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May 19, 2009

A wealth of free tutorials at DMN

You ever have a week where there's nothing you'd like to do more than sit down and use your favorite software on a nice Mac or PC and think up cool stuff and ideas? Yeah, me too and I'm having one this week, but unfortunately business calls!

Ah well, it's okay. In the absence of regular posts, let me offer up to you these tutorials by content digital portal - Digital Media Net I came across this this morning and was very pleased to see so much material and resources available for Premiere Pro (and many other Adobe applications). So, if you haven't visited them in a while, give 'em a look this morning and tell me what you think.

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May 13, 2009

Searchable video now available for you to create!

It looks like we've taken another small step forward in making video searchable on the web easier than ever before.  Recently, a page on searchable video was updated to include a downloadable excerpt from a book on making video searchable and a SWF player that you can use to embed your video with the search ability. 

So, while its out there, I encourage you to visit the site, check out the excellent book and of course, download the SWF player.  If getting video online is your thing, connecting it to people who want to see it should be job #1.  This tutorial and SWF player should help you do that.

Look at the bottom of the page for the bits I'm talking about.

Production Premium searchable video

Posted by Dennis Radeke at 9:38 AM | | Comments (1)

May 6, 2009

Layers Magazine does AE and PR

Layers Magazine is a part of NAPP but about all things Adobe and so they have churned out another 100 wicked tips which is an annual feature.  This year's version has contributions from both Michael Coleman and Giles Baker - product managers within the digital video group. I just gave them a read and they're both very useful and insightful, so that means you should head on over there to check them out - right? Right!

Go there now - Layers Magazine 100 Wicked Tips!

PS - you'll find the AE and PR tips towards the bottom of this article.

Posted by Dennis Radeke at 9:05 AM | | Comments (0)

May 4, 2009

HP dreamcolor display

I've had a 24" HP DreamColor display for some time now and I've recently included it in my new Adobe TV rig for creating Adobe Beginner Classes shows. The basic premise of this display is that instead of 16.7 million colors that are possible on a normal LCD, you can see a billion.

At NAB, I was invited to participate in the corporate Adobe and HP meeting and HP took the time to run through a number of exciting things that are coming out including the new Z stations.  At the meeting, I was able to meet one of the managers in the DreamColor division.  I said to him that while the display was awesome, I was hoping to get it calibrated to see what it really should look like.  HP was very kind and I had one on the Monday after NAB.

 

Well, I just ran the software and calibration routine (with the associated hardware) and all I can say is WOW! 

To quote the Incredibles movie - "That was totally wicked!!!" I've never seen a display just POP like this one does - the colors are so vibrant and fantastic.  The Adobe interfaces look incredibly accurate and clean.  There is something intangible about what you're seeing on the DreamColor, that typing this on my MacBook Pro LCD seems to be faded, dull and insipid in comparison.  What's next is to hook up the DisplayPort from the Quadro CX card on my other HP xw9400 and see what it looks like. 

If we can get a video input on this in the future, I believe we're looking at the future of HD monitoring. Adobe + RED camera + Quadro CX + HP Dreamcolor display = Kickin!

Posted by Dennis Radeke at 1:24 PM | | Comments (2)

May 1, 2009

Adobe CS4 Productivity report

In a tough economy, it's more important that your company (or you!) work as efficiently as possible and certainly things like video production can eat up a tremendous amount of time with various tasks.  Whether it's creating final output types, making a DVD, importing video, or even the editing process, having control of your system - to keep creating with your hardware and software - is critical.

That's why I'm interested in the latest report posted on Adobe about time savings.  If you click here you can download a PDF that gives the results of a recent study about CS4 as it relates to working efficiently and ultimately saving time.  Even, I found the results surprising and I work for Adobe!

For me, one of the troubles I have is quantifying how Adobe solutions can actually save you time.  For example, the native workflow approach that Adobe has with regards to codecs.  Avid and Apple want to force you to go to a single codec.  Adobe does not, but how does that translate into savings.  The results were an eye opener as I have said.

So, rather than prattle on about what the report says, I encourage you to download it on your own and give it a read. 

Posted by Dennis Radeke at 9:58 AM | | Comments (0)

Adobe Beginner Classes - Camera Shake is live!

Well, I had thought I had run out of tutorials on Adobe TV and was thinking that I needed to come up with a few more when I looked this morning and saw that another one had been posted.  This is my most recent 'boot leg' episode and basically takes a note from a recent Video Copilot tutorial where I thought Andrew glossed over some of the more basic ideas.  Leave it up to a simpleton (me) to try and simplify some great ideas.

I posted the AE project file in an earlier post .  As you can see, I'm still fascinated by 3D and how to fake it and/or make it easy for people like me to do.  I hope you enjoy it.  As always, you're comments and critiques are equally welcome.  Happy FRIDAY!

Dennis

 

 

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