Sometimes you just need some flare… Here are some After Effects tutorials that can show you how to create awesome effects in Adobe’s motion graphics suite. And, after you’re done playing with those you should check out the rest of the website; there are a lot of other neat tutorials for other animation and motion […]
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DMS Help: Need iMovie? Speak Spanish?
Here’s an excellent tutorial on iMovie HD in Spanish, just in case you’re a bit more comfortable doing technical stuff in your native language: http://vimeo.com/1464480
Continue readingDMS Help – Getting Started with Photoshop
While there are a lot of amazing things that can be done with Photoshop, some of the most difficult are also the most basic. Mundane tasks like image selection, color correction and compositing can be harrowing to a new user. This website offers a number of useful tutorials that cover most of the basic functions […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Best Video Formats for FCP + Visual Hub
Have you ever imported anything into Final Cut Pro, dragged it to the timeline and then found that it doesn’t playback? Perhaps you find an angry red line on top of your timeline, like this: Yeah, this is undoubtedly annoying. But the problem is not with Final Cut, at least not directly. While FCP is […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Photoshop Tutorials for Awesome Effects
Ever wanted to learn how to create AMAZING photoshop efftecs like this? Now you can. This website, Creative Closeup, has a massive repository of Photoshop tutorials for creating a wide array of dizzying effects. Want to give your little brother the power to wield raw energy (or put his head on a corndog)? You can […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Free Adobe Video Tutorials
Of all the video tutorials out on the web these days, the ones on tutvid.com are some of the best. Not only that, their website is easy to use and specific tutorials are easy to find. Tutvid (presumably a contraction of “Tutorial Video”) is a website that offers comprehensive video tutorials on a few of […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – About Web Hosting and a Recommendation
**This recommendation comes strictly from Todd, based on his personal experiences with the hosting company noted below, and is in no way a paid promotion or advertisement.** There are a lot of web hosting companies out there on the web… Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. Perhaps you’d like to know what web hosting is […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Using an FTP Client to Upload Files to a Website
While small websites can be built and stored locally, for the real deal, you’ll need to get web hosting. And, once you’ve paid for web hosting, you’ll need a way to get your files from your computer to the host’s server. Often times the hosting company will provide some limp FTP client as part of […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Learn Basic Web Design & HTML
Some folks might think that learning HTML is a little old skool, but it’s the foundation of everything that appears on the Internet; a working knowledge of it is essential for anyone who intended to do anything on the web. In this video tutorial (also appears below), the instructor takes you step-by-step through the bare-bones […]
Continue readingTodd’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 […]
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