference between NTSC and PAL, and to ensure that you create your projects based on the broadcast standard where you will show your video. He also discusses how video must behave based on the settings.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Reading Timecode By Chad Perkins
In this clip, host Chad Perkins details how to read and understand timecode. He shows the display of timecode and shows how to read the timecode, from left to right, hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. He shows how to advance in time as well, how to scrub the time display right or left, and how to go to a specific frame.
...Read More »
Diana's Top Ten Final Cut Pro 7 Features#1 - Global Transitions By Diana Weynand
There's a very good reason why this new Final Cut Pro 7 feature is my #1 pick. It's because it's the one I'm going to use the most. Not only that, but it's extremely easy to use and very intuitive. What are global transitions anyway? Well, rather than apply one transition to on edit point at a time, you can now apply the default transition to all edit points in an entire sequence at one time.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #2: Creating an Alpha Transition By Diana Weynand
Those of you who work with a lot of graphics may have already created alpha transitions in other apps. Now this option exists inside Final Cut Pro 7. The alpha transition is one of the transition effects that you can access from the Effect menu or the Effects tab in the Browser. It is part of the Wipe transitions.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #5: Speed Changes By Diana Weynand
Whether or not you have used the Final Cut Pro speed functions, you're sure to love the new speed changes. Simple-yet elegant and powerful. You will be able to change speed in your clips easily and with a lot of flexibility.
...Read More »
AVCHD Essentials: get, play, edit and convert AVCHD video on Mac By WIKI
AVCHD is a high definition (HD) digital video camera recorder format recording 1080i and 720p signals onto MiniDVD discs, MiniDV tape, Hard Drive, and digital camera Memory Cards. AVCHD recordings made on MiniDVD discs can be played back on some Blu-ray disc players, however, AVCHD with a .M2TS and .MTS file extension can not be played back on standard DVD players and most portable players. This tutorial will explain how to get AVCHD video off HD camcorder to Mac, how to play, edit and convert AVCHD video on Mac, including Snow Leopard.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #7 - Improved Markers By Diana Weynand
You know those little post-it note pads that come in multiple colors? Ok, admit it now. Do you ever color-code your notes? Maybe yellow notes are financial, pink ones are hot to-do items. Well with Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use color to label your markers in a very similar way. There are several other marker improvements as well.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro By Jeffrey P. Fisher
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview By Diana Weynand
In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time.
...Read More »
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Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase
We AVid users have had a BIG problem, and that was working with footage that was not OMF or (now) MXF. Any footage that wasn't captured via the digitize tool needed to be imported and converted to either OMF or MXF, and in many cases, the process was excruciatingly long if files weren't rendered with the Avid Codec. Thankfully, with Media Composer 5, that is no longer the case.
...Read More »
Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase Part 2
With Media Composer version 5, Avid is moving in not only a forward direction, but in a bit of a sideways direction as well. Premiere Pro CS5 and Final Cut Pro are drag-and-drop editing applications. This means that you can not only drag clips from the preview window and drop it into your timeline, but you now have an extensive amount of flexibility when dragging clips around in your timeline as well.
...Read More »
Converting Flip Video To Other Video Formats
Flip video converter is seen as the best way to convert flip video files. All Flip family support: Flip Mino, Flip Ultra, Flip MinoHD, Flip UltraHD, and new Flip SlideHD. Transfer and convert Flip video with Flip video converter!
...Read More »
Neo 3D Tutorial -- Muxing 2D CineForm clips for 3D
Cineform CTO and co-founder David Newman demonstrates a brief tutorial for those getting started with 3D. This explains how to take separate Left and Right eye CineForm AVI or MOVs and multiplex them into a single CineForm 3D clip.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Creating a freeze frame and still image
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro looks at how to create a freeze frame and a still image in Final Cut Pro. He iterates that you can park the playhead to any part of the video and grab a still image. He shows how to grab the freeze frame using the Modify>Make Freeze frame drop down command. He then shows how to create a still image and how to choose the file format that Final Cut enables you to save to.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Subclips into markers
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro discusses how to use subclipping using markers. He shows how to turn markers into subclips based upon the original markers in the movie.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Variable Speed
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro shows how to use Final Cut Pro's variable speed control, showcasing how to change the speed of a clip over time. He detqails this with a clip, applying a qucik burst of speed, and then slowing down the clip again over time.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Rippling Delete
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro discusses ripple delete to have the markers move. He shows how to turn the ripple delete off and on, so you can have your markers move and not move, depending if the feature is turned on.
