
Sign up for our Final Cut Pro 6 Hands-On workshop in Santa Monica on July 17 - 19th, taught by Michael Wohl, who was on the design team for Final Cut Pro! It’s not often that you get the opportunity to learn from one of the designers of the software!
This course is ideal for anyone wanting to truly master editing with FCP, from those just starting out, to experienced FCP editors wanting to solidify and strengthen their editing skills. Michael will be covering basic to intermediate levels of editing, motion graphics and audio …

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

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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 …
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 …
This is a common question and there are several answers:
First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas has a low quality playback engine that will always show titles and graphics more pixelated and lower quality than the actual quality. Here’s why. 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 …
Neilsen recently released a report on U.S. household video viewing habits. The survey reported viewers spent slightly more (2%) time watching TV in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the first quarter of 2008, while time spent watching video on the internet increased 53%.

Still, viewers spend an average of only 3 hours watching video on the internet, up from about 2 hours last year, vs. 153 hours watching TV, vs. 151 last year.
The number of people who watch video on the internet increased 13%, from 115 million to 131 million.
What can we conclude from this survey?
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Shooting Awesome Video is the world’s best complete beginning course on shooting high quality video.
If your video footage looks like ”Blair Witch” or “Cloverfield”, and you wish it looked more like “Amelie” or “Hero”, Shooting Awesome Video is the perfect learning experience. It is like a complete “consumer film school” for anyone who wants to dramatically improve the quality of the video footage they shoot.
Shooting Awesome Video is not meant for professionals. It was created for novices who wish to …

We managed to get our hands on the hot new Canon 5D Mark II camera and put it through the paces. This is an extraordinary hybrid DSLR. The 1920×1080 HD movies produced by this camera are jaw dropping. While the lack of manual controls in movie mode and the poor audio quality leave a lot to be desired, the visual clarity and film-like depth of field are sheer awe inspiring. I haven’t been this excited about a still camera since the early 90’s when I got my plastic …
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 …

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…

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Includes $180 of objects and textures from LiveType Central. (See examples below.)
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This movie shows how to add a folder on your remote server to DV Kitchen, as well as showing some tips and shortcuts along the way.

For more info on DV Kitchen, click here.


A few quotes:
“DV Kitchen, from DV Creators, costs little more than a budget video encoder, yet offers a host of professional features.”
“SampleLab allows bitrate data size/quality trade-offs to be gauged quickly and accurately. It’s simple to use but incredibly useful, and therein lies its genius.”
“The Bitrate Calculator is a useful, foolproof way to calculate the applicable bitrate for encodes.”
“Timefreezer… is another simple, effective and welcome tool.”
“While other encoding tools have attempted FTP upload functionality, none has got it quite right until DV Kitchen.”
“Our overall impression of DV Kitchen is …

LaCie 2Big Quadra
2-Bay RAID I eSATA 3Gb/s |Hi-Speed USB 2.0 I FireWire 400 & 800
- Ideal for backup and creative pros
- Four RAID modes to customize speed and protection
- Two hot-swappable disks for non-stop data access*
- Aluminum heat sink design for greater reliability
- Genie and Intego Backup Manager Pro incl.
- Time Machine Compatible
So, now you can have a single enclosure, two-drive system that works with two partitions to create both a Fast and Safe drive to work from. The two drives mount to your desktop and one is 200MB/sec Fast and the other Safe volume is capable of …
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