Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People and Coca-Cola are celebrating the continuation of their partnership ahead of the highly anticipated launch of the 20th Anniversary Cinemagic Festival on 16th September in Movie House Cinemas. Read more
Yesterday I was involved in an interesting debate over the virtues of PowerPoint over Apple Keynote. The argument was more or less based on the idea that a suite of applications (iWork) can no way compete with Office that costs £100s. The premise was ‘you get what you pay for’. The good humoured debate went on for some time and this member of the medical professional swore he could not present to the level he needed with Keynote. Read more
Telestream have just released version two of their incredible screencasting application Screenflow. We were lucky enough to be amongst a team of beta testers and I have been busting to talk about the application on TotalApps for a number of weeks, especially when some readers began to spot the transitions in our latest tutorials.
Actually when I say beta testing it was virtually impossible to find anything wrong with the releases we received. Read more
I am frequently asked what Mac video editing I would recommend, iMovie or Final Cut Express. Although I primarily teach students to use Final Cut I use both FCE and iMovie in roughly equal amounts but for different tasks so I decided I would write a post to outline how I use each application and the benefits and drawbacks of each. If you are hoping for a winner well it really depends on how you want to work and be creative with video. Read more
Having received the very latest Guitar Rig 4 release last week I have been playing and recording at every opportunity. It is amazing just how easy it is to get the power of a professional guitar application to work seamlessly with Apple’s Garageband multitrack recording application. I have decided to show just how quick and easy it is to start your own home recording studio using Garageband in a short video tutorial. Read more
