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Movement on Stills

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses creating movement on stills in Final Cut Pro. Many people call this the Ken Burns effect, but Shane wants to point out that this effect is been used long before Ken Burns made it so popular. In fact, Shane would like to someday have it called the 'Shane Ross Effect.' Click here for video tutorial  Read More

Creating Hi-Def DVDs Using 4.7GB Type 5 DVDs

Monday, July 16th, 2007
According to legend and rumour it is possible to make High Definition DVDs onto regular 4.7GB DVD-Rs using a Mac with a DVD burner and DVD Studio Pro 4. Now if this were true then we could all get started knocking out HD DVDs straight away and stop waiting for Blu-ray to appear. Reminds me of a time before DVD burners were widely available to the public. There was talk that one could take the disc out of DVD-Ram caddy, or record DVD content to CD, and then do something magical with the disc which, if you knew the secret formula, would then play in a DVD set-top player. Not sure that talk was true. But what is true is that it is well… Read More