Informatyka
Lance Phillips, Stefania Marangoni
Micro content dominates social media marketing, but subpar editing and low-quality videos can shrink your audience. Elevate your social media game with DaVinci Resolve - the world’s most trusted name in color grading that has been used to grade Hollywood films, TV shows, and commercials. Version 18 enables you to edit, compose VFX, mix sound, and deliver videos for different platforms, including social media and the web.You’ll learn the basics of using DaVinci Resolve 18 to create video content, by first gaining an overview of creating a complete short video for social media distribution directly from within the “Cut” page. You’ll discover advanced editing, VFX composition, color grading, and sound editing techniques to enhance your content and fix common video content issues that occur while using consumer cameras or mobile phones.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to use DaVinci Resolve to edit, fix, finish, and publish short-form video content directly to social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Vimeo.
Lance Phillips, Nigel G Honey
Micro-content drives today’s social media and business marketing, but poor editing and low-quality video can quickly turn viewers away. DaVinci Resolve helps you elevate your content using professional-grade technology trusted in Hollywood films, TV shows, and commercials.In this practical, beginner-friendly guide, Lance Phillips, a Blackmagic Design Certified Training Partner with over 30 years of teaching and industry experience, shows you how to create polished video content for social media, business, and the web using DaVinci Resolve. Selected sections of the book are presented in color to clearly illustrate visual workflows and key editing concepts. While the book is written using DaVinci Resolve 20, most workflows, techniques, and concepts apply to DaVinci Resolve 18 and later versions.You’ll learn how to create complete short-form videos using the Cut page, apply efficient editing techniques such as split edits, syncing externally recorded audio, and recording voiceovers directly into your project. You’ll also explore essential sound editing workflows and simple yet powerful visual effects, including green screen, split screen, and picture-in-picture.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently edit, finish, and publish short-form videos to platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Vimeo.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Hussin Khan, HaZ Dulull
Virtual Filmmaking with Unreal Engine 5 is the first Unreal Engine book to guide you through the complete process of virtual film production. Encompassing the full spectrum of filmmaking, this book demonstrates the use of an industry-standard tool used by studios such as Disney, ILM, DNEG, and Framestore.Walking through the process systematically, you’ll collect references and create a simple storyboard to plan your shots. You'll create virtual environments, import 3D models and add materials and textures to build photorealistic, dynamic worlds. You'll also create actors using highly customizable MetaHumans, understand how to import, re-target, and animate them. You’ll bring it all together with cinematic lighting and camera animation before exporting your film.By the end of this book, you’ll have discovered new tools for your toolkit to work on your virtual film projects in Unreal Engine 5, leveraging Quixel Megascans, Lumen, Nanite, and MetaHuman technology.
Alfonso V. Romero, Alfonso Vidal Romero
The furore around virtualization is taking the technology world by storm and is a must for efficient utilization of network server capacity, storage administration, energy, and capital. VirtualBox is free and this brings down your upfront costs for an agile data center. VirtualBox will transform your IT infrastructure into a lean Data Center on a Windows XP/7 or Ubuntu Linux platform. Although VirtualBox has grown by leaps and bounds, there is not enough documentation to guide you through its features and implementation.This hands-on guide gives you a thorough introduction to this award-winning virtualization product. It will help you to implement the right virtual environment for you. Additionally, this book will help you set up an environment that will work for your system. You will learn to architect and deploy your first virtual machine without being overwhelmed by technical details.This practical book unveils the robust capabilities and easy-to-use graphical interface of VirtualBox to help you to effectively administer and use virtual machines in a home/office environment. You begin by creating your first virtual machine on a Windows/Linux guest operating system and installing guest additions. The book then goes on to discuss the various formats that VirtualBox supports and how it interacts with other formats. The comprehensive instructions will help you to work with all the networking modes offered by VirtualBox. Virtual appliances will be explained in detail—how they help to reduce installation time for virtual machines and run them from VirtualBox.By the end of this book you will be able to run your own headless VirtualBox server, to create, manage, and run virtual machines in that server from a remote PC.
