Nothing is more powerful than words. Pictures are worth a thousand
24/05/2012 Leave a comment
After you’ve finished a shoot (or even in the middle of it if there’s a break) you can import your photos to your iPad by plugging in Apple’s Camera Connection Kit. In addition to photos you imported from a camera’s memory card, Photosmith naturally supports both the Camera Roll and Photo Stream. For more information see the Photosmith 2 intro guide
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16/04/2012 Leave a comment
When many people look into improving their listening gear, they often make the mistake of thinking a source such as a mp3 player and headphones are the only things to consider. However, a headphone amp can drastically improve sound quality for a relatively low cost. What is a headphone amplifier? Many music players and laptops do not possess the power to completely drive earphones and they often fail to deliver the sound quality and frequency range the headphones are capable of.
05/04/2012 Leave a comment
Transferring projects from other computersWhen transferring project files, such as After Effects project files, Premiere Pro project files, or Final Cut Pro project files from another computer to the computer on which you will import those project files into Premiere Pro, make sure you transfer all the assets associated with the project files. Keep the project files, and their associated assets, on the destination computer in folders that have names and folder structures identical with those on the computer of their origin. Transferring assets from file-based mediaIt is possible to edit assets residing on file-based media, such as P2 cards, XDCAM cartridges, SxS cards, or DVDs. However, Premiere Pro performs faster if you first transfer the assets to a local hard disk. Using Windows File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS), transfer files from file-based acquisition media. Then, import the files on the hard disk into Premiere Pro projects. When transferring files to hard disk from file-based media, transfer the folder containing all related files and all of its subfolders. Keep the folder structure intact. For example, when transferring files from AVCHD file-based media, transfer the BDMV folder and all its contents. When transferring files from DVCPRO HD media, transfer the CONTENTS folder and all its contents. When transferring files from XDCAM EX media, transfer the BPAV folder and all its contents. When transferring files from DVD, transfer all the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder, and if it exists, all the contents of the AUDIO_TS folder.  Transfer video files from file-based media into the same folder you specify for captured video with the project scratch disk settings.
The folder structure for AVCHD assets
The folder structure for DVCPRO HD assets
The folder structure for XDCAM EX assets
The folder structure for DVD-video assets
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22/03/2012 Leave a comment
Just as you think what possible new features can be added to Photoshop, here are a few highlights:
Content-Aware Patch — Patch images with greater control using the newest member of the Content-Aware family of technologies. Choose the sample area you want to use to create your patch, and then watch Content-Aware Patch magically blend pixels for a stunning result.
Blazingly fast performance and a modern UI — Experience unprecedented performance with the Mercury Graphics Engine, which gives you near-instant results when you edit with key tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, and Crop.* Plus, a refined, fresh, and elegant Photoshop interface features dark background options that make your images pop.
New and re-engineered design tools — Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, create and apply custom strokes and dashed lines to shapes, quickly search layers, and much more.
You will also discover hundreds of new ways to work faster and with greater creative freedom and precision when you dive into Photoshop CS6 beta.
The public beta program is designed to get feedback from users like you. Please download Photoshop CS6 and let us know what you think.
If you’d like to read more about Photoshop CS6, please visit the Photoshop blog.
17/03/2012 Leave a comment
‘Kony 2012′ filmmaker hospitalized
Mr. Russell is a co-founder of Invisible Children, a controversial charity that works in war-affected regions of Central Africa and released the video about warlord Joseph Kony last week.
Danica Russell said late Friday that her husband “did some irrational things brought on by extreme exhaustion and dehydration.” She denied that alcohol or drug use triggered the behaviour.
“We thought a few thousand people would see the film, but in less than a week, millions of people around the world saw it. While that attention was great for raising awareness about Joseph Kony, it also brought a lot of attention to Jason and, because of how personal the film is, many of the attacks against it were also very personal, and Jason took them very hard,” she said.
“On our end, the focus remains only on his health, and protecting our family. We’ll take care of Jason, you take care of the work,” her statement continued. “The message of the film remains the same: stop at nothing.”
