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Welcome back!This tutorial shows how to recreate the transporter effect from the original Star Trek series.
The “sparklies” part of this can be created several ways:
You could use particle illusion.
You could use the particle generator in Wax 2.0 (which is what I did in one case)
You could set your camera on a tripod in front of [...]
January 11th, 2010 | Posted in Fun Stuph, Movies, Tips, Tutorials, Video Editing & Authoring, Video Effects, software, video | 3 Comments
Powered by Max Banner Ads After over a year of playing around with video editing and special effects, I’ve decided that it’s time to *DO* something constructive with it.
If you’ve a picture that you’d like to take a person or object from the foreground of that picture and place on a different background, or want a [...]
June 21st, 2009 | Posted in Business, Fun Stuph, Movies, Video Editing & Authoring, Video Effects, video | Comments Off
No longer are we required to watch tv ON the tv. More and more sites are popping up all over the place that make it possible to watch just about anything online. Offerings range from full episodes of popular shows, movie clips, full length movies, news and more.
February 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Internet, Misc, Movies, Tech, Websites, news, video | Comments Off
As many anxious Trek fans are aware, the new Star Trek movie is due out this year. I just saw the new official trailer on YouTube.
February 11th, 2009 | Posted in Fun Stuph, Movies, video | 2 Comments
Since I recently finished the video project I was working on, I’m now trying to figure out what to do next.
October 30th, 2008 | Posted in Fun Stuph, Movies, Opinion, Tech, Video Editing & Authoring, Video Effects, software, video | Comments Off
These days just about anyone can be the producer / director of their own movie. Not only that, but more and more people do exactly that. Someone gets a new camcorder, some video editing software and an idea. Next thing you know they’re producing their own video masterpiece.
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Fun Stuph, Misc, Movies, Tech, Video Editing & Authoring, video | 3 Comments
While Blaze Media Pro isn’t freeware, It’s wide range of capabilities easily make up for it. Whether you just want to rip your CD’s so you can have the music on your iPod or flash drive or you’d like to convert existing audio files to another format. Perhaps you’ve got a collection of your musical creations that you want to burn to CD, This media suite has the goods.
August 14th, 2008 | Posted in Movies, Music, Video Editing & Authoring, software, video | Comments Off
I’ve spent a fair amount of time searching around to find a useful program to record video screen captures and save them to an .AVI movie that I can edit or use in something else. Along the way I’ve found, downloaded and tried a bunch of utilities that promise to do what I want.
August 7th, 2008 | Posted in Freeware, Movies, Opinion, Video Editing & Authoring, software | 1 Comment
Powered by Max Banner Ads Ever since the “format wars” between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray ended a while back with Blu-Ray coming out on top, lots of people have been pretty much assuming that it’s now safe to go ahead and start buying Blu-Ray equipment and titles without having to worry about some other format coming along [...]
June 14th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Electronics, Hardware, Movies, Opinion, Tech, news | Comments Off
Powered by Max Banner Ads That case where University of Maine students are going up against the RIAA is getting interesting. The RIAA submitted another of the ex parte (“ex parte” is legalese for “without notice”) discovery orders that they’re famous for. This time however the judge refused to go along with it saying:
I [...]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in DRM, File Sharing, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion, news | 2 Comments