Quicktip Day 27: Promote to Avid Advanced Keyframes

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Quicktip #27 (February 27, 2009) Promote to Avid Advanced Keyframes In the old days, to keyframe Avid effects you had to open the effect in the Effect Editor and add keyframes in the Record monitor. This could quickly become confusing with lots of keyframes added to different parameters. Recent releases of Avid Media Composer will […]

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A reality checklist for vendors

Web CMSvendors live at an interesting intersection between the new and the old: They live with one foot firmly planted in the enterprise-software world (a world of servers and routers and black console screens with flashing cursors), and the other foot planted on the Flashy, fast-shifting ground of the Internet. The two worlds are diverging […]

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Alfresco's SharePoint Services (WSS) Killer

Image by Kaustav Bhattacharya via Flickr SharePoint, dear SharePoint. We talk about this business collaboration tool — sometimes called an enterprise content management system — on almost a daily basis. You either love it, hate it, integrate with it or try to replace it. Alfresco has chosen the last option. TheAlfresco Sharesolution can integrate with […]

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SEO 3.0 = Digital Asset Optimization

Our industry rolls along at breakneck speed. We are peeking around the corner trying to get a glimpse of Web 3.0 and big brand marketers are certainly investing heavily in the digital assets that make your user experience more engaging. Problem is that the search engines are still firmly rooted in Web 1.0. At Agency.com […]

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After Effects Tutorials Series: The Dancing Can – Part 4

In the final part of this series learn how to use After Effects’ Color Link effect to integrate the can into the background, work with various Layer Styles, create a 3D text animation and add other finishing touches. Watch tutorial […]

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Past Issue: February 2009

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The articles below were included in the February 2009 edition of the PVC Pipeline | Production newsletter. If you haven’t already subscribed for the PVC newsletters, we suggest you do so now to ensure that you are notified as soon as they are available. The articles in the first PVC Pipeline | Production newsletter included: […]

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Tiling Strategies In The 21st Century

Seamlessly tileable images are an important part of motion graphics design. If you’re looking for a way to create your own using Adobe Photoshop, then this short video tutorial is for you. I cover two different methods for creating the tiles using two very different source images. I then show you how to quickly and […]

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7 Questions to Evaluate SaaS

Back in the desktop software era, magazines ran software reviews in which the side-by-side comparisons of features took up an entire page. Buyers used these reviews to shortlist vendors, trying to anticipate which features they’d need over the next five years. Typically, the software with the most features won. Feature-itis ruled. No more. With software […]

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Content Circles uses the model of "Circles of Interest,"

Content Circles uses the model of “Circles of Interest,” similar to social networking applications, but with the assurance that only your trusted group can ever access the shared content. Your content will never be stored online by us and can never be accessed by anyone without your permission. Content is automatically updated and replicated between […]

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