DV for Teachers

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This week’s Mac Alert (from DigitalMediaNet) posts numerous valuable articles:

Layer-Based Animation in Adobe ImageReady – after compositing effects in Photoshop, learn to animate them for the web in ImageReady

Wildform Flix 3 Pro – an app that can “encode standard QuickTime, MPEG, AVI and other movie file formats into the Flash (.swf) format, but it also has the ability to convert standard video into vector animations.” This has great potential for all kinds of student films and animations.

A Photoshop tip for changing perspective with the crop tool, to match an image you’re compositing onto a video layer with a different perspective.

A review of ProMax’s Cobra Crane, an inexpensive crane for good moving and overhead shots.

Today I start working on installing Frontier on one of our servers so the ITC can experiment with weblogs – like this one - for our students and teachers.——-

Digital Webcast reports that “[Windows Media] Series 9“is far more robust than the streaming media application that Internet users have come to know. Now, it has production applications including digital dailies and even digital cinema screenings and companies like Adobe are already planning to embed the codec in their production tools, (After Effects and Premiere).” More competition in desktop production; let’s see how well supported it is, how versatile the tools, and how flexibly the finished video works with other apps.——-