• Movie Slate
• Storyboard Composer (formerly Hitchcock)
• Blue FiRe
• Moviola Pro Video Guide
• Final Cut Pro Field Guide
• DVD Bit Budget Assistant
• Helios Sun Position Calculator
• AJA DataCalc
• PhotoAssist

Adorama is running an iPhone photo contest until February 28th. You can upload photos here or photo for your favorite photo app here. There's been some great photos submitted so far – Click here. They have some pretty cool prizes too!

The last chance to save $100 on Photoshop World is tomorrow. The Early Bird offer is a great deal. I'll be teaching several classes, including a pre-conference session on DSLR Video as well several motion graphics classes. Here’s the link.

If you're new to Photoshop World, here's the Top 10 Reasons to Attend

• Upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture
• Importing libraries from iPhoto
• Importing photos directly from a camera
• Memory usage when processing heavily-retouched photos
• Face recognition processing
• Adding undetected faces using the Add Missing Face button
• Printing pages containing multiple images
• Printing photos and contact sheets with borders and metadata
• Editing photos using an external editor
• Display of images with Definition and Straighten adjustments applied
• Zooming photos in the Viewer and in the Loupe using keyboard shortcuts
• Accessing Aperture libraries on a network volume Selecting and moving pins on the Places map
• Adding and editing custom locations using the Manage My Places window
• Switching between masters when working with RAW+JPEG pairs.

• Hasselblad H3DII-50
• Leica M9
• Leica X1
• Olympus E-P1
• Olympus E-P2
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
• Pentax K-7
• Pentax K-x
• Sony Alpha DSLR-A500
• Sony Alpha DSLR-A550
• Sony Alpha DSLR-A850

I'll be teaching two workshops on social media for Future Media Concepts. These are targeted at business folks of all types who want to learn social media in a practical way.

Description: When used correctly, social media tools can help you reach potential customers and keep your current clients engaged and interested. In this informative session you'll learn practical advice that can be implemented immediately, such as:

• Using Twitter to share your latest news & keep in touch with your best customers
• How to set up a corporate page on Facebook to share video, photos, & info
• Keeping your business leads up to date with LinkedIn
• Creating enjoyable blog posts and content for your readers

• Video Made on a Mac: Greenscreen Solutions
• Creative Chromakeying handout from Photoshop World

1. Scan several images at one time. For best results, you need to keep 1/8 inch between the images in your scan.
   2 If you’re working in a multilayered image, select the layer that contains the images.
2. Choose File > Automate > Crop And Straighten Photos.
3. Each image should be cropped, straightened, and moved into its own document window.

Importing Video

• Click a project or folder in the Library pane to target it.
• Choose New Project from the Destination menu to create a new project to hold the imported items.

• In the Aperture Library moves the files into a managed library. These files can be exported but will be copied to a new location.
• In their current location leaves the files where they are located. This is the best approach if you've already copied your video files to an editing drive.
• Your User folder is available (and is labeled with your default name).
• The Pictures folder in your home directory is another option.
• Choose lets you specify another location. This option works well when you want to target a specific drive (such as your project's media drive). The Choose option can be used to copy the media from the camera memory to an editing location.

1. You sign up here (it’s free): http://www.photoshopuser.com/photoshop20th
2. The Live Webcast starts at 7:30 pm Pacific Time (10:30 EST).
3. There are some VERY special guests making an appearance that night.

• The best feature is the tri-capsule array– this means you can get four different pick up patterns: stereo, cardioid, omnidirectional, and bidirectional.
• The microphone is the first to be THX certified microphone
• It has a built in amplifier and zero-latency headphone monitoring
• You can manually control the gain of the mic
• It works without drivers on Mac & Windows

1. If you love Gmail.... you'll probably like it.
2. It seems to want to put Facebook and Picassa front and center.
3. I don't like that it tries to "help" you and automatically follows the people you email the most. Just because I email a client a lot does NOT mean I want to follow them (or them me). A lot of clients do socialize with me via Facebook, but that is a CHOICE. Do not make decisions for me.
4. It imports Twitter.... I wonder how they feel about that? Wouldn't be surprised if they blocked it. Same thing with flickr (a Yahoo property).
5. I love Facebook and Twitter... but they are VERY different. This seems to be trying to be "both and more." When is that a good thing?
6. "Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you're likely to skip." Uh-huh... just like those incredibly effective Google Ads you sere up when I do a search that have little to NOTHING to do with what I'm interested in?
7. It seems to be Google Wave... take 2. Except Google Wave is still around. I got an invite... but only a few people I know use it. Unlike say Facebook.

1. Better Filmstrip and Fullscreen View – It's much easier to work with your images and really get at the details.
2. Backup on Import – Have your media go to two drives at once. This is HUGE.
3. Places – Yes it's in iPhoto... but now that GPS tag makes it so much easier to sort by location. I also use this as a tool for site surveys and planning from shoot scouts.
4. Faces – Again... was in iPhoto last year, but I'll take it. Facial recognition to organize your library. This is great for finding pictures of one subject. It's freaky good too.
5. Focus Points – Actually see where the camera used points to auto focus. This is very useful for evaluating sharpness.
6. Search on Steroids – Okay, that's not its actual name. But it's amazing... you can sort by usage, face, place, time, file type, all sorts of things. Literally search by Who, Where, When... I'm still waiting on Why.
7. Nondestructive Brushes with Edge Detection – Easily cleanup images with all sorts of spot adjustments. Completely nondestructive and editable, including the ability to view the selections mask and tweak it at any time. Oh... and they work with Wacom tablets too. The skin smoothing brush is dreamy good.
8. Curves! – 'nuff said.
9. Adjustment Presets – Useful starting points or make your own. Can even apply them upon import to batch fix problems.
10. Video – You can organize it, trim it, media manage it, drag it into Final Cut Pro, export out versions, use it in new slideshows. Uh huh... that's right... video.

1. Uploading Your Presentation – It can be a PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote, or PDF file. Your presentation file should not be password protected and be sure to remove any macros. Not all fonts supported (but you can convert to PDF). Be sure the file is less than 100MB.
2. Converting Your Presentation – The second step is converting the file to SlideShare’s sharing format. Once uploaded, the file is placed in the conversion queue (this might take a while). You can leave the page and come back later... If there was an error you will need to go to the
   “My Slidespace/Edit All” to find the files that were not successfully converted.
3. Creating a Slidecast– Slidecasting is a multimedia format from SlideShare. Any slide deck can be synced with an audio file.
4. Put it all Together – Use the synchronization tools to mix audio and slides.
5. Publish the presentation.

1. Create a new Premiere Pro project and match its settings to your primary footage format.
   2 Import a folder of QuickTime movies into a Premiere Pro project. You can even import a Final Cut Pro XML file to bring a sequence in without needed to do anymore media management.
2. Edit the clips as needed into sequences.
3. After your clips are edited, just select them and press Command+C to copy them to your clipboard.
   5 Switch to an open After Effects project and press Command+V to paste the clips using Dynamic Link. The clips (with handles) will move from Premiere Pro to After Effects.