Alright all you Ableton users and those of you not lucky enough to have yet indulged, the Ableton Live 7 release is packed with some amazing new features. Today's favorite is defined by Ableton as Slicing. Have you ever had a great beat and you want to slice it up quickly so you could resample it or change the rhythm? Welcome to Slicing.
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The sidecar RAID from 3Ware isn't new gear featured at NAB this year, but with the advent of more and more high definition resources and 2K+ video, every Mac editor and/or compositor will have to look at the different solutions available to store and access all of those gigantor elements. It's not just about storage, its about bandwidth too.
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There was time when it was unthinkable but the unthinkable, it seems, has become a reality - Windows on a Mac. But aside from the novelty value, the revelation of a dual operating system opens up new possibilities for video and digital media producers and rises above the traditionally application restricted and insular Mac platform.
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For those working in video and digital media production, it's very easy to get carried away with the technology. Faster CPU's, more RAM, bigger monitor screens, the latest software suites - these are all very nice but so often it's not these things that really make the difference in our day to day work. Very often it`s the little things that make for greater efficiency in production. It's this concept that a device such as Contour Design's ShuttlePro seeks to invoke.
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What`s really great about the many loops available from Sony Creative Software is that they`re able to be used in other Sony Creative Software apps, along with other Windows and Mac (yes, Mac!) applications.
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Every year, broadcasters of all kinds gather in Las Vegas to see the new gear offered by the vendors who support the creation and transmission of what you watch and listen to. This year, Wes Plate from Automatic Duck will show off some of the latest edit list conversion tools.
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Fake MP3 files have duped thousands of computer users into download
annoying and potentially dangerous malware into their systems. People
expecting free music are instead directed to download ...
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As a sinus sufferer, I don't like earbuds either for my music player or as a mobile phone headset. You continually feel as if you should be blowing your nose, every sound echoes around inside your skull and when you speak, because you cannot hear yourself properly, you tend to shout; the more you shout, the more it rattles around your head.
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In the past I have queried whether people would actually watch video on a small screen; I d now say they will as long as the quality is there. Today though, a player even smaller than a Zune or an iPOD " more like two match boxes end to end " arrived called a T.sonic 850 and it is astonishing.
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The Kodak EasyShare line of digital cameras is one of the most successful digital camera line for the company because they are really easy to use, and their user interfaces are some of the easiest to navigate. The company has recently shipped the Kodak EasyShare M1033, a sub $200, 10 megapixel digital camera that features a 3X optical zoom lens (35-105 35mm equivalent) and a 3-inch wide angle LCD.
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Want to make a dynamic photo slideshow and put it on Youtube? Sure you can do that by means of many flash slideshow software. This guide explains how to do that with Wondershare Photo Story Platinum in a few simple steps without Flash skills.
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