Ok so first you have to win some festival awards or at least be an official selection. Then you have to be on Windows. That said here's a very cool application that will make the creation of festival laurels for your movie's poster, DVD box, etc very simple. EZLeaves is a FREE application that allows to quickly and easily generate custom festival laurel leave images. Features include: Choose from four different laurel leave styles Use any system-defined font Export to JPG or BMP Define up to 10 lines of custom text Full control over the height and font settings of...
Ok, to start, I ve been reading about Shane s exploits for a long time on lafcpug here and now on his blog and he s had some interesting rigs involving rubberbands (i seem to remember that was you in a g5 with a rubberbanded set of drives) and now his latest macbeast. Well i ve had my mac pro since about a month or so before the octos came out. And Since then I ve added a HDD a few times, which started first as a place to put media, than it was a third drive to put music...
First, I want to underscore Shane Ross s outstanding, super-critical advice on upgrading your operating system. Although he wrote it in the context of upgrades to Leopard affecting your Final Cut Pro installation, it applies much more broadly of course. What he recommends is the right thing to do for any OS update, on either platform. (Yo, Mac users...of whom I m one. Following Shane s directions, the upgrade to Vista is smooth as silk. Certainly no more disruptive than OS 10.2, less disruptive than the migration to Intel architecture, and FAR less disruptive than the first OS X....which doesn...
Spotlight? What s that? For the non-Mac folks that don t know what Spotlight is, it s a search-all tool that Apple introduced in OS X 10.4. From what I understand, it ll search your computer for all files that include a word or phrase that you are searching for, including searching email and metadata included within the files. Sounds neat. Now only if there was a Windows version of something like that ... Windows Desktop Search I didn t know about this until I installed Office 2007, but from what I can find on the web, the technology has...
Well, gosh darn it. I was all excited because I'm ready to buy my new Mac Pro for running both windows and Mac OSX with 8 GB or RAM. That would make After Effects scream and Nucleo Pro a pure dream to work with. But I can't find a full version of XP Pro 64-bit anywhere. After a fruitless on-line search and calls to local stores with no luck, I spent the last hour on hold with different departments at Microsoft, and it appears that they do not sell it anymore. Unfortunately, Vista is not yet ready to run on...
