The NMC conducts open workshops on a variety of topics related to multimedia production. These 20 to 30 minute sessions are open to all AU faculty, staff and students with all levels of multimedia production experience. There are usually four or five workshops held each week. Check the NMC calendar for the latest schedule. For […]
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What is AR?
“AR” is an acronym for “augmented reality.” For those who don’t know AR is adding digital images, text or information to a real-time image/video of the real world. Take the photo to the left, for example. The iPhone user is pointing the camera on his phone at a building. The application then provides the rest […]
Continue readingDMS 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 4 – Getting Started with Animation
Once you get to the point where you can draw in Flash with some competency you need to learn how to animate. For those of you who are AU students, the best place to go for this type of training is Lynda.com. But, if you’re not or you just want to learn how to do […]
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 readingDMS Help: Cheap Software for AU Students
If you use a lot of multimedia development software and you don’t know about JourneyEd you have been missing out. JourneyEd offers HUGE discounts on common software to university students. The downside is that your university has to be enrolled in their program. But, for those of you who are AU students, not to worry. […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: Flash, pt 2 – Get Flash
In order to do some work on Flash you’ll actually need Flash. Unfortunately it’s a very expensive program. However, I have a few ways around that for you. All 8 computers in the DMS have Flash installed on them. So you can, of course, come here and use Flash. Not only that, I’m a bit […]
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 readingAdobe Acrobat Pro is available in Media Services!
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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