Digital Producer-Features

Search Engine Optimization: The need behind the search query

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins discusses the need behind the search query. He explains that people perform three types of searches based on their search needs. These include Navigational, informational, and transactional searches. He explains in this video.

Search Engine Optimization: How searchers search

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

In this clip, host Richard John Jenkins takes another look at how searchers use search engines to search. He shows this by trying to find an SEO firm in his neighborhood. He discusses how most people start searches broad to narrow, and he discusses how SEO's make the mistake of optimizing sites for very broad terms. You don't want to optimize sites for broad terms unless you don't have any competition. He explains it in this clip.

The impact of Flash Professional CS5 exporting to the iPhone

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

If you are a Flash developer then Adobe has big news for you. You can now export your movies as native iPhone Apps. Well, sort of. In this article you will find out what the impact of exporting Flash movies to the iPhone really is.

Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS.

Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit —- 0 dBFS —- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.

Microsoft ships Windows 7- should you buy it?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Did you hear? Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows - should you buy it? Windows 7 is here. In this article you will find out if Windows 7 is worth the wait and whether or not you should upgrade. Or is Windows 7 just another Vista?

Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time.

Tonal Sets Uplifting Mood For A&E's Recovery Project Campaign

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Following the success of the Emmy-winning series "Intervention," A&E has created The Recovery Project, a multimedia and community based outreach program designed to raise awareness about addiction and how it is treatable and recovery is possible. A key component to the project are two moving TV spots featuring a powerful, anthemic score composed by Alex Lasarenko, Creative Director of music/sound design house Tonal.

PhotoAcute Studio

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Most of you have heard of High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, where you shoot several shots of the same scene, each at a different exposure, then combine them in software to produce an image with extended dynamic range that brings out details in both the highlights and shadows.

Sorenson Squeeze 6

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

These days, it seems as though every company has an application for taking your edited files and processing them for the web, and many of those applications are included with the editing bundle you purchased. Adobe has Adobe's Media Encoder, Final Cut Studio has Compressor, and there are the standalone applications such as Episode, and even QuickTime can do it as well.