This easy-to-follow video tutorial walks you through steps of converting old VHS tapes to DVD. Roxio Easy VHS to DVD is a combination of software and hardware that allows you to easily and quickly digitize old analog recordings. You simply attach the included hardware to a free USB 2.0 port on your computer, then capture from virtually any analog video or audio source.
New to Apple's Aperture 2? Aperture 2 offers photographers a streamlined way to speed through edits, make essential adjustments, and deliver photos online and in print.
This video covers the steps needed to convert a VHS video tape to DVD. You will need to purchase a video capture card in order to do this project. Connect your VCR to your computer using a coaxial cable. This is a great way to preserve and restore old VHS tapes by digitizing them.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
Go beyond the traditional 3D workflow to an immersive creative experience with the software Modo, created by Luxology. Modo is the next evolution of 3D modeling, painting and rendering for Mac and PC. Modo includes 3D sculpting tools, animation and network rendering, and advanced features such as n-gons and edge weighting.
This software tutorial shows you how to use Dr. Brown's Place-A-Matic script in Photoshop. Learn how Place-A-Matic allows you to open multiple images as Smart Objects in Photoshop.
This image editing software tutorial shows you how to redo levels settings in Photoshop CS3. You've spent time working on adjusting the RGB levels of an image, or ANY levels settings and you make a mistake and accidentally lose those changes. The history panel doesn't have them so what do you do? Think you lost the last settings you used while using levels and you have to start over? Think again and watch this Photoshop tutorial to get them back!
In this 3D modeling software tutorial you will learn how to use Zspheres in Zbrush. This tutorial gives a general overview of how the Zsphere tool works and then how to use it in Zbrush.
This audio editing software tutorial will show you how to create, setup, and use instrument tracks in Logic Pro. First, Connor Smith shows you how to pick instruments from the library browser in Logic Pro. Then, learn two different ways to create instruments in the Mixer window (first with manually inserting instruments, and then by using the channel strip settings). If you want to learn how to use instrument tracks in Logic Pro, this tutorial is a great place to start.
One of our favorite tools in SketchUp is the Follow-Me tool. It's the kind of tool that takes awhile to master, but once you've got it, you're free to model complex shapes in SketchUp that might have been considered impossible. In this SketchUp 6 software tutorial, Mike demonstrates how to use the Follow-Me tool to build a complex roof.
This software tutorial demonstrates how to build with primitives in 3DS Max for Papervision3D. This first part demonstrates 3D Studio Max basics and how to build a column base using primitives. This second part demonstrates how to use the Shift clone tool.
If you're new to OS X, you may have seen Apple's presentation software, Keynote, but you might also have a lot of PowerPoint files lying around. After a while of watching the same fonts, images, transitions and builds, those presentations can seem a little dated or unoriginal. If you want to try to liven things up, import them into Keynote. Simply open Keynote, select import an existing file, and chose a PowerPoint presentation. That's it. For a step-by-step video demonstration, watch this OS...
This tutorial shows you how to install Audacity and install the LAME mp3 encoder to make Audacity ready to export mp3s. Part two goes over editing basics using the free recording software Audacity. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to create mp3 podcasts in Audacity.
This CAD software tutorial shows you how to work with lights and materials in Pro/DESKTOP. This is an advanced tutorial that will show you how to add materials to a figure, add lighting, backgrounds and export the image. Rendering completed images is an important part of working in ProDESKTOP since it showcases your final products. Learn how to make your models good with lights and materials in this Pro/DESKTOP tutorial. This video is best viewed full screen.
This music production software tutorial describes a hack to allow you to trigger an instrument or effect when you RELEASE a key in Reason 3 or 4. This is useful for guitar strums, Hi-hats, mutes or delays, or vinyl scratch effects. With this trigger trick you can create back beats easily. Have one effect produced when you push a key, and another when you release the key using release gates in Reason 3 or Reason 4.
This Houdini n9 software tutorial covers a very simple lighting and rendering scene to show the basic workflow for generating a PBR render. We use a digital asset to quickly establish a group of geometry to light. In the lesson we also add an area map so that we can extract the lighting information from it. There are two .rat files to experiment with, the seashadow.rat file simply provides a pattern. The st.peters_cross.rat is an HDRI image from the Debevec site. Watch and learn how to set up...
