Digital stop-motion animation chronicling the life and death of a tea bag. This video was created using istopmotion then edited in final cut. The animation demonstrates how a simple story can be brought to life with imagination and creative uses of the software available. Read more
I was always impressed at Keynote’s tag phrase ‘Cinema quality presentations for everyone’ and wondered was this really the case. If you are a Final Cut Pro user you may by now feel a little limited by the power of the titling functions within the application. Read more
The creation of visual software training and documentation has always been a laborious and time consuming process. This is the prime reason that such little quality software documentation is available.
Blue Mango Learning Systems has launched screensteps Live and screensteps Desktop to provide a seamless workflow which allows companies and individuals to quickly create clear visual software instructions that can be followed by the most basic of users.
Users create lessons using the screensteps Desktop software. Once they have signed up for an account on screensteps Live Read more
Apple have updated the AppleTV site to include a new guided tour to the new movie rental service. Apple announced the update AppleTV at last week’s Macworld promising the software within two weeks. It looks as if things are getting ready. Want to rent a movie? Just grab the remote.
With Apple TV, you don’t need a computer to rent digital movies — you rent them directly from your TV. The completely redesigned Apple TV interface makes it easy to browse, rent, and watch movies from every major Hollywood studio. Best of all, you get instant movie gratification. Without losing your spot on the sofa.
Browse.
Use the included Apple TV remote to browse rentals by Top Movies, Genres, and All HD. Or search for what you want to watch. Apple TV displays a movie poster for every rental, so something’s sure to catch your eye. When you find a movie you like, click it to view a detail screen with a plot summary and a list of cast and crew. You’ll also see a parade of similar movies you might enjoy under “Viewers Also Rented.”
Movie rentals on Apple TV are $2.99 for library titles, $3.99 for new releases, and only a dollar more for stunning HD titles with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Choose the format you want to rent and click. Your movie starts downloading instantly, and, if you choose a standard-definition movie, you can start watching it in seconds.
Rent a movie directly from Apple TV and you have 30 days to start watching. Once you hit Play, you have 24 hours to finish it — or to watch it as many times as you want. Movie rentals disappear when they expire, so they won’t take up storage space. From the Rented Movies menu, you can see when your movies are about to expire. What the movie demo video.
Links:
Apple TV Site
Apple TV UK
Apple have just released the Wallace and Gromit films to the UK iTunes store.Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series of four British animated short films, a series of ten short-animated sequences, and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. All the characters were made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal armatures, and filmed with stop motion clay animation. Read more
