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So, your amazing movie is nearly finished, and naturally it will win lots of plaudits for excellence, and maybe even awards. But one thing remains; because you’re a decent guy/gal and a class act, you need to give credit to all of the talented people and resources that helped your movie come together. Cue scrolling credits! We’ll show you exactly how to create cool scrolling credits using HitFilm Express software.
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Are you ever confused by what people mean when they refer to something as an oxymoron? You’re not alone, and it’s also not uncommon for people to use the term incorrectly, referring to something as an oxymoron when it really isn’t. In this quick article, we’ll explain exactly what an oxymoron is and provide some examples too. So, read on and be confused no longer – you’ll soon be an oxymoron expert!
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If your Microsoft Windows screen has mysteriously turned upside down, or skipped from its natural landscape mode into portrait mode, then read on. It’s easily resolved. Or, if you want to have some gentle fun, and invert someone else’s screen, then carry on reading. We’d only ask that you don’t do this on any critical systems, and that you promptly re-instate screens to their original style in a timely manner.
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It sometimes seems as if the proper use of English language has fallen by the wayside, given how certain phrases and words are so commonly used in error. However, all is not lost, and every now and then we spare a moment to elaborate on one or two such errors, hoping to steer the good ship Grammar back on the right course again.
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So, which of these phrases is spelled correctly? Is it “Look at the people over there.”, or is it “Look at the people over their.”? If you chose the first way then you’re correct. If you chose the second way, then maybe this video will help you avoid similar errors in the future.
Continue reading »Given the Internet’s fond dismissal of grammatical norms and conventional rules, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that correct spelling and rules of grammar appear so easily discarded these days, but spelling and grammar do still matter. To that end, allow me to comment on “losing” vs “loosing”, “lose” vs “loose”, and “loser” vs “looser”.
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Is it squashed or quashed? Oh, for a dollar every time somebody gets this wrong. From your everyday average-Joe, to news columnists and even a few fully-fledged journalists – who really should know better – time after time you’ll hear or read people getting this wrong.
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So, how to safely download music from YouTube to your local computer and to save it as MP3 is an eternal question for many people. Of course, a simple truth is that if YouTube wanted you to be able to do that then they would just provide a nice little button for you to click on, to make life easy for you.
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If you want your fabulous movie to be winning awards then you know you’re going to have to at least give a nod to all the people that made it possible, even if that’s only yourself! So, cue scrolling credits! In HitFilm, you’ll find them referred to as End Credits Crawl, which is the name of the HitFilm effect which you’ll be working with.
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Creating Screenshots in Windows. For everyone who already knows how to do this, they’ll know that it’s really pretty simple, but if nobody has ever explained to you how to do it, or if you’re just not very technically-minded, then it’s not necessarily the most obvious thing in the world. Here we’ll explain, step-by-step, using both text and video, how you can easily grab screenshots (or screen capture as it’s often called). There’s nothing to download; everything you need is already on your Windows computer.
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