How To: Position crown molding in a miter saw for perfect cuts
Tim Carter, of AsktheBuilder, demonstrates how to position crown molding in a miter saw for perfect cuts every time.
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How To: Perform a cut shot exercise
This drill helps improve your cut shot, which is important when an object ball is close to the rail.
How To: Cut crown molding for your home
Tim Carter, of Ask the Builder, demonstrates a few easy tips to make perfect cuts on wood crown molding, especially in the corners of a room. You have to gave your house looking beautiful, don't you?
How To: Use cut nails to drive through wood and concrete
Tim Carter, of Ask the Builder, demonstrates how to drive a cut nail through a 2x4 piece of wood, and into a concrete wall. This will help save you time and money in your house repair projects.
How To: Pierce paper with a template
This video demonstrates making a paper piercing and cutting project using a template or stencil. The demonstration produces a frame with decorative piercings and cuttings. The frame shown is suitable for scrapbooking, card making or other paper crafts.
How To: Cut Tuna for Sashimi
This video is for those of you who know what sashimi is and want to make it. To cut fish for sashimi, you have to cut the fish at a right angle to the veins of the fish. Now go and make some sashimi.
How To: Make a Japanese paper orb
Kirigami is a variation of origami where the artist is allowed to make small cuts in the paper (from Japanese "kiru" = to cut, "gami" = paper). This allows more complex designs, such as these Japanese paper orbs! They are fast and fun to make and can be hung from your ceiling as original home decor. Learn how to fold them in this narrated video demonstration.
How To: Perform a Thumb Cut Variation XCM card flourish
This is a modified version of the Thumb Cut that I like to use. It's fairly easy and I recommend it for beginners.
How To: Cut, sew, foam and upholster a new dining chair
Check out this video to learn how to cut, sew, foam and upholster a new welt and boxed dining chair.
How To: Do a swivel cut card flourish with a deck of cards
Here is how to do a simple swivel cut flourish.
How To: Bleep out words in Final Cut Pro
A quick tutorial that shows you how to bleep out words in Final Cut Pro.
How To: Create a Pleasantville effect in Final Cut Pro
This tutorial tells you how to desaturate the image and leave a single color using Final Cut Pro.
How To: Create a bleach bypass look in Final Cut Pro 6
This is a tutorial on how to achieve the "bleach bypass" film look in Final Cut Pro.
How To: Create the Apple reflection effect in Final Cut Pro
This tutorial shows you how to easily create the trendy image reflection look popularized by Apple and other design-focused companies using nothing but the tools that ship with Final Cut Pro.
How To: Make bloody cuts and slashes for Halloween
Special effect makeup, at home and easy. Make fake cuts and slashes for your Halloween haunting! Or any other day of the year, especially Valentine's Day.
How To: Cut lace with a strapcutter
Check out this video for a demonstration on cutting leather laces from a leather circle using the wooden strap cutter.
How To: Cut leather lacing
Watch and see how to make long continuous laces from a square piece of leather with a lacemaker. Cut a starting hole in the center of the piece first. A 4 inch square can yield 8 feet of lacing.
How To: Match color hue in Final Cut Pro
Master broadcast editor Bill Cammack teaches us and Matt how to match color hue in Final Cut Pro. Learn as Master Bill explains the basic technique used for matching shots.
How To: Color correct white balance in Final Cut Pro
Master Bill Cammack guides Matt and viewers alike through the process of correcting white balance using Final Cut Pro's three-way color corrector effect.
How To: Cut glass
Watch this video for a detailed demonstration on three methods of cutting glass for stained glass making, or other projects.
How To: Make a compass with a magnet & cutting board
In this video you will learn a very easy way to make a compass with just a magnet and a cutting board.
How To: Export video to the web with Final Cut Pro
Once you have your finished video, how do you best export it for the web? Israel Hyman has experimented with many settings, and this is the one he likes the best (using Final Cut Pro). What you’ll see in this tutorial, is just one way.
How To: Create Matrix-like effects using Final Cut Pro
Are you still amazed by the special effects used in the movie Matrix? Now you can add similar effects to your video! Watch and see how to use some creative editing in Final Cut Pro to get it done.
How To: Create a blur in Final Cut Pro
You can learn how to create a blur to hide someone’s face in Final Cut Pro. The travel mat luma merges the top layer with the bottom layer and the black area is transparent.
