FEATURE
Digital Abstract Expressionism
A conversation with artist Jean Detheux

by David Nagel
Somewhere in a small village on a small farm in a rather remote part of eastern Canada, there lives an artist with his family. I'm still not entirely clear on exactly where he lives—somewhere roughly between Montréal and Toronto—but I am sure that there isn't regular mail service and that when foul weather hits I don't hear from him for a week or so, as preparations have to be made for taking care of the food, most of which he and his family grow themselves. I also know that the wild animals in the area tend to help themselves to his food, and, despite my advice to the contrary, he refuses to eat them back in reprisal, as he is a vegetarian.

TECHNIQUES
Stroking a Path with Gradients and Motion Blurs
Using the Stroke Path command in conjunction with tool options in Adobe Photoshop

by David Nagel
A long time ago, I mentioned that I was looking for a way to simulate a motion blur in Photoshop. I don't mean just a simple motion blur like the one you find in the Filter menu. I mean a more versatile blur, one that would allow me to blur in multiple directions. In other words, a motion blur along a path. Well, I just might have found the answer. You decide.

OPINION
Prodigal Mac: Stranger in a Strange Land
How a 'quick trip' to the Apple Store left me considerably lighter in the wallet

by Kevin Schmitt
Since there are only a smattering of Apple-branded stores strewn across this great land of ours, I imagine that a good many of you out there have not had the opportunity to actually set foot inside of one. Oh, I'm sure you've seen pictures or heard stories, some of which have grown to mythic proportions. "Steve Jobs personally mans the cash register at every store!" "They have 400,000 software titles just for the Mac there!" "I heard that the employees can smell the rank stench of Windows on you, so be careful!" "My God, it's full of stars!"

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World Wide Users Groups
Adobe After Effects User Forum
Subject: PAL to NTSC in AE?
From: Enrique Londaits
I'm not even a newbie in AE, and I badly need somone to explain the procedure to convert PAL footage (in digital video) to NTSC.

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Apple FInal Cut Pro User Forum
Subject: FCP and Audio Output
From: Armughan Hassan
I am using FCP2 and having a strange problem in my out put audio. I use iLink(firewire) for the final out put through the canon XL-1, the problem is that on the monitor I heared a constant tuck tuck sound (that sounds like a clock with out any rythem) Some one told me that it is my firewire port problem as I have checked all other possibilities I know, no filters are applied on the audio and there is nothing wrong with the camera. Can any one guide me what exactly is going on with me?

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