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Lynda has a new Foundations of Audio Series + more new audio courses!

Lynda.com has announced the release of many new Audio courses to help you create songs, soundtracks, and voice recordings while learning the basics of audio software. New courses for beginners include Audio Mixing Bootcamp, GarageBand ’11 Essential Training, and a brand-new Foundations of Audio series, including EQ and Filters and Compression and Dynamic Processing. Use … Continue reading “Lynda has a new Foundations of Audio Series + more new audio courses!”

Lynda.com has announced the release of many new Audio courses to help you create songs, soundtracks, and voice recordings while learning the basics of audio software.

New courses for beginners include Audio Mixing Bootcamp, GarageBand ’11 Essential Training, and a brand-new Foundations of Audio series, including EQ and Filters and Compression and Dynamic Processing. Use these courses to produce audio tracks for both personal and professional projects, including home movies and slideshow presentations.

View a list of audio courses.

Excerpted from Lynda.com

An opportunity to try the new Vimeo

Open Your Eyes to the New Vimeo from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo. Vimeo recently announced their new site. It’s is not currently live, but if you go to the new Vimeo page you can log in and request to test out the new Vimeo site. If you do not currently have a Vimeo account, you … Continue reading “An opportunity to try the new Vimeo”

Open Your Eyes to the New Vimeo from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.

Vimeo recently announced their new site. It’s is not currently live, but if you go to the new Vimeo page you can log in and request to test out the new Vimeo site. If you do not currently have a Vimeo account, you will be prompted to create one in order to request to test out the site.

The Vimeo’s site redesign proudly claims to have “zillions of improvements”, many of which seem quite cool. The coolest improvement might be the full width video player. This enables you to view videos at nearly the entire width of your browser, while still maintaining more navigation and overall control than you would have with the regular full screen option. In order to make this possible, Vimeo has reorganized some of the tools and has included keyboard shortcuts.

There’s now a follow option so users can follow people, channels, or tags. Updates to items you follow end up in your inbox, which has been renamed your feed.

Uploading video is now more convenient because (according to Vimeo) you can easily upload multiple videos at one time without things freezing on you or taking forever. There are also thumbnail previews on the upload screen, which appear to be moving images of your video as it’s uploading.

Advanced searching is now available so you can do a search, click advanced and select options to further narrow your search.

There are more privacy options which allow you to block users from contacting you; you can hide videos, which will be clearly marked as private so you know which ones are public and which ones aren’t; and you can hide the stats of your video.

There’s also a newly created Creative Commons aspect to Vimeo. This means you can more easily browse videos with Creative Commons licenses.

Finally, they’ve enabled non-member downloading and more interconnectivity options with Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s photo organizing software, Picasa.

These are just some of the new features. For the full scoop and to register to be a tester, go to the new Vimeo page.

Apple introduces iBooks textbooks for iPad

Last week at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Apple introduced its iBooks textbooks for the iPad. They also introduced iBooks Author, which is user friendly ebook authoring software that enables users to create their own interactive textbooks. Numerous tech blogs are saying that in just a few days there have been 350,000 textbook … Continue reading “Apple introduces iBooks textbooks for iPad”

Numerous tech blogs are saying that in just a few days there have been 350,000 textbook downloads from iBooks, not to mention 90,000 downloads of iBooks Author. Many are mesmerized, but naturally there are some skeptics; mainly when it comes to distribution to and re-use by students. How will textbooks be distributed to students? Will the concept of used textbooks be a thing of the past? How will libraries circulate these interactive textbooks?

See the C|NET News report on the Guggenheim Museum event:

Finale 2012 is now available in the New Media Center

We’ve recently upgraded to Finale 2012. The new edition of this music notation software has a number of new features and improvements, including their new ScoreManager. Finale 2012 can be found here in the New Media Center (NMC) in two of our editing suites: NMC 19 and NMC 20. Just drop by the New Media … Continue reading “Finale 2012 is now available in the New Media Center”

We’ve recently upgraded to Finale 2012. The new edition of this music notation software has a number of new features and improvements, including their new ScoreManager. Finale 2012 can be found here in the New Media Center (NMC) in two of our editing suites: NMC 19 and NMC 20. Just drop by the New Media Center, check in with one of our consultants and they’ll be happy to log you in, as long as you’re a current student, staff, or faculty member. Finale 2012 is also available in the Katzen Music Library on all of their lab computers.

Check out WeVideo, the collaborative online video editor in the cloud

WeVideoA free video editing and hosting site. Allows for social editing – a project can have content submitted by and be edited by multiple users. Simply shoot videos and photos with your mobile phone or camera. Then upload them to your personal or shared WeVideo media library. You can shape your story alone or together … Continue reading “Check out WeVideo, the collaborative online video editor in the cloud”

WeVideo
A free video editing and hosting site. Allows for social editing – a project can have content submitted by and be edited by multiple users.

Simply shoot videos and photos with your mobile phone or camera. Then upload them to your personal or shared WeVideo media library.

You can shape your story alone or together with others on the WeVideo canvas. You can add titles, effects, animation, music, narration and more to create your own video story.

We make it easy to share your video story in the WeVideo studio. Or publish your finished video to your favorite social-networking or video-sharing website, from basic to high-definition broadcast quality.

Here’s how it works:
With WeVideo, you simply upload your video clips, create your storylines, and edit them in the cloud. There’s no software to download. All video-story creation takes place in the Internet browser on your smartphone, tablet, or computer. And with WeVideo, you can collaborate on video stories by inviting others to upload their clips to your cloud-based video library. You can co-create a video with others or come up with your own separate versions. Once created, you can share your video in internet or high-definition broadcast quality on the WeVideo site or publish it to your favorite video-sharing, social-network, or other online site.

Apple releases a Final Cut Pro X free trial and a major FCP-X update

Today Apple introduced a major update to Final Cut Pro X that restores many features users felt were missing in the original release, and also comes alongside a free 30-day trial version for people still a little gun-shy after Apple’s latest overhaul to its professional video editing suite. Read more about the free trial and … Continue reading “Apple releases a Final Cut Pro X free trial and a major FCP-X update”