Monday, September 29, 2008

I Decide: Anatomy of a No-Budget HD Spot

Art Adams | 09/29- 02:35 PM

Wherein a great group of people come together for a good cause

This was the first project shot for California’s No on Prop 8 campaign. In an attempt to reach out to young voters I recruited my cousin Catherine, and her best friend Austin, to record an appeal for youth to get up and vote down Prop 8. They’re both politically active and immediately said “yes” to the project.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Auto-Blend – Photoshop CS4 Sneak Peek

Richard Harrington | 09/27- 05:41 AM

Learn how to combine multiple scans or exposures automatically for seamless images.

Richard Harrington shows you how to use auto-blend to combine multiple exposures or layers in Photoshop CS4 .

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Masks Panel – Photoshop CS4 Sneak Peek

Richard Harrington | 09/27- 05:35 AM

New Flexibility for Masks and Alpha Channels

Richard Harrington shows you what’s new with masks in Photoshop CS4 and how to use them to non-destructivly add transparency to an image.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Form vs. Content

Adam Wilt | 09/26- 11:03 PM

Never upstage the star of the show.

I sit down this evening to watch Professional Wrestling—erm, the first 2008 Presidential Debate. I’ve got KQED-HD tuned in, the local PBS channel on 9.1. Ray Suarez in the News Hour studio, neat and clean and perfect in every respect. Man, I love HD… until they cut to the feed from Mississippi. All of a sudden it’s Ken Burns & “The War” all over again: audio and video out of sync. Dang!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Adjustments Panel – Photoshop CS4 Sneak Peek

Richard Harrington | 09/25- 06:18 AM

Speed up your work with nondestructive adjustments

Richard Harrington shows you how to use the new adjustments panel in Photoshop CS4 to speed up your workflow.

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Monday, September 22, 2008

After Effects CS4

Chris and Trish Meyer | 09/22- 09:01 PM

A quick tour of the new features that will be of interest to motion graphics artists.

Adobe has announced their Creative Suite 4, in which they have aligned the schedules of virtually all of their products to be updated at the same time. One of these programs is, of course, After Effects, which we have based our business around since its release in 1992. As a result, we obviously go over each new release with a fine-tooth comb, looking for which new features will make our lives easier, will give us new looks, and which may open up new avenues of business for us. That last point has become particularly interesting in light of Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, plus their focus on integrating functionality across the various programs in the Creative Suite.

In this article, we will give a brief overview of many of those new features. Then in the coming weeks and months, we’ll focus on some of these features individually, relating what we found interesting about each one, with tips on how to use them (and what might trip you up). These additional articles will be posted on our CMG Keyframes channel on PVC.

In addition to articles up here on ProVideoCoalition, there are several other places where you can glean additional information:

• Later Tuesday afternoon (the 23rd), Adobe will be placing the"live help” file for After Effects CS4 online. When it is up, you can access the entire Help file by clicking here, and search for features of specific interest. Click here to jump straight to the New Features page; click here to jump straight to the page that describes changes in the User Interface between CS3 and CS4.

• We’ve created an hour of video training on using the new features in AE CS4 for Lynda.com’s Online Training Library. The course is called After Effects CS4: New Creative Techniques; when it goes live, it can be found here. Two of the movies are scheduled to go online at the same time as the CS4 announcement; the remaining ten will go live once CS4 ships. Lynda.com will also be posting New Feature previews for Illustrator CS4, Flash CS4, and Photoshop CS4, plus plus full courses for the new features in Fireworks CS4, Soundbooth CS4, and Dreamweaver CS4 (these last three are available as public betas from the Adobe Labs web site.) If you don’t already have a Lynda.com subscription, you can get a free all-access 7-day trial on us by clicking here.

• We’ve also written an article about the new features in AE CS4 for Focal Press, which appears at www.CMG4CS4.com. That article also outlines our plans for our books in relation to CS4.

On to our hit list of interesting new features in AE CS4:

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