The so-called “Sin City effect” is a color-correction technique in which a range of colors is left saturated with color while the rest of an image (can be still or video) is completely desaturated to black and white. The effect is called the “Sin City effect” because it was used widely in Robert Rodriguez’ film […]
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DMS Help: Learn Any Adobe Product on Adobe TV
Need to learn how to use an Adobe product fast? No problem. Just tune in to Adobe TV. I know, sounds weird right. But it’s not. In fact, it’s really quite awesome. Adobe TV is a massive online repository of videos about Adobe’s multimedia production software. Not only are there a HUGE number of tutorials […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: Flash, pt 5 – Getting Started with Action Script
Action Script 3.0 (AS3) is Adobe’s programming language. It is used in the applications Flash and Flex to develop interactive web applications, interactive animations and games. AS3 is a complete and fully functional object-oriented programming language which can handle a vast array of interactivity-related tasks such as handling key stroke and mouse click events to […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: Flash, pt 3 – Get Started with Flash
Once you’ve found yourself a place to work with Flash, either here in the DMS or at home on your brand new copy of Flash, you need to learn how to use it. Before you can animate or make games, you need to learn how to draw in Flash. Games and animation require characters and […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips: The Best Format for Apple Video Editing Software
Apple video editing software loves .dv files. A .dv file is a fairly uncompressed video format which is commonly found on the Macintosh platform. Despite its size it works seamlessly with both iMovie and Final Cut Pro. By seamlessly I mean that it is not necessary to render your footage in Final Cut Pro and […]
Continue readingDMS Help: The DMS Welcomes the iGrabber
Geniatech’s iGrabber is one of the more revolutionary gadgets to come to the DMS in a while. The iGrabber is a video capture device which allows users to capture video from camcorders, VHS tapes, DVD titles and TV. Simple to use, it will make class clip-mash up projects simpler than they ever have been. These […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Getting Started in Adobe?
Just getting started with using Adobe’s creative suite? Always wanted to learn Photoshop? Here’s a way you can get some lessons for free. Around the time Adobe released CS3 there was a huge boom in tutorials on the internet aimed at Adobe beginners. One site, TechTutor TV is still up and running. While the tutorials […]
Continue readingDMS Help: Media Services Serves Up Math Help. O rly??
Ok, so math tutorials are not really DMS Help, but this particular website certainly is worth knowing about for a couple of reasons. For those who don’t know, Salman Khan is the MIT-educated creator of the not-for-profit educational website Khan Academy. Salman, or “Sal” as he likes to be called, began developing video tutorials to […]
Continue readingMultimedia Resources @ AU
Whether you are putting together a slide presentation, creating a video assignment, or working on your film thesis, there are a host of resources available at AU to both students and faculty. Unfortunately these are scattered all over campus – in the Library, in the New Media Center, in the School of Communication. Until now […]
Continue readingDreamweaver CS5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website
Although we always recommend you use lynda.com when you may have questions on Digital Media Studio software, here is a tutorial for Dreamweaver CS5 on how to design a website.
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