Buttons, in order to function as individual navigation links, cannot overlap each other. As you add buttons to a menu, Encore highlights any that overlap with a bright red outline.

In addition to standard definition, Encore provides an assortment of high-definition menu templates and other assets, and distinguishes them with an “HD” in their names. These can be used for any type of project (DVD, Blu-ray, or Flash) and Encore will automatically scale them to the desired menu size when you build the project.

We now offer a complete training class to get you up and running in Adobe Encore. Sign up now and start making professional DVD's.

ViewCast Corporation a leader in advanced digital audiovisual products for capturing and streaming-live and on-demand-audio and video over the Internet and mobile networks, today announced that Peter Still will join the company as sales director, EMEA, effective Jan. 2, 2008. Still will have responsibility for developing and enhancing sales of ViewCast products and creating new business opportunities throughout the region.

Limelight Networks, the leading content delivery network (CDN) for digital media, announced that it has been selected as the exclusive CDN provider to deliver video content for all 17 of Dailymotion's growing portfolio of localised, country-specific online portals. Dailymotion, the first independent video sharing site, needed a trusted partner that could help support its in-house content distribution infrastructure. Dailymotion has been experiencing exponential growth, in terms of site traffic, content volume and general brand awareness. In June 2007, Dailymotion drew 37.6 million users who viewed a total of 715 million online videos.

The DV Show Podcast interview with CEO, Gary Anderson, from Net Briefings is featured on the NetBriefings' website.

Gary's interview covers the following:

• Details about Net Briefings Enterprise product E-Conference Enterprise.
• A follow-up to Streaming Media West 2007
• Net Briefings earlier announcement this year of Proclaim

Limelight Networks, the leading content delivery network (CDN) for digital media, announced a streaming service beta program for Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3. The new service leverages the integration of Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 into Limelight Networks' global, rich-media CDN. Select customers in the US can take advantage of this program to enable their Adobe Flash media content and bring the next generation of online experiences to consumers worldwide.

The new platform created by Limelight Networks to support Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 will provide customers with enhanced features and capabilities including the ability to stream industry standard H.264 video and HE-AAC audio streaming for high quality Web video and encrypted streaming using RTMPE and SWF verification for improved content protection.

This new SLA follows the acquisition of VitalStream in February 2007 and the integration of the VitalStream CDN with Internap's Performance IP network infrastructure that includes patented technology and intellectual property known as MIRO (Managed Internet Route OptimizerTM). MIRO monitors Internet backbones around the world in real time and automatically chooses the best route for traffic based on performance and reliability. Internap's Performance IP and MIRO runs thousands of mission-critical websites and applications for more than 3,500 customers globally.

With that said you can create a Cluster with Apple Qmaster by turning on the QuickCluster with services feature in the System preferences of the Mac OS under Apple Qmaster. This option is only available for those with Final Cut Studio or DVD Studio Pro 4. Using Compressor you can send jobs to the cluster instead of to Compressor on your Desktop workstation. The workstations in the cluster can gang up on your videos to encode your output files which is very cool stuff. For example, when you send your Batch to your cluster each node in your cluster is used to process the videos which means encoding should be completed quicker. You even have the ability to check the status of your encoding on the cluster through the Batch Monitor on your client computer. A possible scenario is to have editing happening during the day and encoding going on overnight or when editing is not happening.

Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced that the latest update of the award-winning Nero 8 suite brings users a number of great new features including BDMV authoring and playback, improved file encoding speed, and support for Mini HD DVD-Video discs.

Nero 8 has received certification for authoring and playback of writeable Blu-ray Disc Video (BDMV) titles and, with the new update, now supports advanced and interactive features for High Definition audio and video. The certifications were presented by Sony Corporation's Blu-ray Disc testing center and ensure maximum compatibility with other Blu-ray devices for trouble-free operation.

Highlights for all users:

- Play Windows Media from more websites and streaming servers
- Move your software from one computer to another using the new deactivation/reactivation feature
- Support for Apple's Mac OS X Leopard

1 After you have opened a sequence into the Timeline, you can set your in and out points for export as a Numbered Image Sequence.

