New DVD Training Series Cuts Months Off Avid Editing Learning Curve - Avid Industry Veteran Steve Bayes Quickly Replaces Mystery with Mastery
Desktop Images, a leading provider of visual training programs for the worldwide creative community, today announced the release of The Avid Editing Essentials Series, an extensive 4-DVD training series for Avid Xpress Pro & Xpress DV featuring the expert instruction of Steve Bayes, former Principle Product Designer for Avid Technology and author of the Avid Handbook. This new DVD series provides "Visual Training" specifically designed to cut months off of the Avid learning curve by providing the ultimate visual learning resource and reference guide for Avid Xpress Pro and Xpress DV as well as Avid Xpress, Media Composer, Media Composer Adrenaline, and Symphony."We are thrilled to provide both novice and professional Avid video editors with the expert instruction of Steve Bayes on the Avid Editing with Xpress Pro & Xpress DV series," said Rex Olson, president and co-founder of Desktop Images. "With 8 years as the Product Designer for Media Composer, Symphony and DS Nitris at Avid Technology, I can think of no one more qualified to teach Avid users how to maximize their productivity and efficiency in every aspect of the editing process.""For such a powerful solution, Avid is actually quite simple to use," said Avid Editing with Xpress Pro & Xpress DV instructor Steve Bayes. "The challenge is to overcome the initial learning curve and discover the countless ways to save time and effort by efficiently operating all of the features."The 4-DVD series accomplishes this by guiding viewers through the process with over 7 hours of in-depth training covering all aspects of both basic and advanced Avid editing. The self-paced course incorporates Desktop Images' "Virtual Set Technology" which allows users to watch Steve Bayes "over the shoulder" and view live-action screen shots in real-time during his instruction.
The DVDs also include an English subtitle track for the Hearing Impaired, along with a subtitle track devoted to relevant keyboard shortcuts. Viewers with DVD-ROM equipped computers can access project files and source footage to follow along with each lesson.The Avid? Editing Series with Xpress Pro & Xpress DV includes:Level 1: Avid? Editing Essentials - Teaches the fundamental concepts of Avid editing, including system setup, video capturing, editing, trimming, transitions, audio, and output.Level 2: Workflow and Media Management - Explains ways to increase speed and efficiency by mastering interface customization, timeline styles, project management, bins and superbins, media transfer, and file import and export.Level 3: Advanced Editing Techniques - Streamlines the production process with time saving tips for capture options, advanced editing and trimming, audio recording and mixing, titling tools, multi-camera editing, and motion effects.Level 4: Special Effects and Color Correction - Explores the image processing capabilities of the Avid system, including color correction, 2D effects, advanced keyframing, 3D DVE and Warp effects, realitime and rendering, and third party plugins. Pricing and AvailabilityAvid? Editing with Xpress Pro & Xpress DV is available now through Desktop Images (www.desktopimages.com) or their worldwide authorized seller network. The complete set of four DVDs including Avid Editing Essentials, Workflow and Media Management, Advanced Editing Techniques, and Advanced Editing Techniques is available for a suggested retail price of $249.95. Individual DVDs are each available for a suggested retail price of $69.95 each.
The series is region encoded 0, allowing playback in DVD players throughout the world.About Steve BayesSteve Bayes is a consultant, writer and instructor specializing in Avid? products for video, film and HD. For 8 years he was the Product Designer for Media Composer, Symphony and DS Nitris at Avid? Technology. Steve has specified the design of Avidproducts based on his years of editing, instructing and interviewing Avid users. He is the author of the book "The Avid Handbook: Basic and Intermediate Techniques for the Media Composer". He is currently certified by Avid as an Avid Certified Instructor (ACI), AvidCertified Support Representative (ACSR) and Unity Media Network.
