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∞ After Effects productivity tips

Jim Dalrymple — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:20:29 +0000

Richard Lainhart:

Everyone who works with Adobe After Effects for any length of time, particularly on a deadline, eventually finds himself (or herself) wanting to improve his or her productivity. In this tutorial, I’ll share five useful tips you may not know about that will help you work more efficiently.

Tips from an expert are always

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∞ Pro Tools 10 video tutorial

Jim Dalrymple — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:31:02 +0000

Pro Tools 10 is chock full of new features and functions that will dramatically speed up your workflow and production time. Pro Tools guru Michael Costa takes you step by step through each new feature and function, in-depth, leaving no stone unturned.

I’ve watched several of Costa’s videos before and he is a really good

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∞ Pro Tools 10: Clip-based gain tutorial

Jim Dalrymple — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:43:19 +0000

MacProVideo:

The Clip-Based Gain feature in Pro Tools 10 provides a much quicker and visually appealing solution. Using the clip gain line you’re able to adjust the gain for individual clips and match their relative levels. You’ll notice right away how the waveform view updates in real-time to reflect the clip gain changes. Very impressive!

There are some great looking features in Pro Tools 10 — this is just one of them.

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∞ Adobe Creative Developer Tour 2011

Jim Dalrymple — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:53:57 +0000

The Adobe Creative Suite provides many opportunities for partners to provide not only software and solutions based on Adobe technology but also consulting, contract development and integration services. The key themes for the Creative Developer Event are:
Extensibility – Efficiently develop and deploy extensions that work across Adobe Creative Suite products

Enterprise – Unlock new market opportunities and see how Adobe Creative Suite products can be seamlessly embedded into

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∞ ∞ Speaking of learning guitar, check out Anthony Stauffer

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:26:07 +0000

Anthony Stauffer:

I first found Anthony Stauffer on YouTube a few years ago and loved his playing. He’s a blues player that teaches guitarists in all kinds of styles, including one of the best guitar players to ever pick up the instrument, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stauffer’s lessons go from beginner to advanced and are always well done. My favorite lessons are the Blues boxes — basically the pentatonic scales — where he shows you how players like B.B.

∞ ∞ GuitarApprentice.com opens on Tuesday

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:36:50 +0000

GuitarApprentice.com

GuitarApprentice.com is a video system that takes the guitar part of hit songs and breaks them into easy portions on multiple levels so that they are as painless and fun to learn as a video game. On the lowest level, the player only plays a portion of the guitar part, while GuitarApprentice.com plays the rest. The player gets to rock out with the entire song by playing only a few chords. As the player improves he moves

∞ ∞ OS X Lion video tutorial released

Jim Dalrymple — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:46:03 +0000

MacProVideo.com:

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has been referred to by Apple as “Back to the Mac”. That’s because iOS took a lot from the original Mac OS X and built on the unique touch interface of the iOS devices. In OS 10.7 Lion, Apple brings a lot of their iOS experience “back to the Mac”. Specially the interaction with touch surfaces like the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad have become a central feature of Mac OS, but there’s

∞ ∞ Final Cut Pro X tutorial videos available

Jim Dalrymple — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:04:54 +0000

These tutorials are produced by Apple Courseware author Michael Wohl (one of the original designers of the Final Cut Pro software). Learn deep insider secrets about the Final Cut Pro X software from a person who has been instrumental to the development of this software since day one.

MacProVideo is also releasing paid tutorials.

Besides the free 44-minute overview tutorial, macProVideo.com is also releasing 8 other feature-length tutorials in their Final

∞ ∞ Chase Jarvis hosts free Aperture 3 online classes with Scott Bourne

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:59:49 +0000

Renowned photographer Chase Jarvis is hosting a set of three, free classes for photographers that want to get more out of Apple’s professional workflow application, Aperture 3.

∞ ∞ C4 Mac developer conference dies

Jim Dalrymple — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:08:17 +0000

Sad news today from Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch, the organizer of the C4 developer conference — the event is dead. I never attended any of the C4 conferences, but I know a lot of developers who did and they really enjoyed it. Anytime a conference that gets developers together to share ideas and discuss the current market conditions dies, we all suffer.

Rentzsch cites Apple’s recent alteration of Section 3.3.1 of its iPhone developer agreement—the controversial clause that

∞ ∞ Three new "Take Control" ebooks for iPad, iPhone, Mac released by Adam Engst

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:41:05 +0000

Adam and Tonya Engst have released three new ebooks that cover topics for Mac, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users.

∞ ∞ Sandvox training videos released

Jim Dalrymple — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:22:12 +0000

Long time Macintosh developer, Dan Wood, released a new set of training videos this week for his Web site building tool, Sandvox.

∞ ∞ New iPhone app comes with free CS5 training videos

Jim Dalrymple — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:47:08 +0000

NonLinearEducating.com released a free iPhone app called Adobe CS5 Sneak Peek on Wednesday that has 45 minutes of video training for Adobe’s recently released Creative Suite 5.

∞ ∞ Groove3 releases Superior Drummer tutorials, iPad compatibility

Jim Dalrymple — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:24:13 +0000

Video training company, Groove3 on Tuesday released a new set of tutorials for musicians and said its recently released videos can be viewed on Apple’s iPad.

∞ ∞ Apple posts iPad Guided Tour videos

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:57:35 +0000

It’s not like actually having an iPad, but at this point it’s the next best thing. Apple on Monday posted several tutorial videos on its Web site explaining how the iPad works.

∞ ∞ Groove3 offers two new Pro Tools training videos

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:10:28 +0000

Video training company Groove3 on Monday released two new Pro Tools training videos.

∞ ∞ Take Control of Screen Sharing and Back to My Mac released

Jim Dalrymple — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:53:05 +0000

Mac personalities Adam and Tonya Engst have released two new ebooks in their popular “Take Control” series.

∞ ∞ MacTech extends free six month subscription offer

Jim Dalrymple — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:17:22 +0000

There have been a lot of holiday sales and offers over the last few days, but a few are still available, including a magazine offer from MacTech.

∞ ∞ Groove3 releases Music production and mixing Pro Tools videos

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:15:32 +0000

Video tutorial-maker, Groove3, released two new tutorial videos targeted to users interested in learning about music production and mixing.

∞ ∞ Two new Alex Lifeson Rush guitar lessons available in GarageBand

Jim Dalrymple — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:35:26 +0000

Apple on Tuesday posted two new lessons from Rush guitarist, Alex Lifeson, in the GarageBand Lesson Store.