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Apps Tips from Intelligent Assistance |
January, 2007
Pro
Apps Tips from Intelligent Assistance
$5.95 each or $14.95 for volumes #1, 2 & 3
www.intelligentassistance.com
www.proappstips.com
Review by Steve
Douglas
What
we have here is a genuine New Orleans gumbo, you're not 100%
sure what's in it but you know you're in for a treat. This stew
is chock full of a variety of editing tips and tidbits, interesting
reading and workflow suggestions for working in every application
of Final Cut Studio, Compressor, Livetype, OS X, Logic, and Quicktime
Player. Downloaded as PDF files ranging from 3.8 to 4.7MB, each
of the three current volumes of Pro Apps Tips provide anywhere
from 132 to 166 pages which will feed you hours of reading during
your down time at the airport, in the loo or pretending to listen
to your mother-in-law.
The major chapter
headings hide the hundreds of mini chapters and tips. Each PDF
of Pro Apps Tips is a novel of information.
Each volume of Pro Apps Tips offers
a large serving of mini chapters on Audio, DVD Authoring, Business,
Distribution, Editing in FCP, Motion, Live Type, Chroma Keying,
Media Management and a whole lot more. The three volumes downloaded
easily and don't take up too much room on your hard drive. Printing
up special individual chapters or tips for your library might
be a good idea as there really is an awful lot of information
here and trying to remember which section was on which volume
may be a real challenge to the memory impaired.
When scrolling through each volume's
index you may click on any section and it will automatically
bring you there. No need to go page by page or use the scrolling
wheel on your mouse, which can get old. The only negative is
that once you have jumped from one page to another, there is
no instant way to get back to the index. Typing in the page number
is your best bet at this point.
Just one example of a plethora of useful tips and helping hands
to be found within each Pro Apps Volume. This one is from the
new Volume 3 Pro Apps Tips.
The bottom line is that I wasn't kidding about Pro Apps being
the perfect companion on a long flight to anywhere. Download
these to your laptop and you will be able to wile the time away
as the miles fly by. Sometimes working harder is not necessarily
working smarter and using just some of the workflow and editing
tips found within these volumes might save you hours of time,
and time is money these days. The Pro Apps Tips from Intelligent
Assistance provide the type of reading where-in you will find
just those certain nuggets of gold that may make you hurry home
just to try them out. There are definitely several 'I didn't
know that's' and 'Wow, gotta try that's' to be found but it is
up to you to do the digging. Its all here, now get that shovel
and have fun.
 Steve Douglas is an underwater
videographer and contributor to numerous film festivals around
the world. A winner of the 1999 Pacific Coast Underwater Film
Competition, 2003 IVIE competition, 2004 Los Angeles Underwater
Photographic competition, and the prestigious 2005 International
Beneath the Sea Film Competition, where he also won the Stan
Waterman Award for Excellence in Underwater Videography and 'Diver
of the Year', Steve was a safety diver on the feature film "The
Deep Blue Sea", contributed footage to the Seaworld Park's
Atlantis production, and a recent History channel MegaDisaster
show. Steve is one of the founding organizers of the San Diego
UnderSea Film Exhibition and leads both underwater filming expeditions
and African safaris with upcoming excursions to Kenya, Bali &
Komodo in 2007, and Costa Rica and Palau in 2008. Feel free to
contact him if you are interested in joining Steve on any of
these exciting trips. www.worldfilmsandtravel.com
copyright © Steve
Douglas 2007
This article first appeared
on www.kenstone.net and
is reprinted here with permission.
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