About Desktop Images Desktop Images has been setting the standard for the production and distribution of training videos and DVDs for computer software and hardware products since 1992. Emulating individual one-on-one instruction, each self-paced program is professionally produced utilizing "Virtual Set Technology" that places the instructor in a virtual 3D environment as the program alternates between the instructor and a full-screen or close-up view of the computer interface. Each video also includes a time indexed reference card to easily locate subject matter for quick review, along with an English subtitle track for the Hearing Impaired and a subtitle track devoted to keyboard shortcuts. With step-by-step instruction from industry leading experts, the Desktop Images catalog includes training for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, NewTek LightWave 3D, Aura, Video Toaster, Boris FX and Boris Red with new products announced regularly. For more information on Desktop Images, visit www.desktopimages.com..
Documentary Captures Florida Hurricanes - The Fury of 2004
-During the late summer and early fall, four major hurricanes wreaked havoc on the state of Florida over a six week period. Images of destruction and devastation from Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne were in the news daily. Amidst these images were stories, often untold, of volunteers on local, state and federal teams dedicated to helping the impacted communities cope with the aftermath of the powerful storms.One of these volunteers, a young firefighter in NW Florida, Ryan Christen is a member of FEMA's Florida One
Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) that responded to the disasters?including Hurricane Ivan which made landfall in Northwest Florida near Christen's own hometown of Fort Walton Beach, Florida. In addition to his firefighter and disaster team duties, Christen is an experienced video producer. After months of editing many hours of video, taken during and after the four hurricane landfalls, Christen has completed a full length DVD documentary, Hurricane...
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WHY THIS DVD WON'T PLAY IN MY MACHINE ?
WHY THIS DVD WON'T PLAY IN MY MACHINE ?They're supposed to play EVERYTHING! The salesman and the cataloguepromised you that THIS machine can handle DVD's, CD's, MP3's, JPG'sVCD, CD-R's, etc etc etc.But that DVD movie you bought on the internet from overseasabsolutely refuses to play. With or without an accompanying errormessage on the TV screen , you wonder whether you have just wastedgood money.But who to blame ? Maybe the disc itself was faulty ? Perhaps thesalesman lied about what the machine could do ?None of the above ! The disc is not faulty and the salesman didn'tlie, though I guarantee he didn't give you the full story.There are 2 compatibility issues to consider with DVD discs that youobtain from overseas. Both conditions need to be satisfied for thedisc to play !REGIONSThe first is REGIONS (or zones).Your DVD manual will tell you what region your machine is. Manymachines also have a region logo at the back.If your DVD player is multi-zone, congratulations, it will play alldiscs...
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WHY THIS DVD WON'T PLAY IN MY MACHINE ?
WHY THIS DVD WON'T PLAY IN MY MACHINE ?They're supposed to play EVERYTHING! The salesman and the cataloguepromised you that THIS machine can handle DVD's, CD's, MP3's, JPG'sVCD, CD-R's, etc etc etc.But that DVD movie you bought on the internet from overseasabsolutely refuses to play. With or without an accompanying errormessage on the TV screen , you wonder whether you have just wastedgood money.But who to blame ? Maybe the disc itself was faulty ? Perhaps thesalesman lied about what the machine could do ?None of the above ! The disc is not faulty and the salesman didn'tlie, though I guarantee he didn't give you the full story.There are 2 compatibility issues to consider with DVD discs that youobtain from overseas. Both conditions need to be satisfied for thedisc to play !REGIONSThe first is REGIONS (or zones).Your DVD manual will tell you what region your machine is. Manymachines also have a region logo at the back.If your DVD player is multi-zone, congratulations, it will play alldiscs...
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DVDO iScan? HD+ Now Shipping ? High Resolution Video Scaling Engine
Building on the momentum from the award-winning iScan? HD, the iScan HD+ adds scaling of high definition sources (720p, 1080i), and HDCP support over DVI.
It utilizes Anchor Bay Technology's Precision Video Scaling? technology, and incorporates other digital video and audio technologies such as Automatic Chroma Upsampling Error Correction AutoCUE-C? and Precision AV Lipsync. The DVDO iScan? HD+ sets a new standard for upconverting, cross-converting and even downconverting all your video sources. Whether it's your VCR outputting 480i, your DVD player at 480p, or your Set-top-box at 720p or 1080i, the iScan? HD+ will scale the output to perfectly match the optimum resolution of your display - 720p, 1080i, or any user-defined resolution up to 1080p including many preset resolutions (1366 x 768, 1280 x 720, etc.) for popular projectors and display panels.
