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Product Review: By Josh Falcon

Ableton Live 7: Time to Control Your Beats
Tempo Control - A DJ's secret weapon

I've been working with live 7 for the past 3 weeks now and some of the other new features I've been playing with are pretty amazing. One of my new favorites is the increased Tempo Control Live 7 offers. These are specifically useful for those of you who are playing out live DJing or with a band. Read More

In this clip, Chris creates a photographic workflow in Lightroom. First order of business is to import images into Lightroom. He imports them via the shortcut from a Compact Flash card and copies them to a new location. He shows how to keep the file name and where to add your copyright. He then shows the import process. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Chris Orwig

Cropping in Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Systems has graciously provided some Lynda.com clips for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. These particular clips feature host Chris Orwig. In this movie, host Chris Orwig discusses cropping in Photoshop Lightroom. He starts by creating a custom 4x5 ratio image to show that you can crop using custom settings. Read More

Product Review: By Michael Smith

Turbo.264 Video Encoder

Elgato, makers of eyetv 3, have come out with another way to convert your video files. The turbo.264 is a quick and easy way to convert your videos to H.264(mp4) files. You can play the resulting files on several players. Most importantly, this Mac software is a perfect way to get your video to your iTunes list for export to you iPhone or iPod (and Apple TV or Sony PSP). This week, Michael Smith took delivery of his elgato turbo system and immediately went to work unboxing the package. Here is his walkthrough. Read More

Product Review: By Mike Jones

Filemaker's Bento Personal Database

Databases are one of those things most often shrouded in arcane technical mystery. For those who've yet to utilize a database in a personal or meaningful way, it s easy to dismiss them as belonging to IT nerds and the heavy demands of major corporations needing to keep track of vast amounts of data. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Chris Orwig

Working in the Photoshop Lightroom Details Menu

In this movie, host Chris Orwig works in Photoshop Lightroom's Detail Menu to sharpen and reduce noise from an image. Sharpening, he says, is pretty straightforward, as sharpening is increased, the detail of an image is sharper. Read More

Tutorial: By Ko Maruyama

CINEMA 4D FLAG 03

The wind deformer on a plane primitive is probably the easiest way to create a flag in MAXON's CINEMA 4D. There are several ways to accomplish a "flag" look, but the simple primitive shape of a plane and a standard wind (aka : flag) deformer working together provide an animation that even the newest user can understand. Many people consider adding it to an object, but you can add it to a spline as well. Read More

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