This advanced hands-on class, taught by top FCP expert Larry Jordan, covers intermediate to advanced levels of editing and techniques, effects, color correction, audio sweetening and much more with Final Cut Pro 6. Click here for a full course outline.

The class size is limited, so reserve your spot now!

This Apple-certified hands-on workshop is recommended for veteran Final Cut Pro editors, who want to take their editing skills and knowledge of Final Cut Pro to the next level.

Class Special: Mention the discount code of memorialday to get a 10% discount off the price of the workshop.

Click here for a comprehensive class outline, or to register for the workshop.

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.

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DV Enlightenment is an illuminating lighting course from DVcreators.net presented in our unique, real-world brand of training, covering everything from essential lighting concepts and techniques to advanced secrets and tricks. This shot illustrates proper positioning of sun, camera and subject This course is for anyone wanting to shoot stunningly beautiful, cinematic quality footage—for filmmaking, marketing projects, broadcast, special interest video, education or any other purpose. Click here to ask a question about the DV Enlightenment DVD.

outline Light Properties • understanding light and shadow • hard & soft light • color temperature • light direction • motivated lighting Lighting Gear • soft boxes • umbrellas • gels • reflectors • flags • black wrap • cookies The DVcreators.net Four Point Lighting Method • A brilliant, comprehensive lighting method for getting gorgeous looking footage in any location for any mood • key light options • fill & ambient light • lighting ratio • backlight, rimlight & kickers • background lighting • high key & low key lighting Working with Sunlight • the Hollywood secret to shooting beautiful footage outdoors • positioning camera, subject & sun • shooting interiors with daylight • diffusers • magic hour Lighting Greenscreen• top secret DVcreators.net method for evenly lighting chromakey backgrounds White Limbo • evenly lighting white backgrounds and a secret keying technique Black Limbo • how to “drop out” a dark background Bright Ideas • a series of illuminating tips and tricks for getting cinematic looks in a variety of situations • lighting special effects • using practicals • accent lighting • candlelight • TV & computer light • the killer single light technique • fog Requirements: DVD player or computer with DVD playback Availability: Ships same or next business day Total Running Time: 56 minutes Price: $99.95 - $75 special price!

Click here to ask a question about this disc or lighting.

What is dvcCast!?

dvcCast! is the killer app for publishing video, images and audio on the internet.

Watch a 3 hour job being completed in 10 seconds here:

Watch the SampleLab™ tutorial here

Check out TimeFreezer™ here

Watch the movies, then download a free 15 day trial and see if you’ll ever be able to live without it!

dvcCast!’s primary focus is encoding and uploading broadcast quality, internet-friendly-bandwidth video to a website, blog, forum, or for a video podcast. You can import movies, encode them, and upload them in as few as two clicks!

Features:

• Spectacular quality video encoding
• Integrated FTP uploading
• SampleLab™
• TimeFreezer™
• Bitrate Budget Calculator
• Batch image resizing, encoding and uploading
• Automatic embed tag generation
• Great for audio podcasting too!
• released for Mac OS X only at this time, working on Windows version
• 15 day free trial, purchase from within the application

You can use dvcCast! in place of at least two or three other cumbersome, overly complicated programs which are soaking up valuable time you could be spending being more creative.

We have finally decided on an introductory, jaw-dropping price of only $39.95 for our “inner circle” of DV Revolution Report subscribers and our website visitors. If your job entails publishing video on the internet regularly, or a video podcast, dvcCast! will pay for itself within days- maybe even the first time you use it.

We have just launched a separate website for our DVcreatorsLabs division, you can find all the dvcCast! info here:

http://dvcreatorslabs.com/dvccast

Watch all the movies, they are very informative both on dvcCast! and strategies for better web video in general.

Then, download the free 15 day trial and check it out for yourself!

Have a question? Ask it here.

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Hello digital video cognoscenti!

We at DVcreators.net have been toiling away secretly in our labs for over a year, and many have wondered what we’ve been working on, where all that smoke is coming from, and why so many neighborhood pets are missing.

Today we are very excited to offer you the first in a series of new exciting software products from DVcreatorsLabs that we fully intend to make your digital video creation experience happier, higher quality, and smoother, and to revolutionize workflows in the digital video industry.

The first is a software teleprompter called dvcPrompt! We believe it is the world’s finest software teleprompter, and it’s available for both OS X and Windows XP/Vista.

We would very much appreciate your comments and feedback on our first software product. I can tell you, it is so great being able to make software work exactly the way you want. We have already received valuable suggestions from people, and added them to the product!

Here are some early comments:

“What a great, easy to use simple solution.” - King

“You guys are great . . . Good job . . . Now all I have to do is get some actors!” - Rick

“This is the best. We have been trying software for 4 years and nothing comes close or as good as this - congratulations!” - Ted

“I’m not in the market for this type of program right now, but I checked it out, and it kicks butt! Nice job guys!!!” - Larry

“I have just downloaded the trial version of the new teleprompter and I have to admit that it is pretty awesome . . . I really appreciated the ability to adjust the speed of the scroll so it was just right. I am certain I will purchase this program for use with my students as they create various video assignments. Another excellent product from dvcreators.net!” - Paul

“You guys did it again! I like it, very simple and intuitive.” - Tom

If you are online, each time you run dvcPrompt! it will be automatically updated with any cool new features we have added since last time you ran it.

We invite you to download dvcPrompt! and try it yourself for ten days at no charge.

Here is the product page with a demo movie, more info and the download links:http://dvcreatorslabs.com/dvcprompt/

If you have comments, post them here:http://dvcreators.net/discuss/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=43

However, just because they will, doesn’t mean you should!

If you import compressed audio, for example, in MP3 or AAC codecs, or audio in a different bit or sample rate than your Timeline (such as 44.1 KHz, 32 KHz or 12-bit), you will often hear clicks, pops, and audio dropouts while editing, which is distracting for your creative process, and in many cases your audio will require rendering before you can even hear it, which sounds like “beep-beep-beep-beep” and wastes a lot of your time.

Our solution is to batch convert all audio to 48KHz, uncompressed, stereo or mono for editing before importing.

We use dvcCast! for this, it comes with a preset already designed for this.

New 20x HD Video Lens, Enhanced Image Control and Other Refinements
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April 10, 2008 – Building on the success of its acclaimed XL H1 High Definition (HD) camcorder, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technology, has introduced the new shoulder mount XL H1S and XL H1A HD camcorders, which include new advanced features requested by professional users for improved operation and image control.