Posts Tagged ‘how-to’
Date: 18 Mar, 2011
Create a Polaroid Montage with Photoshop CS5 Instant Polaroid film may be mostly a thing of the past, but the iconic shape of these snapshots are instantly recognizable as one of the innovations in the history of photography. This tutorial shows you an easy way to use the distinctive instant film shape to turn your image into a polaroid montage, and using our convenient template (located here) makes the process even simpler. Tutorial Enjoy our brief tutorial for creating a Polaroid montage with Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Capturing a Screen Recording with Quicktime Pro Screen recordings are a useful tool for many video projects. They can be utilized to help demo new software or show off a clients website, as an effect in a film project, or as a simple way to make a tutorial video (it’s what we use for most of our tutorial videos). We’ve compiled a very short and simple tutorial that details the process of capturing a screen recording and converting the file to a format compatible with Final Cut Pro for easy editing of your screen recording project. Tutorial Enjoy our brief tutorial for capturing a...
Compressor settings for Blu-Ray Discs Blu-ray discs have been growing more mainstream recently, and if you’re shooting hi-def footage and watching it on a high definition television or computer monitor their abundance of extra space and greater bitrate makes them the best way to distribute your video projects without loss in quality. Because of their increased performance it’s also necessary that you use the appropriate settings for your footage in order to get the best quality out of your Blu-Ray Disc. Why use Adobe Encore? If you’re wondering why you’d use Adobe Encore...
Exporting Video for YouTube with Final Cut Pro Today’s tutorial shows our preferred settings for exporting video to YouTube. Since internet connection speeds vary we prefer a balance that allows for the best quality while still maintaining a quick load time. Tutorial Please enjoy this short guide to exporting video to youtube.
Importing DSLR Footage We’ve been focusing on DSLR video a lot lately, which brings some new problems into play when it comes to importing your footage for use with your editing software. The compression codecs used by cameras when recording the footage is designed for the best file size and quality, but it isn’t optimum for post production purposes, and as such needs converted. This tutorial guides you through two different workflows, one using MPEG Streamclip, and one using Final Cut Pro’s built in Log and Capture feature, that will allow you to easily import and convert...
About HDR Photography Earlier this week we featured a blog on creating a HDR style effect for videos in Final Cut Pro. We then decided that a HDR photography tutorial would be an appropriate followup. High Dynamic Range refers to an image with a greater range of luminance between light and dark areas of the photo. This allows the light and dark areas to be represented equally well, instead of having to choose between seeing light areas but having under exposed dark areas, or seeing dark areas but having over exposed light areas. This effect is typically done by taking multiple pictures of the...
Is My Blog Indexed By Google? Have you ever thought to yourself, “Is my blog indexed by google yet?” Maybe it has been a few days since you wrote your blog and now you’re wondering whether you’re appearing in the search engines. Maybe you try tossing in the title of your blog or searching for the key phrases you optimized your content for. Nothing’s coming up. Hmm, is the content poorly optimized and that’s why you’re not seeing it, or is it simply the case that it has not yet been indexed by Google. How to Tell if Your Blog is Indexed By Google? In this...
You have specialized knowledge in your field that few others possess, and now you want to get the word out while attracting others to your organization. What are your options? Social media, AdWords, and traditional media each have their benefits, but these all put the focus squarely on your product. Instead, consider the advantages of giving your product secondary focus and making a How-To Video to both build identity and recruit in one project. Examples and the How-To Video at Work: Last week FineLine Multimedia did just that as we teamed up with Iowa-based Championship Productions and...
YouTube’s autoplay feature enables your feature video to begin when your channel page is loaded. The autoplay feature can be turned on in just a few simple steps as outlined in this helpful video. Feel free to comment or suggest other YouTube topics you have questions about that you’d like us to cover.
You’re really proud of your website, right? It looks great. In fact it looks better than great. The colors, images, and overall visual effect succeeds in communicating that your organization is serious about what you do. But haven’t you felt the same way about a brochure? The information in a brochure gets read once because the information is always the same. Your website should not be a place that visitors come to once and do not return. You shouldn’t be judging your website based off its design. In fact you shouldn’t be judging it at all. You should be measuring it. You...
