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Mac Industry News:
• Apple Reports 25 million QuickTime 6 Downloads
200,000 streaming servers also downloaded
• DiamondSoft Updates Font Reserve
Version 3.1.1 resolves OS X issues
• Square Box Ships CatDV Pro 3.0
Software provides asset management for video
• Quark Enhances QuarkDMS
New workflow, editorial options offered
• M-Audio To Ship Radium Keyboard
Successor to Oxygen8 MIDI controller offers 61 notes, eight assignable knobs
• Kyocera To Ship 5 Megapixel Contax Camera
Model includes Vario Sonnar T lens
• Plugzilla Rackmount VST Effects Processor Demonstrated at AES
New company Manifold Labs founded by three audio industry veterans
• Pro Tools 6.0 for Mac OS X Due by Year's End
Dual processor support, new file managment options and extensive MIDI upgrades
• Stupendous Ships 99 iMovie Effects
18 effects available free
• Northern Lights Updates 3D Artifex
Collection supports Electric Image Universe 4.0.8 and 5.0
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Lines, waves, weaves, wraps and cones
Today we present our second installment of free stuff for you to download. As with last week's offer, this one is a collection of addons for Adobe Photoshop 7. But instead of brushes, these are custom shapes, specifically shapes for creating variations on intersecting lines--like spider webs--which is an effect not easily duplicated in Photoshop. Today's collection (Nagel Series 1 Shapes) includes 30 such shapes, free for you to download and use as you see fit.
Water effects for Adobe After Effects
We've explored a number of ways to create water effects from scratch for still and motion graphics. But there are innumerable situations where simple displacement maps and lighting effects, like those we've learned, won't do the trick. And so we turn to effects plugins that promise to take over where our manual skills leave off. Today we look at one such plugin--Digital Anarchy's Psunami for Adobe After Effects.
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Maintaining the editability of text with a fill image
When people ask me where to begin learning Adobe Photoshop, I respond, "Learn by trying." Training materials are good for reference sometimes, but you're never going to learn the program thoroughly unless you learn how to find the right answers--more often the right questions--for yourself. However, as I've learned for myself recently, once you find the answer, it's sometimes beneficial to keep looking for new answers for the same problem. Hence today's tutorial.
Locating files in the Timeline
Every have a series of still images that you need to edit into a Final Cut Pro 3.0 project, and want to know if you have used the clip already in the Timeline? Here is a very short Quick Tip to show you how it can be done.
I’m happy to be writing about this mic. You might recall that in the recent blind mic shootout Don Boomer and I did, most of us picked the Studio Projects C1 as our favorite on three out of four voices, and also as a snare mic over seven others. Given the prestigious mics the C1 was up against, I felt a little guilty, as if we had gotten it ‘wrong.’ But in reality, all that was wrong was that I had placed too much faith on hallowed reputations and marketing hype. A mic that sounds good on your voice is just that—regardless of the cost at retail.
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