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	<title>Nick Fox-Gieg's Tutorials</title>
	<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials</link>
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		<title>Faster After Effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Effects is a powerful tool, but it can be frustratingly slow, especially on older computers.  And, with HD files being six times as big as before, even newer machines can bog down quickly.  Try these tricks to speed things up.
Step 1: Lower the display resolution from full to half.  This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2010/faster-after-effects/</link>
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		<title>Brush Modes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Try experimenting with the drop-down menu for Composite Modes when using Photoshop&#8217;s paintbrush.  Here, the Color mode leaves the brightness of the underlying image unchanged&#8211;a great photo-editing trick. 

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		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/brush-modes/</link>
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		<title>Masks from Color Channels</title>
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Here&#8217;s a video tutorial on using color channels in Photoshop to speed up the process of making masks.  When selecting layers, remember:

1.  Cmd-click on a regular layer makes a selection along the outer edge.

2.  Cmd-click on a mask selects everything in the white parts of the grayscale image.
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		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/masks-from-color-channels/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone screen is a nonstandard size, wider than 4:3 but slightly less wide than 16:9.  It&#8217;s 480&#215;320, which works out to about 14:9. 
The phone scales everything to fit when playing video, so it&#8217;ll letterbox a 16:9 movie, which will be pretty gentle.
For further reading, see here and here.

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		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/iphone-video/</link>
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		<title>Noise Reduction</title>
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Here&#8217;s a basic video tutorial for noise reduction using the free audio editor Audacity.  You can also do higher-quality work with Adobe Audition (don&#8217;t confuse the very similar name).
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		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/noise-reduction/</link>
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		<title>Edit Audio from the Zoom H2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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Here&#8217;s a very basic video tutorial for the Zoom H2 audio recorder.  It walks you through the process of copying a file over to your computer and performing a simple cut on it using the free audio editor Audacity.
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		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/edit-audio-from-the-zoom-h2/</link>
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		<title>OS X on OS 9 Macs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have an older Mac running OS 9 and earlier, it might complain if you attempt to upgrade it to OS X.  Certain older machines have genuine issues preventing them from running OS X without hardware modifications&#8211;but for more recent Macs, especially G4s, it&#8217;s more likely that Apple just has an incentive to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/os-x-on-os-9-macs/</link>
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		<title>Flash and Function Keys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unusually for a modern application, Flash demands that you learn to use the function keys at the top of your keyboard.  (On a Mac, these rarely-used keys are typically reserved for changing screen brightness, sound volume, and the like.  You can change this default setting in the System Preferences.)  The essential commands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/know-your-function-keys/</link>
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		<title>Media Management Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1.  Label files accurately.
It&#8217;s always a good idea to give your files clear, descriptive names.  But it becomes critical in collaborative projects, when your colleagues need to be able to distinguish between, say, a draft file that they can expect to change in the future, and a final file that they can expect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/media-management-tips/</link>
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		<title>Burn a Disc Image</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burning a disc from an image file&#8212;an exact copy of your CD or DVD saved on your hard drive&#8212;is a useful trick to learn.  I&#8217;ve provided Mac OS X and Windows examples below.
OS X example: Disc Utility
Step 1.  Click the Burn button.

Step 2.  Choose a disk image.  (The standard file extension [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fox-gieg.com/tutorials/2009/burn-a-disc-image/</link>
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