Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Moving markers By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro specifies how precisely move markers to where you want them to be. He details several ways to move them, the first of which is numerically via the Edit Marker window, (which was the procedure to move markers in Final Cut Pro 1-6) as well as dragging them on the Timeline via the command key and dragging them on the Timeline, new in version 7. He also details how to remove markers from the Timeline.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Color and Texture By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to to add solid color fill layer to offset a wide range of colors that overtakes a foreground image. She then uses a pattern fill layer to add texture to the image.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Gradient Fill Layer By Jan Kabili
There are several ways to add a gradient to a composition in Photoshop. One way is to create a gradient fill layer, which is like a solid color filled layer, lives on its own layer in the layers panel, and does not change the pixels on any other layer in the composition. In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to create a gradient fill layer.
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Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Markers in use By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro specifies what each marker is supposed to be used for, such as color correction, fixing a shot, adding a title graphic . He details a shortcut on how to open up a marker, how to modify a marker, and change the color of the marker.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Custom Shape tool By Jan Kabili
In addition to the geometric tool to create shape layers, Photoshop offers another tool to create shape layers, and that is the custom shape tool. In this clip, host Jan Kabili introduces custom shapes, and shows how to use the combination features that come with the shape tools to create your own custom shapes.
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Final Cut Pro 7 Essential Training: Markers By Abba Shapiro
In this clip, host Abba Shapiro explains how to work with markers in Final Cut Pro 7. He explains what a marker is and why you would use it. A marker is a way that you can write a note to yourself when you are editing. He shows how to make a marker as well as how to modify a marker. He then looks at markers in a bit more detail, including how to add chapter markers, compression markers and Scoring markers, and what they do.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Shape Layers By Jan Kabili
When you want to add a graphic to a Photoshop composition, creating a shape layer is often the best way to go. The advantage of a shape layer over a regular pixel based layer is that a shape layer defines itself with a vector based outline. In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to create shape layers, concentrating on shapes made with the geometric shape tools.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Type inside a path By Jan Kabili
By filling a closed path with type, you can create some interesting word pictures. In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses how to put type inside a path. Jan uses the pen tool to close a path, and explains what a closed path is as opposed to an open path. She also shows how to use one of the custom shapes in Photoshop to create a path.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Type on a path By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili details how to flow type in interesting lines and shapes by creating type on a path. You can draw a path using the pen tool, but if you aren't comfortable using that tool to create type on a path, you can use any one of the geometric or custom shapes that ship in Photoshop, but not in the traditional way, but to use the shapes to draw vector paths.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Type layers on vector paths By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili details how to combine the power of type layers with vector paths to bends and twist your type along smooth and unique lines. She shows you how to create a vector path and then float text along that path using the pen tool.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Warp text feature By Jan Kabili
Text in a Photoshop composition isn't limited to being horizontal or vertical. You can distort the shape of text using the warp text feature in Photoshop. In this clip, host Jan Kabili details how to warp text in a composition with existing text.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Paragraph text By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers Point type layers, which usually contain just a single line of type, or a couple lines of type with a hard return at the end of each line. Once in a while you may want to include more lines of text in a Photoshop document, such as for mock ups, in which case you can take advantage of Photoshop's paragraph type feature, which automatically wraps text inside a bounding box.
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Photo Flops: Five Photoshop Fixes For Common Image Issues By Stephen Farnow
The digital age has created a revolution in photography with instant-gratification LCD screens on cameras. And even when those images don't meet our ever-increasing standards, we now have tools like Adobe's Photoshop to post process those images and bring them up to snuff. While there are a limitless number of digital enhancements you might consider, the following five will address your most common image problems.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Layered text By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses text and how it remains editable in Photoshop as long as its layer remains as a special type layer. You can come back to a type layer at any time, to change the appearance of the text, to fix a spelling error, or to change the content of different words altogether. She shows how to edit all of the text on the type layer, working with the layers panel and the type tool.
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Photoshop CS4: Layers in Depth: Type Layers By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses what type layers are, and what advantages that they have over pixel-based content, plus Photoshop type layers are editable, so you can change the font, size, color, shape and even the content of the type layer. She works with type layers, including how to make a new type layer.
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iPhone SDK Essential Training: Calling methods in Objective-C By Simon Allardice
In this clip, host Simon Allardice discusses calling methods in Objective-C. He says that this is one of the areas that a lot of people find a little unusual, because if you come from a regular C based language background, you are used to a different type of calling method. In Objective C, things are a bit different and Allardice explains the differences.
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Logic Pro 9 New Features: Flex Tips By Damian Allen
In this clip, host Damian Allen details some quick tips using the Flex feature, including time stretching an entire audio region, aligning a flex marker in your current track using transient markers from another track, and more.
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Logic Pro 9 New Features: Quantize Audio By Damian Allen
In this clip, host Damian Allen details how to Quantize audio with the Flex technology in Logic Pro 9, which enables you to perform the same process with digital audio. He shows how to enable the flex mode to use the Quantize feature in Logic Pro 9.
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How to Convert MPEG to DVD on Mac OS X By WIKI
This step-to-step guide helps you to convert MPEG file to DVD on Mac and the output files can be played on a TV or on portable and home DVD players.
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iPhone SDK Essential Training: Xcode 3.1 By Simon Allardice
In this clip, host Simon Allardice discusses xCode, an IDE or integrated Development Environment that iPhone program writers will spend a lot of time developing in. You organize, compile, and write your application in xCode. You use it to test and debug applications as well. He details how xCode works, how to create a new project, and more.
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polymer battery all in one neat device. Plug the P-Flip into your computer to charge its battery, then plug your iPhone into the P-Flip, and it charges the iPhone battery.
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After years of hype, Apple, Inc. today introduced the iPad, a portable computing device that looks like a big iPhone. Introduced today by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the iPad features a touchscreen keypad, wireless capability, the capability to run all iPhone applications, all in a form factor that fits in between an iPhone and a MacBook. With the iPad, you can play movies, load maps, view photos, update your calendar, basically do the same things as on an iPhone, and more.
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When it comes to choosing between Plasma and LCD, it's important to shop in the mindset that one high-def TV is not necessarily better than another - rather, it's a question of which one is right for you. That said, it can be a tough call to make when all that meets the eye are sleek screens and vibrant pictures - are Plasmas and LCDs really that different?
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The Tritton AX 180 universal gaming headset is designed to work with the three major gaming platforms (Wii, xBox 360, and Sony PlayStation 3, via analog inputs), but also with both Macintosh and Windows based computers.
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