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Casablanca Foolproof Vol 1: Smart Edit 8/Bogart 2

In this 3-DVD set, Casablanca expert Chet Davis walks you through the entire Casablanca Operating System, pointing out not only the new features in Smart Edit 8/Bogart 2, but also tips for both the new user and veteran alike. View this DVD near your editor to maximize all the options in the new Operating System. Chets familiarity with the software coupled with his expert teaching style make this tutorial a valuable resource for the full time video professional and the video hobbyist alike.

Casablanca Foolproof: Vol 2

DVD Arabesk 4 Intensive

Join Casablanca Expert Chet as he teaches

you to use the full creatively powerful options in

DVD Arabesk 4. You'll learn how to create Chapter menus with motion stamps and interactive options, and Chet will teach you all about the additional options in the Main Menu as well as the additional settings in Arabesk 4.

Chet now has two new online services. First is the Casablanca Expert Blog which can be found HERE. Chet will share video editing news and discuss ideas that he has gleaned from other Casablanca users.

His second venture is another Blog, this time discussing and helping to introduce new technology in general. Chet’s inimitable style makes it all sound so simple ;o)
Find it HERE

Casablanca Foolproof Vol 3 Understanding Media Manager

You'll learn all about the new feature rich and potentially confusing menu in the Media Manager with the Casblanca Expert. Even long-time Casablanca users find this powerful new tool confusing as there are new menu structures and lots of options.

You have two options on the DVD: First, Chet walks you through the menus in a sequential fashion covering the options as they appear.

Secondly, Chet takes you through some specific operations to help you learn the process you need to know - when you need to know it.

The DVD menu allows you to access the content as you see fit.

What’s new in Bog 3/SE9 free bonus disc !

Casablanca Foolproof Vol 6 TitleStudio

In the new Casablanca Foolproof Volume 6: Title Studio Intensive, Chet Davis guides you through the capabilities of the Casablanca Title Studio software.

This new title engine provides a range of functions and features that Casablanca customers have been wanting in their title creation capabilities including the ability to customize your own fonts as well as character oriented titling (you can have separate font attributes for each and every letter). In Title Studio we also now have the ability to copy & paste text!

Chapter #1: Title Studio Introduction

Chapter #2: Text Styles -
Chapter #3: Text Edit (Font Customisation)
Chapter #4: Title Effects Menu
Chapter #5: Box Options
Chapter #6: Page Option
Chapter #7: Deconstructing Titles

Casablanca Foolproof Vol 4 PhotoStudio

Chet Davis provides an intensive tutorial on the features of the Casablanca Photo Studio software

You'll learn all about the features of the Casablanca Photo Studio from the Casablanca Expert. From importing and sorting, cropping and retouching to creating collages and animating your JPEG photos - you'll learn to create your own beautiful photo-video projects. Includes both tutorial on DVD and JPEG photos on CD (so you can follow along as you learn with the Casablanca Expert.

Casablanca Foolroof Vol 7 - Candy Factory

In this brand new tutorial DVD package, Casablanca Expert Chet Davis walks you through the many settings in the powerful

Casablanca Candy Factory software.

If you have wanted to unleash the creative capabilities in the Casblanca Candy Factory software but felt a little daunted by all

the options and settings, Chet Davis' latest tutorial DVD is just what you need. With 2-hours & 10 minutes of quality instruction you will be learning all the capabilities and features of Candy Factory software (compatible with both Smart Edit & Bogart OS Casablanca editors)

Nestled within this tutorial are 6 'Quick Tips' where you learn specific effects without having to learn each of the menu settings. Also included is a separate disk with 20 scenes & masks to follow along & learn, and then practice on your own.

2 Disc set with *FREE sample CD £29.00

*Sample clips require Disk Transfer software on Series II Casablanca

Casablanca Foolproof Vol 5 Columbus 2/3

In this 2-1/2 hour tutorial video you will learn all the options and settings as you create simple and more sophisticated animated maps. You'll build a simple 2-position map, a 3 point route and an advanced multi-point map with changing head objects... you'll learn how to add and use your own maps and how to combine more than one animation route together.

While the bulk of the tutorial is produced using Columbus 2 (because Columbus 3 uses most of the same functions) there is a separate section presenting the new capabilities in Columbus 3 like the ability to add full motion video scenes to your map!

•Disk 1

•Introduction

•Columbus - basic functions/Building a Simple Animated Map

•Creating a Multi-point Animation

•Using your own Map

•Combining Multiple Map Animations

Disk 2

•Creating an Advanced Multi-point animated map

•Using the New Features in Columbus 3

•Columbus Add-on Products Explained: Flags, Objects of Interest, Travel & More (more Head &

Key Objects); Xpress Maps, Columbus Maps, and Big Maps Volumes 1-4

With a career spanning 17 years teaching video in the classroom and a further nine years with Macrosystem US, Chet Davis is no slouch when it comes to teaching anything Casablanca. Having met Chet and experienced his tutorials I can vouch for his easy method of delivery and vast knowledge. Some of you may also have seen him in action on some of the Video Manual DVD’s. By the means of modern technology we in the UK can now share his vast pool of knowledge. In conjunction with Macrosystem US, Chet will be delivering seminars by webcam or webinars as they are known.