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Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing

Ever wonder why is is called an "Alpha Channel"?

Ben Syverson's Widescreen DV Tell-All.

Widescreen DV Notes

Berkeley Multimedia Research Center

Creating Video with Adobe Premiere.  This is Cal Berkeley's site.  Explains from starting a project to printing to Video. It is a little old, but worth a look.

Bohoc Productions

A Guide for Indie Filmmakers Who Know Nothing About Indie Filmmaking

Creative Cow Tutorials and reading material. 
CyberCollege Television Production course - A Comprehensive On-line Cybertext in Studio and Field Production

Deinterlacing (What is)

A great part of this site deals with interlacing/deinterlacing which introduces some of the nastiest interlacing problems.

Digital Media Net - Digital Video Editing

News, features, reviews, techniques, and forums

Digital Media Net - Premiere

News, features, reviews, techniques, and forums

Digital Producer Magazine

News, Tools & Techniques for Content Creation

DigitalTelevision.com

Want to know what's happening in the HDTV production and broadcasting field. Read about it here.

Essential Video Resources

Lot's of info, slanted toward the PAL part of the world.

EventDV.net

Lots of articles to read.

Gamma Correction

What is Gamma Correction and Why do I care?

Glacier Lily

Premiere Tips Page

GreatDV

Video Signal, Cameras, Lighting, Production, Post Production and more.

Grinner Hester's Pearls of Wisdom

He writes it in a forum, I put it on my page. Read this stuff. It is quite interesting.

GuyGraphics Product reviews, tips and tricks.

How Blue Screens Work

From the "Howstuffworks" collection.

Importing Stills How to "Batch Prepare" multiple stills in Photoshop for importing into Premiere

Indiana University

Jim Krause at Indiana University has the class notes for T352 - Video Post Production online.

Intuitor

A site that rates movies according to the accuracy of their physics

Keying and Mattes

An article by Alan Steward

Learn Dynamic Media Articles, tips & techniques, and a "Jargon Buster"

Luke's Video Guide

Something about everything.  From info on cartoons to AVIsynth, codecs and audio.  Check it out.

Making Digital Home Movies Part 1

Part One of a series

Making Digital Home Movies Part 2

Part Two of a series

PBS.ORG

This is the online version of the PBS RED BOOK (updated April 2003) of the packaging, deliverable, promotion, and legal guidelines for PBS broadcast programs.

Post Magazine

I enjoy reading this every month. Check it out.

Post Production Humor

Very funny stuff. Check it out.

Ron Dexter

Forty years film and video experience at your disposal. Learn from one of the best.

Scott Spears

Indie film tech tips (video) and articles. Some articles from Sonnyboo as well.

Spec Speak - Hard Drives

I know I said I don't "do" hardware - but this is a great piece on hard drives from Maximum PC Magazine.

Using media files in web pages Lancaster University (U.K.) Learning Technology Lab

Video Codec Shootout

This is an article for those who want to compress video for home use: to e-mail to family members, put up on a Web site, burn onto a CD, re-compress to fit on a PDA or portable video player, or just archive for later use.
Video Tidbits
(not VideoTidbits.com)
Adam Wilt's random but useful tidbits on working with DV formats, proper Character Generation and Titling, and Betacam gotchas.
Videomaker Check out the "Getting Started" section.

Video Manual

A Complete Training Manual of Videotaping and Editing Techniques

Video University Great library
Win 98 Speed Tweaks A collection of "speed tweaks" from John Cline

Win XP Tips/Tricks

Videoguys' Windows XP Tips & Tricks for NLE

Windows Startup Content

The intention of these pages is to provide a central resource for PC users and Tech Support staff alike who are concerned about the poor performance of their PCs due to the number of programs running in the background at system start-up.

 

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