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Microtek ScanMaker 4600
42-bit flatbed desktop scanner
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Consumer-level scanners should be inexpensive, easy-to-use and versatile and should provide decent quality. The Microtek ScanMaker 4600 gets at least passing grades in all these areas, with much better than average scores in quality and versatility.

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AC—Final Voyage
The Project Studio Part VIII
by JD Mars

What's a project studio guy to do? I have to build a vocal booth if I'm to do any kind of live overdubs. Obviously, I'll never have enough real estate bandwidth to do live drums or a band, so vocal or solo instrument overdubs are the most I can do. I could leave the AC wall unit exposed to the room, and put some kind of fan that draws air from the main room into the vocal booth, but I'd still have some noise issues. So, rigging something up with the wall unit may be the only road I can take.

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Final Cut Pro 2.0 and Cleaner
A quick solution to luminance issues
by Stephen Schleicher

I have recently become addicted to Final Cut Pro as my editing software of choice. I can't believe how simple yet powerful this $1,000 package is. From my recent post projects, I have discovered that this NLE does everything I need it to do and more. In some of the other NLE systems I have worked with, I was constantly sending stuff out to After Effects for graphic treatments. Not so in FCP, as I can have a practically unlimited amount of video layers to mix and layer graphics quickly and easily.

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Vertical Offset
Part 1 of how to make an AutoLISP program
by Jos van Doorn

A vertical offset can be found in an isometric piping drawing. Vertical pipes normally go straight down. They have an angle of 90 degrees to the horizon. Sometimes in a vertical line there is a pipe that's not under an angle of 90 degrees. What we then have is called a vertical offset.

Review
RE:Vision ReelSmart Motion Blur and FieldsKit
Interlacing and motion blur plugins for editing and compositing systems
by Kevin Schmitt

This week we're going to start taking a gander at RE:Vision Effects' suite of video and effects plugins by doing two, two, two reviews in one. Why double up? Well, According to RE:Vision Effects' own literature, "ReelSmart FieldsKit is a great companion to other ReelSmart modules such as Twixtor and Motion Blur," so we're going to see how that claim measures up by using the After Effects versions of FieldsKit and Motion Blur in tandem.

The Maya Factor
A Q&A with Alias|Wavefront Ambassador and Cofounder Mark Sylvester
by David Nagel

It arrived like a prophecy people only half believed would ever be fulfilled. Maya for OS X. Its advent marked a significant turning point for the platform and cast a definitive vote of confidence for Mac OS X. There's been a lot of hype surrounding the event, not just from Alias|Wavefront, but from users and even from Apple itself, as in keynote after keynote Apple CEO Steve Jobs praised Maya as nothing less than the greatest application of technology since Moses used his 0 MHz PowerStaff™ 1300 to part the Red Sea.

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Take a Shortcut
Getting around Adobe InDesign the quick way!
by Deke McClelland

There's one sure way to tell if someone is a "power user" of any application: whether or not they make use of keyboard shortcuts. In this clip from "Total InDesign," Deke McClelland demonstrates how InDesign gives you the ability to edit the built-in keyboard shortcuts. He begins by pointing out the fact that the "Edit Shortcuts" command under InDesign's Edit menu is lacking a keyboard shortcut itself.

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Find Balance, Grasshopper
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When I was little (and, admittedly, even today), I always looked forward to New Shoe Day!, a day so great, it must be capitalized and end with an exclamation point, even in the middle of a sentence. Picking out just the right shoe; the feel of the Brannock device against your sock-clad foot (yes, that metal thing they use to measure your shoe size does have a name); the agony of those rare times when they didn't have the right size; the ecstasy as you wore your spankin' new shoes out of the store, old ones already forgotten in the box under your mom's arm. There was nothing in the world like New Shoe Day!