Click 2 Play

I’ve found this post on the freeware genius site which looks an interesting idea.

MP3Tunes.com    Lets you back up your entire music collection to their servers and you can access your collection anywhere with web access.

It could finally mean you can ditch all your CDs.

Supports DOS Fat 16/Fat32 formatted disks.

It  has 4 multi effects processors and you can re-sample with effects.

It also have wave support.

The Drawmer DC2476 is a digital stereo mastering unit.

Inputs : Balanced XLR, Digital AES/EBU and S/PDIF

Audio Convertors : 24 Bit

Digital Output : 16, 18, 20 or 24 Bits

Sampling Rates up to 96 kHz

The Signal Path

1. Stage Dynamic EQ
2. Full Band Compression
3. Signal Split into 3 User Definable Bands and routed via 3 Band Expander, 3 Band Limiter and a 3 Band Modelled Tube Saturation
4. The 3 Signals are then recombined and fed to the outputs via a Fader system.
5. Fader can generate Fade Ins or Fade Outs
6. Output Stage can be Dithered

Reason can export audio, ie. mix down the song to a stereo file or export a section of the song as a stereo file.

Reason can export 16-24 bit files ranging from 11khz to 96khz

You set what you want to export by using the start and end song markers.

Zoom In using CTRL and +

Zoom Out using CTRL and -

Sequencer tracks can be renamed and moved up and down the list by clicking and dragging.

Digital Video

• Shooting DV for Broadcast

UrbanFox Website

The urbanfox website has lots of good information on a range of creative and technical subjects.

• Shooting Sequences
• Focus
• Setting Exposure and Gain
• Setting White Balance
• Sound

Ken Stone’s web site is another good source of information.

• Ken Stone

Here are the various keyboard shortcuts that let you take various types of screenshots on an Apple Mac running OSX.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Apple Key + SHIFT + 3 + CTRL                Screen to Clipboard

Apple Key + SHIFT + 4 + CTRL + Drag     Selection to Clipboard

There is also a list of various keyboard shortcuts at ss64.com. 

The screenshots are saved as pdf to the desktop, but can be easily changed by viewing them in Preview and then selecting export option from the file menu.

There are a large number of common image file formats which you can choose from and you can also give the image a more relevant name.

Image file formats include :-

BMP, JP2, JPEG, MacPaint, PDF, Photoshop, PICT, PNG, QuickTime Image, SGI, TGA, TIFF

By clicking on the options tab you can make adjustments to the bit depth and quality settings.

I found this site which has lots of useful tutorials and tips relating to the Final Cut

Pro Studio suite of software programs.

Los Angeles Users Group

For anyone interested in learning more about video formats for the web there is a document titled ‘Preparing for Online Distribution’ which gives a useful overview of where thing are at.

You can download a copy of the document here.

I found these sites which demonstrate what can be done with one sheet of A4 paper.

Peter Callesen

Vanilla Joy