Editing AVCHD video with Premiere Pro CS4

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Many HD camcorders are recording in the AVCHD format and until recently, it was difficult to find software that could edit AVCHD files. This video posted by David Helmly, the Sr. Business Development Manager for DV/DI for North America for Adobe, shows how Premiere Pro CS4 can edit AVCHD video.

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CreatureBox Full of Monsters, Spacemen and Storytelling

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The interview with Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin mentions how they flesh out their creative ideas with Sketchbook:

The Area: In your creative process — how or where do you begin when creating a character?

Greg and Dave: We banter a lot; a real lot. Any time a design […]

Nobelprize.org Standardizes on Adobe Video Solutions

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At the 2009 IBC tradeshow, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Nobelprize.org, the official Web site of the Nobel Foundation with more than 38 million visits each year, has standardized on Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software for video production and the Adobe Flash® Platform to deliver online video content. […]

PersonalBrain 5.5 – Free Upgrade for all PersonalBrain 5 users!

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PersonalBrain 5.5 will be a free upgrade for all version 5 users and contains over 150 new features and improvements. In addition to many feature enhancements, the new version includes Thought spellchecking with dictionaries for: English (US and UK), Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazilian and Iberian), Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian […]

Review: Sony Sound Forge Pro 10

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Sony Creative Software Sound Forge Pro 10 is a professional digital audio editor ideal for audio and video production and multimedia projects. A rock solid 24/32/64-bit 192KHz digital audio editor with over 40 professional studio effects and processes, Sound Forge Pro 10 is a great tool for creating, recording, and editing audio. […]

Autodesk Expands Options for Mac Users with Parallels

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Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, and Parallels, a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software, announced that they have signed an agreement to make Parallels Desktop for Mac Autodesk’s preferred Mac virtualization software.

Autodesk will now support use of AutoCAD software, AutoCAD […]

Wacom Bamboo Touch Tablet Review

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Bamboo Touch is available from Creation Engine for $69.

Students, Faculty, and Staff can add Painter 11 for only $49 to any Wacom tablet purchase.

A First Look at Photoshop Elements 8 and Premiere Elements 8

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What I liked best was Adobe’s (successful) effort to unify the features of both applications in an enhanced Organizer view that makes it easier to organize, edit, and share photos and videos. For both Photohop Elements and Premiere Elements, the Organizer is very similar to the company’s Adobe Bridge software. It’s a […]

Black and white photo magic

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The quickest and dirtiest colour-to-monochrome technique is to change the image mode to greyscale in a photo-editing program. Slightly better is to use the colour-to-black-and-white converter built into every photo-editing program.

A more complex (and our preferred) method is to change the picture mode to Labcolour, select the Lightness channel, change […]

Genuine Fractals 6 Only $59 After $20 Mail-In Rebate!

Genuine Fractals 6 Only $59 after $20 mail-in rebate! Offer good from 9/24/2009 through 10/31/2009.