2 Go to File > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion.

3 Designate a place where you want the files to be saved. I recommend creating a new folder for this export.

4 Click on the FORMAT twirl down menu and choose Image Sequence from the list.

5 Click on the USE twirl down menu and choose a setting.

6 Click on the Options button in the Export Window to set other options for bit depth and compression under the Options button of the Export Image and Sequence Settings box.

7 Click OK after you have made changes in the Options menu, in this example JPEG Options, and in the Export Image and Sequence Settings box and Click Save in the Export Window to export your image sequence.

Adobe After Effects has many great effects, plug-ins and presets. They are very useful if you know how to apply them. One of my favorite plug-ins is the CC Sphere effect that comes free with your purchase of Adobe After Effects. It allows you to turn any flat image into a sphere and then animate it. You can make everything from stone or glass marbles an entire universe. The example here is a simple flat image of the earth with the CC Sphere effect applied, some clouds added and then a simple rotation animation. This only took a matter of minutes to make and the possibilities are endless. You could make a whole galaxy and fly through it from planet to planet or just to the moon and back. This is one of the many great tricks you will learn in one of our intense After Effects training classes. Sign up now, class sizes are very small and they fill up fast!

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, announced it is providing a Convergence Generation video headend for TUS TELEKOM's live standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) IPTV services in Slovenia. TUS TELEKOM will expand its existing SD IPTV service to 108 channels, add 6 channels of HD content, and migrate from MPEG-2 to a more efficient Envivio MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoding solution.

You also may want to save each button as either a custom or project button style, so that it can be referred to thru the palette. You would want to do this if you were going to use the button style in future projects or if you were going to be changing button styles frequently within the same project.

one of our past Avid students, who produces two shows a week for his local church service, called us and stated that he was hearing strange voices as he was putting together his projects. Naturally, we all looked at one another and wondered if this guy had a late night and was hearing the voice of Jack Daniels, but as we dug deeper and deeper into his situation, we discovered something quite fascinating!

This producer was using a cheap, unshielded firewire cable and everytime someone was on a cell phone, or when the church used their wireless microphone system while he was capturing his material into Avid Xpress, those signals became mixed with his audio signal. He had the better part of an entire conversation and a sermon intertwined in his audio tracks. He went out and bought a heavy duty firewire cable and that solved his problem. We didn't need Scully and Moulder after all!

When the Matte is applied first the edges of the matte are blurred as well.

Anytime you run into a result that is not what you thought it should be you may simply need to rearrange the order of the filters. Once the filters have been applied you can simply drag them up and down within the filters tab to reset the order.

Replacing a Clip

1 Click on a clip in the timeline

2 Start dragging the clip to an adjacent area, then hold down the option key to swap positions with the other clip. If you are dragging your clip further down the timeline to a new location, it will splice into position and shift all other clips downward.

On2 Flix Publisher is a unique browser-based encoding and publishing solution for Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9, based on On2's VP6 video compression schemes licensed by Adobe. Publisher allows easy drag and drop video creation and publishing on a web page, without any special software installation on the user's PC. As a result, large enterprises, media companies, and video portals can allow anyone to become a video publisher without special training or equipment. Publisher's automatic workflow allows large number of videos from a large number of users distributed globally to be published without large infrastructure deployments and specialized management resources.

QOOB TV explores new ways of producing and distributing content. Users are also allowed to upload and comment on content, which is monitored and edited by MTV. MTV was looking for a reliable and flexible way to encode live feeds into the On2 VP6 format for live streaming to viewers using Adobe Flash Player. MTV selected Digital Rapids' solutions to meet these requirements, and is now running DRC-Stream cards and Digital Rapids Stream software on both HP and Intel servers.

If you need a high quality file for playback on a desktop you can use the 2-Pass VBR 800kbps preset inside Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD application. To encode 2-pass VBR Windows Media videos users will need to have Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD and no just the Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro version.

To Export a 2-Pass VBR 800kbps Windows Media file inside the FlipMac Export Settings, choose the Two Pass VBR, 800kbps Profile. Users can further customize settings but this will get you a good quality file without a lot of adjustments to parameters.

Note: Also, make sure you're using the latest Flip4Mac WMV update

• 32 minutes in DVCPRO HD or AVC-Intra 100
• 40 minutes AVC-Intra 100 at 1080/24p native
• 80 minutes in DVCPRO HD or AVC-Intra 100 at 720/24p native
• 64 minutes in DVCPRO50 or AVC-Intra 50
• 128 minutes in DVCPRO

Scaling a clip:

1. Select clip in timeline.

2. Within the tool palette, click on the selection tool and either drag a corner handle (to scale the clip and keep its proportions) or Shift drag a corner to scale vertically or horizontally.

