Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Life of an adjunct professor!!

This is the link for my new video.

This video is about the reality of getting a PhD in English because English isn't a subject that universities are widely demanding even though it's the key to civilization. If you want a career in English , you should also get an MBA(Masters in Business Administration) , this will be good because if you fail English , you can always become involved in economics and start a business.
Thanks for Watching

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Alienware M18x R2 Review!!

The Alienware M18x R2 is one of those amazing computers that are awesome for gaming and high-end video editing for dslr cameras and more camera with high target-bit.

Specifications:
1) 18 inch screen with screen resolution : 1920 * 1080 pixels (1080p)
2)Processor and CPU : 3.1 GHz Core i7-3610QM
3)Hard drive: 750GB with Hard Drive Speed : 7200 rpm
4)Ram : 8GB DDR3
5) Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
6)Include Bluetooth

Many people who use this laptop for games like World of War craft and software editing like Adobe and avid said that they loved it.
You can order this on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Alienware-M18x-AM18XR2-7111BK-18-Inch-Laptop/dp/B009FX7BF0/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1356442516&sr=1-2&keywords=alienware

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Review!!

Many people have been interested in Premiere Pro for ages and decided not to like other editing software due to it's amazing features. Well, your likeness of this awesome editing software will increase due to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Many people that liked Final cut Pro and Avid are going to change their mind sooner than ever.

1) Even though Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 had the mercury playback engine , CS6 has improved it and made it even faster.
2)Play back by decreasing resolution however this just means that you want to check it. When you hit pause you will see the difference.
3) Different user interface which makes it easy for the user to play around with his timeline.
4)Clear audio meters which is good to visualize the audio.
5)The Project browser which made improvement in which each video can be play backed on a small screen  
6) You have full cinema display to let your entire sequence act like a movie and just be all over the screen.
7) It doesn't stop play back unless you tell it to and you can change effects while the video is playing.
8)Dynamic trim tool
9) The adjustment layer which lets you put an effect on many clips at once without having to go one by one.
10) Stabilizer which stabilizes a clip in vast motion


  There are much more but these are what interest me. These solve a lot of things many people went through in adobe cs5

Leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Dell Inspiron 14z Laptop review!!

Hey guys , what's up. Today, I am going to do a review for the Dell Inspiron 14z Laptop.
I am getting this laptop for Christmas because it's very powerful and excellent to run fast programs.

Specifications:




  1. Intel Core i5-2450M 2.5GHz
  2. 6GB DDR3 Memory 2 DIMM
  3. 750 GB (7200 rpm) Hard Drive
  4. 14 inch High Definition LED Display (1366 x 768) with Truelife
  5. Adobe Elements 9.0 Photoshop and Premiere Bundle(Good for editing)
  6. Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit(To work for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6)
  7. 14-inch screen

The reason I picked this laptop for Christmas is because it has 6GB ram memory which makes it very fast for gaming and video editing. It also has 7200 rpm hard drive speed making it compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Of course, it was the 64-bit that made me look at it because I wouldn't by a 32-bit due to the fact that's becoming incompatible with the newest versions of Adobe.

I really recommend it because it has good screen size with great specifications especially if you are working with editing in professional editing soft wares like Adobe.

You can get this laptop on Amazon : http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-14z-Photoshop-Bluetooth/dp/B008YWGTVU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1356353935&sr=1-1&keywords=dell+core+i5+7200

How to increase a audio pitch in Adobe Premiere Pro

A lot of people like to increase a video's audio pitch to increase it's humor.
Of course many people would like to increase the speed of the video (which I showed in my last blog post)
however, there is a more professional way in which the video will not be effected but only it's audio.

First, import any video or audio and drag it into the timeline:





Then go to your effects tab , go to the search and type in : pitchshifter
Then you will see two. Click the one under stereo and drag onto the audio part of the video in the timeline which is in the audio track:



Then it will show in the effects control in the audio effects part of the video and click on the arrow next to the pitchshifter and click on Individual Parameters , click on pitch and increase it to how much you want the pitch to be. And then click on the Formantpre... button and drag it until you got it to off.

That way you can get a nice pitched video that is funny for a nice group.
For more information, leave a comment.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Different ways of cropping in Adobe Premiere Pro

As you all know, one of the simplest ways of getting rid of unwanted detail in a video, you just use the crop button in most editing programs but there are more advanced and practical things worth trying in a specific piece of footage.

First, we are going to teach you how to do the basic cropping techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro.

