Video Tutorial: Making Desktop Video with ScreenFlow – 03: Recording
As we defined our work area in the last video tutorial, we are now ready to record a desktop movie. It’s true that all we do in this video is to press Command + Shift + #2 twice. We will use the desktop movie we record here to make an Internet security documentation video. Continue reading
Video Tutorial: Making Desktop Video with ScreenFlow – 02: Defining Work Area
We went over some features of ScreenFlow in the first video tutorial, which we introduced a few days ago. We are ready to capture some desktop action. Actually, we want to utilize only 1,200 x 900 pixels of desktop from the top right corner. So let’s define our work area so that we can tell where it is and where it is not while recording a desktop movie. We will use Adobe Fireworks CS3 to edit a graphic file. It is not necessary that you use Fireworks CS3. You can use any graphic editing application of your choice. Continue reading
Video Tutorial: Making Desktop Video with ScreenFlow – 01: Quick Overview
A few days ago, we reviewed a relatively new screen-capture application developed by Telestream, a software developer who is well-known for its QuickTime component called Flip4Mac. Over the next several days, we will be releasing several video tutorials showing how to use ScreenFlow. This series is intended for those who have little knowledge about video editing and wish to learn how to use Final Cut Pro, Motion or Adobe After Effects in the near future.
The goal of this video tutorial series is to record a desktop movie and create something fancy a bit by cutting unnecessary frames, zooming up some areas, embedding music. After going through at least five video tutorials, you should be able to create the following sample video. (The introductory video is made mostly with Motion, and we won’t show you how we made it.) It’s one of more than 100 documentation videos concerning Internet security that we have created in the past.
Click on the button to watch a sample video. 
This screen-capture video is concerned with a PayPal phishing message circulated by an organized cyber criminal group about 24 hours. A phishing website is hosted at a server run by a Chinese university. Continue reading
Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #17: Exporting Projects
We go over the export settings of After Effects to finish this tutorial series.
Keywords: Export, QuickTime Movie, Windows Media, WMV 9, H.264, Single-pass, Multi-pass, Animation, Animation, Millions of Colors, Millions of Colors+, Sound, Make Movie, Render Settings, Color Depth, Output Module Continue reading
Adobe After Effects CS3 Basics #16: Light
The purpose of this tutorial is to summarize the characteristics of four different light types. The second part of tutorial deals with shadow.
Keywords: Point, Point of Interest, Spot, Parallel, Ambient, Casts Shadows, Material Options, Shadow Diffusion Continue reading