Moving a clip:

1. Select clip in timeline.

2. Within the tool palette, click on the selection tool and drag the layer to a new position (partially or completely outside the canvas, if desired).

Rotating clips:

1. Select clip in timeline.

2. Within the tool palette, click on the selection tool and drag any edge of the selected clip's border in a clock-wise or counter-clockwise motion to rotate.

PunkTV.ca, one of the world's biggest punk, metal and alternative music WebTV magazines now available on the Internet, averages about 3 million hits per month. PunkTV.ca is taking a bold move to advance the music industry to a new era where consumers are now demanding the highest quality video experience a robust full-screen experience with TV-like attributes. PunkTV.ca has posted most of the initial 1,000 music videos out of its catalogue with many more coming on board over the next three months.

ViewCast Corporation, a leading global provider of audio and video encoding communication products, announced that Real Broadcast Networks (RBN) is using ViewCast's Niagara PowerStream Pro encoders to deliver state-of-the-art video streaming solutions to RBN customers. In a recent example, Niagara encoders provided high-quality and high-availability online streaming for the "24/7 Live Feed" feature of the popular "Big Brother" reality TV series. The encoders were also in action during the Labor Day weekend's Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Telethon, establishing a new benchmark for image quality of the production's live streaming video.

Internap's CDN features MediaConsole, a workflow management toolset that supports streaming formats such as Flash and Windows Media and includes a media manager, pre-built video skins and a real-time reporting dashboard. Through the BuyDRM integration, MediaConsole will feature support for pay-per-view, subscription-based, token, ad-supported, marketing and silent monitoring business models and will be compatible with most payment gateways and shopping carts. In addition, the MediaConsole will boast a simple, push-button user-interface for content management and transactional analysis and includes sophisticated data encryption applications.

Quit: This selection will allow you to quit without changing the preferences of the scratch disk.

Set Scratch Disks: This option opens the current list of scratch disks that are available and can be switched to. If your default scratch disk is unavailable, it will not appear in this list.

Check Again: This option will allow you to reconnect the scratch disk and wait for it to mount.

As Brazil is among the world's largest mobile phone markets, with more than 110 million users, the government mandated that content delivery to mobile devices be included within the new national digital TV system. The Envivio 4Caster B3 encoder, selected by MTV as well as several other broadcasters, is the first encoding product to support the specification defined within the Brazilian 1seg mobile TV standard.

ON24 Inc., the global leader in webcasting and rich media marketing solutions, announced that federal and state organizations are selecting ON24's scalable and reliable webcasting solutions. By using ON24's webcasting solutions and services, government agencies, such as Department of Education, Department of Labor, Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration, State of California, State of New York and State of Virginia, can easily produce, manage and deliver virtual presentations and outreach sessions, conferences, town-hall meetings, or training seminars to hundreds and thousands of viewers.

"While we built our CDN mostly on the open source platforms, Wowza's commercial server was the only practical choice for streaming Flash," said Jo Martens, Managing Director, Rambla. "Wowza gave us the rapid time-to-market we needed to satisfy the market demand with a reliable and scalable solution. We are delighted with the Wowza Pro performance, reliability and even more importantly with the world-class support Wowza provides."

Defining Duration:

Perform one of these options

- The easiest method would be to create in and out points within the timeline.
- If you fail to specify an in point, the playhead will act as one and the recording duration will last until the out point.
- If you fail to specify an out point, the last clip at the end of the sequence will be used.

Setting Track Destination:

Audio recorded using the voiceover tool is placed in the audio track defined by the audio channel 2 destination track.

Example: Lets say that you already have a sequence that is comprised of three tracks, one video and and a soundtrack on audio channels one and two. You will need to enable the audio channel 2 target control of audio track 3 before you use the voiceover tool. The voiceover will then be placed in track 3.

First, we start by selecting the TOOL in the FCP menu and click on FxBuilder.

