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Music Libraries Buyer's Guide: Carrying a Tune and So Much More by Dave Sniadak
Make your movies sing with the sound of music, a powerful way to add life and enhance the visual art. There's a tried video industry cliché that says, "If a picture can tell a thousand words, imagine what video can do." Video alone can, indeed, be a powerful medium, but it's the supplement of audio, music, graphics and special effects that can really give your video a powerful voice. Much like Dorothy's initial reaction to landing in the land of Oz, when it comes to music libraries, we're not tied to the proverbial constraints of Kansas anymore. The multitude of media available to a video editor is virtually limitless - and growing exponentially nearly every day. Continue iBUYPOWER Professional Series Workstation by Lance Olinger
The professional series from iBUYPOWER offers everything you would need in a workstation. iBUYPOWER specializes in building customizable workstations and gaming computers. Only name brand parts are used to ensure high quality and reliability. Unlike many big name computer manufacturers iBUYPOWER offers many customizations to ensure you get the computer that's right for you. The latest in their Professional Series lineup features the new Xeon E3 CPU; not the fastest Xeon but the best bang for your buck. The pro-series offers six different computer case options. The workstation we looked at was built with the Cooler Master Silencio 550 gaming case. Out of the available options is perhaps the sleekest in design. Continue More New Product Reviews Portable Recorders - The Digital Audio Multitool by Hal Robertson
Video creators everywhere have discovered the power of the portable audio recorder in place of a camera mic, but these devices provide many other uses too. It's the curse of the video producer: how to record good, clean audio. In the past, that meant your camera needed microphone and headphone jacks. In a perfect world, those mic jacks would have professional connectors and supply phantom power for condenser mics too. It was possible, but these requirements always seemed to carry a high price tag. More affordable and readily available equipment rarely included these items. Continue A Brief Look Into Video Editing for Mobile Devices by Beata Dumaplin
Video making has never been more accessible than in today's mobile world. Almost every digital device, from music players to smart phones, can shoot video. With the increase in video capture, we have also seen a growth in video editing software, especially for mobile devices. We took a walk around the Internet and found quite a few video editing apps. Apple just came out the new iMovie app for the iPad, which is armed with quite a few interesting tricks. It has Trailer Templates, from every genre of film; it allows you to drag and drop your video into the template, creating a cinema trailer effect with your home videos. Continue More Videomaker Blog Posts |