Since January, we’ve traveled through six of southern Italy’s most beautiful regions, including Puglia, Calabria, Sicily, Molise, Basilicata and Campania, all via some of the most beautiful photos on Flickr. Today the Southern Italy Snapshot series continues with Abruzzo.
Abruzzo is the closest southern Italian region to the Eternal City and makes an easy day or weekend trip from the nation’s capital. Abruzzo is particularly celebrated for its national and regional parks that cover roughly 2/3 of the region. The four provinces are Chieti, L’Aquila, Pescara and Teramo and its nicest cities include Pescasseroli, Sulmona and Castelli.
Castel del Monte in the Province of L’Aquila
Obi in the National Park of Abruzzo
Scanno in the Province of L’Aquila
Sulmona in the Province of L’Aquila
Chieti
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Photos: Thumbnail, Il Capoluogo; other photos Gigi62, kinitta, Gigi62, Qbic and toprural all via Flickr.
iMovie app: creating fade in and fade Out.(CREATE)(Brief article)
Macworld February 1, 2011 | Carlson, Jeff A common video-editing technique is to start or end a movie with a fade, in which a totally black screen fades into the first clip, or the last clip fades into black or white. In the desktop version of iMovie, you do this by adding a Cross Dissolve transition to the start or end of a project, but iMovie’s iPhone 4 app lets you set transitions only between clips. Here’s a workaround. in our site iphone 4 apps
1. Cover the iPhone’s lens with something solid to prevent light from leaking into the sensor, and record a five-second clip of black or white footage. Don’t worry about the audio. this web site iphone 4 apps
2. Import the clip and place it where you want the fade to occur.
3. Trim the clip to a short duration, depending on how much empty screen you want to appear before the transition begins.
4. Double-tap the clip to bring up the Clip Settings dialog box, switch the Audio option to Off, and tap Done.
5. Double-tap the transition that appears next to the clip and, in the Transition Settings dialog box, make sure Cross Dissolve is selected and specify a duration (between 0.5 seconds and 2.0 seconds).
6. Tap the Done button and play the movie to view your fade.
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