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enabling WordPress multisite

Posted on: by leslie

WordPress has a way to create multiple blogs and sites from one installation, it’s called multisite. It allows you to create a network of WordPress sites that can share themes, plugins, and widgets. You can create the new blogs and sites as either subdirectories or subdomains.

In the first video, I’ll walk you through how to enable WordPress multisite. In the second video, I’ll do a quick overview of creating new sites/blogs once multisite is up and running.

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Enabling WordPress multisite, part I
Enabling WordPress multisite

Enabling WordPress multisite, part II
Enabling WordPress multisite

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picture-in-picture, or how I learned to love garbage mattes

Posted on: by leslie

If you work with Photoshop or even Flash, you may have worked with masks. Masks, or mattes as they’re referred to in Final Cut Pro/Express, are a way of hiding or showing parts of an image, or in the case of FCP/E, video.

Sometimes, this effect is called picture-in-picture, but whatever you call it, to accomplish it, you’re going to need to use a matte/mask of some kind. In this video, I’ll walk you through how to use an 8-point garbage matte. This technique will work in both Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. Even though I don’t specifically cover it in this video, Premiere Pro also has garbage mattes to accomplish the same task.

Sites/resources mentioned in the video:
Tom Henderson’s 50 Point Bezier Matte plugin – Works with Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express
hitRECord.org – Coming to Seattle August 23, 2011!

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Garbage Mattes in Final Cut Express/Pro

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extending WordPress roles

Posted on: by leslie

WordPress has 5 built in user roles, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber. These roles usually cover most needs, but you may have a need to allow users to edit existing pages/posts and create new content, but you may want to allow a site administrator to review those pages/posts before publishing them. You can add that functionality and more using the Wonder Twin plugins Role Scoper and Revisonary.

This video will walk you through what these plugins do, and how to configure them.

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working with the Role Scoper and Revisionary plugins for WordPress

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insufficient no more

Posted on: by leslie

If you use Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro for video editing, chances are you’ve encountered the annoying and puzzling “Insufficient content for edit” error that pops up when attempting to add a transition between 2 clips in your timeline.

This video provides a solution to the problem so you can add transitions to your heart’s content. No star wipe transitions, though, that’s just cheesy.

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Final Cut Express/Pro Transitions

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