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125 Final Cut Pro Professional Training Tutorials
We thought it would be useful to bring all our Final Cut Pro training tutorials (all so far that is!) into one place so you could have easy access. So here they are: 138 Final Cut Pro training clips, hands on tutorials and quick tips! Oh yes - they are free!
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HowAudio: Keyboard Commands in Digital Performer
In this video, host Les Brockmann shows the fastest way to becoming a DP power user by wending away around the application via the keyboard as opposed to pulling the menus for various commands. He discusses some of the keyboard commands that are helpful in navigating Digital Performer.
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HowAudio: Digital Performer Screen Features and User Interface
In this video, host Les Brockmann discusses the general use of windows throughout Digital Performer. He discusses the concept of a consolidated window rather than separate windows that are stacked one on top of another, DP is designed to have one large window that can be divided into different sections or panes.
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Working With Compressed HD In The Comfort Of Your Own Home
Much like vinyl, VHS and paper (movie, plane, concert, etc.) tickets, large post production houses are the way of the past. With the inception of Pro Res (Apple) and DNX (Avid), I (or my clients for that matter) don't need to spend excessive amounts of money to use a facility to edit HD content. I can do it in the comfort of my own home. In this article I'm going to break down the three main things you need to edit compressed HD from the comfort of your own home.
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Exporting a Media Composer edit to Soundtrack Pro
For the second of my three part article series, I will look at the second most important part of your edit, and that is the sound mix. In many cases, the sound mix can make or break your show. Avid has always been the leader when it comes to taking an edit from the Media Composer (MC), and sending it via OMF to ProTools for a mix, and then sending it back to MC for the final output.
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Working With 3D Elements In Adobe's Photoshop CS3 Extended
Whether I am working on a broadcast or print project, I use Photoshop a lot, and these days I always find myself using elements from many different sources when creating my Photoshop masterpiece. I thought that in this tutorial I would show you how easy it is to use 3D Studio Max (.3ds) files in Adobe's Photoshop CS3 Extended.
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Being Your Own Virtual Studio With Adobe's Ultra CS3
These days, one thing I hear more than anything is "We would like you to produce this corporate video for us. By the way, we pretty much have no budget, so we need to keep costs VERY low." At this point, I'm left to come up with a creative way to give someone something for nothing, which seems to have become my specialty these days, and let me tell you that there's no better program to make something from nothing than Adobe's Ultra CS3.
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Podcasting with GarageBand 3: Recording a Podcast
The hottest new way to listen to audio--podcasting--meets GarageBand 3, the ingenious Apple software most noted for its music-making capabilities. In Podcasting with GarageBand 3, Scott Bourne takes you step by step through optimizing GarageBand 3 for podcasting, working with track settings for professional-sounding audio, and choosing the best hardware for recording music or vocals.
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Video Time Stretching In After Effects CS3
In our ninth and last segment from the After Effects CS3 Essential Training series Chad demonstrates how video sequences can be shortened or lengthened using Time Stretching in Adobe After Effects CS3.
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Performing A Video Slip Edit In After Effects CS3
In the eighth segment from the After Effects CS3 Essential Training series Chad demonstrates how a video slip edit can be easily be performed in Adobe After Effects CS3.
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