It seems increasingly popular for professors at AU to assign video projects to their classes. One professor even explained to me that after the final they have a mini-film festival of all the videos the students had done as projects. Another professor explained an assignment he gives where he asks his students to put their […]
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Are there any special effects in iMovie HD?
Oh yeah, there are lots. Check this video out from an intrepid editor: A lot of the stuff you see here are actually not special effects from the iMovie HD program and are just simple editing tricks you can do in iMovie. For example, when the character vanishes completely @ 0:37, it’s simply a matter […]
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HandBrake is free software available for Mac and PC that can assist in the circumvention of professional copyright protection measures on published media. Before proceeding with this tutorial or any other act which proposes to circumvent any copyright protection measures it is a good idea to take a look at the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Extra Cool Websites for Inspiration
One of the hardest things about web design is trying to decide on what you want your site to look like. It’s true that some of the coding and development can be hairy, but the design can be just as difficult. So here’s some inspiration for you. This first list is a group of rather […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Learn HTML and CSS. Now!
Kind of a sad state of affairs, no? I think one thing we can take away from this image is the idea that there are so many WYSIWYG applications out there that actually writing HTML code has become a sort of lost art. But it shouldn’t be. HMTL (Hypertext Markup Language) and its companion CSS […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Dreamweaver Templates
This time of year a lot of faculty offer their students the option to create a website instead of writing a final paper. But creating a website from scratch can be a very daunting task for the uninitiated. All that code. All those pages. One way to get around this it to use Google Sites […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Adobe TV Brings You the Newest and Best of Adobe
It can be hard to keep up with all of Adobe’s product updates and new version features. But now you can. Adobe TV has a myriad of videos that will keep you up-to-date on your Adobe products. But that’s not all. There are also a number of tutorials on how to use all of the […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Action Script 3.0 Tutorials for Flash
One of the most difficult things about using Flash can be adding interactivity. Animation is easy, more so in Flash than After Effects. But when it comes in interactivity in Flash users often find themselves quickly mired in Action Script. Adobe’s latest iteration of Action Script, 3.0, is nearly a misnomer. Gone are the days […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Learn to Shoot Good Video
Have you ever felt like this when you finish a video? Felt like you’re carrying the corpse of your dead idea? Editing can obviously be a big part of making a good video, but before you ever even get to the editing suite, there’s a lot you can do to make your video amazing. You […]
Continue readingDMS Help – iMovie ’09 Tutorials from Apple
As we add iMovie ‘o9 to our repertoire of software in the Digital Media Studio it becomes clear that we have a serious lack of tutorials available for iMovie ’09. So here are some, direct from the source. Check out these video tutorials from Apple on using iMovie ’09.
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