...Read More »
Slip Trim to Fit Music in Vegas Pro
One advantage to being a Sony Vegas Pro user is how efficient the software makes you. By learning a few keyboard shortcuts, you can finish your projects faster.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Changing clip speed
Changing the speed of a clip is something that you will do frequently as an editor. In this clip, host Abba Shapiro discusses several ways to achieve this in Final Cut Pro.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Navigating your timeline with markers
When you start getting a lot of markers in your timeline, being able to get from one marker to the next marker easily is pretty important. In this clip, host Abba Shapiro covers the three basic ways that you can navigate through your timeline with markers.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Exporting markers
If you use markers a lot, you've probably put a lot of hard work into your notes and details as well as your transcriptions, and being able to export this information into a spreadsheet is incredibly useful In this clip, host Abba Shapiro discusses how to export all that information into a tab delineated file using the Markers List as text feature.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Transcribing into markers
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro shows how to transcribe narration or interviews into markers. He shows how to control Final Cut behind the Edit marker so he can type in the interview information, transcribing into markers.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Snapping and Markers
Another great use of markers is being able to be precise in matching a video event with that of an audio event. In this clip, host Abba Shapiro shows how to use snapping and markers to match audio with video.
...Read More »
Shine in Vegas Pro
Confession time. This tutorial's subject remains one of my favorite effects to use with titles. The essential look is to animate a light streak that travels across the surface of the title. You've seen this a million+ times, yet it's still an effective way to add a touch of pizzazz to otherwise static graphics.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Moving markers
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro specifies how precisely move markers to where you want them to be. He details several ways to move them, the first of which is numerically via the Edit Marker window, (which was the procedure to move markers in Final Cut Pro 1-6) as well as dragging them on the Timeline via the command key and dragging them on the Timeline, new in version 7. He also details how to remove markers from the Timeline.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Markers in use
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro specifies what each marker is supposed to be used for, such as color correction, fixing a shot, adding a title graphic . He details a shortcut on how to open up a marker, how to modify a marker, and change the color of the marker.
...Read More »
Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Markers
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro explains how to work with markers in Final Cut Pro 7. He explains what a marker is and why you would use it. A marker is a way that you can write a note to yourself when you are editing. He shows how to make a marker as well as how to modify a marker. He then looks at markers in a bit more detail, including how to add chapter markers, compression markers and Scoring markers, and what they do.
...Read More »
How to Convert MPEG to DVD on Mac OS X
This step-to-step guide helps you to convert MPEG file to DVD on Mac and the output files can be played on a TV or on portable and home DVD players.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Colorizing black and white objects
In this clip, host Chad Perkins discusses how to colorize black and white objects, footage, and effects. He covers hue, saturation, and lightness. He applies tint to the footage to remap white to a color and black to another color. He also works with tri-tone, which enables you to map the midtones; color balance to colorize an object that has a lot of gray in an image.
...Read More »
How to Burn JVC MOD videos to DVD on the Mac
So anyone who has purchased a JVC Everio HDD video camera has probably learned that they chose to use some god forsaken proprietary video format ? the .MOD extension. Many people would be happy with the .MOD file format if the software that came with the JVC Everio actually worked, and they have to seek converter software to convert MOD files to AVI, MPEG, RM, etc in order to playback and edit the videos they record. However, the conversion is actually unnecessary.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Luminance Correction
In this clip, host Chad Perkins looks at how to correct luminance, or brightness problems in your footage. He shows you the color corrections panel and discusses the auto levels and other auto effects, but also works in the levels effect, detailing the histogram which shows what is going on in your image, shadow areas, mid tones and highlights of the histogram.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Slowing down and speeding up video
In this clip, host Chad Perkins covers the task of slowing down and speeding up video. He details how to slow down video footage and work with the stretch values in a clip, which expands the duration of the clip, or shortens the duration of the clip. He also works in the Time/Stretch dialog box, and the Time Warp effect as well.
