Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 is indeed available here in Media Services. It can be found on four of our Macs in the Digital Media Studio: DMS workstations 5 – 8. It can also be found for PC next door to Media Services in the Library’s E-Classroom at the standing scan scanner station in corner. Feel […]
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DMS [Awesome] Help –
Watch this and tell me it’s not an awesome intro. Any interest in learning how to do this? Or maybe you’d like to learn how to add amazing special effects to your PREEXISTING film. Or maybe you need to spice up your motion graphics portfolio? Either way, you MUST see Video Copilot (the video above […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Awesome Photoshop Effects to Jazz Up Your Project
Photoshop CS5 (academic price): $250 Stock photo of a blonde holding back her hair: $5 Taking the time to check out the tutorial below on how to spice up the photo of the blonde: $0 + 60 minutes Putting this image up on the board during project presentations in your class (and consequently showing up […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Overlay Video Or Photos Over Video in iMovie ’09
Often times students come to us in the Digital Media Studio with an assignment to create a video about a particular subject. More often than not this “video” assignment doesn’t actually involve shooting a video and then editing it together to tell a story. Typically students are told to create a montage of images and […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Visual Hub Should Be Your Facebook Friend
Actually you should really just leap ahead and marry it. It’s amazing. One of the most frustrating things about video work is conversion between one format and another. This typically comes up when you’ve finished your project. You export it, make a DVD and then someone says, “You should put it on the web/your website/YouTube.” […]
Continue readingFix Shaky Video in iMovie ’09
Yes, you read that right, “fix shaky video.” One of the hardest things about doing video assignments for class can be shooting your video. Interviews are easy because you’re likely sitting and (maybe) resting the camera on something steady. But when you need other footage there’s a good chance that you’re shooting handheld. This is […]
Continue readingSave Some Time – Automate your Photoshop Tasks
Have you ever been in a situation where you have a bunch of photos on which you need only to make basic alterations? Has it ever frustrated you that you have to sit there and do each one individually? Yeah. Me too. But now you don’t have to. Use Photoshop’s Automate command to have the […]
Continue readingGet Savvy on Dreamweaver – Jazz up Your Assignment
Dreamweaver is one of the most useful of Adobe’s applications. It can allow you to visualize all sorts of code and layouts before you publish your site. It comes with a number of templates for common website layouts. It will even write code for you. One thing that Dreamweaver is no so good at is […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips: Take Your DVDs to the Next Level
One of the easiest ways to put the movie you’ve made onto a playable DVD (as opposed to a file saved on a disc) is to use iDVD. Which is admittedly a fine way to make a dvd for class. But, suppose you want to make a DVD that has your project and your contact […]
Continue readingTitling in iMovie HD
It’s true that iMovie HD is one of the simplest video editing programs to use, but some folks still have problems with it. That isn’t to say that there are just some among us who are simply media illiterate… Ok, maybe some folks do have problems, but I think that’s less because they aren’t “wired” […]
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