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Ok, so maybe this should be Todd's Tips, but this is something worth thinking about. With the wild connectivity supplied to us by Web 2....

Google the term "stock exchange" and the first response that comes up is the New York Stock Exchange. However, the second is NOT ...

Sometimes there's footage you need that you just can't get. Suppose you're making a PSA and need a shot of a woman rollerblading...

This is a problem that comes up in the DMS from time to time. Patrons come in and say, "I've been using this external hard drive o...

It seems like choosing an external hard drive would be little more than a question of price. But this is far from the case. There are a nu...

Actually you should really just leap ahead and marry it. It's amazing. One of the most frustrating things about video work is conversio...

One of the easiest ways to put the movie you've made onto a playable DVD (as opposed to a file saved on a disc) is to use iDVD. Which i...

Kind of a sad state of affairs, no? I think one thing we can take away from this image is the idea that there are so many WYSIWYG applicati...

Have you ever felt like this when you finish a video? Felt like you're carrying the corpse of your dead idea? Editing can obviously be ...

I think it's time we take a slight digression from media-related posts and take a broader view of the world. When I was last applying fo...

When I'm doing graphics one of the things I find most difficult is choosing a proper color palate. And that's where this site (Colou...

One of the most difficult things about professional media production can be obtaining good quality images for your work. Stock.xchng is one...

Have you ever imported anything into Final Cut Pro, dragged it to the timeline and then found that it doesn't playback? Perhaps you fin...

**This recommendation comes strictly from Todd, based on his personal experiences with the hosting company noted below, and is in no way a p...

While iDVD is one of the simplest DVD creation programs out there, sometimes it can throw folks for a loop.   Say for example, you had a vid...

Let's say, for example, you have to do a project about campus. You get a FlipCam from Media Services and you shoot some video. You rec...

Often times when editing you want to see the audio waveforms in the audio tracks (as pictured to the right). This can allow an editor to mo...