Learn to unleash the full power of Pinnacle Studio by following practical examples. As Studio develops, so does the Revealed series, with all the new features of this popular software covered in detail. Start from scratch, or dip in and out - this book works both as a manual and a series of tutorials. From Basic Principles right through to understanding the latest features, Pinnacle Studio Revealed is packed with tips and examples, using both the sample footage and easily downloaded content.Topics include keeping your movies in sync, troubleshooting, Masking amd Motion tracking, Animating Titles, Multi-Cam, and working with MyDVD as well as legacy disc authoring.
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Learn to edit with Pinnacle Studio 15 Revealed - a practical guide to using the latest version of Avid's popular video editing program. The approach is one of learning by doing, with four projects to construct and many other practical demonstrations. Expanded, revised and further clarified for Studio 15, and now including project checkpoints, this book tells you what you actually need to know. Written in a linear but informal style, it has real world answers to many common questions, and doesn't just repackage the manual. The author works in television production, and has been using Studio to create showreels and personal videos for over ten years Make movies from raw footage. Build menus from scratch. Produce compatible DVDs. Discover relevant background information. Understand advanced topics including keyframing Pinnacle Studio 15 Revealed explores features including Montage and Archive and is illustrated with Windows 7 screenshots, but has been written with owners of Studio HD, earlier versions and operating systems in mind. Where this book isn't supplied with a data DVD (available by post), the raw material is available for download.
Learn to unleash the full power of Pinnacle Studio by following practical examples. As Studio develops, so does the Revealed series, with all the new features of this popular software covered in detail.Start from scratch, or dip in and out - this book works both as a manual and a series of tutorials.From Basic Principles right through to understanding the latest features, Pinnacle Studio Revealed is packed with tips and examples, using both the sample footage and easily downloaded content.Topics include keeping your movies in sync, troubleshooting, Masking, Multi-Cam, Split Screen templates and working with MyDVD as well as legacy disc authoring.
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A riveting story of ambition, greed, and genius unfolding at the dawn of modern America. This landmark biography brings into focus a fascinating brilliant entrepreneur—like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, a true American visionary—who risked everything to realize his bold dream of a Hollywood empire. Although a major Hollywood studio still bears William Fox’s name, the man himself has mostly been forgotten by history, even written off as a failure. Now, in this fascinating biography, Vanda Krefft corrects the record, explaining why Fox’s legacy is central to the history of Hollywood. At the heart of William Fox’s life was the myth of the American Dream. His story intertwines the fate of the nineteenth-century immigrants who flooded into New York, the city’s vibrant and ruthless gilded age history, and the birth of America’s movie industry amid the dawn of the modern era. Drawing on a decade of original research, The Man Who Made the Movies offers a rich, compelling look at a complex man emblematic of his time, one of the most fascinating and formative eras in American history. Growing up in Lower East Side tenements, the eldest son of impoverished Hungarian immigrants, Fox began selling candy on the street. That entrepreneurial ambition eventually grew one small Brooklyn theater into a $300 million empire of deluxe studios and theaters that rivaled those of Adolph Zukor, Marcus Loew, and the Warner brothers, and launched stars such as Theda Bara. Amid the euphoric roaring twenties, the early movie moguls waged a fierce battle for control of their industry. A fearless risk-taker, Fox won and was hailed as a genius—until a confluence of circumstances, culminating with the 1929 stock market crash, led to his ruin.
This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. In LSD: My Problem Child, we follow Dr. Hofmann's trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD, and listen in as he corresponds with other notable figures about his remarkable discovery. Underlying it all is Dr. Hofmann's powerful conclusion that mystical experiences may be our planet's best hope for survival. Whether induced by LSD, meditation, or arising spontaneously, such experiences help us to comprehend "the wonder, the mystery of the divine, in the microcosm of the atom, in the macrocosm of the spiral nebula, in the seeds of plants, in the body and soul of people." More than sixty years after the birth of Albert Hofmann's problem child, his vision of its true potential is more relevant, and more needed, than ever.
This lively, practical text presents a fresh and comprehensive approach to doing qualitative research. The book offers a unique balance of theory and clear-cut choices for customizing every phase of a qualitative study. A scholarly mix of classic and contemporary studies from multiple disciplines provides compelling, field-based examples of the full range of qualitative approaches. Readers learn about adaptive ways of designing studies, collecting data, analyzing data, and reporting findings. Key aspects of the researcher's craft are addressed, such as fieldwork options, the five phases of data analysis (with and without using computer-based software), and how to incorporate the researcher's “declarative” and “reflective” selves into a final report. Ideal for graduate-level courses, the text includes:* Discussions of ethnography, grounded theory, phenomenology, feminist research, and other approaches.* Instructions for creating a study bank to get a new study started.* End-of-chapter exercises and a semester-long, field-based project.* Quick study boxes, research vignettes, sample studies, and a glossary.* Previews for sections within chapters, and chapter recaps.* Discussion of the place of qualitative research among other social science methods, including mixed methods research.
Learn to edit with Pinnacle Studio 19 Plus and Ultimate using practical examples. Get started using the sample video included with the program and master editing principles. Discover the power of the Importer and Library, then move on to explore a true multi-track editor using downloaded source material and projects. Storyboarding, Transitions, Effects, the power of the Dual View trim mode and much more are explained in detail. Pinnacle have introduced many new features in version 19 including MultiCam, Project Bins and Smart Drag & Drop which are all explained in this fully revised book.
