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Tutorial: By Kevin McAuliffe

Creating A Cool Credit Crawl With Digital Anarchy's Toonit! And After Effects' Levels Effect

About a week ago, I heard another one of my favorite lines from a producer. "Can you create a cool look for our show's credits?" Since I'm always up for a good challenge, I came up with a very interesting look for the end credits for a piece I was working on, and I thought that for this article, I would show a quick and easy way to create a great credit look for any show you are working on. For this tutorial, I am going to use Digital Anarchy's Toonit! and Adobe After Effects' Levels effect. Read More

I had a reader e-mail me with an interesting question. The problem that they were experiencing was that they were in the field shooting HD, and wanted to capture the footage they shot into their edit system that they had with them, but the only VTR they had was the camera itself. Most people might say "No problem, just hook up the HD-SDI, and capture your video and audio!". That is true, except for one problem. Read More

Product Review: By Heath McKnight

Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core Mac Pro

Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By David Basulto

Trashing Preferences in Final Cut Pro

Editing in Final Cut Pro is wonderful for me. I love the layout and its ease of use. To learn the basic controls is easy and a quick learn. What I wasn't prepared for was the lovely (and I mean that in the most sarcastic manner) beach balls that pop up when I am in the middle of working. "What is going on now?" I would ask myself. I would scrub the timeline only to find myself locking up and that vicious beach ball appearing from the dark depths of my mighty Mac Pro. Read More

Tutorial: By Kevin McAuliffe

Gain Adjust: Absolute vs Relative Audio In Final Cut Pro

Nothing drives an editor crazier than when they have gotten to the end of a project, and the producer/director says "Can you bring the on-camera dialog up 5db across the board?" Most editors, at this point, would run screaming out of the edit suite, as it always takes forever to go clip by clip to raise the audio universally, especially if you have adjusted that specific track to varying levels throughout your entire show. Read More

Product Review: By John Virata

Dymo LabelWriter TwinTurbo

The Dymo LabelWriter TwinTurbo is a LabelWriter designed for small office home office use that enables you to print a variety of address labels, file folder labels, shipping labels, Internet postage, name badges, and even the new Dymo postage Stamps right from the convenience of your home office. Read More

Tutorial: By Craig Elliott Hanna

DVD-9 Compatibility

With the advent of inexpensive desktop DVD authoring applications, it's now possible for almost anyone to make a DVD on their MAC or PC. And with replication facilities accepting recordable DVDs as masters, the workflow has become even easier and more streamlined than in the past. But just because you can make a DVD that plays on your computer or set top DVD player at home, doesn't mean when you replicate and distribute your DVD it will work correctly or play on most or a majority of DVD players. Read More

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