Final Cut Basic Technique Series #1: Spotlight effect

In this VTC, we show how to apply a spotlight effect to bring viewer’s attention to a specific area of video. Continue reading →

BitTorrent… Many people must have heard of it by now. BitTorrent applications have been used to download movie and music files. It’s not illegal to use these applications. And there are many legal ways of using them. For instance, movie trailers and game demos are legally distributed through BitTorrent. Moreover, many old movies and music pieces that have entered the public domain are also freely distributed through BitTorrent. Continue reading →

This VTC shows how to use a non-Apple wireless router as Access Point on Mac. A wireless router we use in the VTC is one from Planex Communicaions Inc. How to set up a wireless router is pretty much the same whoever makes it, Buffalo, Corega, D-Link, IO Data, Linksys, NEC, Netgear, Panasonic or whatever, as long as you can access it with an Internet browser. So you don’t necessarily have to have a Planex router to learn how to set up a Wireless router through this VTC. Continue reading →

This video tutorial has two folds. We use WireTap Pro, which is developed by Ambrosia Software, to record the audio part of a movie scene. We also record a piece of music that we’ve found on YouTube. In the first part of this tutorial, we will show you briefly how to set up WireTap Pro. The second part of this video tutorial concerns audio editing. We will edit audio recordings from those two sources, using a shareware title called Amadeus II, which is developed by HairerSoft. We only go over some of the basic functions of Amadeus II by editing our audio clips, and this video tutorial is not the ultimate solution to your audio editing. For example, we only show you that Amadeus II has functions to deal with white noise. But dealing with white noise requires more than knowing how to use a particular application. And we won’t go into too much detail for each function we introduce. Continue reading →

Final Cut Pro… It was once developed by Macromedia and then brought to Apple. There are several other applications that you can use to edit movies, but Final Cut Pro is truly THE application in the field of video editing. Continue reading →