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How To: Create a text fly-by sequence in Sony Vegas Pro
Learn how to create a simple fly-by text title sequence Sony Vegas Pro! Whether you're new to Sony's popular non-linear editor or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
How To: Create a motion blur effect in Sony Vegas
Learn how to create a simple, manual motion blur effect in Sony Vegas! Whether you're new to Sony's popular non-linear editor or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
How To: Create an ocean scene in After Effects CS5 without third-party plug-ins
Want to create a peaceful ocean scene within a video project? This clip will show you how it's done using only stock After Effects CS5 plug-ins.
How To: Conform footage from 25p to 24p in Adobe After Effects CS5
Want to convert your footage from 25 to 24 frames per second? In After Effects CS5, it's easy!
How To: Create a force field effect in Adobe After Effects CS5
Want to create a force field effect within a video project? This clip will show you how it's done using only stock After Effects CS5 plug-ins.
How To: Remove a green screen with Keylight in Adobe After Effects CS5
Interested in becoming a special effects wizard? Learn how to remove a greenscreen with Keylight in After Effects CS5!
How To: Transform a layer in Adobe After Effects CS5
In this clip, we learn how to transform layers in After Effects CS5. Whether you're entirely new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional, new to AE CS5, or just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
How To: Create a grungy title text sequence in Adobe After Effects CS5
Looking to add some grit to your next digital video production? Try this grungy title effect on for size!
How To: Create a teleportation effect in Adobe After Effects CS5
Ever dreamed of beaming someone up, Star Trek-style? With After Effects CS5, it's easy! And this two-part teleportation tutorial will teach you everything you need to know.
How To: Using the gradient mesh tool in Adobe Illustrator to make a realistic guava
Want to figure out that illustrious feature in Adobe Illustrator that everyone's talking about? The gradient mesh tool? This Illustrator tool can help create beautiful and photo-realistic vector images, like this example of a guava fruit. Learn how you can master the gradient mesh tool, which isn't easy— it requires patience and passion, so just keep practicing until you've got it down pat!
How To: Create animations with the Puppet tool in Adobe After Effects CS5
Learn how to rig a still image with the After Effects CS5 puppet tool!
How To: Use the Fractal Noise effect in Adobe After Effects CS5
Create eye-popping backgrounds with the After Effects CS5 Fractal Noise effect! Learn how with this brief video guide.
How To: Create a simple 3D title sequence entirely within Adobe After Effects
Interested in using After Effects to create an intro for your next video project? Learn how with this video guide, which will teach you how to create and position title text within 3D space in AE CS5.
How To: Link a layer to a null object in Adobe After Effects CS5
Null objects in After Effects CS5! In this clip, you'll learn all about them: what they are, how to create them and how to link layers to them. This clip also looks at adjustment layers and their relative advantages over making changes to individual layers within your projects.
How To: Create and use masks in Adobe After Effects CS5
Learn how to use After Effects CS5's built-in masking tools! Specifically, this clip addresses the creation and interaction of masks.
How To: Animate layers and text in Adobe After Effects CS5
Learn how to create layer and text animations in After Effects CS5 by altering position, rotation, opacity and scale parameters.
How To: Import footage and create a new composition in Adobe After Effects CS5
The first step in any After Effects CS5 project is importing your footage and setting up a custom composition with reference to the technical settings of your individual clips. Learn how it's done with this video tutorial.
How To: Get started using the Adobe After Effects CS5 user interface
Before you can get started creating eye-popping videos with After Effects CS5, you'll need to learn how its user interface works. Happily, this guide presents a very thorough overview of all the most important functions, features and filters.
How To: Turn yellow teeth into perfect pearly whites using a layer mask in Photoshop
It's not brain surgery, but teeth whitening systems still hits the pocket books hard. However, there is a cheaper alternative to have the whitest teeth in the neighborhood, and it's called Photoshop. With Adobe Photoshop, you can have whiter teeth in seconds! Really. It's definitely the best tooth whitening remedy for those behind the camera lens. But remember… Photoshop is only a digital cure. You still might have to hide that smile in public… or consult a dentist.
How To: Use Cheat Engine to hack Microsoft Paint
Yes, you can use Cheat Engine to even hack programs that aren't games, like Microsoft Paint! This tutorial shows you first how to download the most recent version of Cheat Engine, and then use it to hack the attributes in MS Paint!
How To: How Did He Do That?
I asked Cyriak Harris, a freelance animator from the UK, to reveal a few secrets on how he made his trippy, forever-multiplying hand fingers:
How To: Model a long-stemmed wine glass in Autodesk 3ds Max
In the need of a animated wine glass for your next animation masterpiece? If you have Autodesk 3ds Max, it can be done. As long as you follow the techniques used in this video tutorial on modeling a long-stemmed wine glass in 3ds Max. It's actually a simple design, just enough to get you going on a more detailed, custom design.
How To: Add anamorphic lens flares in After Effects
Want to add an anamorphic lens flare to your digital footage? With Adobe After Effects, Video Copilot Optical Flares and, of course, the help provided by this video guide, it's easy! For step-by-step instructions, and to learn how to add anamorphic lens flares to your own digital video in post, watch this After Effects user guide.
How To: Export your videos in true HD quality in Screenflow
In this video from AppleGenius0921 we learn how to export videos using Screenflow in HD. Launch Screenflow, make sure you're editing is complete and go to File, then Export. A window will come up asking the name you want to save it as and where you want to save it. Make a good title that is relevant to your video. Now click customize. Then click settings. Now go to compression type and double click H.264. Set the quality on Best. Click OK and use no filter. Now go to size and click 1280x720 H...
