Tutorial: DVD Authoring

Here's another great tutorial from one of our favorite After Effects tutorial sites, Video Copilot. In this one Andrew Kramer shows you how to use After Effects in conjunction with Adobe Encore to build a looping DVD menu animation and add all the functionality you need to make your DVD's look professional. Watch it here!

44 Free Texture Sites

Topher Welsh over at AE Tuts+ posted this one a few weeks back and I thought I'd share it with you. For those of you working in 3D, motion graphics, or visual effects, good textures are a MUST.

Check out Topher's list of the 44 best FREE texture sites out there!

25+ Best Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Tutorials

Now even though I put an emphasis on teaching Avid Media Composer - IMHO the undisputed "big dog" of nonlinear editing - a lot of my students also work in Adobe Premiere and Apple's Final Cut Pro. So here's a post for you Premiere folks - Tutorial Lounge has compiled their list of the "25+ Best Movie Editing in Adobe Premiere CS4 Tutorials." Good stuff, definitely worth a look if you've been doing any cutting in Premiere lately!

Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer?

Here's an interesting perspective on the age-old Avid vs. FCP debate, from Guardian Studios, an Avid-equipped production and post house in Columbus, OH. Naturally each system has its pros and cons, its supporters and detractors.

For students figuring out which system to learn and why, this blog post is definitely worth a read - and so are the comments!

Everything is About to Change: Arri's New Digital Camera System

Arri has released early specs for its new family of digital cinema cameras, featuring 35mm-sized sensors and light sensitivity equivalent to 800 ISO filmstock. Coupled with the ability to use a vast array of cinema prime lenses, high-resolution electronic viewfinders, or traditional optical viewfinders, these new cameras reflect Arri's longtime commitment to providing filmmakers with the tools they really want.

Arri has also provided a searchable, indexed HTML version of Quantel's "Digital Fact Book" - an incredibly inclusive glossary and reference guide to digital video technology. The Digital Fact Book is also available as a PDF.

New DV Equipment Reservation System

New for this semester! The DV Reservation Book in the Library has been replaced with a new online spreadsheet. Check it out here, and watch this tutorial video:

DV Equipment Reservation System Tutorial from UAT Digital Video on Vimeo.

Free Concrete Textures

Here's another collection from Best Design Options - 110 Free Concrete Textures, Volume I. This one is PERFECT for all you 3D modelers in need of some photorealistic textures to wrap around your models. Bookmark this one or just download 'em all.