How to Create an Awesome Demo Video in Keynote
Professional animation software like After Effects, Flash, or Maya is expensive and too complex to learn. I know because many of my previous students struggled learning how to animate in After Effects. Well, It turns out that you can do about 90% the same with just Keynote! Don’t believe it? I actually went ahead and [Read More...]
25 Basic Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
These 25 Mac keyboard shortcuts will help you do things faster and make you look geekier! ⌘C = Copy (1:32) ⌘V = Paste (2:40) ⌘X = Cut (3:08) ⌘A = Select all (3:34) ⌘Z = Undo (4:05) ⌘⇧Z = Redo (4:49) ⌘Tab = Switch programs (5:15) ⌘` = Next window in current program (5:43) ⌘W [Read More...]
How to write your own explainer demo video
The following is a guest post by Dan Nelken. Dan is a creative director and writer at Grumo Media with over 10 years of experience working for some of the largest advertising agencies in Canada. You can follow him on Twitter at @dannelken. Occasionally, we have clients who come to us with their own scripts. [Read More...]
How to Hire an Awesome Freelance Animator
Now that you have a great demo video script ready you have 3 options to bring it to live. From cheapest and most difficult to most expensive and more convenient your options are: 1 – Learn to animate it yourself 2 – Hire a freelance animator. 3 – Hire an animation studio. Assuming you have [Read More...]
The Art of Feedback by Grumo
If creative freedom is heaven to the artist, feedback is the closest thing to hell on earth. The name of the game in this business is knowing how to deal with our worst enemy, feedback. The only way to survive a long and happy career as a creative doing commissioned work is by learning to [Read More...]
Encoding video for web the Grumo Way
Once your master piece demo video is completed you’ll face a myriad of encoding options to choose from. Our Grumo advice is to always keep a high-quality backup and render your final version at the maximum quality possible using a codec like DVCPRO-HD, Apple Pro-Res, or H.264 at a high bit rate of 5000kbps or [Read More...]
How to Find The Best Deals on Craigslist… Automatically!
You can literally save thousands of dollars if you buy stuff on Craigslist. The main problem is how time consuming the search can get when you are looking for that particular gadget, furniture, job offer, used car, etc. I remember looking for a “Jonas” Ikea Desk and spending days checking every couple of hours to [Read More...]
Great Keynote demo video sample by LabZip (FREE source files included)
Here is another great Keynote demo video produced by Spencer Forman for a special holiday promotion for LabZip. Stick after the video for an in depth explanation of how this video was put together in just 2 days! So what is the story behind this explanatory video? How long did it take to put together? [Read More...]
How to Date 20 Wonderful Women in 60 Days – A Quick Guide to Online Dating Success
Back in 2008 I was single again after a 4 and a half year relationship and was ready to start looking for a new partner. My younger sister had just become engaged with a fine gentleman she found online and she encouraged me to try my luck at the online dating game too. The timing [Read More...]
Use This Trick to Save Lots of Cash When Transferring US Dollars from PayPal to a Canadian Bank Account
If you get paid in US funds through a PayPal account and want to transfer them to you Canadian bank account you have two options: Option 1: Transfer your US funds to a regular bank account in Canadian dollars: PayPal will take an outrageous 2.5% commission on the exchange rate. For small amounts it not [Read More...]
How to Create an Awesome WordPress Site in Just 4 hours
Ok, so want to promote your business online but first you need to get a nice looking website up and running. Problem is that you have no clue even where to start and no money to hire one of those web designer gurus to do it for you for a zillion dollars. Luckily there is [Read More...]
How to Work from Home the “Hollywood Way”
Until now your TV and a couch where only used for entertainment; to watch TV shows, movies, news, or to play some “hoochie moochie” with your honey, ahem.. But since the advent of high resolution LCD screens, you can finally mix business and pleasure like never before! Having fun and working? are you kidding? You [Read More...]
How to Zoom, Pan, and Show key strokes in ScreenFlow
In this Grumo Tut, Miguel Hernandez teaches how to zoom, pan, and show key strokes in ScreenFlow. Doing so it’s so simple you have to see it to believe it! but it sure took a while to figure out how to do it.. hehe. Produced by http://grumomedia.com
How to create a great product demo video using Keynote
So need you a video to promote your startup but don’t have enough budget hire a studio to produce a custom demo video. No problem, here is how you can use Keynote to create a great looking demo video and save thousands of dollars. Other than your time and the cost of the software (less [Read More...]
Why the Windows 8 demo video is a low-budget YouTube success
Microsoft just released a demo video for the long awaited Windows 8 OS. I think the video is very simple, low budget, but effective. Also It is very surprising that a multi-billion corporation would not spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a video for such an important product. However, seeing that it already has [Read More...]
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