Police in San Diego said they responded to calls about a man acting in a “bizarre and irrational manner” in Pacific Beach around 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. The man was interfering with traffic, yelling incoherently and pounding his fists on the sidewalk, they said.
“Several callers reported the male was wearing only underwear and running into the street,” a news release from the San Diego Police Department says. “One caller reported that the male had removed his underwear and was nude, perhaps masturbating, but that was not confirmed by responding officers.”
Several people tried to calm him down, but were unsuccessful, police said.
A spokeswoman from the San Diego Police Department told NBC that he may have been under the influence of something. He was not arrested or charged with anything.
Police have not released the man’s identity, but a statement from Invisible Children, posted on the organization’s blog Friday afternoon, confirms that Mr. Russell was hospitalized after suffering from “exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition.”
“The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday,” the statement, posted by Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey says.
Mr. Keesey asked people to give Mr. Russell’s family privacy while he deals with what he called a “personal health issue.”
Invisible Children’s 30-minute video has been viewed by millions of people since it was released last week. It calls on people to make Mr. Kony, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, a “household name” to facilitate his arrest.
But many African writers and aid experts have criticized the video, saying it presents an overly simplistic, and sometimes inaccurate portrayal of problems in Central Africa. A screening of the film in Uganda was abruptly cancelled earlier this week after angry viewers threw stones, forcing the organizers to flee.
In an earlier public statement, the charity implored its critics to focus on stopping Mr. Kony, rather than critiquing the video.
“Let’s focus on what matters, and what we DO agree on: Joseph Kony needs to be stopped,” the statement says. “And when that happens, peace is the limit. This is the beautiful beginning of an ending that is just the beginning. We are defending tomorrow. And it’s hopeful.”
With reports from Associated Press and Oliver Moore
16/03/2012 Leave a comment
More than 78 million people have seen the Internet sensation “Kony 2012,” but while the video has become very popular in the Western world, many Ugandans are protesting the film.
The video went viral on March 5, 2012, and quickly become an international talking point. It focuses on the crimes of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Central Africa. The film highlights Kony’s abduction of children in Uganda, forcing them to become members of the LRA.
The lack of internet access in many parts of rural Uganda meant that many of the people who the film draws attention to had not actually seen it.
A charity in Uganda, the African Youth Initiative Network, arranged for a screening of the film for local people in Lira, Uganda. Thousands gathered to view the film.
Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday that the crowd seemed to be confused by the video at first, which focuses heavily on an American man, Jason Russell, one of the founders of Invisible Children, and his son, Gavin.
All the half-hour film went on, the crowd went from confused to angry. They called it inaccurate and offensive, saying that the campaign to “make Kony famous” as the film intends is actually celebrating Kony’s crimes and not focusing on helping Uganda and other countries that have been affected by the LRA.
“If people in those countries care about us, they will not wear tee shirts with pictures of Joseph Kony for any reason,” one Ugandan man, who had once been abducted by the LRA, told Al Jazeera. “That would celebrate our suffering.”
Another man told Al Jazeera that he thought the video was trying to mobilize people to give money to help fund Invisible Children, the much-criticized charity behind Kony 2012, without promoting actions that would directly affect the people of northern Uganda.
Chaos broke out at the screening as people began to yell and throw rocks at the screen. The audience fled to escape harm.
This is not the first negative reaction to the campaign. Some policy experts, media figures and African activist organizations have been calling the film an act of “slacktivism” that calls on people to do little more than buy a bracelet.
“The Kony documentary is basically a huge awareness campaign,” Forbes magazine said. “As many have pointed out, awareness and social media alone will do very little to stop the atrocities in Africa.”
Other activists argue that the film puts too much emphasis on America.
“This video seems to say that the power lies in America, and it does not lie with my government, it does not lie with local initiatives on the ground,” Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan journalist, told ABC News.
Kagumire argues that this view is just hurting Africa.
“It is furthering that narrative about Africans: totally unable to help themselves and needing outside help all the time,” she said.
15/03/2012 Leave a comment
Invisible Children uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity.
For more information go to http://www.invisiblechildren.com/
