How To: Create better lighting for your film project
Xander and Calvin give some helpful tips on how to light your films and videos! You can use common household lamps or ones at the hardware store. Remember, safety, get some workgloves.
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How To: Capture better sound for your film projects
Xander and Calvin go over some ways to help get great sound for your films and videos! This is a great short video with some great tips for making the best sound possible for your low budget, indie film.
How To: Make a glass windmill
This two part lampworking video shows how to make a glass windmill. The base is 6 mm rod with 4 mm trim. The parts are joined with 12.7 mm heavy wall tubing and 8mm rod. This project took close to 2 hours to complete.
How To: Tie a tie artfully with Gianny L
Ever see someone tie a tie so that it looked more like an art project? Check out this video tutorial from Gianny L to learn a new way to tie a tie, using a table as a flat surface. The sexy GiannyL demonstrates this tie tying several times.
How To: Make homemade fabric dye
This video shows you how to make fabric dye using ingredients you can find in your kitchen. Perfect for an arts and crafts project or a handmade fashion statement!
How To: Make an interactive toy in Quartz Composer
Are you new to Quartz, the modeling and composition software? Then rather than reading the manual and laboriously going through each and every function, have some fun learning the program instead by embarking on your first project.
How To: Knit a keyhole in a scarf
This how to video shows you how to knit a keyhole in a scarf. Watch it and begin making beautifully knitted projects.
How To: Make 3 dimensional projections in a classroom
Learn a technique to project 3-dimensional surfaces floating in the air in a classroom.
How To: Avoid bad audio for your indie film project
Bad audio is a plague! It must be eradicated! Here are some common examples of bad audio, and how to better it. External Microphones, getting the mic closer to the subject, removing any other noise in the room, and several other examples are shown.
How To: Join a new ball of yarn in knitting
This video demonstrates a simple way to join a new ball of yarn into your knitting projects. Watch and learn.
Beat mission 7 on Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
In mission 7, Caravan Ambush, NAVEC has stepped up its defenses against anything that might tamper with the mysterious Frontier Project. Here's a mission walkthrough from G4TV.
How To: Paint in acrylic paint for art projects
Check out this video to learn how to paint in acrylic paints. This video with Bob Davies is an introduction to acrylic painting.
How To: Solder stained glass
Check out this video to learn how to solder stained glass projects.
How To: Make and build mousetrap powered car
Vroom! Power a balsa wood vehicle from the energy of a mousetrap! Fun and easy project brought to you by Make Magazine!
How To: Make a gantt chart in Excel 2007
Using Excel 2007 to create a Gantt chart--a popular project management tool.
How To: Making a Gantt Chart with Excel
This tutorial shows you how to use an Excel to create a project management Gantt chart. There is no default for this, but you can customize a stacked bar chart to do the job.
How To: Make acrylic LED neon party lights and signs
This video compilation shows you how to create various LED and fiber optic hacks and projects the average Joe can assemble to create one hell of an awesome, wild party.
How To: Create a 3D button in Flash
It's nice to add "depth" to a project -- generally by making something look 3D (or 3D-ish). This is a really easy tip for creating a 3D button in Flash and further goes into adding sounds and scaling the button.
How To: Expose your kids to sun paper
Looking for a cool kids project? Expose your kids to the sun and make an impression at the same time!
How To: Thread paint with embroidery
This bright little project mixes the techniques of thread painting with a scrappy piecing technique. Use Terry's digitized embroidery design of the bug if you don't want to thread paint. This bag makes a great gift for the gardener in your life.
How To: Create basic buttons in Flash
Learn how to create and program basic buttons in your Flash projects.
How To: Cut circles in glass
Watch this video to learn how to cut circles in glass. This is a detailed demonstration for those who are interested in stained glass, or other glass projects. You must have glass cutting tools.
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 elephant's toothpaste
A science project/trick video showing how to make an easy version of elephant's toothpaste, with materials that everyone has around the house.
How To: Make a homemade AA battery connector
Make a battery connector for electronics and science projects with items laying around the house.
How To: Date multiple women at the same time
Depending on your juggling skills, it can be a dream come true or your worst nightmare. Watch this how-to dating video and learn how to date several women at once. To carry out this delicate project you will need more than one woman, organizational skills, and a silver tongue. Caution dating several women at once can have disastrous consequences.
How To: Mold and decorate a chocolate Santa Claus
Jacques Torres shows how to mold and decorate a jolly Santa and pretty Christmas trees in milk and dark chocolate. His handy tips will help with any sort of chocolate project.
How To: Bead daisy chains
Learn how to make a daisy chain threading design for your beaded jewelry projects.
How To: Grow Amaryllis and Paperwhites
Dave shows you how to grow amaryllis and paperwhites indoors, so you can have beautiful gifts to bring with you to all your holiday gatherings. This is a great winter project to keep your gardening hands busy until spring.
How To: Use household items to pattern your clothing
The Thread Heads visit ReadyMade magazine and take on one of their projects. The How-to doesn't start until a few minutes in, but it's a good one. Use sprockets and chicken wire to make cool patterns for your clothes. Sweet!
How To: Export video from Windows Movie Maker for the web
Elizabeth Jones explains how to export your finished project for the web using Windows Movie Maker. You can select Windows Media low bandwith to significantly decrease the size of your movie file.
How To: Capture videos in Windows Movie Maker
Take control of your raw footage- learn how to capture video in Windows Movie Maker, and take the first step to editing the video into a completed project.
How To: Add a button to a track in DVD Studio Pro
In this video tutorial you will learn to add a button to a track in DVD Studio Pro. You can use it to enable the users to choose to view a trailer or sneak preview of your upcoming project before sending them back to the main menu.
How To: Turn a photo into a wall painting using Photoshop
In this video you will learn to use Photoshop to turn a photograph into a wall painting. Learn to use cutout filter to enhance the effect. Remember to experiment with different blending modes for your own project!
How To: Make a rodent powered night light
Use magnetism, electricity, and a rodent to create a night light. If you have mice, or would not mind buying some, this project can be completely relatively quickly. Go and harness the power of rodents!
How To: Use a bead roller
Corinne Bradd shows Kristy Clark how to use the bead roller, a nifty gadget that can create perfect beads of equal size from polymer clay, quickly and effectively. Once they have been shaped and baked, these little beauties can be used for all sorts of projects, from jewelery to decorating picture frames and much more.
How To: Use the hair module for CINEMA 4D
Maxon's CINEMA 4D allows users to add a module called HAIR, integrating custom hair control to 3D projects. However, sometimes users may want to export the HAIR geometry to non-HAIR users. The process, although easy, isn't necessarily obvious. Here's how you can do it, or at least one way to do it.
How To: Sew with bar-tack stitching
Embellish sewing projects using various bar-tack stitching techniques on your sewing machine.
How To: Understand potential and kinetic energy in trebuchets
This video explains the science behind a trebuchet. The trebuchet is a medieval machine designed to throw objects at or into castles. This video explains that the gravitational potential energy stored in the raised counterweight is converted into kinetic energy in the projectile. Trebuchets make excellent science fair projects.
How To: Document and collect plants
Plants dominate the living landscape around us. Learning about this essential part of ecosystems by collecting and identifying plants should be a part of any life sciences curriculum. Designed to support the Plant Press project at Hila Science Camp, this video discusses collecting and classifying plants and the importance of the classification system developed by Carl Linnaeus.