If, like me, you've imported lots of video clips into iMovie then the idea of sorting through them all to find usable footage can seem overwhelming. However, thanks to a number of useful built-in tool
What's with the turkey, you say? It's from the video we're using to introduce you to the concept of Time Remapping, a very powerful but somewhat obscure feature in Adobe After Effects that lets you ke
Need a quick, creepy, psychedelic ambient background? You can create something otherworldly from very worldly sound with very little effort in Ableton Live. GW shares his dark secrets in this article.
Photoshop offers up a huge variety of ways to create stunning black and white images -- and I don't just mean choosing Image > Mode > Grayscale. For photographers, or even for those who want the ...
Adobe's flagship page layout application, InDesign, is an awesome application -- perfect for laying out anything from business cards and flyers to product catalogs, magazines, and lengthy technical ma
We're already spoiled for choice regarding the number of methods Logic provides for viewing and editing MIDI data: the event list, score editor, piano roll, and hyper editor. If I were to then say t .
Garageband makes it really easy to get in there and easily set up virtual instruments that come built-in. However, if you're going in to Garageband with the intention of using a third-party plug-in, y
Everyone has his or her favorite key commands, and I'm no exception. Here are my five favorites for Adobe After Effects:
1. Fit To Frame
Command-Option-F (Mac)
Ctrl-Alt-F (Win)
This somewhat obscure
It's easy to gets your video clips and home movies into iMovie '11. You can capture directly from a Firewire video camera, an iSight camera, a tapeless video camera, or even import video files and old
During the heat of my video game industry days, I was often asked what I used to make so many Sci-Fi characters sound so authentic. To the surprise of many, I would always respond with simply, "Reason
What the heck is an avatar, and how do you make one in Photoshop? If you're asking these questions, then you're in the right place! An avatar is a small graphic that's used to represent you online, mo
If you've got your ear to the ground, so to speak, in the music software scene, no doubt you've already heard, and have been chomping at the bit for Stutter Edit, new from iZotope and BT. And, yes, so
Almost all Logic users instinctively reach for the EXS24 at the mere mention of "sample". By all accounts the EXS24 is a great sampler, though not as full featured as 3rd party products like Kontakt,
One definition of "spotting" audio, as used in the film and video editing business, is the process of marking points in an audio track or region that you want to synchronize with visual events in the
I love Illustrator. In fact, I love Illustrator even more than I love Photoshop. Those with rotten tomatoes ready in hand after that statement, please form a queue to the left! Don't get me wrong, Pho
There are some basic processes that remain firmly in the "jargon category" to some beginners. Although Normalization is available as a feature in just about every DAW (and Audio Editing software) some
Your hi-hat patterns can make or break a beat. Well-constructed hat patterns can make a stale beat groove. It can take a stagnant beat and turn it into a groove monster. I have found by adding modulat
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Few producers garner the attention that BT (Brian Transeau) commands at the helm of studio innovations.
Years ago, BT was one of the first producers to make popular the sound of "stutter editing" - a
Side Chaining is a popular technique used in a variety of musical genres. Commonly used to duck one signal below another, Mo Volans puts the concept to the test in Cubase 6.
In some of the recent Hip-Hop tracks I've heard, specifically Waka Flocka Flame, I've been seriously impressed with the hi-hat programming that has been taking place. Instead of regular 8 beats, and 1