Zoom In: Issue 2: Tutorials on Discreet Cleaner XL, Avid, After Effects, DVD Studio Pro

Issue 2. Inside the Zoom In DVD – Issue 2. Discreet Cleaner XL, Discreet Cleaner XL: A Guided Tour with Jim Baker; AVID, Power User Tips for AVID with Stephen Hullfish; After Effects, Creating Vector-Style Freeze-Frame Animation in After Effects with Zeth Willie; After Effects, Complexity Tamed: Building Multilayered Animations with After Effects Expressions with Jonah Tobias; DVD Studio Pro, Menu Set-Up and Creation in DVD Studio Pro with Zeth Willie. Conrad Gonzalez, Editor,

	Discreet Cleaner XL Discreet Cleaner™ XL: A Guided Tour with Jim Baker Compression specialist Jim Baker takes you on a tour of Discreet cleaner™ XL for PC, the most recent upgrade from Discreet’s award-winning compression software. cleaner™ XL lets you compress video and audio into a variety of formats for streaming over the internet, and delivery on DVD, CD-ROM, and hand-held devices.

Avid
Power User Tips for Avid
with Stephen Hullfish

Expert Avid user Stephen Hullfish of Big Idea Productions demonstrates a variety of tips to help speed up your workflow in Avid. We guarantee that even expert users may find some of these tips to be beneficial eye-openers. Steve unveils special tips on: bin organization, sorting, the Title Tool, effects, and other quick ways for working in the interface.

After Effects
Creating a Vector-Style Freeze-Frame Animation in After Effects
with Zeth Willie

Learn to apply the ever-popular, retro-style, vectorized video plus freeze frame effect currently being used in many commercials as well as broadcast and feature film title sequences. In this tutorial, Zeth shows you how to apply this effect while also covering concepts such as: pulling stills from video, masking/matting footage, using various effects including vector paint, and effective ways for working with layers.

After Effects
Complexity Tamed: Building Multilayered Animations with After Effects Expressions
with Jonah Tobias

Unleash the power of After Effects Expressions in this tutorial by Jonah Tobias. Jonah introduces expressions by building a complex logo animation. By the end of this tutorial you’ll discover methods for greatly speeding up your workflow, and accomplishing animation styles that would seem impossible from simple keyframing.

DVD Studio Pro
Menu Set-Up and Creation in DVD Studio Pro
with Zeth Willie

In this tutorial, Zeth Willie introduces methods for creating and setting up menus in Apple’s DVD Studio Pro. Zeth demonstrates how to set up your Adobe Photoshop documents properly for creating highlight states for still menus, and creating overlay images for motion menus. This tutorial will come in handy for those new to DVD Studio Pro.

TUTORIALS

Power User Tips for Avid

Launching a Project without Bins Open
Bin Organization Tips
Bin Sorting Tips
Media Management Tips
Avid Title Tool Tips
Avid Effects Tips
Miscellaneous Interface Tips

Creating a Vector-Style Freeze Frame Animation in After Effects

Introduction
Setting Up the Freeze Frame
Matting/Masking Out the Elements
Adding Effects and Vecorized Elements
Animating the Freeze Frames
Adding Final Effects and Touches

Discreet Cleaner™ XL: A Guided Tour

Intoductions
The Job Window
Template Overview
Profile Overview
Editing Settings
Watch Folders

Complexity Tamed: Building Multilayered Animations with After Effects Expressions

Expressions Theory
Programming an Object
Basing the Motion of One Object on the Motion of Another
Finishing Up

Menu Set-Up and Creation in DVD Studio Pro

Menu Structure Set-Up
Creating Still Menus with Overlays
Creating Still Menus with Highlights States
Creating Motion Menus
Adding Transitional Movies
Finishing Up

Excerpt from “Inside DVD Studio Pro 2”: Adding Multiple Angles

Excerpt from “Shoot for the Cut”: Manual Controls of the Panasonic AG-DVX100

SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW

Conrad Gonzalez – Editor, “The Sopranos”

Sam Pollar – Editor, Spike Lee films

David Niles – Colossalvision

Lawrence E. Librach – JVC

Issue 2

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Platform: MAC/PC
Duration: 3 hrs.

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