First, open Adobe Premiere Pro and import and drag a video to the timeline of the project and click on the effects tab:




When you are done with that , click on the Video effects sub tab and then click on the transform and click on the crop button to drag it to the video. Then you have to click on the effects control tab of the video:






You can play with the number but there is a much easier way:

You can click on the crop button and select it and then you can play with the cropping on the sequence video:




As you can see , this is very basic cropping but there is a much better and practical way called garbage matte and it's found in the keying sub tab:




You can drag it to the effects control of the video but I recommend you take off the crop effect first not to make it look weird:

There are four types of garbage matte , there is the four point, eight point and sixteen point garbage matte. The more point you got, the more detailed the cropping will be , I will enter an eight point garbage matte into the effects control:




As you can see , there are a lot of options which are much more than the crop and the 16 point has more and 4 point has less and  you don't have to go and change the details and numbers. You can easily select it and change it on the sequence video like the crop.


That's all you need to know.
Hope you understood it perfectly.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

So you want to get a PhD in Mathematics part 4

How to change or reverse video speed in Adobe Premiere Pro

Many people out there would like to make a nice and neat video showing a person talking as fast as Fred(A famous internet Youtube sensation.) or do a time-lapse related to something undergoing a change in their daily life like the growth of ones beard, hair etc..
All of these are done in a lot of editing programs and in this tutorial, I will teach you how this is done in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 (This applies to all versions of Adobe Premiere)

First things first , you have to import your clip and drag it to the timeline:




When you play your clip , you are going to see normal speed just like you recorded it.
Playing with the speed and changing it is very simple ,
first right click on the clip inserted in the timeline and click on Speed/Duration:




When you click on this button , a small window will appear :



The changes that will be done on this clip won't apply on any other clips in the timeline , just on this specific clip.

Changes you can do:


1) The change that most editing users are most interested in is the Speed,  the unit of the speed here is in % (percentages), so when we decrease the percentage ,we mean a fraction of the original speed ( in frames/sec.) and when we increase this percentage more than 100%,  we mean we are increasing it by a fraction where the numerator is bigger than the denominator. I would like to mention this extra information just in case your want every single bit of info., Simply, as the percentage increases , the speed will increase thus giving fast motion and as it decreases, the speed will decrease thus giving slow motion.

2) Another change is the duration which is the same as the speed because as the duration decreases, the speed increases but when the user chooses duration , he specifies how much he wants the time to be if he wanted a video with a restricted duration.

4) Reversing makes it go backwards from end to beginning. 

3) You can maintain the same pitch even though you increase speed because when you increase speed , pitch is automatically raised.

4) Then we have the Ripple Edit; Shifting trailing clips option and this is mostly done for animation. For instance ,  get a group of drawings where each one has a small difference from the other , drag them to the timeline and select them both and click on Speed/Duration , if you check "Ripple Edit; Shifting trailing clips" option, and choose a duration , then this will make both images having that specific duration together. For animation , type in a small duration.

This is all about Speed in Adobe Premiere Pro.
I hope this helped you .
If you need more information, ask me on my email: Karims27@hotmail.com

Friday, June 29, 2012

How to make a NICE gradient in Adobe Premiere Pro

Lets say you want to make a nice colorful background to replace the green in your green screen footage or picture. Well what you have to do is add a gradient.

First you have to get a black footage:



 Now when you click the button , click then Black video. And then you get this :



Now choose the setting according to your video settings.



And then you would have a black footage which you should drag to your timeline in the first video track:





Then go to your effects and go to video effects and go to "Generate" and then a four-color gradient effect will show up so drag to the effects control of the black footage you inserted earlier:




And then you would have a nice gradient :




But lets say you want to adjust the colors so you have to pick positions and colors in the effects control so you should get this:




Now all you have to do is adjust the color positions and the colors themselves.


Now to let a green screen footage have this background go to this link on how to color key:  http://teachingyouaboutyourpc.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-green-screen-in-adobe-premiere.html


Thank you for reading and i hope you found this helpful and for information contact me at my email: Karims27@hotmail.com


Thanks,
Karim

Saturday, June 16, 2012

How to Color Correct in Adobe Premiere Pro

Today I am going to teach you how to color correct. The whole purpose of color correcting is to bring our pictures or our videos some life or in this case color.

There are a lot of color correcting effects however the one I prefer is The Fast Color Corrector.

Now , first open Adobe Premiere Pro and import your photo or video:




 Now go to the effects section:




Go to the video effects and go to Color Correction and then choose fast color corrector and then drag it to the effects panel if your life-less video or photo after dragging it to the timeline:





I will now instruct my opinions on what to adjust:


1. First add the color you want a little close to blue:






2.Then adjust the input levels according to what I am showing you  and don't adjust the output levels:




3. Then increase the saturation from 100 to 150 :



Then this is the difference:


Before:




After:




As you see the color has changed a lot and it gave some life to the picture.


Thank you for reading and for more information , email me at karims27@hotmail.com

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Smartest person in the world!

Did anybody know that the smartest person in the world -Kim Ung-yong has an IQ of 210 and started college when he was 4 .. and started to talk various foreign languages when he was 2..This brilliant genius is my hero for his brains.