The lighting model is creepy. I won't guarantee you won't have nightmares about him after working with him for a while. But it's very (very!) educational to see how different light placements affect your portrait, without the hassle of seating someone in a studio for a couple of hours while you put lights into place.

  http://www.zvork.fr/vls

You've seen a YouTube video and you want to share it, but only a specific part of the video that happens way into the middle of the video. How do you send the link, or better yet, how do you embed that video so that the viewer can skip to the good part?

You could tell them to "scrub forward to 1m45s" but that's not very elegant. Instead you can use this URL parameter: t=1m45s

For example in this video:…

Component vs. SVideo vs. Composite vs. RF. Not to mention HDMI and DVI. If you're confused about which is which, and which is better, have a look at this...

http://lyberty.com/encyc/articles/svideo.html

Creative Titles in FCP

This video from theDVshow is a couple years old, but demos some simple tricks to improve you titles with color gradient, and the shortest path to snatch a logo and key it into your titles.-- fun for Red Sox fans anyway.

"The Knight Digital Media Center offers workshops to mid-career journalists to enhance their expertise and multimedia skills..."

That's what the "About Us" page says about this great website. They are housed at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and in addition to live tutorials and videos from journalism industry experts,…