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Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One--New from O'Reilly
Learn Adobe Photoshop CS4 from Master Trainer Deke McClelland
October 24, 2008
How can you master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS4, with all of its incredible new features? Deke McClelland's latest offering--Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One (O'Reilly Media, $49.99)--provides an appealing and proven learning system, step-by-step text lessons, DVD-video demonstrations, and exciting real-world projects. Indeed, with Deke's expert advice to guide you, it's like working with a personal coach. Read the Press Release
Get Real and Create Your Own Reality TV Show
Do you have a concept for a reality-based TV show, but aren’t sure about the next steps? In his new book, Reality Check (Focal Press, $19.95, October 08), successful talk-show host, Michael Essany, takes you from idea…to reality! Loaded with practical, step-by-step advice on the art and business of producing reality TV, this helpful how-to features insights from Mark Burnett, Dick Clark, as well as other top producers in the industry. READ THE PRESS RELEASE
Fastest Growing Single Day Film Festival to Deliver Hi Def Video over the Internet using Award Winning Vusion Video Streaming
LOS ANGELES, Calif., - 25 September, 2008 – The ELEVATE Film Festival, the fastest growing single day film event in the World, today announced that selected films from the event will be available on the Internet using Vusion’s HD Video Streaming service. The quality of the Vusion service is so good that portions the event will be streamed to large format monitors and screens during the festival. The ELEVATE Film Festival will be held on October 5th, 2008 in the Nokia Theatre – L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California. Read the Press Release
NVIDIA NEWS
SANTA CLARA, CA-OCTOBER 16, 2008- Today NVIDIA introduced its new accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 software, the NVIDIA® Quadro® CX. This new GPU provides creative professionals with a faster, better, more reliable way to maximize their creativity. Quadro CX was architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. Read the Press Release
SAN FRANCISCO, CA October 14, 2008 -- The makers of the acclaimed Flip Video(TM) family of camcorders today announced a next-generation personalization platform that invites consumers to choose from thousands of professional designs or custom design their own Flip Mino camcorder. Read the Press Release
MADISON, WI - Oct 14, 2008 - Sony Creative Software, a leading provider of professional video and audio production applications, today announced ACID Pro 7 digital audio workstation software, available in early November. Unlike any other software offering in its class, ACID Pro 7 software offers powerful and intuitive DAW functionality for today's media professional including multitrack recording, 5.1 surround sound mixing, robust MIDI sequencing and best-in-class loop-based music production. Now Microsoft Vista compatible, ACID Pro 7 software enables a faster and more flexible creative environment by providing precise control over the music creation process through enhancements such as a new mixing environment, MIDI track freeze, tempo curves, improved Beatmapping, and additional import/export options. Read the Press Release
Asthmatic Kitty and Microcinema invite you to create a music video for one of three Rafter songs. Below are three links. Download the mp3s, pick your favorite song and make a music video. Upload your music video to the Rafter Sweaty Magic Contest group on YouTube. A specially selected panel of celebrity judges, including Dan Deacon, Sasha Barrese, Christine Starkman, The Liars, Yo Gabba gabba, Leslie Hall, and Adrian Grenier, will judge the videos.
The contest began on August 28th and will run until 11:59PM EST November 15th, 2008. We'll announce winners here on asthmatickitty.com on December 1st, 2008. The three songs to choose from: Sweat, Juicy or Salt. 1st Prize - $1000, 2nd Prize - $500, 3rd Prize - $250. Three runner ups will be chosen by Asthmatic Kitty staff and will receive some AK related goodies (i.e. t-shirt and CDs.)
Dailymotion Expands DIY Web Video Category with Howcast Partnership
Agreement brings library of high quality how-to video clips to world’s largest independent video sharing site
New York, NY – October 14, 2008 – Dailymotion, the world’s largest independent video sharing site, today announced an agreement that will bring Howcast's collection of high quality, engaging how-to videos to the global entertainment website. The deal expands Dailymotion’s growing collection of do-it-yourself videos, which combines licensed DIY content with some of the most popular DIY content from individual creative contributors.
