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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 …



“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 …



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 …



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 …



I own LiveType Powerstart. How do I download my $180 of free objects and textures from LiveType Central?

Here are the steps:

1. Launch LiveType PowerStart through DVcreators University.
2. Click the “option” popup menu in the lower left part of the main menu screen, and choose “download free objects and textures from LiveType Central” in either NTSC or PALThis will start the files downloading in the background. While downloading, you can continue watching the course (or any other course).
3. Once all the files have completed downloading, you will have 3 folders on your Desktop.

4. In a Finder window,



You are invited to join the DVcreators.net Facebook group!

Are you addicted to Facebook? Does your spouse find out how you’re doing from your Facebook status? Do you welcome new friends by throwing a sheep at them? Do you have Facebook friends you can’t ever remember meeting? Have you ever “mass superpoked” your friends? Do you take pictures of your sushi with your iPhone and upload them to Facebook?

If you know what I’m talking about, perhaps you would like to join our DVcreators.net Facebook group!

While we will always be working on the DVcreators.net website much more than our Facebook group, the Facebook group …



DVcreators.net Tutorial DVDs Tip: Why can’t I see my navigation buttons?

One of the most frequent questions we get about our tutorial dvds is:

Why can’t I see the navigation buttons on the bottom of the screen?

Check out this movie for the answer!

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Canon HV20 HDV Camcorder

The HV20 HDV Camcorder is causing quite a stir, due to its unprecedented image quality. Never before has there been this feature set for under $1000.

The top points:

true 1920 X 1080 chip - beautiful, sharp image quality

24 fps (adds pulldown for 59.97i) stream with film 180 degree (1/48th) shutter

“Cinema mode” switch for filmlike gamma

external audio jack for wireless receivers, or XLR cables and Beachtek adapter

Here is a sample, encoded to H.264 and downsized to 720p- but look at the quality!

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Despite its consumer level manual controls (but …



Warp Speed Workflow #7: Changing Captured Clip Settings

If you’ve ever realized that you logged your footage with the wrong log clip settings, here’s a great tip that’ll solve it for you.

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Click here to ask a question about Final Cut Pro workflows.

For more info, check out:

Final Cut Pro Foundations

Final Cut Express Foundations



Monitoring your work in Final Cut Pro

When you’re EDITING, you can make good decisions just watching the Canvas Window on your laptop.

But for color grading, it’s critically important to watch your show on a monitor that’s displaying an accurate image. Monitoring is important because all your color grading work is going to be off if the monitor you’re watching while you work is not telling the truth.

Think of all the ways viewers might watch your project. If you’re delivering on DVD, your show might be watched on plasma or LCD TVs, projectors, or older CRT TVs - but they also might be watching the DVD on …



Poser 7: Reviewed

This is a great program for creating quick and detailed animations of characters right out of the box.  Excellent for character stills and animation, medical illustrations, architectural, and storyboards.

In my case, having only dabbled a bit in the Poser of the past, but now, after seeing and using Poser 7, I am now convinced that this is the best program to quickly create and animate the human figure.  You also have access to numerous animal figures and even robots.  And now even more so, with the walk simulator, that definitely simplifies the animation process.  You also have lip syncing functionality, …



Top Secret: First shoot!

We just finished a shoot with noted cinematographer and camera operator, Charles Papert, for an as-yet-secret project, with the Canon XL H1.

Here’s a couple stills:

Here’s the gang after the shoot:

We were blown away by the quality, will post more soon!



How do I batch convert audio in Windows XP for my editing software?

  1. Download iTunes from Apple
  2. Double click iTunes Setup.exe to install
  3. Launch iTunes
  4. Go to the Edit Menu > then click Preferences
  5. Click on the Advanced tab
  6. Then click on the Importing tab
  7. Now, in the “Import Using” dialog box, choose .WAV Encoder.
  8. Then in the “Setting” dialog box, choose “Custom”
  9. For “Sample Rate” choose 48 kHz.
  10. For “Sample Size” choose 16-bit.
  11. For “Channels” choose Stereo.
  12. Then click OK.
  13. Then OK again, to close the Preferences Box.Now your preferences are set up to convert audio files to an uncompressed file that will play smoothly in your editing software.
  14. Now, insert a CD, or drop MP3s, AACs or files in many other kinds of



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Advanced Final Cut Pro 6 Hands-On Workshop at University of Michigan

These advanced hands-on workshop cover intermediate to advanced levels of editing, motion graphics and audio sweetening with Final Cut Pro taught by one of the top Final Cut Pro instructors in the world.

This workshop is recommended for veteran Final Cut Pro editors, who want to