Check out this Halloween set video that explains how this entry archway display was created. This show & tell video was taken immediately following the Halloween Yard Haunt prior to dismantling. The unscripted prop descriptions are as complete as time would allow.
This five part Houdini 9 video series covers an entire rigging workflow using the H9 Quadruped Auto Rig shelf tool. Take an in-depth look at setting up joint controls, creating proxy geometry, generating animation and deformation rigs, and painting weights. The concepts presented in this tutorial series will apply equally as well to a Biped Auto Rig set up.
The Red One Camera has three buttons labeled A B and C on the back of the camera. Each of these buttons have a specific feature that is the default setting. Learn what these buttons do.
In this video from macmostvideo we learn how to import unsupported video in iMovie. This happens sometimes when you buy a camera that is not compatible with iMovie. You can add certain video formats to your Mac to make your Mac understand these video formats that don't work with your iMovie. A common one is called mpeg2. You can get this trough Apple. In other cases you get the software with the camera. If you need to convert a video file, try to open it through QuickTime first. If that works...
In this tutorial, we learn how to start reading sheet music for the piano. To be able to read the notes, you need to visualize what you are doing on the piano. A good starting point is the middle C on the keyboard. For a piano, you have horizontal lines in two sets on the sheet of paper. These lines are called "staffs" and the vertical lines are the "bar lines". The sections are called "measures". The top of those staffs is all the notes above the middle c. The bottom is all the notes below m...
In this tutorial, we learn how to create and edit tasks in MS Project 2007. Before you begin, you need to set the start date by going into project information and changing the start date and end date. After this, type in your first task name, then enter in the information that goes with it. After you have entered this, press the check mark to set it up. After this, enter in the other task names that you need to specify in your project. When you are finished, you will need to save this onto yo...
The video covers how to ice a cake. According to the video it is best to start by refrigerating the cake. You will need a 16" pastry bag with an icing tip on it. The tip should have a cerated edge on one side and a smooth edge on the other. Set the cake on a rotating plate. Rotate it and put a layer of icing all the way around the cake and then fill in the center. Once the cake is covered use a spatula and smooth out the icing. Then set the second cake on top of the first and put the icing on...
In this tutorial, we learn how to set up work resources in MS Project 2007. First, go into your chart and click on the resource sheet from the file menu. Now, you will be able to change the different sections that show up on this sheet. Go through the different columns to change the information and type in additional information, the more you insert the better. When you click on the tabs, you will have more options where you can enter in notes and make custom fields. Go through the entire she...
In this tutorial, we learn how to set a table for a dinner party. On the left side of the plate should be your forks. First will be the tiny fork, then salad fork, then dinner fork. On the right side will be spoons. The soup spoon, dinner spoon, and knife. At the top should be a coffee spoon and a dessert fork. There should be three glasses, a water glass, a wine glass, and a red wine glass. For the plate, you will have a round dinner plate, salad plate, then votive candle on top. Underneath ...
First of all, feel free to disregard the first 2:05 of this video, it is not a how-to but behind-the-scenes footage of this guy's short film. After 2:05, however, you will get a great tutorial on how to make a set of prop Wolverine claw quickly, easily, and cheaply. They are made out of cardboard and spraypaint, and as long as you don't do any closeups on them or require you Wolverine to open his hands with the claws out at any point (impossible in this configuration) they look plenty real. Y...
In this tutorial, we learn how to tap a keg with various pumpers. There are around 5 different types of pumps you can use. Make sure your pump matches the keg that you have, to make your beer come out easiest. Also, make sure your keg is completely full when you purchase it, so the beer comes out easier. There are many different types of kegs, but no matter what type you have, place it inside of a large plastic bin with ice to keep the bottom as cold as possible. To use the pump, set it insid...
In this tutorial, we learn how to set up and us Netflix on your PS3. First, insert the DVD that Netflix sent you into your PS3. You will also need to have a pc nearby, all you will need to do is enter an activation code. Once the DVD is loaded, you will be able to browse movies through different categories. When you want to play something, you can simply press play and then wait for the movie to buffer. You have all the usual buttons, so you can rewind, pause, and fast forward. To go back to ...
The XBox 360 is one boring-looking piece of machinery. Miles of beige slab sides and an utter lack of logos or design features make it maybe the most boring-looking video game console ever made. End the boredom! This video will help you alleviate the problem by teaching you how to install an Aurora blue LED light set in you XBox 360 case, giving it much-needed flair and making it easier to find in the dark!