Creating a Nested Sequence From a Selected Range in the Timeline

1 Select a range of clips in your timeline.

2 You can either press Option C or go to Sequence > Nest Items.

3 Enter a descriptive name for the nested sequence in the Nest Items dialog box.

4 Designate the width and height of the nested sequence.

5 If the range of clips you have selected contain effects, markers, etc., make sure that you check the Keep Effects, Markers, and Audio Levels with clip selection.

6 Select the Mixdown Audio option if you want your audio to be rendered in the nest.

7 Click on the OK tab. Your previously selected range of clips have now been replaced with a nested sequence. Go to Edit > Undo to step back out of the nest if needed.

RipCode, Inc. has announced their collaboration with Texas Instruments Incorporated to deliver the industry's first digital signal processor (DSP)-based video transcoding appliance for Internet video. Built on a robust, scalable and configurable multi-DSP platform using open architecture standards, RipCode's V4 video transcoding appliance utilizes TI's DaVinci technology specifically tailored for efficient, quality digital video systems. TI's high performance processors give RipCode the ability to replace between 10 - 20 GPP transcode servers with a single RipCode appliance, improving bottom line revenue through significant energy and cooling cost savings.

Telestream, the leading provider of transcoding workflow automation solutions, announced that its FlipFactory and Flip4Mac video compression products helped bring the 2007 Special Olympic World Games to Internet viewers around the globe. The Special Olympics Games were broadcast from Shanghai, China in October and are available on the official Games website at www.specialolympicslive.org. The student-led web project was jointly developed by Fudan University in Shanghai and the University of North Carolina in the US.

Since Wowza Media Server Pro launched in February 2007, Wowza has taken a leadership role in radically redefining the economics of Flash streaming and rapidly gaining over 3,700 licensees worldwide. Wowza's customers have proclaimed its Wowza Media Server Pro "the smart choice" and recognized its value in the 2007 Streaming Media Readers' Choice awards, naming it as a top 3 media server choice along with Adobe and Microsoft.

"What I'm trying to get out of is that glossy, sterile, corporate look the music video industry has sunk to, where everything looks and sounds the same," says Salters.

Bringing the live footage they shot with a Panasonic HVX Camcorder into Final Cut Pro, Salters picked the shots he liked and matched them to the song. Before he begins shooting his stop-action footage, he places markers in the Final Cut Pro 24p timeline, in-step with the music he is working with, and carefully plans each edit.

After shooting his stop-motion footage, Salter's and his wife commences to cutting out 2,500 digital stills. The iMac G5 and Final Cut Pro are his choice tools. Take a look at the story.

A matte is a layer (or any of its channels) that defines the transparent areas of that layer or another layer. White in your matte defines the non-transparent portion of the layer, and black defines transparent areas. An alpha channel is often used as a matte, but you can use a matte other than the alpha channel if you have a channel or layer that defines the desired area of transparency better than the alpha channel does, or in cases where the source image doesn’t include an alpha channel.

This is just a intro to mattes and how they work, to learn how to fully use mattes and how to operate After Effects, sign up for one of our up and coming After Effects classes!

ON24 Inc., the global leader in webcasting and rich media marketing solutions, today announced achievement of major technology and webcasting milestones for 2007. ON24's emphasis on excellent customer service and technology innovation contributed to the company acquiring over 300 new customers. To support ON24's growth in the US and worldwide, the company launched offices in Beijing, China and implemented a second datacenter.

Sorenson Media, the worldwide leader for video compression and decoding solutions, announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 4.8 for Adobe Flash. Building on the recent release of Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 with H.264 video support, this upgrade enables users of Sorenson Media's award-winning application to encode MPEG-4 video compatible with the newly-released Adobe Flash 9 Update 3 software, using the H.264/AVC, AAC and HE-AAC codecs. Because the resulting files are true MPEG-4 files, they will also be compatible with popular devices such as Apple's iPod and Sony's PSP. This one-file-fits-all technology will simplify the technology landscape for video producers and consumers alike.

1 Navigate to the text option which is located at the bottom of the menu and choose crawl from the text menu.

2 Click on the Controls tab located in the Viewer Window and you will see Sample Text in the Text Edit Box. Change the text to whatever you like.