How To: Convert audio files
This video tutorial is in the Software category which will show you how to convert audio files. First you got to download the free audio converter at this site. Then right click on the zip file and extract all files. Once it is done, open up the free audio converter application and a set up window will come up. Click on next, again click on next on the 2nd window and click on install on the 3rd window. Once it's done, click finish. Click on the icon to open it and it will give you a list of 2...
How To: Make a free .Mac/iChat Account
In this video from AppleGenius0921 we learn how to create a free .mac account and AIM account to use with iChat. Go to iChat and go to Preferences. Click the plus sign in to bottom left. An account setup window will pop up. Click get an ichat account. It will redirect you to apple's site where you can create an apple ID. After you complete that step, go to the plus button again, and set up your new .Mac account that you just created within ichat.
How To: Put makeup on photos with Sumo Paint
In this tutorial, we learn how to put makeup on photos with Sumo Paint. First, load your photo to this website and then open up the editing options. You will see a display of different colors on the right hand side that you can use to color the photo. On the left hand side are the tools you can use to do different effects to the pictures. Use the smaller drawing tools to apply makeup to the eyes on the photo and make different things appear. When you have finished the photo and adding on diff...
How To: Make a simple crunk beat in FL Studio
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a simple crunk beat in FL Studio. First, go to Sound Station and find the plug-ins. Now, you have to make a nice beat. Use the different sounds in Fruity Loops or whatever else you have to import in and then tweak them. Use different instruments on different parts of the song to make a beat that is all your own. Add in a bass boost to the crunk kick and add reverb to the clap to make it sound more like hip-hop. Go through and add as many different things...
How To: Enable a Live/Hotmail account in Mac's Mail
In this video from AppleGenius0921 we learn how to enable a Live/Hotmail account on the Mail application on a Mac. Open Mail. In full name put your full name. Type in your email address and password and continue. Leave the account type on POP and name the description what you'd like. The incoming mail server is pop3.live.com. Type in your live.come username with @live.com in it! Click Continue. The outgoing mail server should be smtp.live.com. Check use only this server and check use authenti...
How To: Do stop motion animation in Windows Movie Maker
A stop motion video simply consists of an object that is physically moved in small increments frame by frame so that when the frames are viewed in sequence, the illusion of movement is created.
How To: Use the note tool in Photoshop
This video will show how to use the note tool using the program Photoshop. Using notes makes pulling up previous projects or leaving brief bits of information easy to obtain. Notes in Photoshop can be pulled up by using the keyboard short cut button N button on your keyboard. After opening up an image you can access the note panel by right-clicking and selecting attach note. to pull previous notes up you must right click the image and select the show note option. Using the add note setting wi...
How To: Make beats using FL Studio
In this video, we learn how to make beats using FL Studio. First, load in the different beats that you want and then find where the tempo is at. Take the tempo down to around 90 and then find the different editing tools you have. Use the editing tools to change the sounds that you load into the program and then change when they play according to when you load them. You can change the tempo, bass, and volume for each of the different instruments, depending on what you want to achieve. When don...
How To: Put Youtube files in PowerPoint
In this video maniactive teaches how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2007. You must have a live internet connection to do this. Make sure your Developer tag is turned on in your ribbon. Click on the PowerPoint logo on top left , click PowerPoint options. Under popular click show Developer tab in the ribbon. Click OK. Now in the Developer tab you'll see a toolbox in the toolbar. Scroll all the way down to where it says shockwave/flash object. Draw where you want the video in your PowerP...
How To: Use the new features in Avid's Pro Tools 9
Move over Pro Tools LE— Pro Tools 9 is here! One of the most exciting things about Pro Tools 9 is that there's more tracks without having to have a Toolkit. Another great thing is being able to run Pro Tools without having to use Digidesign, M-Audio or any Avid hardware. Also, there's Delay Compensation Engine on a native system that doesn't require HD hardware or HD native. And this is just the beginning. To see more of the features in Pro Tools 9, watch this overview video.
How To: Remove lyrics from a song using Audacity
If you're in a show choir like the kids on "Glee," then often times you love how a song sounds but in order to sing along with it you need to remove the lyrics.
News: The Cutest Grandmas in the World Discover Photo Booth
If the Cutest Grandmas in the World can do something this amazing with Photo Booth, you can, too. Scroll down (past the Best Grandmas Ever) for a tutorial on Photo Booth effects. Tips
How To: Use a U-bot on MocoSpace
MocoSpace is a newly emerging social network, aimed and designed primarily for users of smartphones and other mobile devices. This tutorial shows you how to use the Ubot software to work with and monitor activity for your clients and customers on MocoSpace.
How To: Create a Predator Missile attack animation in After Effects
The mysterious, still unidentified missile that was seen yesterday off the coast of Southern California is stilling boggling Los Angeles residents. The projectile was seen on November 8th, shooting straight up into the sky, just north of Catalina Island.
How To: Create animations in Adobe Premiere Elements 9
In this video tutorial, we learn how to create and work with animations in Premiere Elements 9. Whether you're new to the light version of Adobe's popular non-linear editor or a seasoned digital video professional looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.
How To: Get started using video effects in Adobe Premiere Elements 9
Fancify your digital video clips by applying effects and filters in Premiere Elements 9. Whether you're new to the light version of Adobe's popular non-linear editor or a seasoned digital video professional looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the application, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. For more information, watch this video guide.