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How do I create a Video Podcast?

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After our own DV Gear Talk Video Podcast got as high as #12 in popularity of all podcasts worldwide, people asked for this article, so here it is!

Article found in delivery.

JES Deinterlacer

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Features:
* Deinterlace movies (half height/normal height/double frame rate/blend,adaptive/simple). * Change field dominance (for PAL films with fake interlace). * Reinterlace from one or two movies. * Standards conversion (PAL< ->NTSC or custom). * Inverse telecine. * Trim, shift, simple color correction, noise reduction. * Change encoding (RGB gamma, video range/full range). * Fix jagged edges. * Pitch preserving sound track …

Article found in graphics, editing products, visual fx products, film products, encoding, post visuals, delivery, Compressor, motion graphics, editing and free OS X stuff.

Article on Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride

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Article on Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (first stop-motion feature film cut on FCP)

Article found in Final Cut Pro and DV news.

What is the most important factor in producing world class quality video?

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In a word: lighting.

The DV Enlightenment DVD

Article found in lighting, production, cinematography and DV news.

How does HDV hold up when recapturing ?

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http://www.creativecow.net/articles…_HDV/index.html

Article found in HD/HDV/HD DVD, postproduction, Final Cut Pro and DV news.

Blender 2.4 is out!

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What looks to be a nice upgrade to this cross-platform, open source 3D modeling, rendering and animation software. And it’s free!

http://www.blender.org/cms/Blender_2_40.598.0.html

Article found in 3D and DV news.

How are TV stations doing?

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Here are 12 Companies that own TV stations and the change in their stock price in 2005.

(Hint: Broadcast television might not be the best field in which to plan your future…)

Belo (BLC): -11.6%
Emmis (EMS): +8.7%
Fisher (FSCI): -3.1%
Gannett (GCI): -24.2%
Gray (GTN): -38%
Hearst-Argyle (HTV): -6.9%
Media General (MEG): -17%
Meredith (MDP): -2.4%
New York Times (NYT): -30.7%
Sinclair (SBGI): +29.1%
Tribune (TRB): -24.8%
Young (YBTVA): -80.2%
Average: -16.8%…

Article found in broadcast and DV news.

How to turn a $3,000 job into a $30,000 job

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I am going to start a series of articles detailing new ways to think about video production in the 21st century. The old paradigm of “hey, please hire me to shoot and edit your video for $X (or $X/hour)” is still quite valid and will be perhaps forever.

But there are new, different ways to think about making money with DV.

Here is the first one, called “How to turn a $3,000 job into a $30,000 job” (based on a true story, but details have been changed), which details a very feasible $300,000 per year business plan for a DV creator.

Article found in the DV biz.

TV network presidents see no threat from Apple video iTunes+iPod

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http://www.ipoddailynews.com/index…./comments/7385/

Article found in broadcast and DV news.

How To Fund Your Film

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http://www.ifp.org/experts/expert.php?id=15

Article found in the DV biz and planning.

Where can I find free fonts?

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http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html

http://www.grsites.com/fonts/

1001freefonts

http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts

fontfreak

downloadfreefonts

katsfunfonts

absolute fonts archive

fuelfonts …

Article found in free Windows stuff, free OS X stuff, Final Cut Pro and DV news.

Intel, Microsoft endorse HD DVD

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http://news.com.com/Intel,+Microsof…_3-5883337.html

Article found in HD/HDV/HD DVD, DVD and DV news.

How do I subscribe to the DVeStore Theatre thread?

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Guy’s DVeStore Theatre is the coolest place on the internet for getting real, expert demos on a range of cool production and postproduction gear! If you haven’t watched these awesome movies you are missing out!

1. Go to: http://dvcreators.net/discuss/showt…31774#post31774

2. click on “Thread Tools”

3. choose “Subscribe to Thread”

4. Click “Add to Subscription”

That’s all there is to it! You will be …

Article found in DV news.

Free iMovie plugins

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http://plugins.bkms.com/

http://www.stupendous-software.com/

http://www.virtix.com/imovie/products/SampleEffects.asp

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/osx_software/FreePlugins/FreeImoviePlugins.html

Article found in iMovie and DV news.

Solving an inability to boot from Mac OS X CD/DVDs

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Try holding down the “option” key instead of the “C” key For some reason, holding down the “C” key at startup does not always work to force booting from media that is in your Mac’s optical drive.
In these cases, holding down the “option” key at startup (which, when functioning normally, displays all available startup devices) may allow you to select …

Article found in DV news.