3 Click on the Video tab inside of the Viewer Window and press play to review the crawl.

1 Place the position indicator over the clip in the timeline.

2 Click on the clip in the Timeline to select it.

3 Press Control S or go to Sequence > Solo Selected Item(s).

4 Play the clip by either pressing the space bar or clicking the play button in the Canvas Window. You will now see the selected clip playback and that all overlapping video tracks have been disabled.

Press Control S or go to Sequence > Solo Selected Item(s) to reactivate the other clips in your sequence.

You can detect specific hot spots in your audio by marking audio peaks in Final Cut.

Marking Audio Peaks

1 Make sure that you have UNselected all audio and video in the timeline.

2 Go to Mark > Audio > Peaks > Mark. Final Cut Pro will then place peak markers in the Timeline Ruler above the sequence hot spots. If a section of your audio has a hot point that lasts longer than a spike, a peak marker with a duration will appear over that area in the Timeline Ruler.

Now that you have detected audio peaks now its time to fix them.

Lowering Audio Hot Points

There are multiple ways but here are two:

1 Select the area of the audio clip that was marked as hot underneath the peak markers. You can do this buy creating through edits with the razor blade tool to designate the areas right underneath the peak markers, then going back to the selection tool to make your selections (Shift Click to make multiple selections).

2 After you have made your selections, go to Modify > Levels > and adjust the gain. If you make the changes Relative, if you have already keyframed the audio in this area the keyframes will be maintained. By making your changes absolute, you will blast away any keyframes that where previously set and all audio will be adjusted to the assigned dB level.

Another way to adjust the audio in these problem spots would be to Toggle On Cip Overlays at the bottom right of the timeline > control click on the pink overlays on your audio to create keyframe points that you can drag up or down to adjust levels.

The Trapcode 3S Pack contains three of the hottest most useful plug-ins ever created. We can say this with much confidence because the fact is we use them ALL THE TIME here at Digital Juice. They've always have worked for After Effects but now you can use them right in your video editing system.

ProAnimator includes powerful tools for creating and coloring 3D models. It also contains a next generation animation system that can be used to quickly generate complex animations that would take hours to create in other 3D applications.

Sorenson Squeeze Suite 4.5 is the industry-leading video encoding tool, enabling users to efficiently re-purpose video content for web, CD or DVD applications. Includes Sorenson Video 3 Pro, Sorenson Spark Pro, Sorenson MPEG-4 Pro and Sorenson AVC Pro video codecs.

Boris creates titles and graphics directly inside your nonlinear editing system without importing and exporting. Easily create sophisticated title animation including type on text, text on a path, jitter and randomization. Create 3D text with bump maps and reflections. An expansive Style Palette and the Boris Library Browser provide easy access to hundreds of preset effects and styles. Adding Graffiti to your existing NLE system puts the most innovative and user friendly titling tools in the industry at your fingertips.

Don't delay, get your new plug-ins today!

In reference to the Audio Playback Quality, if you have this option set to High and you have placed audio at multiple sample rates into your timeline, when your sequence settings are set at 48k, FCP will have to struggle to convert all of those audio files during playback.

Searching for text or timecode in a sequence:

1. Press the home key to position the playhead at the beginning of the sequence to enable the ENTIRE sequence for search OR simply place the playhead where you wish to start the search.

2. Choose Edit > Find.

3. Enter the text or timecode number you want to search for.

4. Choose the type of item to search for in the pop-up menu.

5. Choose the tracks to search from in the Where pop-up menu.

6. Click Find or Click Find All.

Improved performance Bridge CS3 starts more quickly and displays thumbnails more quickly than Bridge CS2.

Filter panel Control which files appear in the Content panel by choosing criteria in the Filter panel. You can filter by rating, label, file type, keywords, date created, or date modified, among other criteria (criteria are dynamically generated depending on the file types that appear in the Content panel).

Import photos Import photos from a digital camera card. Once Bridge has imported the photos, you can rotate, resize, or rename them; convert the photos to DNG; and apply metadata.

File stacking Create stacks to group related files and reduce clutter in the Content panel. For example, create a stack to visually group a set of similar photos.

Compare and preview images Compare multiple images in the Preview panel and use the Loupe tool to zoom in on image previews.

Version Cue Inspector and Version Cue buttons Use the Inspector panel in Bridge to display and act on context-sensitive information about Version Cue Servers, projects, and Version Cue-managed assets. Version Cue buttons in the Content panel offer easy access to Version Cue commands.