It is HDCP compliant over DVI, and also accepts your legacy 480i/480p analog sources.In addition to providing greatly...
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CD Replication and CD/DVD Duplication Technology
Do you have some work to be done related to CD duplication? Are you searching for CD duplication services for the proper execution of the same? Do you need to know how the CD duplication services actually work and how your work will actually be done? Just read on to know all this.
CD duplication refers to the process of burning data in the compact discs with the use of the laser. It is a process that makes use of the most modern technologies of the recent times. The process employs the use of common compact discs and DVD burners.
Whenever you go out to avail the CD duplication services, it is most likely that you would like to have this project done in a most professional way.
And not like the way you would yourself burn the compact disc copies. Thus, the whole process of going to the CD duplication services will add up a little to your budget and also to the time frame factors. But when it will come...
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CD Backup Made Easy
Today, CD Writers are very common and CDRs and CDRWs are cheaper than ever. While most people use their CD Writers to create music CDs or to copy files, CD-R and CD-RWs can also be to store backups in an easy way. A normal CD can store 650MBs of data. This number can often be doubled to 1.3GB using an efficient compression algorithm. Since most backups are often smaller than 1.3GBs this makes CDRs or CDRWs a perfect solution for storing backups.
CompressionIn order to use the CD media more efficiently you will probably want to compress your backup before writing it to the CD. Compression can often reduce the size of a backup by 50% or more, doubling the capacity of your CDs. If you have ever tried to compress a 1GB file you probably know that this will take a lot of time. Since WinBackup compresses files on-the-fly, backup operations will be performed considerably faster. The built-in compression also reduces the need for a large temporary storage location and makes it much easier...
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Thor ?The Rock Warrior? to Promote New CD/DVD and Perform at Hollywood Knitting Factory April 26th along with the USA Network Premiere of ?Murder at the Presidio?
Heavy metal legend Thor the Rock Warrior has teamed up with long time Thor friend and collaborator, John Fasano (Zombie Nightmare, The Edge of Hell ? All Hallow's Eve), Once Upon A Time Films, USA Networks and Smog Veil Records to the premier of the Murder At The Presidio (Lou Diamond Phillips, Jason Priestley, Victoria Pratt, Jon Mikl Thor) and to a live Hollywood Knitting Factory April 26th - Thor performance featuring songs from his new CD titled "Thor Against The World".
Thor both performed in and contributed to the soundtrack for the upcoming USA Network production titled "Murder in the Presidio," airing on May 2, 9pm, May 3, 4pm and May 4, 2pm. (See Trailer:http://www.usanetwork.com/movies/murderatthepresidio/ and invitation http://www.thorcentral.com/mp_redesign/images/news/knittingfactory_flyer.gif...
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New DVD Training Series Cuts Months Off Avid Editing Learning Curve - Avid Industry Veteran Steve Bayes Quickly Replaces Mystery with Mastery
Desktop Images, a leading provider of visual training programs for the worldwide creative community, today announced the release of The Avid Editing Essentials Series, an extensive 4-DVD training series for Avid Xpress Pro & Xpress DV featuring the expert instruction of Steve Bayes, former Principle Product Designer for Avid Technology and author of the Avid Handbook. This new DVD series provides "Visual Training" specifically designed to cut months off of the Avid learning curve by providing the ultimate visual learning resource and reference guide for Avid Xpress Pro and Xpress DV as well as Avid Xpress, Media Composer, Media Composer Adrenaline, and Symphony."We are thrilled to provide both novice and professional Avid video editors with the expert instruction of Steve Bayes on the Avid Editing with Xpress Pro & Xpress DV series," said Rex Olson, president and co-founder of Desktop Images. "With 8 years as the Product Designer for Media Composer, Symphony and DS Nitris at Avid Technology,...
New DVD Training Series Cuts Months Off Avid Editing Learning Curve - Avid Industry Veteran Steve Bayes Quickly Replaces Mystery with Mastery
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