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Final Cut Pro 6 Video Tutorial – Editing Basics 01

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Final Cut Pro 6 Video Tutorial – Editing Basics 01: System Setup

Over the next several days, we are going to release several or up to a dozen video tutorials for Apple’s Final Cut Pro 6. This series is intended for those who have just started using Final Cut Pro 6 without prior experience in digital video editing and need some guidance. We, MacHouse, edit more than 200 videos each year, using Apple Final Cut Pro. So we can help you.

This Final Cut Pro 6 video tutorial series is for offline editing. That is, we assume that all video clips are stored on a hard disk drive. So we don’t import videos from video cameras.

The first video of this Final Cut Pro 6 video tutorial series discusses how to set up the application. More precisely, we will work on User Preferences, System Settings and Audio/Video Settings. We do not cover every single system setting. The following is a list of settings that we explain in this video tutorial.

Keywords: Levels of Undo, Autosave Vault, Auto Render, Still/Freeze Duration, NTSC Default Timecode, Drop, Non-Drop, Timeline Options, Starting timecode, Default Number of Tracks, Scratch Disks, Video Render, Audio Render, Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks, Memory & Cache, Memory Usage, Application Still Cache, Playback Control, RT, Safe, Unlimited, Frame Rate, Dynamic, Full, Quarter, Pulldown Pattern, Beep When Playing Unredered Audio, Sequence Preset, Frame Size, Pixel Aspect Ratio, Editing Timebase, QuickTime Video Settings, Compressor, Audio Settings, Duplicate, Capture Preset, QuickTime Audio Settings, Device Continue reading →

Learning Graphic Editing Basics with Adobe Fireworks CS3 06

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Learning Graphic Editing Basics with Adobe Fireworks CS3 06: Using Fireworks’ Batch Process

Many scientific and economic analysis software programs (GAUSS, Shazam, RATS, CATS, SAS…) support batch process. A batch process is also called macro. It’s a function that you can use to apply multiple commands to process a large data set. Another prominent software program that supports batch process is Microsoft Excel. Microsoft introduced Excel 5.0 in the mid-1990s. Microsoft incorporated Visual Basics into Excel 5.0, which eventually led to the death of once-dominent spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.

Anyway, one of the major differences between Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop is that the former title supports batch process. (Adobe Photoshop CS3 now supports batch process.) For example, if you have several dozen PNG-formatted files and just want to change the format of those files to JPEG, you can apply Fireworks’ batch process to them at a time. You definitely don’t want to open each file and save it in JPEG, do you?

This 6-minute video tutorial shows how to use Adobe Fireworks CS3’s batch process. At first, we use it to change the format of 15 PNG-formatted graphic files to JPEG. Another example we show in the tutorial is to change resolutions and put files upside all at a time.

Key words: PNG, Batch Process, Export, Add, Custom, Edit, JPEG, Quality, Save Script, Same location as original file, Batch, Scale, Scale to Size, Commands, Rotate 180, Save Script, Custom location Continue reading →

Adobe After Effects – Very Basics for Beginners #5

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Adobe After Effects – Very Basics for Beginners #5: Export

The last video tutorial completes the Adobe After Effects Very Basics series by briefly explaining how to export video. It is recommended that you select AAC as the audio compressor. Continue reading →

Adobe After Effects – Very Basics for Beginners #4

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Adobe After Effects – Very Basics for Beginners #4: Keyframes

We are finally ready to set keyframes on layers in this video tutorial. First, choose the beginning frame. Second, click on the timer icon. Then move the playhead to the next frame. Finally, change the property. Continue reading →

Adobe After Effects – Very Basics for Beginners #3

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Adobe After Effects – Very Basics for Beginners #3: Effects

In the third installment of After Effects Very Basics series, we explore two other windows. ‘Character’ window is used for text layers and ‘Effect Controls’ window for effects. Whichever you deal with, layers must be selected in the first place to make changes. Continue reading →