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Getting Started and Getting to Know the Workflow of Adobe After Effects CS4: 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.

Getting Started With GarageBand: Mar 22, 2004; In this tipsheet, author Mary Plummer takes you on a quick interface tour and shares a few keyboard shortcuts sure to have you're making beautiful music in no time.

Getting Started With Logic Pro 7: Nov 22, 2006; This one-hour lesson explores some basic functions you'll use when working in Logic, such as zooming in and out on an editing window's display, making selections with Logic's unique selection techniques, hiding tracks, and creating custom key commands to control Logic's editing functions. The techniques in this lesson provide a good foundation of skills you'll constantly use while making music in Logic.

Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Aug 18, 2006; Video expert Jan Ozer introduces the Movie Maker interface and discusses how and where to set project defaults.

Getting Video Onto Your iPod: Jan 27, 2006; Get an iPod for Christmas? Music is great, but what about the video? In this article Matthew David shows you where to go to fill your iPod to the max with video.

Guns a-Blazin': Creating a Muzzle Flash with Premiere Elements 7: 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.

Hair for 3D Characters: Oct 5, 2001; The average head has tens of thousands of individual hairs - try animating that! The only way to efficiently animate hair is procedurally, using automated tricks to get the hair to behave. George Maestri shares some tips in this article.

Hollywood Movie Titles: The Star Wars Title Effect: 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.

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.

How to Capture DV Video in Pinnacle Studio 10: Dec 1, 2005; Since DV is a digital format, capturing from a DV camcorder is more like a file transfer; some even refer to the process as a file import. Call it what you will, getting DV video from your camcorder to your computer is a snap. No video resolution to set or audio volume to adjust—just press Start and Stop. This chapter covers the salient aspects of the capturing process, and some tips and tricks you can use to get exactly the video that you want.

How to Create a Million-Dollar Movie on a Thousand-Dollar Budget: Oct 29, 2004; Gerald Everett Jones provides some money-saving tips to aspiring filmmakers everywhere.

How to Create Realistic 3D Shadows: Aug 18, 2006; Setting up shadows takes just as much time and attention as setting up lights. You can think of all of your illumination as one half of your lighting design, and shadows as the other, equally important half. Shadows can add richness to the tones and shading of your image, tie elements together, and improve your composition. Besides their artistic importance, rendering shadows is a key technical area to master. This chapter will explore both the visual and the technical sides of shadows and occlusion in 3D graphics.

How to Embed a QuickTime Movie in a Web Page or Blog Post: Feb 22, 2008; So you've decided to join the video revolution in Web publishing. But instead of dealing with YouTube, you want to publish higher-quality content directly on your blog. Maria Langer shows you how.

How to Improve Video on iOS Before Editing: Sep 25, 2014; Just because you’re shooting video using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch doesn’t mean you have to settle for shaky or drab video. Jeff Carlson, author of iPad and iPhone Video: Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way, spotlights tools for improving video before you share it or edit it in iMovie.

How to Make iLife '06 Seem Like '07: Ten Tools that Take iLife to a New Level: Jul 6, 2007; It's been a year and a half since Apple updated its iLife software. Even though iLife '07 isn't on the horizon, there are plenty of ways to upgrade and enhance all the iLife apps to make everything from photo management to movie making easier and more impressive. Here are Ryan Faas' 10 picks for the best ways to make iLife '06 seem new and improved.

How to Optimize Projects in Adobe After Effects CS5: Nov 10, 2010; This chapter examines how image data flows through an After Effects project in close detail. It's full of the kind of information that will help you make the most of After Effects.

How to Properly Rig Your Characters for Animation: Aug 11, 2006; Once your character is modeled, you’ll need to get it ready for animation. This process is called rigging. The goal of rigging is to add a skeleton and controls to your model so that an animator can manipulate and animate the character. This chapter will help you learn to properly rig your character so that animating it is easy and natural.

How to Set Up a Web Cam: Apr 20, 2001; Been thinking about setting up a web cam? It's probably easier than you think. Let Elizabeth Parker, author of The Little Web Cam Book, show you exactly what you need and how to do it.