Quick/high-quality thumbnails Specify whether Bridge displays the low-resolution thumbnails embedded in the source file or thumbnails generated from the source file.

Start a meeting Start a real‑time web conference to share your desktop and review documents.

Workspace flexibility Configure the three-column Bridge workspace by moving and resizing panels, and then save the configuration as a new workspace for later reuse. New preferences let you brighten or darken the Bridge background and specify accent colors.

I first has a chance to witness first-hand the GoStream at NAB 2006. This product is truly amazing!

The Niagara GoStream and GoStream Plus are portable streaming encoding units, designed for the most novice of users to make capturing and streaming video uncomplicated. GoStream and GoStream Plus feature three EZStream buttons, which allow users to select from pre-defined encoding profiles. With a portable, streamlined chassis design, intuitive front panel, and EASE control menus, streaming set-up is quick and easy. Pre-defined encoding profiles allow streaming to begin simply with the push of a button.

"The partnership with TiVo extends the TV experience for the connected digital home, enabling easy access anytime, anywhere to the most extensive TV content," said Richard Lesser, CEO, Nero AG. "Our core technology enables the creation of new categories in consumer electronics, changing the way that users interact with both hardware and software. Our proven technology adds media functionality to the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computing and software products."

Netbriefings specializes in video communication for business. The Proclaim tool for quick and easy webcasting makes online video a meaningful part of day-to-day business communications. Proclaim users quickly create rich-media presentations, streamed to a live audience or recorded for on-demand access. Capture and send audio or video from the desktop while simultaneously rolling in additional video clips, audio bites, PowerPoint slides and images.

Before you try this, keep in mind that you only need a mono clip to perform this effect, so if you have a stereo pair, unlink the two and delete one of the tracks.

1 Double click on the audio clip to load it into the viwer.

2 Click on the channel tab in the Viewer Window.

3 Option click on the purple audio spread overlay in order to get the pen tool to create keyframes and drag the points of the line so that it looks like the diagram below. When you begin to move the purple overly you will see a pink line underneath it. It helps if you think of it in this way: think of anything above the pink line as being the right channel and anything below as being the left channel.

Now the audio in this clip will pass from the left speak through the right when played.

This eables you to be able to place the Import Files Button in the button well over the Browser or add the Add Audio Transition Button to the Timeline Button Bar.

Creating a Shortcut Button in a Button Bar

1 Go to tools > Button List

2 Drag an icon for the function that you desire from the list to the button well and release the mouse button.

RipCode, Inc. announced that it has raised an additional $2 million in series B financing, bringing the total round to $12.5 million. The additional funding was provided by RipCode's original investors: Hunt Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, El Dorado Ventures and ATA Ventures. Since the company's official launch, RipCode has received tremendous interest in its appliance-based video transcoding technology, announcing MySpaceTV as its first trial customer and partnership agreements with Adobe and On2 Technologies. The additional $2 million investment will be used to accelerate development efforts for specific customer opportunities.

muvee, the pioneer and leader in instant home movies, is pleased to announce that it has licensed MainConcept's H.264 encoder technology for its muvee autoProducer and muveeNow consumer software products, to enable output support for high-definition H.264 content in AVCHD, HD DVD & Blu-ray Disc formats. MainConcept AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc., is one of the world's leading providers of audio and video codecs for software developers.

Flix Engine 3GPP from On2 Provides Encoding to Mobile Devices. Flix Engine 3GPP extends the popular Flix Engine to support 3GPP output to repurpose video for mobile devices using 3GPP formats. Flix Engine 3GPP is a powerful SDK used for encoding FLV and 3GPP files on Windows or Linux servers. Flix Engine 3GPP supports On2 VP6 and Sorenson Spark encoding for FLV, and has all the rich features available for On2 VP6 encoding such as two pass encoding,batch encoding, alpha channel preservation, cue points, and more, and supports a large number of input formats. Flix Engine 3GPP can be used individually or to build large encoding infrastructures using industry standard scripting languages including ASP, PHP, Python, Perl and others.

1.The time difference between keyframes in the Timeline panel. The shorter the time interval between keyframes, the more quickly the layer has to change to reach the next keyframe value. If the interval is longer, the layer changes more slowly, because it must make the change over a longer period of time. You can adjust the rate of change by moving keyframes forward or backward along the timeline.

