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	Business & Marketing Heavy Iron How can a creative business survive, much less prosper, these days? DigitalFilm Tree's Zed Saeed offers a possible solution that combines embracing new, disruptive, low-cost technologies, and investing wisely to add value. Editorial, Business Author: Zed Saeed

	Apple OS X James Diefenderfer reviews: Learning Mac OS X from lynda.com James Diefenderfer takes a look at ''Learning Mac OS X'' -- a CD-ROM presented by Joel Berkovitz and published by lynda.com. Review Author: James Diefenderfer

	Live & Stage Events Flypacking for the Dalai Lama Need a single, portable production package for image magnification, broadcast and webcast - all at the same time? Don't panic. Let Todd Gillespie's experience help lead you to inner peace. Editorial Author: Todd Gillespie

	Broadcast Video Bessie's New Tool Round-up There are a lot of new products designed with your heavy lifting needs in mind. Here are a few that have recently managed to catch our eyes. Review Author: Cowdog

	Apple Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro HD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide CreativeCOW contributing editor David Bogie reviews Final Cut Pro HD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide, written by Lisa Brenneis, published by Peachpit Press, 792 pages, July 6, 2004, ISBN: 0321269187, and entices us to read why he would say..."When I was asked to review this book I thought it would be easy: find the good stuff, point out and whine about the bad stuff, and self-righteously nit pick the typos. No can do. Turns out I've got issues." Review Author: David Bogie

	Apple OS X Apple BootCamp: Windows On the Mac In this OS X review from The Creative COW Magazine, Ron Lindeboom discusses Apple BootCamp and what it brings that older versions did not. While Rosetta wasn't enough to make us jump to an Intel Mac, here's a few reasons why Boot Camp looks a lot more promising... Review Author: Ron Lindeboom

	Apple Final Cut Pro Using Automator for repetitive tasks in Final Cut Pro Apple Automator is a tiny application included with Mac OS X with big power, quickly and easily creating custom workflows based on the work you actually do - no programming required. Its the perfect way to handle those pesky repetitive tasks in FCP. Do something once, then let Automator take it from there. This handy little tool can make the difference between keeping and losing your sanity -- and making or missing your deadline. Tutorial, Feature Author: Dustin Lau

	Apple Final Cut Pro Upgrade your FCP Machine to Leopard...Safely! You know you want to install OS X Leopard as soon as you can. For your production machine, though, you probably also know that you should wait. You also know that you're probably going to do it anyway. Whether you do it at the right or wrong time, there's a right way to do it. Creative COW Leader Shane Ross tells you how. Editorial, Feature Author: Shane Ross

	Apple OS X Migrating to the PowerMac G5 and OSX Panther In this article, Ned Soltz walks us through the steps needed to migrate to the PowerMac G5 and OSX Panther. This is one man's "how to" on configuring your G5, plus how to get everything off your G4 and move it safely onto your G5 with out accelerating your heart rate. This is part 1 in Ned Soltz's series of installing new hardware and software. Tutorial Author: Ned Soltz

	DVD Authoring Blu-ray Today and Beyond Feel like Blu-ray's getting the better of you? Here are some of the tools that pro authors are using today, some that are coming soon - and at least one that might not be coming at all. Editorial Author: Eric Pautsch

	Adobe After Effects Using After Effects 7 on Intel MacPro Computers Creative Cow member Graham Jones was the very first guy we have found who came up with a successful way that works for most users who want to use After Effects 7 on the new Intel-based MacPro computers. While it is not guaranteed to work for everyone, if you have been wanting to use AE7 on a MacPro, Graham gives you his recipe. Tutorial Author: Graham Jones

	Windows Hardware & Software Navigating networked folders with Logitech Logitech's ''elite'' keyboard has some very cool features that are handy, especially for those users who have to navigate often through their Intranet and Internet, and it works for both the PC and the Mac! In this article, John David Hutton briefly runs through his favorite features. Review Author: John David Hutton

	Apple OS X David Chandler-Gick reviews 'Macintosh... The Naked Truth' by Scott Kelby David Chandler-Gick takes a look at Scott Kelby's title: 'Macintosh... The Naked Truth' published by New Riders. Review Author: David Chandler-Gick

	Apple OS X Life with Portables: Is It IN or Zen Reg Harris, longtime contributor and co-founder of the WWUG, looks at the Get them a reason to buy two strategy by Apple when it comes to their new Titanium G4 PowerBook and G3/500 iBook portables. In addition, Reg explores some of his own ups and downs in the world of multi-systems use in managing his own video production and media business, his career as a surgeon and his home life as a husband and father who has learned that some: ...very scary stuff lurks in Sprite -- proven when his son decided to give his PowerBook 3200 a drink... Editorial Author: Reg Harris

	Windows Hardware & Software Arrays, RAID Drives & Striping: How They Work In a very basic look at issues like ''What Is an Array'', ''What is RAID'', and ''What Is Striping'' -- Creative Cow's Ron Lindeboom explores the issues that make digital video possible on personal computers. He examines the fundamentals and gives newer users the kinds of basics that they need to know to successfully configure their video drive solution. Tutorial Author: Ron Lindeboom

	Creative COW Magazine feedback 21st Century Cinema: An indie look at Digital Cinema You may have heard that digital cinema is coming, and that it will be big. Both are true, and Creative Cow leader Russell Lasson is one of the people making it happen. Here is a look at how digital cinema works, and how one indie company is building their business around it. Also, a closer look at professional-strength Windows on Mac workflows. Feature Author: Russell Lasson

	Apple OS X Apple Opens Mall Of America Store As I left work late Friday night, a co-worker said I was crazy for driving 250 miles to Minneapolis overnight. Yup. Crazy about Macs. Feature Author: Jon Okerstrom

	Nuke Nuke - An Introduction for After Effects Users Nuke, the new compositing tool from The Foundry, is rapidly becoming a favorite in high-end film production. Its price also offers an easy entry for indie producers who want to create better work, faster and more powerfully. This guided tour of Nuke for AE users, along with tips for leveraging your AE experience in the brave Nuke world of VFX creation will help you discover Nuke. Review, Tutorial Author: Pete O'Connell

	Apple Final Cut Pro Digital Heaven Loader In this article, CreativeCOW leader Brendan Coots takes a look at Loader from Digital Heaven. Brendan admits that he even tried to break the app or expose any problems and failed at his effort. Brendan concludes with ...Loader is a solid, simple and thoughtful little app that I will definitely be putting it to use on my own projects. Review Author: Brendan Coots

	Creative COW Magazine feedback One Team. Three Network Shows. Every Week. Creative Cow Contributing Editor Zed Saeed has helped create pioneering Final Cut Pro workflows for major feature films and episodic TV production. This year, he and the team at DigitalFilm Tree faced their biggest challenge yet: posting 3 major shows, for 3 different networks, every week -- with the same small team that used to do just one. How do they do it? World-class workflow management. Feature Author: Zed Saeed

	Apple Final Cut Pro Fast Flowing Montages for FCP & Motion Alongside such compositing projects as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Roger Bolton designs "CoreMelt Visual Effects" for Final Cut Pro and Motion. They take advantage of Apple's core video technology for amazing high-quality, real-time performance. This tutorial shows you how to harness that power to solve an age-old problem: how to quickly and creatively create image montages. Best of all, you'll find links to free effects filters, exclusively available to Cow readers! Tutorial, Feature Author: Roger Bolton

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