| 81.
| - Creating a Replicator Effect with Premiere Elements 7
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By
Paul Ekert
- Jul 28, 2009
- Paul Ekert shows how to use standard features in Premiere Elements 7 to re-create the replicator effect made famous by the TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'
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| 82.
| - Five Cool and Useful Techniques for iMovie '09 and iDVD
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By
Jeff Carlson
- Jul 6, 2009
- It would be easy to overlook some video-editing and DVD-creation features in iMovie '09 and iDVD, as they aren't immediately apparent to a new (or even longtime) user. But these tips from Jeff Carlson are immediately useful, and loads of fun.
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| 83.
| - iDVD: Putting it All Together
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By
Jim Heid
- Jun 25, 2009
- Jim Heid shows you how to create a DVD by choosing and customizing a menu design and adding the movies and photos you want to include on the DVD.
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| 84.
| - After Effects Essentials for Flash Users
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By
Richard Harrington
- Jun 18, 2009
- For a Flash user, the core principles of After Effects will seem similar. Elements are stacked from top to bottom in a timeline and then animated with keyframes. From there, the similarities pretty much end. Rich Harrington investigates the differences.
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| 85.
| - Flash Essentials for After Effects Users
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By
Richard Harrington
- Jun 17, 2009
- Flash baffles After Effects users as often as it makes them feel comfortable. This chapter from Rich Harrington introduces you to Flash’s interface and core animation techniques.
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| 86.
| - 20 Tips for Shooting Great Video
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Jun 16, 2009
- 20 tips for shooting great video, and four methods to transfer or capture your video to your workstation.
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| 87.
| - Creating a Beam of Shimmering Light with Premiere Elements 7
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By
Paul Ekert
- Jun 16, 2009
- Paul Ekert shows how to design your own 'Beam of Shimmering Light' effect that can be used over and over in countless projects.
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| 88.
| - Creating an Enchanted Object with Premiere Elements 7
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By
Paul Ekert
- Jun 10, 2009
- Science fiction and fantasy shows often feature objects frozen in midair, using the power of 'the Force' or other magical abilities. Have you ever wondered how to create this effect? Paul Ekert steps through the process of creating the illusion of an 'enchanted object.'
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| 89.
| - iMovie 09 and iDVD for Mac OS X: Lighting
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By
Jeff Carlson
- Jun 4, 2009
- Learn how basic lighting works, and how to take advantage of it to ensure that the objects you’re shooting don’t turn out to be dark, talking blobs when you’re editing.
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| 90.
| - Creating Transparent Video with Adobe After Effects CS4
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By
Marcus Geduld, Richard Harrington
- May 19, 2009
- Transparency plays a key role in the success of animation and interactivity. By embedding transparency into graphic elements, you can composite together different elements created at different times, allowing for true flexibility.
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| 91.
| - Guns a-Blazin': Creating a Muzzle Flash with Premiere Elements 7
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By
Paul Ekert
- May 13, 2009
- Have you ever seen a gunfight onscreen and wondered why it seemed so blah? Paul Ekert steps through the process of adding a muzzle flash to make the pop of a gun more exciting.
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| 92.
| - Hollywood Movie Titles: The Star Wars Title Effect
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By
Carl Plumer, Paul Ekert
- May 7, 2009
- Learn how to create your own vanishing logo and epic “scrolling story” just like the ones you’ve come to know and love from the Star Wars movies.
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| 93.
| - The Lean Forward Moment: Production Design
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By
Norman Hollyn
- Apr 23, 2009
- The look and feel of the worlds that the characters move through need to give a deeper look into their personalities and the script’s meaning. In short, the design of the film must perform a storytelling function without using words. Otherwise, it’s just radio. And that is what this chapter is all about.
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| 94.
| - Adobe After Effects CS4: Optimize the Pipeline
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By
Mark Christiansen
- Apr 9, 2009
- This chapter examines how image data flows through an After Effects project in detail. That may not sound gripping until you realize how much your creativity is hampered by remaining ignorant of this stuff.
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| 95.
| - After Effects CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Compositions
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By
Antony Bolante
- Mar 19, 2009
- This chapter also describes the fundamental process of layering footage in compositions, and in so doing, lays the groundwork for the rest of the book, which focuses largely on how to manipulate those layers.
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| 96.
| - Keyframe Interpolation in Adobe After Effects CS4
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By
Antony Bolante
- Mar 9, 2009
- This chapter explains how you can assign various interpolation methods to keyframes to impart nuance and variation to your animations using the Timeline panel’s Graph Editor.
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| 97.
| - Getting Started and Getting to Know the Workflow of Adobe After Effects CS4
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Mar 2, 2009
- Learn the how to get started and the basic workflow of Adobe After Effects CS4, including how to create a project and import footage, create compositions and arrange layers, navigate the Adobe After Effects interface and more.
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| 98.
| - Exporting Still Images from Final Cut Pro
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By
Larry Jordan
- Feb 18, 2009
- So how do you export a still frame from Final Cut? Tom Wolsky shows you how and also alerts you to a number of gotchas to avoid along the way.
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| 99.
| - Color Keying in After Effects CS3
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By
Mark Christiansen
- Nov 19, 2008
- Are your matte edges crunchy, chewy, contrasty, solid, sizzling? Do these terms even mean anything to you? They will by the time Mark Christiansen finishes showing you how to work with After Effects CS3 color keying.
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| 100.
| - Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools in After Effects CS3
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By
Adobe Creative Team
- Nov 14, 2008
- Pull, squash, stretch, and otherwise deform objects onscreen using the After Effect CS3 Puppet tools. Whether you're creating realistic animations, fantastic scenarios, or modern art, the Adobe Creative Team shows you how the Puppet tools can expand your creative freedom.
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