2. The difference between the values of adjacent keyframes. A large difference between keyframe values, such as the difference between 75% and 20% opacity, creates a faster rate of change than a smaller difference, such as the difference between 30% and 20% opacity. You can adjust the rate of change by increasing or decreasing the value of a layer property at a keyframe.

3. The interpolation type applied for a keyframe. For example, it is difficult to make a value change smoothly through a keyframe when the keyframe is set to Linear interpolation, but you can switch to Bezier interpolation at any time, which provides a smooth change through a keyframe. If you use Bezier interpolation, you can adjust the rate of change even more precisely using direction handles.

Once you start experimenting with time and speed changes you will become an expert and you will be much more aware of the best way to set your keyframes.

Setting a Noise Print and Reducing Noise

1 Drag a selection in the waveform display that contains only the noise that you want to remove. Whether it be a pause between sentences or before the dialog begins, capture the ambience you are pin pointing for removal.

2 Go to Process > Set Noise Print.

3 Go back to the waveform display and select the entire effected area including dialog.

4 Choose Process > Reduce Noice and the Reduce Noise Dialog Box will appear.

5 This is the part that will take practice. Move the Noise Threshold control to the left to lower the threshold and remove low signals or slide it to the right to raise the threshold and reduce high signals.

The goal here is to remove the unwanted noise without degrading the overall sound quality of the scene. This may call for you to add some bass back into the actors voices after you have made your adjustments. Play around with this functon to get the feel of removing problem noises from a scene.

Telestream, the leading provider of transcoding workflow automation solutions, announced that its FlipFactory and Launch products were selected by Azteca America to provide fast, efficient delivery of news content between the network's California-based operations center and affiliate stations in the United States. Azteca America is the fastest growing Hispanic network in the United States, providing programming to 60 affiliates in major Hispanic markets across the country.

"We chose Telestream because of their experience in Internet media delivery and their flexibility to cost-effectively meet our exact workflow needs," said Marco Rivera, CTO and Jakob Nielsen, Engineering Manager at Azteca America. "Important selection criteria included the ability to automatically integrate with our news systems, provide important SMPTE VC-1 and MPEG-2 format support and meet our tight delivery deadlines."

The extended version of Photoshop CS 3 offers advanced compositing, 3D editing, and 'movie paint'. You can now open up movie files directly into Photoshop and apply filters directly to full motion video clips.

 

 

 

 

With previous versions of Photoshop, it was a somewhat difficult task to process video clips within Photoshop.  It involved using droplets and actions to import an image sequence into Photoshop. Now, with CS 3 extended, things couldn't be an easier.  Simply open your movie file directly into Photoshop and apply the filter(s) that you want.  Then render out the final movie.

Since there are so many unique effects and filters within Photoshop, this really opens the door for some advanced compositing techniques that may not be readily available within your favorite non linear editing system.

GeniusDV now incorporates Photoshop for Video training into the Avid Xpress and Final Cut Pro training courses. 

Sharing Clips Between Sequences by Copying and Pasting

1 Open the original project that you want to copy material from and select the clips you wish to copy from the timeline.

2 Press Command C to copy the clips(s).

3 Open the new sequence and drag it by its tab to a new location so that you are able to view it and the original sequence simultaneously.

4 Ensure that the Auto Select controls are active for the tracks in the new sequence you will be copying to.

5 Move the playhead to the area that you wish to copy the clip(s) to within the new sequence.

6 Press Command V and you will have shared clips between sequences.

The two transcoding applications offer convenient transcoding of the AVC-Intra and AVCHD formats into the ever-popular DVCPRO format and are the result of close technical collaboration between Panasonic and MainConcept. The new applications give Panasonic Broadcast's customers a ready-made, cost effective transcoding solution with time-to-market advantages of not having to develop the applications in-house.

"Our interest in Anystream was driven by a need to improve our encoding workflow and bring Flash and VOD production in-house," said Lauryn Lukin, Baltimore Ravens' manager of broadcasting. "Before Anystream, our system would be tied up for hours as we encoded Flash files on individual computers. Other NFL teams recommended we look into Anystream's Agility and after hearing how easily it integrated with our current Avid technology, we made the decision to adopt it."