Tutorials

There has always been a desire by producers and directors with vision to want to improve what
is before them. That includes the use of action or scenes that don’t exist, or allowing actors to
appear to be in any location without leaving the studio. Such was the case with the 1940 movie
The Thief of Bagdad, which called for Jaffar, a massive genie, to play a prominent role in the
film. Special effects coordinator Larry Butler rose to the challenge and is credited with invention
of blue screen compositing, for which he won an Academy Award for Special Effects. This was a
very tedious and precise process involving several layers of film which had to be precisely aligned
when creating the master negative... read more...

This is based on a D-Link DI-624 Router/Firewall other makes and models will have similar functionality. If the network has IT people who maintain it you will need them to set this up for you. You will need to log into the router; this is done by entering the routers IP address in a web browser... read more...

Many VTEdit™, SpeedEDIT™ and TriCaster™ users aren't aware that their editor contains a full featured CG program - but it does, called CG Post. read more...

Q: Can I copy protect the DVDs I make?
A: No.
Long Answer: Commercial DVDs generally have two layers of copy protection. The first is an analog copy protection method called Macrovision ACP. This is a scrambling system that is applied to the analog outputs by your DVD player that prevents you from making analog (video tape) copies of the disc. This is accomplished by setting a bit during the authoring stage of creating the disc. read more...