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Video-Based Tutorial: By Richard John Jenkins

Search Engine Optimization: How searchers search

In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins takes another look at how searchers use search engines to search. He shows this by trying to find an SEO firm in his neighborhood. He discusses how most people start searches broad to narrow, and he discusses how SEO's make the mistake of optimizing sites for very broad terms. You don't want to optimize sites for broad terms unless you don't have any competition. He explains it in this clip. Read More

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

Product Review: By Matthew David

Microsoft ships Windows 7- should you buy it?

Did you hear? Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows - should you buy it? Windows 7 is here. In this article you will find out if Windows 7 is worth the wait and whether or not you should upgrade. Or is Windows 7 just another Vista? Read More

Quick Tip: By Diana Weynand

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

Project Profile:

Tonal Sets Uplifting Mood For A&E's Recovery Project Campaign

Following the success of the Emmy-winning series "Intervention," A&E has created The Recovery Project, a multimedia and community based outreach program designed to raise awareness about addiction and how it is treatable and recovery is possible. A key component to the project are two moving TV spots featuring a powerful, anthemic score composed by Alex Lasarenko, Creative Director of music/sound design house Tonal. Read More

Product Review: By Robert Jensen

PhotoAcute Studio

Most of you have heard of High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, where you shoot several shots of the same scene, each at a different exposure, then combine them in software to produce an image with extended dynamic range that brings out details in both the highlights and shadows. Read More

Product Review: By Kevin McAuliffe

Sorenson Squeeze 6

These days, it seems as though every company has an application for taking your edited files and processing them for the web, and many of those applications are included with the editing bundle you purchased. Adobe has Adobe's Media Encoder, Final Cut Studio has Compressor, and there are the standalone applications such as Episode, and even QuickTime can do it as well. Read More

WiKi Tip: By WIKI

Get AVCHD M2TS and burn M2TS to DVD on the Mac

The .m2ts(AVCHD H.264,VC-1, MPEG-2 HD) file format is given to video/audio files created by certain Sony Camcorder models. How to Burn M2TS to dvd on Mac? Read More

Tutorial: By Jeffrey P. Fisher

Creating Effective Reflections in Sony Vegas Pro

Here's how to add a mirror reflection that makes your titles and logos stand out. It's quick and easy inside Sony Vegas Pro and it looks great. Read More

WiKi Tip: By WIKI

Compress DVD9 Movies to DVD5 Discs on the Macintosh

Do you have trouble compressing DVD9 to DVD5 on Mac? Professional DVD Copy Pro can help you fast copy and compress D9 Movies to D5 without losing original quality. It can also provide 3 types of copying (Main Movie Copy, Customized Copy and Full Copy), which will satisfy your specific copying needs, especially for backup. Read More

Product Review: By Joshua Virata

X-Rite's Color Munki Photo

Ever had the problem where you have a picture on your computer and then print it out and the color doesn't turn out the same? I can tell you from experience that that has happened to me many times before. But now I don't have to worry about this problem thanks to ColorMunki Photo by X-Rite. ColorMunki lets you calibrate displays, projectors and printers so that the colors in your pictures or media are accurate every time. Read More

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The iMM183 Hi-Fi Dual Dock Alarm Clock ($149) features NOA/S.A.M.E Weather Hazard Alert system, and can dock iPhones and iPods simultaneously. So when you are snoozing in bed and that impending foul weather comes bearing down, you'll know it th... Read More

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