May 31, 2006

11 free AE 7 Pro fire animations

Dean Velez posted 11 free AE 7 Pro fire animations at theanvel.com.
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May 30, 2006

Helpful AE 7 Graph Editor tutorials

"Mylenium" did a video tutorial on the timeline and the graph editor in After Effects 7 for Creative Cow.

Trish and Chris Meyer's column "Camera Control, Part 2," from DV Magazine May 2006 and now online, uses parenting, expressions, and the new After Effects 7.0 Graph Editor to control a 3D camera.
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May 27, 2006

iRiver gives customers the choice of switching off DRM

Boing Boing:

"iRiver gives customers the choice of switching off DRM...This is an object lesson in how DRM fails in the marketplace..."
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May 26, 2006

Edit to the Maxx - sorta

via FreshDV...

Edit to the Maxx - The Art of the Digital Cut

Steve Mullen has started a series on shooting and editing to run every other Wednesday at CamcorderInfo. Using Avid's FreeDV, the only NLE that runs on both XP and OS X, the course will cover basic and intermediate editing, but might be a good way to slowly add Avid knowledge.
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May 24, 2006

Windows Media Encoder screen capture

The free MS app Windows Media Encoder can do screen capture -- just don't use VBR encoding. Black recordings mean you have to turn off DirectX overlays. In Windows Media Player, go to options >Performance >Video Acceleration>Restore Defaults.

The situation is similar in Real Player, in case you want to delay viewing of Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Lecture.

If you want to capture action going through Direct X or other Video Acceleration, you can record from the video out port of your graphics card or use Fraps, ACA Capture Pro, or similar utilities.

Google AdWords adds video

John Dowdell, longtime multimedia guru at Macromedia, comments on the news that Google AdWords adds video ads.
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May 23, 2006

Flash vs. Windows: Can Adobe break Microsoft?

backgrounder on the middleware battle of the Flash-Flex-Spry-Apollo widgets and Microsoft Expressions-Vista:

"...the new Adobe/Macromedia is trying to break Windows, using Flash. Most people in the tech community are viewing this as a battle over web graphics, but it's really about next-generation applications in general, which cuts to the heart of the Windows franchise. Adobe's plan is extremely ambitions, and I think it might even work."

more at Mobile Opportunity...and during Adobe Developer Week starting June 12.