- Final Cut Pro Power Skills: Working in the Application
- Nov 16, 2009
- Based on how well you understand the Final Cut Pro interface, it can determine whether we are happy or frustrated, productive or panicking. Larry Jordan offers dozens of Power Skills you can use to turn yourself into an interface master.
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- Q&A with Lisa Brenneis
- Oct 6, 2009
- Peachpit marketing manager Damon Hampson interviews Lisa Brenneis, author of Final Cut Pro 7: Visual QuickPro Guide, about some of her favorite new features in Final Cut Pro 7, exciting new developments in the world of film/video production and editing, and why all-girl bands aren't for her.
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- Working with Projects, Sequences, and Clips in Final Cut Pro 7
- Oct 6, 2009
- Lisa Brenneis gives an overview of Final Cut Pro's organizing frameworks—projects, sequences, and clips. You'll also learn how to manipulate that organizational framework so that your projects, sequences, and clips stay sound and organized.
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- Online Addendum to iDVD -- Part of iMovie ’09 & iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Jul 29, 2009
- This addendum to Jeff Carlson's book, iMovie ’09 & iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, covers iDvD in detail.
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- Five Cool and Useful Techniques for iMovie '09 and iDVD
- 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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- iDVD: Putting it All Together
- 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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- iMovie 09 and iDVD for Mac OS X: Lighting
- 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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- iTunes and You
- May 28, 2009
- To best understand what makes the iPod’s world turn, you must be familiar with how it and iTunes 8 work together to move music (as well as pictures, videos, and games, in the case of some recent iPods) on and off your iPod. In the following pages, you’ll see just that.
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- Exporting Still Images from Final Cut Pro
- 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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- News Flash: How to Log and Capture Footage from Videotape
- Jul 14, 2008
- Most broadcast organizations aspire to tapeless acquisition, but the reality is that most are still using videotape in the field. This sample chapter focuses on techniques that accelerate the process of working with videotape in a nonlinear environment, specifically as it relates to fast-paced news and sports editing.
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- The Beginner's Guide to Doing Everything In iTunes
- Jun 18, 2008
- Best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett share their best tips and tricks for working with music, movies, podcasts, Internet radio stations, and more in iTunes 'O8.
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- Working with Productions in Final Cut Server
- Jun 6, 2008
- Streamline your editing workflow by learning how to use productions in Final Cut Server.
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- Preprocessing: How Real Movie Magic is Made
- May 5, 2008
- In this excerpt from Real World Video Compression, author Andy Beach shares industrial-strength preprocessing techniques that will make your video look professional no matter what device you're watching it on.
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- How To Buy and Rent Media To Play on Your Apple TV
- May 2, 2008
- In this excerpt from The Apple TV Pocket Guide, Second Edition, author Jeff Carlson tells you how to buy cool stuff to watch on your Apple TV using either your computer or the Apple TV itself.
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- QuickStart Guide to Lighting for Movies
- Feb 8, 2008
- Author Jeff Carlson helps you avoid disasters in the editing room by making sure you shoot your films in the right light.
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- It's Tricky: Scott Kelby's Coolest iPod Tips & Tricks
- Feb 1, 2008
- Best-selling author Scott Kelby shares a few of his best tips for getting the most out of your iPod.
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- One Hour Lesson: Learn to Record MIDI in Logic
- Jan 24, 2008
- In this hour-long lesson excerpted from Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8, author David Nahmani explains everything you need to know to record MIDI in Logic. If you want to follow along on your Mac, however, you'll need to buy the book to access the related lesson files.
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- iPhoto '08's Greatest Hits
- Oct 26, 2007
- Apple’s new, improved iPhoto ’08 has a slew of new features that will change the way you work with photos on your Mac. Jim Heid, author of the upcoming The Macintosh iLife ’08, takes you on a tour of his favorite iPhoto improvements.
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- Creating Timelapse WebCam Movies on a Mac
- Aug 31, 2007
- A WebCam is one way to show off what's going on outside your window or in your office, but sometimes still photos don't share the whole picture. Why not put your WebCam view into motion by turning all those images into a timelapse movie? In this article, author and WebCam tinkerer Maria Langer shows you how.
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- Set Up Your Own Secure Messaging System with iChat Server
- Aug 3, 2007
- iChat Server makes adding secure text and audio/video chat to your network fast and easy. Read on with Ryan Faas to find out how to set up internal instant messaging and video conferencing in a few clicks without spending a fortune.
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