Hey guys. i was reading through Don’s post on RSS feeds (the FCP one in particular) and came across Digital Heaven. They’re Uk based and create some awesome plug-ins and stuff to make working in FCP more efficient. I’ve subscribed to their video podcast, so let me know if anyone wants the mp4s.
Yipee, finally got hold of PowerPoint 2007! Here’s the run down:
There are now many effects that can be applied to text, images, shapes, graphs and tables. The different effects that can be applied are:
Shadow’s can be done like the traditional dropshadow (which now on pc is also smooth like on a mac), as well as the perspective shadow which falls to the back or front of an object. Can’t be applied to everything, but most things.
This image was a picture just inserted into PPT ’07 and everything else was done in PPT, the rounded corners, the border, reflection and shadow.
This above image is completely done within PPT ’07 (excluding the 3 pic’s) and is also completely editable within PPT ’07.
There are also many many many various layouts for creating different diagrams and layouts (wait ’till the secretaries get hold of this).
View, master, slide master (a few of the old linkies will get this). There are ton’s of masters to create and you can even create more.
There’s a whole bunch of other stuffs in PPT ’07 which can make our job easier and yet more painful. I’ve found that the graphs don’t play nice when it comes to reflections and shadows, they still look better though. Also in terms of compatibility, any effects done to images are preserved when you save for the old PowerPoint version but you pretty much lose any effects on text and shapes when saving to older formats. Graphs and diagrams are also converted to PNG’s when saving to older formats.
There’s also a PowerPoint 2007 Player which is freely available here.
Oh and Office 2007 will be available for the macs at the end of the year, so I suggest maybe getting one PC copy in the JHB offices in the meantime to play around with? I must enjoy PPT ’07 while it lasts ‘coz I can open mine 13 more times before the demo runs out 
Been meaning to post these for a while, add these feeds to your news aggregator for more tips and hints and the like.
They’re not always good, but every now and again you get a helpful hint that’ll save you plenty time when designing or editing. Some of them also post about Apple-related stuff too, which is also cool. Lovely. They are:
• Final Cut Producer (feed)
• Final Cut Tips (feed)
• Creative Workflow Hacks (feed)
• creativebits (feed, again)
• DVcreators.net (feed)
• The editblog (feed)
• The Graphic Reporter (feed)
One such ‘helpful-hints’ article is from The Graphic Reporter on how do make lines and circles and stuff in PS. I have to admit that I always take the long way around. This helps spans.
These are the feeds I have, if you have any others that you think you can add to this list, please post them up. Ta.
If you don’t subscribe to creativebits (and you should) you would’ve missed these two gems in the past few posts:
1. 11 Ways to optimise your Mac’s performance
2. Desktopography.net (an awesome site with rad desktops, cool ideas for looks too)
Geno the speaker just showed me this video. Great music but I also really love the edit.
Found this look & feel while sourcing images. Maybe we could use a variant one day? (Please excuse the watermark…)
Hello Oukie meloukies, now you can search inside the content of a Podcast or videocast. This clever search engine will pick up a word or phrase that you’re looking for “nice boobies” (e.g. she really had nice boobies) and pause at that section of the specific recording.
If you guys are looking for a quick and easy way to search images from Google, try Google Image Ripper v.0.2.0.
Hey guys! This posting thing actually does work!
Anyway, New Guy and I met with Theo from Transmit1, he does purely broadcast motion graphics stuff. He showed us his show-reel when we were there an I thought the stuff was awesome! The website is still under construction but there are 2 clips to check out. I love the way he seamlessly mixes 2D, 3D and video!
Hi guys, thought this was pretty cool. Have a look.
This is a rad site to get some inspiration and new ideas on various topics.
“Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.”
You can get it here.
I posted this entry with it.
(If you use it, be sure to turn off “Automatically insert Powered by Performancing” under settings.)
Sometimes for a quick masking tool this works quite well. Here’s a link to the source if you need it.
This is a great principle to consider when it comes to design: video, presentation and animation.
From wikipedia:
“All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.”
Hey guys here is a company that posted the whole progress of their new office design. I’ve left the whole thing under mloffice on del.cio.us.
