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Creating a Replicator Effect with Premiere Elements 7: 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.'

Creating an Enchanted Object with Premiere Elements 7: 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.'

Creating Cuts-only Videos in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: Dec 11, 2010; This excerpt from Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the Trim panel, the Ripple Edit tool, and move clips on the Timeline using the Source Monitor or keyboard modifiers to build your cuts-only video.

Creating Flash Animations with Swift 3D: Apr 28, 2006; Create 3D vector and raster animations for your Flash projects at an affordable price with Electric Rain's 3D animation application: Swift 3D. Swift 3D is the only 3D application that integrates directly with Flash and is also one of the easiest 3D packages around. James Gonzalez shows why its price, power, and easy integration with Flash give Swift 3D such a devoted following.

Creating Great Balls of Fire with Premiere Elements 7: Oct 12, 2009; Paul Ekert shows how to use Premiere Elements 7 to create the illusion of a ball bursting into flames.

Creating High-Quality Video with Sorenson Squeeze 4 for Macromedia Flash: May 12, 2006; The ability to play video inside a Flash SWF file was introduced with the release of Flash MX, which opened up many new and exciting opportunities for Flash developers. Both Macromedia/Adobe and third-party developers have further upgraded Flash's video capabilities with the introduction of powerful encoders and batch processing applications. James Gonzalez reviews Sorenson Squeeze 4, one of the leading third-party Flash video-encoding applications, and shows you how to create high-quality Flash video by using this nifty tool.

Creating Interactive Movies with QuickTime Pro: Jun 8, 2007; QuickTime container files can hold much more than just audio and video. In fact, you can add entire layers of interactivity to your media. Wiring your movies transforms the audience's experience from merely watching the movie play to playing with the movie while watching it. In this sample chapter, you'll learn how to create autoloading Web pages, clickable Web links, chapter tracks, custom skins, and slideshows to make your QuickTime movies truly hands-on experiences.

Creating Original Characters, Themes, and Visual Metaphors for Your Digital Short Film: Jul 9, 2004; Sherri Sheridan provides helpful tips to developers of digital short films on the creation of interesting characters, themes, and visual metaphors.

Creating Superior Flash Video with Flix Pro: May 4, 2006; Flix Pro is one of the new third-party Flash video encoding applications from On2, the company licensed by Macromedia to provide the video codec for the Flash 8 family of products. This endorsement from the publishers of Flash warrants a look at this flagship Flash encoding application. James Gonzalez shows how to create superior quality Flash video for the Web, for video podcasts, and for disk presentations with the Flix Pro encoder.

Creating Suspense with Sound Design in Soundtrack Pro: Apr 21, 2006; In this lesson, you’ll take the skills presented earlier in the book and apply them to the sound design of a suspense scene. First you’ll watch the scene and determine a strategy for the sound. Then you’ll add markers in the Timeline for specific sounds effects. Once the markers are in place, you’ll work with sound effects to add reality, illusion of space, and mood to the scene. Along the way you’ll also organize tracks, change track names and icons, and learn some new features and shortcuts.

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.

Creating Transparent Video with Adobe After Effects CS4: 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.

Creative Grading Techniques for Film and Video: Blurred and Colored Vignettes: Jan 7, 2014; Alexis Van Hurkman shows you how to use a shape to add a combination of color and/or blur to the outer border of an image.

Customizing iDVD Themes: Dec 1, 2005; Want to break free of the iDVD pre-set themes and create your own disc menu screen for your DVD masterpiece? From choosing background music to creating your own screen layout, Jaemi Loeb will help you take the best of what iDVD has to offer and make it distinctly yours.

Customizing Your Workspace in Avid Xpress Pro: Dec 22, 2005; Everyone has personal workspace preferences, and they often defy default recommendations. Who says you should map Lift and Extract to the Z and X keys? Who says the Timeline always has to be at the bottom of the screen? This chapter will allow you to customize you Avid Xpress Pro workspace to fit you and your unique needs.

Deformations and Movement in LightWave 7: Jan 18, 2002; Dan Ablan, author of Inside LightWave, discusses the ins and outs of creating a selection set that works for various applications, including techniques for lip syncing 3D characters.

Designer's Toolbox: DVD Hardware and Software Overview: Nov 23, 2005; In this chapter, we'll review the hardware and software categories necessary, or at least helpful, for you to produce your own assets and assemble them onto a finished DVD.

Designing Camera Shots: Apr 23, 2004; Sherri Sheridan talks about how to create interesting camera shots in a digital film.

Digital Acting: Oct 12, 2001; Bringing your character to life means being able to think and breathe like your character – essentially, understanding the techniques of acting. In this article, George Maestri teaches a crash course in acting for the animator.