How To: Add dissolves & transitions using Final Cut Pro
Once you've arranged your clips on the Final Cut Pro timeline you may want to add transitions between them. Adding dissolves and other effects to clips helps to create a smooth transition in your videos. They can also be fun and creative.
How To: Use the snapping tool in Final Cut Pro
The snapping function (the magnetic attraction between two clips or to the playhead) is sometimes very helpful and other times really annoying in Final Cut Pro. In this video you will learn to turn it on and off. A cool trick is to use the keyboard hot key to quickly turn the feature on and off.
How To: Shave and cut nose hairs properly
Robert Jackson shows how to shave and cut your nose hairs properly. Using Robert's 4 handy tips, shaving will be as smooth as possible to a man's face.
How To: Add motion templates to create lower thirds in FCP
If you have ever seen the motion graphics stream across the screen on your favorite TV show, news cast or game show, and dreamed of having that on your own videos, your prayers have been answered. Final Cut Pro, part of Final Cut Studio 2, lets you add some extremely cool and highly customizable Motion templates to your footage to add some pizzazz. David Basulto shows you how to create lower thirds in this tutorial.
How To: Preserve fresh cut flowers with conditioner
Tired of spending money on short-lived fresh flowers? Floral Guru Jill Slater has oodles of helpful hints on conditioning fresh-cut flowers to keep them beautiful for days—even weeks—longer.
How To: Use a circular saw properly
Tim Carter helps you get more out of your circular saws and make better cuts with these helpful tips and tricks. Very informative video shows a better way to avoid splitnering a curve your cuts.
How To: Do a swivel cut card flourish
Fanning is not for the curious. It can be difficult to learn and will take diligence and practice. Follow along and learn a serious of moves which allow you to progress a little more in your knowledge of simple things. As a treat, Dan does a "simple move advanced combo" at the end to show what a little imagination can do. Watch and learn how to do the swivel cut flourish.
News: Hollywood Taps into Tech Paranoia Around Augmented Reality in 'Auggie'
Ever since Skynet took over the world in the Terminator film franchise, a large segment of the world's population has feared artificial intelligence.
News: Lyft Looks to Augmented Reality to Improve the Passenger Pickup Process with New Patent Application
An augmented reality system developed by Lyft might make it less awkward for drivers to figure out who they are supposed to pick up.
News: Google, Amazon, & More Invest $28M in Nerve-Tapping Technology from CTRL-Labs
New York-based startup CTRL-Labs has closed a $28 million Series A round of funding from Google parent Alphabet's GV and Amazon's Alexa Fund, among others, for its next-generation neural interface technology for AR/VR and robotics.
News: iOS 11.2.2 Released with Security Patch for Spectre Chip Vulnerability
Apple released an iOS 11.2.2 update on Monday to iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. The update comes as no surprise since news broke last week of a massive security vulnerabilities, named Meltdown and Spectre, which are found in smartphone chips throughout the industry. This update in large part addresses the security risks imposed by these chip flaws.
Apple AR: Apple Smartglasses in Progress, Ready for the Public by 2020, Report Says
Like gas on an open flame, rumors and whispers have flared up in recent months around hopes of augmented reality smartglasses from Apple. But among all the false leads and unsubstantiated chatter, we finally have a credible report that some sort of Apple AR smartglasses are actually in development.
How To: Craft a Hoodie Unicorn Costume for Halloween
Google Trends says that "unicorn" costumes are among the Top 5 searches for 2017, holding steady onto the no. 4 spot, trailing only Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, and clowns. Seeing as how this year, unicorns made the full leap back into our lives, its popularity when it comes to Halloween costumes is not surprising.
News: Hella & ZF Want to Go Big Together in Cameras, Radar
German groups ZF Friedrichshafen AG and HELLA are collaborating to add to their autonomous portfolios with camera and radar development.
News: uSens Achieves AR/VR Tracking Through Single Stereo Camera
Computer vision technology maker uSens, Inc. has unveiled uSens Fingo, a camera module that enables tracking of hand and head movements for PC-based, mobile augmented, and virtual reality platforms.
How To: Make the Best Deviled Eggs Ever
The first time I encountered a deviled egg, the name freaked me out. Why was it called a deviled egg? Was it the spawn of some demonic chicken? If I ate it, would my soul be at risk?