Digital Video Hacks

Digital Video Hacks

With digital video, the hacking possibilities are limitless, for both amateurs and professional artists. From acquiring footage, mixing, editing, and adding effects to final distribution, Digital Video Hacks provides unique tips, tools, and techniques for every stage of video production. Whether you're looking for a new technique to include in your next project, a solution to a common problem, or just a little
inspiration, this book reintroduces you to the digital video you only thought you knew. Since the dawn of film, novices and experts have used quick-and-dirty workarounds and audiovisual tricks to improve their motion pictures, from home movies to feature films. Today, the tools have certainly changed, as have the quality and scope of the results. With digital video, the hacking possibilities are now limitless, for both amateurs and professional artists. From acquiring footage, mixing, editing, and adding effects to final distribution, Digital Video Hacks
provides unique tips, tools, and techniques for every stage of video production.

You'll learn how to:
* Get your projects started right using creative preparation tools and techniques, from making your own steadicam, boom, or dolly to effective storyboarding, timecoding, and tape labeling
* Troubleshoot common shooting problems, including using stop-motion and time-lapse techniques, lighting effects, colored screens and gels, and household objects to establish mood or otherwise wow an audience
* Create stunning visual effects, such as satellite zooming, surreal scenes, Matrix-like bullet-time, and green screen illusions
* Fool your audience with audio tricks, replacing flubbed dialogue, smoothing over cuts, and covering missing audio with room tone
* Add professional features with post-production tricks, including color correction, soundtrack cleanup, opening sequences, and DVD bookmarks
* Distribute final content in a variety of creative ways, from exporting to basic videotape or DVD to streaming over the internet or even via cell phone
* Use the web to provide interactivity and dynamic content, attend a remote conference, or blog your life. Whether you're looking for a new technique to include in your next project, a solution to a common problem, or just a little inspiration, this book reintroduces you to the digital video you only thought you knew.

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New Electronics Magazine - September 9, 2008

New Electronics Magazine - September 9, 2008

Publisher: Findlay Publications Ltd
Language: English
Number of Pages: 68
PDF: 27.5 MB
ISSN: 0047-9624

New Electronics is the UK’s leading trade and technical magazine serving
the electronics design community. Published fortnightly, this bright and
lively magazine is read avidly by senior designers, technologists and
engineering managers throughout the UK.

Every issue contains technology news plus technical articles and new
product information divided into Technology Sections. The Technology
Sections allow busy designers to turn quickly to the areas of most
interest to them. The fortnightly frequency ensures we keep readers up
to date with the latest devices and design techniques. The colourful
design allows us to present technical information in an efficient, easy
to read format.

IN THIS ISSUE

Binary Breaks Through
It's been a long time coming, but digital projection technology is
poised to enter the mass market.

Special Report: Defence

PLUS
*Are reports of the asic's death premature?
*A new approach to critical software development
*Rolling the T&M dice
*FPGAs get the comms job done
*Will cmos imagers get the better of ccds?
*Boosting the contrast of LCD images

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Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus. It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
* Craig Bowen (nickname), administrator of two important Australian BBS (Pacific Island and Zen) * The Parmaster, an American hacker who avoided capture by the United
States Secret Service from July 1989 to November 1991
* Phoenix, Electron and Nom, who were convicted in the first major Australian trial for computer crimes
* Pad and Gandalf, the British founders of the notorious 8lgm group
* the Australian Mendax and Prime Suspect, who managed to penetrate the DDN, NIC and the Nortel internal network, and the phreaker Trax
* Anthrax, another Australian hacker and phreaker

The book also mentions other hackers who had contacts with the protagonists, among them Erik Bloodaxe of the Legion of Doom and Corrupt of the Masters of Deception.

Download: 2.13 MB

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The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development

The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development

The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development/by Chris Allen
(Author), Wade Arnold (Author), Aral Balkan (Author), Nicolas Cannasse
(Author), John Grden (Author), Moses Gunesch (Author), Marc Hughes
(Author), R. Jon MacDonald (Author), Andy Zupko (Author)

Description
* Explore the world of open source Flash and discover which tools are available.
* Learn how to identify which tool you need and how to best fit it into your workflow.
* Step-by-step walk-throughs guide you through development with the most popular open source Flash tools.

* Written by the project leads and open source Flash aficionados.
The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development is a practical development guide to creating Flash applications with open source Flash tools and workflows. You will walk away with an understanding of what tools will best suit your current situation, making your development easier and more productive, and with the knowledge of how to install and set up some of the best tools available, including the following:
* Papervision3D: to create 3D in Flash
* Red5: to stream video over the internet
* SWX: to build data-driven mashups and mobile apps
* Fuse: to make ActionScript animation a cinch
* Go: to build your own animation tools in ActionScript 3.0
* haXe: to create Flash files and more
* AMFPHP: to communicate between Flash and php
Open source Flash has been a revolution for Flash and has made a major impact on how people build Flash content. The open source tools available expand on Flash's existing tool set, enabling you to perform such tasks as easily create full 3D in Flash or hook up to an open source video-streaming server. Many of these useful tools are powerful yet lack documentation. this book explains in step-by-step detail how to use the most popular open source Flash tools.
If you want to expand your Flash tool set and explore the open source Flash community, then this book is for you. If you already use some open source Flash tools, then you will find this book a useful documentation resource as well as an eye-opener to the other tools that are available.

Download: 6.15 MB

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MSDN Magazine, August 2008

MSDN Magazine, August 2008 | CHM | 84 pages | English | 3 MB

MSDN Magazine is a developers' guide to Microsoft tools, development environments, and technologies for Windows and the Web. It provides technical experts with real-world solutions, business applications for new technology, and first looks at the latest products.

MSDN Magazine covers all development angles including distributed computing, Web development, and Windows application development. The focus of MSDN Magazine is to generate creative and accurate content on using Microsoft development technologies across the entire spectrum of desktop to enterprise and .NET applications.

As part of Microsoft's indispensable MSDN family of developer resources (msdn.microsoft.com), MSDN Magazine provides in-depth, cutting-edge
information written by industry experts and edited by Microsoft professionals.

Download: 3.32 MB

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