VirtualBox w praktyce. Poznaj pełnię możliwości wirtualizacji na swoim komputerze
Daniel Sternik
Wirtualizuj! Pracuj efektywnie na wielu systemach operacyjnych Wirtualizacja umożliwia równoczesne uruchomienie różnych systemów operacyjnych na jednym sprzęcie. Dzięki temu można lepiej wykorzystać dostępną moc obliczeniową i zasoby. Oczywiście, by móc czerpać z dobrodziejstw wirtualizacji, potrzeba odpowiednich narzędzi. Jednym z najpopularniejszych programów wspierających wirtualizację jest VirtualBox. Aby łatwiej zarządzać wirtualnymi maszynami, skuteczniej monitorować ich wydajność, sprawnie je konserwować, warto nauczyć się używać właśnie tego narzędzia. Najszybciej zrobisz to z naszym poradnikiem. Dowiesz się z niego między innymi: Czym jest wirtualizacja Na jakiej zasadzie funkcjonuje VirtualBox Jak działają maszyny wirtualne, dyski wirtualne i sieci Jak efektywniej obsługiwać środowisko wirtualne W jaki sposób zautomatyzować tworzenie maszyn
Visual Basic .NET w praktyce. Błyskawiczne tworzenie aplikacji
Jacek Matulewski
Wykorzystaj potęgę technologii Windows! Visual Basic to język programowania o bardzo długiej tradycji. Kiedy kilka lat temu przeniesiono go na platformę .NET, zyskał nowe możliwości rozwoju. Dziś chętnie używają go osoby, które potrzebują wygodnego narzędzia, pozwalającego szybko stworzyć aplikację do prezentacji i analizy konkretnych danych. Jasna, niezbyt skomplikowana składnia, doskonała biblioteka gotowych kontrolek i bezkolizyjna współpraca z bazą danych to najważniejsze atuty VB.NET. Jeśli jesteś początkującym użytkownikiem Visual Basic na platformie .NET, trafiłeś w dziesiątkę. Tu znajdziesz podstawy języka oraz wszystkie funkcje potrzebne do swobodnego projektowania aplikacji — bez nadmiernego wchodzenia w szczegóły. Zorientujesz się, jak działa środowisko Visual Studio i jak za pomocą jego narzędzi tworzyć aplikacje VB.NET. Dowiesz się więcej o debugowaniu kodu, programowaniu zorientowanym obiektowo i używaniu kontrolek, zarówno tych z biblioteki Windows Forms, jak i zaprojektowanych osobiście. Odkryjesz, jak można połączyć aplikację z bazą danych i jak wykorzystać technologie systemu Windows. To wszystko, czego Ci trzeba! Środowisko Visual Studio i język Visual Basic Przegląd komponentów biblioteki Windows Forms Projektowanie zorientowane obiektowo i projektowanie kontrolek Zarządzane biblioteki DLL i mechanizm rozpoznawania typów Aplikacje konsolowe i informacje o systemie Wątki, równoległa pętla Parallel.For oraz programowanie asynchroniczne (Async/Await) Podstawy ADO.NET i SQL Server Wprowadzenie do zapytań LINQ na przykładzie kolekcji (LINQ to Objects) LINQ to DataSet i LINQ to SQL Odczytywanie i zapisywanie danych w plikach XML Rejestr systemu Windows, mechanizm PInvoke i komunikaty Windows Wypróbuj Visual Basic i twórz dynamiczne rozwiązania!
Aspen Olmsted
Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an experienced developer looking to learn the Visual Basic language, this book takes a hands-on approach to guide you through the process. From the very first chapters, you'll delve into writing programs, exploring core concepts such as data types, decision branching, and iteration. Additionally, you’ll get to grips with working with data structures, file I/O, and essential object-oriented principles like inheritance and polymorphism.This book goes beyond the basics to equip you with the skills to read and write code across the entire VB family, spanning VB Script, VBA, VB Classic, and VB.NET, enabling you to handle legacy code maintenance with ease.With clear explanations, practical examples, and hands-on exercises, this book empowers you to tackle real-world software development tasks, whether you're enhancing existing projects or embarking on new ones. It addresses common challenges like distinguishing between the variations of the VB programming language to help you choose the right one for your projects.Don't let VB's extensive legacy daunt you; embrace it with this comprehensive guide that equips you with practical, up-to-date coding skills to overcome the challenges presented by Visual Basic's rich history of over two decades.
George Siogkas
Whether you want to enhance your holiday photographs or make a professional banner image for your website, you need a software tool that offers you quick and easy ways to accomplish it. All-in-one tools tend to be rare, and Matlab is one of the best available.This book is a practical guide full of step-by-step examples and exercises that will enable you to use Matlab as a powerful, complete, and versatile alternative to traditional image and video processing software.You will start off by learning the very basics of grayscale image manipulation in Matlab to master how to analyze 3-dimensional images and videos using the same tool. The methods you learn here are explained and expanded upon so that you gradually reach a more advanced level in Matlab image and video processing.You will be guided through the steps of opening, transforming, and saving images, later to be mixed with advanced masking techniques both in grayscale and in color. More advanced examples of artistic image processing are also provided, like creating panoramic photographs or HDR images. The second part of the book covers video processing techniques and guides you through the processes of creating time-lapse videos from still images, and acquiring, filtering, and saving videos in Matlab.You will learn how to use many useful functions and tools that transform Matlab from a scientific software to a powerful and complete solution for your everyday image and video processing needs.