Sign up now for Final Cut Pro Hands-On workshop, January 10 - 11th, and receive a 10% discount off your tuition!

Get a jump start on learning and sign up for our first workshop of 2009! Learn from the best at our Final Cut Pro 6 Hands-On workshop on January 10 - 11th in Santa Monica.
Sign up before December 25, 2008 and receive a 10% discount off your workshop tuition! Click here to register now.
This in-depth look at Final Cut Pro 6, taught by real-world editor and Apple Certified Trainer Victor Maldonado, is ideal for anyone wanting to truly master editing with FCP, from those just starting out, to experienced FCP editors wanting to solidify …



Advanced Final Cut Pro 6 Workshop, January 23rd - 25th in Santa Monica - Special discounts available!

Sign up now for the FCP 300: Advanced Editing Techniques in Final Cut Pro 6 hands-on workshop on January 23rd - 25th.

This advanced hands-on class, taught by top FCP expert and Apple Certified Trainer Larry Jordan, covers intermediate to advanced levels of editing and techniques, effects, color correction, audio sweetening and much more with Final Cut Pro 6. Click here for a full course outline.

The class size is limited, so reserve your spot now!

This Apple-certified hands-on workshop is recommended for …



Final Cut Pro Foundations


NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

DVcreators.net has been known as the world leader in Final Cut Pro training since the day Final Cut Pro 1.0 was released.

We were the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows. We have taught alongside Randy Ubillos, the creator of Final Cut Pro (and talked him into adding some cool features to the application!). We’ve helped hundreds of thousands …



How do I give someone a DVcreators downloadable product as a gift?

Our downloadable software products and tutorial courses offered through our DVcreators University make great gifts for any digital video creator!

If any of your friends, family or workmates own a camcorder, “Shooting Awesome Video” is now available for direct download on both Mac OS X and Windows!

To gift a DVcreators.net downloadable product, complete the below purchase form or call …



iPhone 2.2 software update includes video podcast download

Today, Apple released an update to the iPhone software that includes built-in podcast episode downloading. Why should you care?

Here’s why:

In the past, you could only watch (or listen to) podcasts on an iPhone by subscribing and downloading on your computer with iTunes, then syncing the episodes with your iPhone. While I’m sure a lot people went through the hassle, I’m pretty sure the vast majority did not.

A software programmer made a nice app called “Podcaster” that I’ve owned for several months that did built-in, on-the-fly episode downloading, but …



Video Is No Longer The Future of the Internet. It’s the Present.

Ten years ago I sat down with a VP of Cisco Systems and told him the future was video on the internet. At the time, he thought video would always be a minor, though growing element. He said “people don’t want to watch video on their PCs, they want to watch video on their TVs.”

I disagreed, and told him that in a few years it would be the #1 highest traffic driver on the net, and the #1 reason for people to upgrade their (Cisco) routing systems.

As I predicted, internet traffic is skyrocketing, propelled by video. :)

“The majority of the …



You are invited to join the DVcreators.net Facebook group!

Are you addicted to Facebook? Does your spouse find out how you’re doing from your Facebook status? Do you welcome new friends by throwing a sheep at them? Do you have Facebook friends you can’t ever remember meeting? Have you ever “mass superpoked” your friends? Do you take pictures of your sushi with your iPhone and upload them to Facebook?

If you know what I’m talking about, perhaps you would like to join our DVcreators.net Facebook group!

While we will always be working on the DVcreators.net website much more than our Facebook group, the Facebook group …



DV Enlightenment

NEW MOVIE EXCERPTS!

The DV Enlightenment DVD is a brilliant and highly enlightening course in Hollywood lighting for DV from DVcreators.net for anyone wanting to shoot stunningly beautiful, cinematic quality footage—for filmmaking, marketing projects, broadcast, special interest video, education or any other purpose.

DV Enlightenment Course Overview

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Shooting Awesome Video

NOW AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

Shooting Awesome Video is the world’s best complete beginning course on shooting high quality video.

If your video footage looks like ”Blair Witch” or “Cloverfield”, and you wish it looked more like “Amelie” or “Hero”, Shooting Awesome Video is the perfect learning experience. It is like a complete “consumer film school” for anyone who wants to dramatically improve the quality of the video footage they shoot.

Shooting Awesome Video is not meant for professionals. It was created for novices who wish to …



Final Cut Express Foundations

NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

DVcreators.net has been known as the world leader in Final Cut training since the day Final Cut Pro 1.0 was released.We were the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows. We have taught alongside Randy Ubillos, the creator of Final Cut Pro (and talked him into adding some cool features to the application!). We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of FCP editors further their Final Cut Pro knowledge. Most of the …



Ken Stone writes glowing review of DV Kitchen

Some quotes:

“DV Kitchen is a finely crafted application, very easy to use and stable.”

“DV Kitchen has ‘TimeFreezer’, a much better way to make still images from video.”

“…you can have DV Kitchen add the ‘Shadow Box’ effect to movies that you create. It does this with one click and writes the html code for you automatically, sweet.

On SampleLab™:

“This is simply the best way I have ever seen to visually check the quality of your encoded video.”

While writing the review, Ken was annoyed at a couple of things: not being able to name or edit QuickSpecs settings, and the fact the …



Rode Blimp

For the last few years we have been searching for an inexpensive wind protection system. While we have featured the professional Sennheiser set-up in the DVeStore, the price point was out of reach for many of us. We just couldn’t justify spending $800+ on a serious package. Alas, RODE has developed a solution for us mere mortals to be proud of owning - the all new RODE Blimp.

We’re excited to bring professional quality wind protection to you for under $300! It’s an amazing value - no more ruined audio due to a bellowing gust. We’ve all heard …



LiveType PowerStart

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

Includes $180 of objects and textures from LiveType Central. (See examples below.)

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How are we doing?

I just found a couple websites that attempt to estimate visitors to a website. Curious about how we rank alongside some other video topical sites that feature advertising, I plugged in some URLs, and guess what?

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Apparently more cool people hang out at our site than a lot of other sites, and since you’re reading this, you are one of the cool people!

Trafficestimate.com estimates 157,400 visits in the previous 30 days.

(Of course, there are a few more popular sites… so we’ll just have to keep working harder to provide ever more valuable info and resources!)



DV Kitchen adds Shadowbox support

Shadowbox is an online media viewer application written by the genius Mike Jackson.

When a link or picture is clicked, it veils your web page like dimming the lights in a theatre, then opens a window with a cool animation and plays your movie.

You can now shadowbox your Quicktime or Flash movies from DV Kitchen with just a few clicks, since the code is all written for you!

Watch the movie to see how easy it is:

For more info on Shadowbox, visit Mike’s site.

For more …



PromptDog and PromptPuppy teleprompting software

Whether you’re a spokesperson, teacher, CEO, video blogger or presidential candidate, you’ll find either PromptDog or PromptPuppy your best friend on the set. They’re both well-trained, well-mannered and great with children.

There are free downloadable trials of both PromptDog and PromptPuppy for Mac OS X, Windows XP & Vista, so, we’d like to prompt you to download one or both and try them yourself - promptly!

PromptDog is our high end, professional prompting software with power user features like a separate, synchronized Talent Window …