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MacCentral: Bandmateloops.com offers new GarageBand loops

MacCentral: Bandmateloops.com offers new GarageBand loops: "Bandmateloops.com has released two new loop collections aimed at GarageBand users looking to add new music content to their software. The US$13.95 Bandmates Guitar Player -- Acoustic Guitar collection adds rock-oriented grooves, strums and riffs, while the $9.95 Bandmates Synth Player -- Padtastik offers textures and pads suited for dance, rock, pop and hip-hop. The collections also support Apple's Soundtrack and Logic 7 software."

(Via www.macworld.com .)

Apple - Downloads - Video - movieclips 1.0

Apple - Downloads - Video - movieclips 1.0: "Professionally produced, royalty free video montages for your business PowerPoint, Keynote or Macromedia Director or Flash presentations. Your presentations will come alive with a professional movieclip. Available in Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Video digital video formats. "

Stock footage

Apple - Downloads - Video - HD Log 2.0

Apple - Downloads - Video - HD Log 2.0: "HD Log Bronze and Silver is an organizational tool used to quickly index and catalog video from RS422 decks, FireWire devices, or digital media files in preparation for editing, archiving, or sharing. It is especially helpful in long form projects, transcriptions, and extracting frames for printing. Saves time and hard disk space, and frees the editor equipment for revenue producing activities. Both bronze and silver versions sport enchanced searching, sorting, user custom templates and printing, DV Scan mode, Auto Capture Technology (scene detection), and more. The silver version adds full document spell checking, cross file searching, and the ability to log from QuickTime/MPEG video files"

Looks like it will scan through a tape for you. Cool.

Macsimum News | CGM DVE Complete offers Final Cut Pro filter set for the adventurous

Macsimum News | CGM DVE Complete offers Final Cut Pro filter set for the adventurous: "CGM TV offers three different plug-in packages and a cost-saving bundle that pulls them all together called CGM DVE Complete."

Review of the plugins

(Via http://www.macsimumnews.com/ .)

Photoshop tutorials

Free Photoshop Tutorials - A Comprehensive Resource of Tutorials, Tips and Help - Photoshop 101

Thought these were a nice set of Photoshop tutorials.

Photoshop for Video with Avid or Final Cut Pro

Photoshop for Video with Avid or Final Cut Pro

Using Photoshop for Video effects

Let’s face it, Photoshop is an absolute necessity when it comes to working with your favorite non linear editing system.  If you are not familiar with Photoshop in terms of how it works with video applications, the task can be daunting.

Costumers these days expect the seemingly impossible with digital photos, scanned images, and web content that they want integrated into their video production. 

What are your options?  Well, you can take a Photoshop class.  Chances are the class will be a print class, which won’t teach you the critical things about using Photoshop for video applications. In the video world, we are more concerned with aspect ratios, alpha channels, and the limitations of DV video (720 x 480).  We don’t care about CMYK color spaces, and we don't"

More at the link

Also:

Photoshop for video with Final Cut Pro: "

Black magic HDLink Utility

Blackmagic HDLink Utility 1.5 offers new features | MacNN News

Blackmagic Design has released HDLink Utility 1.5, which provides new features for its HDLink DVI monitoring converter.

From MacNN

Prompt!

Prompter software

Apple - Downloads - Video - Prompt! 4.0

Simple is the key to Prompt! as it has very little word processing functions (only cut, copy, paste and whatever you decide to type from within the program) and the ability to scroll the type either mirrored or not. Text can be imported and exported to and from the application in the standard .txt format and a native Prompt! format can also be saved

Logic 7 technote: tutorial songs

Logic Pro 7: Tutorial songs and settings missing from the installation DVD

DVD

The Tutorial songs and settings, referred to in the Logic Pro Reference Manual and the Logic Plug-In Reference, are missing from the installation DVD

Software: BitrateCalc

The editor and mac software programmer over at RAILhead Design has just released his latest freeware, BitrateCalc. This new application is a little utility program that gives you the optimum bitrate for encoding video and audio for making DVD and DivX video discs. You simply enter the length of the video in hours, minutes and seconds, choose your media type, select your audio bitrate, and click the Calculate button. That’s it!

You can read more about it as well as download by clicking here.