ManyCam is a free software that allows you to add cool graphics and effects to your webcam. You can add live CGI graphics like fire and water effects. You can even make it appear as if it is snowing inside your house!
ManyCam user interface
It’s quite easy to use this software with your instant messaging (IM) software like Yahoo Messenger. Simply go to your webcam preferences and select ManyCam Virtual Webcam as your camera source.
Yahoo webcam preferences
Microsoft PowerPoint remains the unrivaled software for making business presentations. There are tons of more powerful software available, but PowerPoint’s ease of use clearly sets it apart as the choice for busy executives, managers and other honchos who don’t have the time to learn more flashy programs (oops, did I make a hint there, he he).
Example of a BAD PowerPoint presentation
Example of an elegant PowerPoint presentation
aXXo, FXG, FxM, KLAXXON & NikonXP are my top 5 best torrent uploaders. Unfortunately, there are a lot of other users who upload fake movies. They trick you into downloading their fake movies by adding the name of axxo, fxg or any genuine uploaders into the torrent file names. So if you try to search for axxo torrents for example, surely their fake uploads will appear in the search results. Their goal is simply to waste your time and bandwidth.
That’s why I have provided direct links to each of these users’ torrent lists. You can guarantee that these movies are really uploaded these guys and they are genuine and real DVD rips. If you’re looking for new movies and are not in their list, it means there are no official DVD release yet.
Many people have been asking me “Which video-editing software is better: Premiere or After Effects?” I never answered that question directly. Rather, I gave them to understand that Premiere and After Effects are not competing software, but tandem software. In other words, they work hand in hand.
Adobe After Effects takes footages and introduces effects into them (well, what were you expecting?), ranging from color correction like brightness, contrast, levels, balance, etc., to “full-blown” (for lack of a better word) animation effects like particles, fire, texture, morphing, whatever the artist’s imagination and skills can conk out.
Adobe After Effects interface
Unless you wish to give yourself a hard time, you don’t organize and finalize your video project in After Effects. Perhaps you can manage it with short films like commercials, but for something that goes to the average 30 minutes to one and a half hours, bad idea. True to its name, it’s got tons of effects, but it is not designed for organizing an entire video project.
That is the job for Adobe Premiere. It has basic color correction effects and other filters, but these pale in comparison to After Effects’ arsenal. Premiere’s specialty is organizing and finalizing your video project. Here is where you take your individual footages exported from After Effects, along with other footages, and audio files and put them together to form that final project. Here is where you get to do cool tricks (not effects) like synching the visuals with the audio, precisely timing transitions, etc.
Adobe Premiere interface
Depth of field or DOF in photography is usually done for artistic purposes. It also serves a useful function, in the sense that it highlights the object which the photographer wishes to bring attention to by blurring out all other details within the pic.
The basic element to achieve natural DOF is the distance between the subject of focus from the background, or from the objects assumed to be too close to the camera outside the focus area. However, it takes a professional camera, and even expensive lenses to fully take advantage of DOF. Most of us can only afford those “birthday party” cameras, or the electronic equivalent of an Instamatic.