In this software video series, you will learn how to use Takes in Houdini 9. Part one: Intro to Takes
This software tutorial shows how to make an animated gif file that changes the color of your eyes or of anything you want in Photoshop. Animated gifs are perfect for profile pictures on sites like Myspace and forum sites. So check out this Photoshop tutorial and learn how to make your own cool animated gifs.
If you need to create an animated character, Maya is the software program for you. If you don't know how to make that character you've dreamed up, then maybe you should check out this Maya video tutorial on an important step -- creating a skeleton structure. Creating bones could be a daunting task in Autodesk Maya 8.5, but with the help of this four-part video, you'll see how to create those realistic bones for your animation with ease. You'll also see some common unintentional wrong rotation...
This three part tutorial shows you how to model a female head correctly in Maya. This is a pretty difficult lesson so it will help if you know the software a bit already.
You can create the magical world of Harry Potter yourself, using After Effects software. Watch these videos and learn how to make the "Death Eater" effect from the Harry Potter movies. Using After Effects, you can have the same incredible SFX as these Hollywood blockbusters.
These videos will show you how to create a UV map in Autodesk Maya. Using the proper software and this human head model you will be able to follow the step-by-step instructions in this series of three videos and learn what UV mapping is and how it works.
GIMP is the free alternative to Photoshop, and many of the things that you can do in Photoshop, you can also do in this open source software. Want to see how you'd look with a lip piercing, or want to touch up a photo and add one where there isn't? This tutorial shows you how to add a fake lip piercing to nearly any photo. It's not that difficult - as long as you're familiar with the basics of GIMP, you'll be able to make this work for you!
If you want to watch Adobe Flash videos (such as YouTube clips) on your Nintendo Wii, you might find some difficulty in updating your Flash player. This video shows you how to properly update the software, both for your Wii in general and Adobe Flash in specific, so that you can watch as much Flash media on your Wii as you care to find! This is very quick - all you really have to do is find the right update in the Shopping section of your Wii.
Interested in exporting a digital video clip from Sony Vegas for use on YouTube without losing image or sound quality in the process? This clip will teach you what you'll need to know. Whether you're completely new to Sony's popular nonlinear editor (NLE) or are a seasoned digital video professional simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a...
Learn all about Combinator controller instruments within Reason 5. This official video guide from James Bernard of Propellerhead will teach you everything you'll need to know. Whether you're new to Propellerhead's virtual music studio application, Reason, or their newer DAW app, Record, you're sure to find much to take away from this brief video software tutorial.
Vocoders are neat but they don't work the way we're used to synths working at first glance. There are no oscillators or LFOs; there are instead Carriers and Modulators, bands and other weirdness. Whether you're new to Propellerhead's Record DAW (digital audio workstation) or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you are certain to benefit from this official software video tutorial, which presents a complete, step-by-step overview of how to use Record's built-in Vocoder synthesi...
Learn how to create dynamic, eye-catching title text effects within Sony Vegas 7 with this two-part software tutorial! Whether you're new to Sony's popular non-linear editor or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
Want to create a peaceful ocean scene within a video project? This clip will show you how it's done using only stock After Effects CS5 plug-ins.
Want to create a force field effect within a video project? This clip will show you how it's done using only stock After Effects CS5 plug-ins.
Interested in becoming a special effects wizard? Learn how to remove a greenscreen with Keylight in After Effects CS5!
In this clip, we learn how to transform layers in After Effects CS5. Whether you're entirely new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional, new to AE CS5, or just looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
Interested in using After Effects to create an intro for your next video project? Learn how with this video guide, which will teach you how to create and position title text within 3D space in AE CS5.
Null objects in After Effects CS5! In this clip, you'll learn all about them: what they are, how to create them and how to link layers to them. This clip also looks at adjustment layers and their relative advantages over making changes to individual layers within your projects.
The first step in any After Effects CS5 project is importing your footage and setting up a custom composition with reference to the technical settings of your individual clips. Learn how it's done with this video tutorial.
Before you can get started creating eye-popping videos with After Effects CS5, you'll need to learn how its user interface works. Happily, this guide presents a very thorough overview of all the most important functions, features and filters.