Fresh off its invasion of Canada, Netflix recently announced a deal with NBC/Universal that will add a bunch of the entertainment company’s network and cable TV offerings to Netflix’s streaming service. Starting this week, Netflix Watch Instantly users will have access to * Episodes from every season of Saturday Night Live, including day-after broadcast of […]
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Todd’s Tips – Easy Video Importation into iDVD
While iDVD is one of the simplest DVD creation programs out there, sometimes it can throw folks for a loop. Say for example, you had a video that you made and it’s lingering in some folder somewhere. You open up iDVD, find a template and then what? Now, you can use the “Import” command […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Video Tutorials for Adobe Applications
There are zillions of videos and tutorials on the web about Adobe’s products. While many of these can be useful and some of them even dead accurate, why go to the barrel for an apple when you can get it off the tree. Here’s the tree: Adobe’s Design Center Video Workshop. The workshop includes tutorials on 47 […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Simple CSS Tutorial
Lately we’ve had some requests for CSS help here in Media Services. Apparently there are some classes here that have their students hand code CSS for various projects. Moreover, for anyone in the web design, communications or journalism worlds, it’s good to have some idea of what CSS is and what it can do. This […]
Continue reading11th Annual Human Rights Film Series in Underway!
The School of Communication’s Center for Social Media is co-presenting the 11th Annual Human Rights Film Series along with the AU Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Films will be screened on Thursdays between September 23 and October 28 from 5:30pm – 8:00pm at the American University Katzen Arts Center, […]
Continue reading3 Picks From Werner Herzog!
Werner Herzog was on WAMU 88.5FM last week talking about three films that he highly recommends you see: Treasure of the Sierra Madre – HU DVD 1022Viva Zapata – HU VHS 1657Swing Time – HU VHS 7048 Read about it here or… Listen to the WAMU/NPR segment here: Here is a list of some of […]
Continue readingHappy Birthday Cheryl Hines!
Today Cheryl Hines turns 45 years old. She is most well known for her role as Cheryl David, Larry David’s wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm. If you haven’t seen this TV show, it’s a must see; especially for Seinfeld fans. Also, check her out in the 2007 film, Waitress (written and directed by Adrienne Shelley). […]
Continue readingAU Library Has Unveiled a New Unified Search – SearchBox!
Have you ever wanted to search the library’s web resources all at once? Find both books and articles with just one search engine? Your dream is very near reality because AU Library has added SearchBox. With SearchBox, library researchers can search simultaneously the ALADIN Catalog and approximately ninety percent (yes, 90%!) of the library’s electronic […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Extracting Audio in iMovie
Let’s say, for example, you have to do a project about campus. You get a FlipCam from Media Services and you shoot some video. You record some voice-over and you’re ready to put your video together. But, when you look over your footage you find that the audio from the footage you shot of campus […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Shooting Video for iMovie
Using the right tools to edit your video is important, but even more important is capturing the best video possible, even before you start editing. A good editor can make a good movie from bad footage, but with good footage, he or she can make something great. In this short video tutorial, you can learn […]
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