By Mark Nelson
With an exotic display, one-touch controls, good sound, and a friendly price, the Marantz PMD620 aims to be your portable digital audio recorder. How good is it really? Mark Nelson fires up guitars, gourd banjos, and even wild coyotes to find out.
I am excited that the amazing U Point technology of Nik Software’s Viveza, in the form of an easy-to-use editing plug-in, is now available to photographers using Aperture 2.1. My first encounter with the U Point technology was through...
I’ve been working on a video tutorial series for Aperture and in the course of creating each tutorial I often rediscover some of the little and not so little gems that make Aperture so outstanding. It’s easy to become complacent...
OpenOffice 3.0 for Mac Beta finally lets us run OOo without X11. It has some compatibility issues with Microsoft Office 2008 formats. But, it runs faster than Office 2008. And, the price is right. Read on a for a few more initial impressions of OOo 3.0 Beta for Mac.
Todd "Mobile Views" Ogasawara just tipped me off to Hobnox Audiotool, a free electronic music studio that runs online in Flash. My first thought was that it looked like Propellerhead ReBirth reborn in a Web browser. But Audiotool points the way to an interesting musical future. Hobnox Audiotool is an online electronic music studio based on emulations of Roland TR-808,...
Commenting on my recent review of ScreenFlow, my esteemed colleague David Battino wondered if this screencast recording software could also serve as a replacement for Apple's iMovie for quickly editing videos. The short answer to that is, no, ScreenFlow can't replace iMovie, but -- it does have some tricks up its sleeve that you can use to create cool effects not found in iMovie.
With an exotic OLED display, baby-simple controls, good sound, and an attractive price, the Marantz PMD620 aims to stand out in the crowded world of portable digital audio recorders. How well does it perform? Mark Nelson frails a gourd banjo to find out.
Aperture 2.1 includes a more versatile book-making tool than we saw
in earlier versions. So powerful in fact, that calling it a book making tool is really selling it short. It's actually a flexible
layout application with some very useful output options. In this
podcast, Derrick Story talks with Joe Schorr and tries to uncover all
the hidden gems buried in Aperture 2.1.
ScreenFlow grabs audio and video from the computer and external sources, provides a timeline for editing these recordings, and offers a range of effects aimed specifically at creating on-screen software presentations. This screencasting studio is easy to use and
affordable. And if you have a Mac running Leopard with ScreenFlow loaded up, you're suddenly in the educational movie making business. Jochen Wolters reviews this application and provides plenty of video samples.
To celebrate his 200th blog entry, O'Reilly Digital Audio Editor David Battino shares the sounds behind the stories. Hear how a bad pianist inspired the first computer music program, the surprising benefits of high-resolution distortion, and sneaky uses of voice recorders.
Photographer and fine art printing expert John Paul Caponigro sits
down with Derrick Story at Photoshop World 08 in Orlando to provide
an inside look at the Epson Print Academy, the changing world of
photography, and even a few remarks about his favorite printing papers.
Don't settle for cruddy looking, dismal sounding YouTube video. Follow our insider tips and you can upload, watch, and share movies that look and sound dramatically better. We even explain how to make the ultimate poster frame or "money shot."
By Mark Nelson
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