Graphic Design from Poetry

Held every year in Bremen, Germany, Poetry on the Road is an international literature festival. The theme for the festival in 2007 and 2008 was designed by Boris Müller, a professor at the Interface Design programme of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, using software that generates a graphic design based on words. There’s an interactive demonstrator that lets you enter your own words to generate designs - quite interesting. Check out the viewer for 2008 here and for 2007 here.

Match Frame Speed Changes

Have you ever wanted to change the speed of a clip and have it not effect the clip and sequence durations? In this short lesson, Steve will show you how to change the speed of your clips using a little-known command called “Match Frame Source File”.

In the Spotlight

Learn how to call attention to an individual in a photograph, illuminate text in a book, or emphasize an item on the screen for a training demo. At Ripple Training we use this technique every day to call attention to specific areas of the screen.  You’ll even see it used in this video!

Find Your Voice

In this excerpt from Ripple Training’s “Sound Editing & Mastering in Soundtrack Pro” Steve will show you how fast, fluid and fun it is to edit voice overs in Soundtrack Pro using the Multitake Editor.

Click here to watch tutorial

Color Workflows With Different Video Formats

One of the most confusing issues that comes up frequently with new users of Color is how to get in and out of Color with different types of video formats. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to clear up the confusion by presenting the four main workflows Color can utilize, as well as how each format can be handled by Color.  This article relates to users of Color version 1.0.2 or later.  We’ll look at how to handle video formats captured via capture card, as well as how to work with “native” formats captured via FireWire such as DV, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD and HDV. 

Photoshop & Motion

Here’s a free video tutorial that shows you how to quickly create an engaging animation by arranging the layers of a Photoshop file in 3D space in Motion, and then flying a camera through them. To see it, click here.

Stock Footage Options Continue To Expand

istockphoto.com used to be my primary source for inexpensive stock photography and video. But just this past week I’ve come across two new stock video competitors that provide some interesting alternatives.

Motion and the OoO, Part 2

In Part 1 of our exploration of Motion’s Order of Operations, or OoO (which you can find here), we looked at a situation where a drop shadow applied to a layer would rotate with the layer because transformations are calculated after effects. Today, we’ll look at another common issue that can arise when working with still images.

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