...Read More »
Slow, Fast, Reverse, and Freeze Motion in Sony Vegas Pro
Changing the playback speed of video clips is a versatile way to either condense or extend them. You can accelerate sequences to show more in less time and you can slow down a section to reveal more detail. Even slight increases or decreases can be useful, such as slightly slowing down a clip to make a pan seem smoother or to lengthen a stock footage clip to fill a specific duration.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Applying video transitions
In this clip, host Chad Perkins shows how to apply video transitions in After Effects, which is a bit more complicated than applying video transitions in a video editing application. He shows the transitions category in After EFfects, and details how most transitions work in After Effects, detailing the parameters and transition completion, wide angle, feathering the edge, and so on.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Replace footage already in the Timeline
In this clip, host Chad Perkins details how to replace footage that you've already edited. He shows how to replace a clip with another clip, and the problem is he's already color corrected the footage and removed the green screen footage, and edited and trimmed the clip in the timeline. He then shows how to delete and replace a layer, and selects the footage that will be used to replace what is in the timeline.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Video Concepts
In this clip, host Chad Perkins shows how to create a brand new composition from scratch, and in so doing, will teach some of the essential concepts for working with video. He details the presets, how they are divided into categories, the difference between NTSC and PAL, and to ensure that you create your projects based on the broadcast standard where you will show your video. He also discusses how video must behave based on the settings.
...Read More »
Adobe After Effects CS4 Essential Training: Reading Timecode
In this clip, host Chad Perkins details how to read and understand timecode. He shows the display of timecode and shows how to read the timecode, from left to right, hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. He shows how to advance in time as well, how to scrub the time display right or left, and how to go to a specific frame.
...Read More »
Diana's Top Ten Final Cut Pro 7 Features#1 - Global Transitions
There's a very good reason why this new Final Cut Pro 7 feature is my #1 pick. It's because it's the one I'm going to use the most. Not only that, but it's extremely easy to use and very intuitive. What are global transitions anyway? Well, rather than apply one transition to on edit point at a time, you can now apply the default transition to all edit points in an entire sequence at one time.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #2: Creating an Alpha Transition
Those of you who work with a lot of graphics may have already created alpha transitions in other apps. Now this option exists inside Final Cut Pro 7. The alpha transition is one of the transition effects that you can access from the Effect menu or the Effects tab in the Browser. It is part of the Wipe transitions.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #3: Exporting Blu-ray Discs
Are you creating a project in HD? Want to export it to an HD disc? Well now you can. With Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use the Share function to export a sequence to Blu-ray disc.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #5: Speed Changes
Whether or not you have used the Final Cut Pro speed functions, you're sure to love the new speed changes. Simple-yet elegant and powerful. You will be able to change speed in your clips easily and with a lot of flexibility.
...Read More »
AVCHD Essentials: get, play, edit and convert AVCHD video on Mac
AVCHD is a high definition (HD) digital video camera recorder format recording 1080i and 720p signals onto MiniDVD discs, MiniDV tape, Hard Drive, and digital camera Memory Cards. AVCHD recordings made on MiniDVD discs can be played back on some Blu-ray disc players, however, AVCHD with a .M2TS and .MTS file extension can not be played back on standard DVD players and most portable players. This tutorial will explain how to get AVCHD video off HD camcorder to Mac, how to play, edit and convert AVCHD video on Mac, including Snow Leopard.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #7 - Improved Markers
You know those little post-it note pads that come in multiple colors? Ok, admit it now. Do you ever color-code your notes? Maybe yellow notes are financial, pink ones are hot to-do items. Well with Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use color to label your markers in a very similar way. There are several other marker improvements as well.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview
In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time.
...Read More »
AV-HS450 16+ Input HD/SD Switcher w/ dual screen MultiViewer
Vegas Pro 8 + Free Vegas Seminar Series
