How do I give someone a DVcreators downloadable product as a gift?

Our downloadable software products and tutorial courses offered through our DVcreators University make great gifts for any digital video creator!

If any of your friends, family or workmates own a camcorder, “Shooting Awesome Video” is now available for direct download on both Mac OS X and Windows!

To gift a DVcreators.net downloadable product, complete the below purchase form or call …



RODE NTG-3 Shotgun Mic


The NTG-3 competes head to head with the Sennheiser MKH-416 shotgun. While the 416 has been an industry standard for years, the $1199 price has kept many aspiring filmmakers at bay. With it’s aggressively focused pickup pattern and buttery smooth sound, the NTG-3 is poised to become the go to microphone for high definition shooters. You’ve got the hi-def picture, well here’s the hi-def sound. We tested the microphone both indoor and outdoor and were shocked at the results. Never before have we heard this caliber of sound for under $1000. Add a boom pole …



PromptDog and PromptPuppy teleprompting software

Whether you’re a spokesperson, teacher, CEO, video blogger or presidential candidate, you’ll find either PromptDog or PromptPuppy your best friend on the set. They’re both well-trained, well-mannered and great with children.

There are free downloadable trials of both PromptDog and PromptPuppy for Mac OS X, Windows XP & Vista, so, we’d like to prompt you to download one or both and try them yourself - promptly!

PromptDog is our high end, professional prompting software with power user features like a separate, synchronized Talent Window …



LiveType PowerStart

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

Includes $180 of objects and textures from LiveType Central. (See examples below.)

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“After FCP7/FCS3… we still need DVKitchen!”

Allan Tepper, ProVideo Coalition.com, just posted this great article explaining why DV Kitchen is still a necessary tool for the digital video creator even with the latest new features of Final Cut Studio 3!

Here’s an excerpt:

FCP7 brings many welcome exporting/sharing features, but we still need DV Kitchen for the following reasons:

Final Cut Pro 7 fortunately now offers many inboard “sharing” features which were very weak or non-existent before. Now FCP7 allows us to export to multiple formats and destinations in a single job (called “Back-End Batch Capability” in my DV Kitchen review of March 2009). FCP7 …



DV Enlightenment

NEW MOVIE EXCERPTS!

The DV Enlightenment DVD is a brilliant and highly enlightening course in Hollywood lighting for DV from DVcreators.net for anyone wanting to shoot stunningly beautiful, cinematic quality footage—for filmmaking, marketing projects, broadcast, special interest video, education or any other purpose.

DV Enlightenment Course Overview

DV Enlightenment Course Intro



The Best Thing In The World Just Happened

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Yep, when you see the revolutionary breakthroughs we’ve made in web video publishing, I think you’ll agree it merits a full number upgrade.

We have completely redesigned and rebuilt the Publish Room so that you can:

  • publish simple Quicktime embedded movies or whole HTML pages
  • publish Quicktime embedded movies with default poster frame or whole HTML pages
  • publish Quicktime embedded movies with custom poster frames you choose
  • publish Quicktime H.264 or FLV in Jeroen’s Flash Player* with:
    • choice of custom skins*
    • custom



Final Cut Express Foundations

NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

DVcreators.net has been known as the world leader in Final Cut training since the day Final Cut Pro 1.0 was released.We were the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows. We have taught alongside Randy Ubillos, the creator of Final Cut Pro (and talked him into adding some cool features to the application!). We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of FCP editors further their Final Cut Pro knowledge. Most of the …



DVcreators Line to Mic Cable

DVcreators 1/8″ - 1/8″ Line to Mic Cable

Unbalanced 1/8″ to 1/8″ (mini)  Stereo Cable w/ built-in -50dB Mic Pad. Perfect for taking the Line level output from a portable recorder to the Mic Input of the Canon 5D and Canon 7D. Also called 3.5mm or miniplug male to male cable. Works great with the Tascam DR-100 portable recorder….



Final Cut Studio 3

As the next major release of the leading video post-production suite, the new Final Cut Studio offers powerful new features, dramatically improved performance, and tighter integration. Its six applications give video editors all the tools they need to edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver — at a price that’s more affordable than ever!
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Applications included in Final Cut Studio

  • Final Cut Pro 7 for video and film editing
  • Motion 4 for motion graphics and animation
  • Soundtrack Pro 3 for audio post-production
  • Color 1.5 for color grading and finishing
  • Compressor



Cityscape Motion tutorial

Here’s an awesome tutorial on building a 3D cityscape in Motion from Andy Neil.



Convergent Design nanoFlash

nanoFlash from Convergent Design records video, audio and timecode from an HD-SDI stream onto CompactFlash (CF) cards, employing the high quality Sony 4:2:2 MPEG2 codec for compression. Boasting an incredible small size and super low power consumption, nanoFlash stands poised to revolutionize the broadcast video industry.

The camera-mountable nanoFlash, a miniaturized version of the award winning Flash XDR, has two CF card slots and embedded audio support only. nanoFlash can be powered from a camcorder battery (6.5-20VDC) and records 1080i60/50, 1080p30/25/24 or 720p60/50 at full raster (1920 x 1080i/p and 1280×720p) 4:2:2 …



Final Cut Pro Foundations


NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

DVcreators.net has been known as the world leader in Final Cut Pro training since the day Final Cut Pro 1.0 was released.

We were the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows. We have taught alongside Randy Ubillos, the creator of Final Cut Pro (and talked him into adding some cool features to the application!). We’ve helped hundreds of thousands …



Americans Viewed a Record 16.8 Billion Videos Online in April Driven Largely by Surge in Viewership at YouTube

Average U.S. Viewer Watched 6.4 Hours of Online Video During the Month, According to comScore Video Metrix

RESTON, VA, June 4, 2009 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 16.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 16 percent versus March. A significant increase in video viewing at YouTube during April contributed to the month’s sizeable gains.

Google Sites Accounts for 41 Percent of U.S. Online Video Market

In April, Google Sites once again ranked as …



Video Made on a Mac

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On a Mac, the sky’s the limit for creating professional video. With all the tools available though, it can be a daunting task to decide which ones offer the best solutions for combined efficiency and high-level results. How can you effectively communicate your vision to clients and crew? How should you calibrate your camera for multi-camera and green screen shoots? Is it better to do your keying in After Effects, Motion, or Final Cut? How should you set up your edit suite for efficiency and accuracy? How do you manage …



Why are my titles and graphics pixelated in Final Cut?

This is a common question and there are several answers:

First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas usually shows titles and graphics more pixelated and lower quality than the actual quality. Render a title and play it on a real monitor - or render and export a 10 frame test to disk and view to see the true picture.

Read these articles on monitoring: http://www.dvcreators.net/tag/monitoring/ for more info.

If you are rendering to the DV codec, you will see an instant drop in quality. But don’t worry, as long as you export to a lossless codec your final project will look great.

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