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Video Review: Magic Bullet Mojo For Sony Vegas

Magic Bullet Mojo, from Red Giant Software, is a quick and easy plugin that can instantly change the look of your videos. It’s designed for people who want to achieve Hollywood-type coloring in their videos, but don’t have the time or skill to do this otherwise.
And unlike most plugins from Red Giant Software, Magic [...]

November 6th, 2009 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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Video Review – Camtasia For Mac

Earlier this week, TechSmith released Camtasia for Mac.
This is the first serious challenge for ScreenFlow, which has long been regarded as the best choice for making screen recordings on a Mac.
So how does Camtasia for Mac stack up?  Is it better than ScreenFlow…is it worse…and which of these two competing titles should you use?
I answer [...]

August 28th, 2009 | Dave | 7 comments | Continued
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Video Tutorial: Creating TV-Style Photo Effects In Sony Vegas

Adding motion to still photos (the Ken Burns effect) is nothing new.  In fact, it’s so common these days that web sites have popped up whose sole purpose is to allow you to create animated photo slideshows.
However, a new technique that is starting to be done more and more in the world of television, is [...]

February 16th, 2009 | Dave | 5 comments | Continued
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Video Review: New Veoh Video Compass Browser Plugin

Last week Veoh released a new browser plugin, called the Veoh Video Compass, that allows you to receive relevant video results as you’re searching the web.
For example, lets say you’re on Google and you’re searching for “baking pans”.  Google will return their normal search results as they always do, however, across the top of your [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Dave | 0 comments | Continued
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Video Tutorial: How To Fix Ugly Colors In Sony Vegas

It happens quite a bit…you spend all day shooting your video, only to end up disappointed at how the colors in your video turned out.  Or worse yet, the colors look so bad that you think the only choice you have is to re-shoot the entire video.
While “best practice” is to get everything right when [...]

December 12th, 2008 | Dave | 4 comments | Continued
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Video Tutorial: How To Use New Gmail Video Chat Feature

Recently Google announced a new feature to their popular Gmail service; free voice and video chat.
With this feature, Gmail users can now do real-time, one-on-one video chats with other Gmail users. It’s all 100% browser based…you do it all through your Gmail account. You just select one of your contacts, invite them to [...]

November 12th, 2008 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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Video Tutorial: Creating Still Photos From Video Footage In Sony Vegas

From time to time when working with video, you’ll find yourself needing (or wanting) to use a still photo from within the video footage.
Maybe you want to use the photo as a thumbnail image on your web page. Maybe you want to use it in an email. Or maybe there’s just a great [...]

October 1st, 2008 | Dave | 5 comments | Continued
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Video Tutorial: How To Create a Photo Slideshow In Sony Vegas

When most people are starting out with video editing software, just learning the in’s and out’s, they aren’t comfortable working with live video footage.
And a great way to ease the learning curve with video editing software, is to first work with still images (photos). You can actually create very powerful videos using nothing but [...]

August 27th, 2008 | Dave | 1 comment | Continued
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Video Tutorial: DV Kitchen – The Best Tool To Encode H.264 Web Videos?

I’m a bit of a quality freak. I’m constantly testing tools side by side, trying to determine what produces the highest quality web video (as in, what gives you the best looking video on the web, with the lowest investment of time and money).
At the beginning of August 2008, a new product called DV [...]

August 23rd, 2008 | Dave | 3 comments | Continued
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Video Tutorial: One-Click Green Screen Effects

Creating quality green screen effects with digital video is not an easy task. Digital video is comprised of pixels, which cause artifacts or “stair steps” around people or objects used in green screen video.
Many video editing applications claim to provide near-perfect green screen effects with just a click of the mouse. In reality, [...]

August 21st, 2008 | Dave | 3 comments | Continued
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