Lighting is very important to photography. The proper lighting can make your subject or scene appear in a totally new way. Whether you are adding, or eliminating shadow, using light to manipulate the way something looks, or just setting up for a flattering portrait, you will need to know some light basics. In this tutorial, Mark will show you how to set up lighting for a fantastic picture. You will learn seven different setups to make sure you have the right arrangement for your particular ne...
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun and Mr. Excel, the 5th installment in their joint series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create horizontal subtotals for a data set using the IF, SUM and SUMIF functions. Also see conditional formatting for non-contiguous cell ranges using a TRUE/FALSE logical formula with the NOT symbols.
Love Microsoft Excel? This clip contains a tip that just might induce you to. With this free video tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 70th installment of his "YouTubers Love Excel" or YTLE series of free video MS Excel lessons, you'll learn how to clean up a bad data set with the TRIM function before building a pivot table (PivotTable) to calculate an average. Learn to love digital spreadsheets more perfectly with the tricks outlined in this free Microsoft Office how-to.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to use the Slow Keys access tool in a Mac OS X computer. The Slow Keys feature is located under the Keyboard tab in the Universal Access window. Once Slow Keys is turned on, users also have the option of using key click sounds as additional feedback when a key is pressed . Users are able to set the Acceptance Delay to determine how this feature behaves. The delay of the sound can be set from long to short. This video will benefit those viewers who use...
In this video, Chef Steve Ricci shows how to prepare a recipe called grilled polenta with wild mushrooms the easy way. The ingredients for the recipe are polenta, vegetable stock, butter, mascarpone cheese, parmesan, balsamic vinegar, mushrooms and olive oil. The polenta is added to boiling vegetable stock. To this is added butter, mascarpone and parmesan. The mixture is allowed to thicken and then refrigerated. Saute the mushrooms in a pan with some olive oil till its cooked. The set polenta...
In this video, we learn how to roast garlic. Roasted garlic is a grea thing to have for several different recipes that adds an extra something to anything! To do this, grab a saucepan and place raw garlic into it, then pour some olive oil over it. You will now put the garlic into a preheated oven at 300 degrees for 20-30 minutes. Once it's done, you will pull it out of the oven and it will be golden brown. If you don't want to use the garlic right away, set it in olive oil and place it into t...
This is a video tutorial showing its audience how to relate the information that is displayed on your camera lens to your actual camera. The first step is to grab your camera and begin studying your lens. Next look at the mm reading on your lens and the aperture reading. These settings will assist you with setting your depth of field. Next look for your focus ring. Your focus ring will allow you to focus your photos in manual mode. Next look for the focus reading, this will tell you how far a...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to set up Windows 7 that system alerts will come up as images rather than sounds. First, go to start, control panel, and click on ease of access. Next, at the top of the window, click replace sounds with visual keys. Check the box that says Turn on visual notifications. You can choose the different types of visual warnings, such as flash desktop or flash active caption bar. Once this is done, click okay to complete the task. Now your computer is set up...
This video shows us how to use the following functions in Excel: average, count, counta, min, max, and sum. First, start off by create a set of numbers to work with. After that, click on an empty cell that you want to use for the functions. To do an average, click on the functions button on the top right corner of the menu bar, you'll see a list of all the functions that are available. Select average, and then highlight all the numbers that you want to find the average of. Repeat the exact sa...
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 581st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the advanced filter tool with criteria to extract a unique list of employees for each department from a huge data set with transactional records.
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 97th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the AVEDEV function to measure the spread (variation) in a data set. Also see the STDEV function and learn how to measure whether a mean represents its data points fairly.
Beauty Newbie suggests determining the shape of your eyes to create dramatic makeup looks using eye shadow. For close set eyes, you'll need to create more space between your eyes. Try applying a light shade on the inner third of your eye. Then, on the outer part of your eye add a darker shade. Its not necessary to always use three shades, although it does enhance the end result. If your eyes are wider set, you'd just do the opposite of the close set eye technique. If your eyes are deep set, A...
Twitter is the latest popular social networking forum. Twitter is used to keep your friends updated with what you are doing using 140 character messages called tweets. In twitter you can follow your friends and you will be notified when ever your friends posts a new message. Similarly other people can follow you on twitter to know what you are doing. In twitter you can customize to send an automatic private response to your new followers. To do this open your twitter account. Go to the notice...
New to Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly advanced as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 480th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate a percentage of total from a database data set when the variable of interest is text (word). This is accomplished with recourse to the COUNTIF, SUM & COUNTA functions.
