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Steve Martin
Steve Martin is the president and founder of Ripple Training. Steve has over 16 years of experience as an editor, producer and trainer. He has taught workshops at NAB, Macworld, DV Expo, and the American Film Institute. He is also a post-production consultant for Disney, Fox Sports and Canon to name a few, and is a lead instructor for Apple's Certified Training (ACT) program. 
Brian Gary
An award winning writer, producer and director, Brian Gary is founder and CEO of Flying Chaucer Films LLC of Los Angeles and Flying Chaucer Productions LLC in New Orleans. Under those shingles, Brian Gary has created a wide array of content for television, theatrical release and the Web. Accomplished editor rounds out his filmmaker's skill-set and he lectures nationwide as a certified Final Cut Pro instructor. 
Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer is a bay area-based producer, editor, teacher and writer. He runs a website dedicated to Motion users (www.applemotion.net). Mark is also an Apple-certified instructor teaching regularly at BAVC, Stanford University and MacWorld. Mark is the author of the Apple Pro Training Series book Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Studio, contributing author of the APTS Motion book, and author of the Motion Visual Quickstart Guide, all from Peachpit Press. 
Andrew BalisAnrew Balis is a cinematographer, editor, post production consultant and Apple certified instructor teaching classes in Final Cut Pro to industry professionals at Moviola Education. He is the author of Ripple Training's Color Correction in Final Cut Pro and Color Grading in Color DVD-ROM. 
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No Jacket RequiredThe Future of Visual EffectsRemove the JittersGraphic Design from PoetryMatch Frame Speed ChangesIn the SpotlightFind Your VoiceColor Workflows With Different Video FormatsPhotoshop & MotionStock Footage Options Continue To ExpandMotion and the OoO, Part 2The HD Survival HandbookMotion and the OoO, Part 1What Inspires You?Great Motion GraphicsCould This Be The Card We’ve Been Waiting For?Motion Quick Tip: Importing Illustrator and Photoshop FilesWhat’s in a Name?Rendering Motion Projects in Final Cut ProCinema Craft Encoder MP for Compressor 3 |
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008No Jacket RequiredUsing Jacket Pictures in DVD Studio Pro 4
Jacket pictures are images your DVD player throws on the screen whenever you stop video playback. Jacket pictures are a way of branding your dvd with a company logo, graphic, or a picture of the dvd box itself (or jacket image). Keep in mind that some DVD player manufacturers support this feature and some do not. The ones that don’t, generally use their own jacket picture when the DVD is stopped. My feeling is, why not create one anyway? The file takes up so little room on the disc, and the players that do support it will display your logo (or whatever) whenever playback is stopped. Here’s how to create a jacket picture: 1.The easiest way to create a Jacket Picture is Photoshop. Create a new document and choose NTSC DV from the Preset drop down. This preset is important because DVD Studio Pro encodes all assets at 720x480 when building the disc.
2. Turn on the NTSC title-safe guides by pressing Command + colon (;). Here, I’ve copied and pasted my logo into the document, making sure the graphic does not go beyond the inner title-safe rectangle.
3. In the DVD Studio Pro asset tab, import the image you created in Photoshop. In the graphical view, click the gray background to load up the Disc properties in the inspector.
4. Click the Advanced tab, then choose the image you imported from the Jacket Picture pop up menu.
5. When you simulate your disc (option-command-0) and stop playback, your jacket image will appear in the simulator. This is what should happen on the set top dvd player whenever playback is stopped.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008The Future of Visual EffectsAutomatic matte extraction, touchup and rig removal? Some very smart folks in the University of Washington’s Computer Science department are cooking up some pretty amazing procedures that could well revolutionize the process of creating visual effects. more »Wednesday, August 20, 2008Remove the JittersLearn the ins and outs of Final Cut Pro’s SmoothCam filter
Remove unwanted camera movements from your shots using technology inherited from Apples’ Shake. Click to PLAY VIDEO »Tuesday, August 19, 2008Graphic Design from PoetryInteractive Graphic Design with Words 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. Tuesday, August 12, 2008Match Frame Speed ChangesChange clip speed without changing clip duration
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”. Click to PLAY VIDEO »Tuesday, August 05, 2008In the SpotlightEmphasize your subject using this classic effect.
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! Click to PLAY VIDEO »Editing • Motion Graphics • (0) Comments • • Permalink Wednesday, July 30, 2008Find Your VoiceRecording & Editing Multi-take Voice Overs in Soundtrack Pro
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. Tuesday, July 22, 2008Color Workflows With Different Video FormatsGetting Video In and Out of Color
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.
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