All Entries in the "Multimedia" Category
Mix like a DJ on your Mac with Djay
If you are a music fan (who isn’t?) you might have dreamed about mixing some tunes and added new grooves to your favorite tracks. Macs are famous for their music production tools and you don’t need to be a professional DJ to create cool stuff.
There are a lot of DJing and music production tools (GarageBand, [...]
Handbrake is now 64-bit aware, and faster
The Handbrake media converter team has recently released a new, updated version – 0.9.4. They often go months without site updates, and the version number bump suggests the new release is a bugfix update. Nothing could be farther from the truth – the team claims more than 1000 changes have been made since [...]
Podcast setup almost done
As we’ve announced before we’re starting a podcast at Shufflegazine and now I thought I’d just let you know that we’re making good progress. In fact, the basic functionality is in place and we’re hoping to have the first show out this week. There are still a few things to work out but I think [...]
Convert video formats on your Mac for free
Earlier today I received a dinosaur JVC camera with a truck load of video clips. We are traveling to Lebanon to have our annual seminar on the beautiful mountains of Farya and somebody had to make a fun video intro for our office. Since I still did not learn to say “no” easily, it ended [...]
Adobe Tutorial: Panorama With Photoshop
With a digital camera, one of the most fun and rewarding things you can do is take a panorama. Basically you take a number of pictures side by side and stitch them together with software on your Mac, in our case Photoshop. It’s not a very complicated process, we’ll show you how in this tutorial.
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Review: Flip Mino
The Flip Mino is the latest in the line of small, flash-based, camcorders from Pure Digital Technologies. It started with the Ultra, which in many ways took the world by storm, and the Mino is set to continue that.
This is a camcorder for quick, casual video recording of short clips. Ready to record in a [...]
Review: ConceptDraw Office
ConceptDraw Office is a suite of applications consisting of ConceptDraw Pro, ConceptDraw MindMap, and ConceptDraw Project. At a price of almost $500 this suite might seem expensive, and this may be true for some users, but you do get a lot for the money.
The main program, ConceptDraw Pro, will help you draw almost any kind [...]
Export HTML Gallery With Expression Media
Expression Media comes as a part of Microsoft Office 2008 Special Media Edition. You can also buy it on its own. It’s basically an application for managing digital media files, including photos. You can download a trial version of Expression Media 2 for Mac from http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/Default.aspx.
Step 1
Create your document and consider carefully how you want [...]
Digital Camera Guide
When buying a digital camera the choice is tough because the selection is so wide. We’re not going to get into particular models. Instead we’ll present three types of digital cameras and tell you some of their benefits and drawbacks.
Ultra Compact
+ Really small and portable
+ Easy to operate, point and shoot
+ Low cost
- Limited [...]
Adobe Tutorial: Create an iPod-Like Silhouette Graphic in Illustrator
I’m sure you have all seen the colorful iPod and iTunes ads that Apple have come up with in recent years. You know the ones with a silhouette of a person standing against a very vibrant colored background? Often the color is solid but more recently Apple has started using various patterns and color combinations. [...]
Adobe Tutorial: Deploying a Flash Video Movie to a Web Site
In this tutorial we’ll import a video clip into Flash, and publish it in a format so you can put it on a web site, including the player movie (SWF), Flash Video content (SWF or FLV), and HTML page. Most Web sites use JavaScript in the HTML document to detect whether the browser has the [...]
Quick Video Podcast Publishing
Podcast audio, video, and PDF.
You don’t need to understand RSS and other underlying technologies.
User-friendly interface with drag and drop.
Upload podcasts to .Mac or FTP account.
It seems like everybody and anybody has a podcast these days, whether it is video or audio. I know I listen to many podcasts myself and I also watch an increasing [...]
What Happened to iMovie HD?
When Apple introduced iLife 08 in August 2007, many were initially very upset with them for replacing iMovie HD with iMovie 08. Apparently Apple wanted to take a different path with the 08 version compared to the HD version, and many users, including me, thought they made the right decision, but many were also very [...]
Adobe Tutorial: Down and Dirty With Photoshop
In the recent Adobe D-Day event, which was held in Dubai’s Knowledge Village, we had a very enjoyable forty minute session with the well known Photoshop Guru, Scott Kelby. I was holding my pen to write some notes while Mr. Kelby was demonstrating his Down and Dirty tricks, as he puts it. His pace was [...]
Adobe Tutorial: Ken Burns Effect in Flash
The Ken Burns Effect is a panning and zooming effect that can be done in Flash to create the impression that a camera is moving from left to right and is zooming in, over a still image. It’s named after American filmmaker Ken Burns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns) who made it famous in his American Civil War series. [...]
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