Adobe Production Suite: May 2011 Archives

If you have a PC formatted drive that has been formatted as NTFS, Mac OS X will be able to read from the drive, but it will not be able to write to it.  Fortunately, there is a company that provides affordable software allowing your Mac to read and write to NTFS formatted drives.

The solution in the past has been to format all your drives as FAT 32.  However, that causes a problem if you need to copy large files. Fat 32 has a file size limitation of just under 4GB. 

After the software driver has been installed, you can use the standard Mac OS Disk Utility to format your devices as NTFS.  You can even create NTFS disk images.

Funny thing I ran across today; I was trying to create an archive of my YouTube videos for a friend, and quickly discovered that YouTube will only allow you to download a video as an MP4 at a limit of 2 per hour.  Not very convenient when I want to send him over 125 videos!  Solution?  Savevid.com.  SaveVid is a tool which gives you the ability to download videos from streaming video sites.  You can download videos from YouTube, Google Videos, Metacafe and more in FLV, AVI, MOV, MPG or WMV formats.  It's completely free and easy to use.

Simply paste the URL of the video from your browsers address bar into the green box and click the "download" button.

Note that this is really convenient if you have short little 1-3 minute videos to download.  If you have a 30 minute video, it could take up to 30 minutes to actually download.  My guess on why it takes so long is because it's encoding the actual stream.  Therefore a 15 minute video will not download any faster than 15 minutes.

Check out this short tutorial on how to use the History brush within Adobe Photoshop.  If you are a video enthusiast, you'll find learning Photoshop is an absolute must!

If you enjoy this tutorial, please check out our new Photoshop training course taught by Manuel Cordero!.