In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to make a book cover in Photoshop. Go to file -> new. Give it a name, set width 900, height 1200 and resolution 300 and click OK. You can change these settings if you like. Go to your paint bucket tool and paint the background black. Then go to layer -> new ->new layer -> OK. Now select the elliptical marquee tool and holding ‘shift’ drag from the top left hand corner and make a circle. Go to your paint bucket tool and paint the circle with a...
How To Make Anything demonstrates how to upload YouTube videos in high definition. To upload your video so the HD button becomes available to YouTube viewers, go into your video editor and set your project properties to 1280 x 720 which is the high definition resolution YouTube looks for to give you the HD option. Then, when you render your project, set your rendering parameters to a format like WMV and check to make sure that you're getting the HD image size upon output. Once your video is r...
Here is another video by a woman named Angela on how to make a miniature Christmas log cake for a dollhouse. The first thing she does is roll out a sheet of brown clay with a pasta maker on a setting of 4. Then she rolls out a white sheet with smaller setting of 6. Use a razor blade and cut some straight edges. She layers the brown and white layer and rolls them together. Cutting off the ends she has now created a log cake. Use these ends for slices of the cake for dolls. She then uses a pepp...
In this video from lkobet1 we learn how to curve a soccer ball. It is very useful for free kicks and set pieces. First you need to focus on getting a good position on the ball. Set up the ball on a really good piece of grass. Put your foot where you will land to kick it. Take a few steps back. Kick the ball with the side of your foot, not your instep. Come through the ball and across your body. That's the key to curving it. Coming through the ball when you kick with your leg will make the bal...
Ever have the problem of people messing with your word documents? This guy shows you the solution by telling you how to create password protected encrypted word documents. The process starts with your open file. Clicking on save as... and in the popup window clicking the tools button in the bottom left corner and clicking general options. There it shows you text entry boxes, one for setting a password to open the file, another to set a password for rights to modify the file. Enter your passwo...
This is a Video clip presentation from all3sports guides us on how to check and assemble the unpacked shipping box. The first step to assemble the motorcycle involves inserting the seat lifter to the reasonable depth and tighten the screws. After that attach the handle bars and front brake and make sure that there is an equal amount of gap between the top and bottom of the handle bars. Then, check the brake cables are properly fit. Then, assemble the arm gauge or arm rest with the two sets of...
This is a fantastic video, which guides us how to adjust auto play setting in our laptops. It shows systematic moving snapshot demonstration of the auto settings procedure of Windows 7. The speaker tells us to go to the start menu and then click on the control panel. Inside the Control Panel click on the Hardware and sound menu, which will open a new window, and then click on the Auto Play option? The window that opens now gives us several options to choose when we insert different types of d...
This video is a tutorial on how to set the screensaver in Windows 7. To start, you need to click on the start menu. Next, click on control panel. Click on the personalization link in the first column. On the next screen, go to the bottom right and click on the box labeled 'screensaver'. It will open up a new window. From that window, you can click on the drop-down menu to select a variety of screensavers. You can see the preview of the screensaver in the animation above the buttons. You can a...
Bill D., the tech lead at all3sports.com takes us through the steps involved in unpacking and assembling a brand new bicycle. The first he says is to set up or insert the seat post. He recommends using a work stand if you have one at home. He says not to unpack everything at the beginning, but to just expose the seat pack first. Use a wire-cutter to get rid of the film protection used for packing. He has mounted the frame-set on the work stand. The seat post goes into the frame-set. He asks t...
In this video from FiveSprockets we learn how to light an interior space while filming on a budget. For this you need two Chinese lanterns which he found for $2.95 each. You need 2 light bulbs which he found for $3.95 each. Make sure you get extra ones. Then get a couple of pan lights. They are day light and mood light. They were $7 and $5. You also need a multi colored gel pack which is $6.00. He uses C-stands to hold the lights up but he suggests coming up with other ways if you don't have ...
Follow along as we are shown how to set a password for a new user in Windows 7. -First, go to the Start menu.
Have a passion for photography but know nothing about the basics? This video might be a great place to start on the topic of shutter speed. Shutter speed is the amount of time that the film, or your digital sensor, is exposed to the light. Whether it be outdoors, at night, or low indoor light, the shutter speed allows your camera to take a photograph with the correct amount of exposure in reference to how much light is readily available in your setting.
David Rivers is back to give us some more tricks on using MS Outlook 2010. In this video he tells us how you can avoid sending email to the wrong person by setting up some email preferences in MailTips. MailTips actually has the ability to alert you when you are about to send an email under certain conditions. Don't worry about sending an email to your boss that was meant for your co-worker. Your MailTips folder contains many options that you can use to restrict some of your outgoing mail and...
