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Lightroom Media Solutions Windows

How To Install Lightroom Presets

How To Install Lightroom Presets (1)

There are multiple ways to install Lightroom Presets.  Here we will go through the steps Involved.  There are 2 ways to install presets on your Lightroom.  They are:

  1. Moving Files into Lightroom Presets Folder
  2. Importing Presets in Lightroom Directly

Both these methods are easy and can be done with minimum effort.

How To Install Lightroom Presets via Moving Files into Lightroom Presets Folder

Common Steps:

  1. Download and Extract the Presets of your choice.
  2. Keep the folder containing the Presets open and ready to Copy.

How to Install Lightroom Presets in Lightroom 4, 5, 6, CC & Classic CC for Windows

  1. Open Lightroom
  2. In the Main Menu Go to: Edit > Preferences
    Windows Open Lightroom Preferences
  3. Click on the Button – Show Lightroom Presets Folder
    Windows Goto Presets Tab in Lightroom Preferences
  4. Double click on Lightroom
  5. Double click on Develop Presets
  6. Copy the folder(s) of your presets into the Develop Presets folder
  7. Restart Lightroom
  8. In the Develop Tab you will see all the recognized Presets listed in the Presets Section
    Presets Section in Lightroom Develop

How to Install Lightroom Presets in Lightroom 4, 5, 6, CC & Classic CC for Mac

  1. Open Lightroom
  2. In the Main Menu Go to – Lightroom (Drop down Menu) > Preferences (See below picture)
    MAC Open Lightroom Preferences
  3. Click on the Button titled – Show Lightroom Presets Folder
    MAC Goto Presets Tab in Lightroom Preferences
  4. Navigate to – Lightroom > Develop Presets
    Mac Navigate to LightRoom Presets Folder
  5. Copy the folder(s) of your presets into Develop Presets folder
  6. Restart Lightroom
  7. In the Develop Tab you will see all the recognized Presets listed in the Presets Section
    Presets Section in Lightroom Develop

How To Install Lightroom Presets by Importing Presets in Lightroom Directly

Common Steps:

  1. Download and Extract the Presets of your choice.
  2. Keep the folder containing the Presets open and ready to Copy.

How to Install Lightroom Presets in Lightroom 4, 5, 6, CC & Classic CC for Windows

  1. Open Lightroom
  2. Navigate to the Develop Tab
  3. Create a new folder inside of Lightroom. You can do this by either:
    1. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + N
    2. Click on Develop in the Main Menu and select New Preset Folder
    3. Right-click in the Preset Section and Select New Folder
  4. Import presets into new folder by right clicking on your folder name and selecting Import
  5. Locate the unzipped folder that you extracted from the zip file earlier and select all of your presets for that folder and click Import

How to Install Lightroom Presets in Lightroom 4, 5, 6, CC & Classic CC for MAC

  1. Open Lightroom
  2. Navigate to the Develop Tab
  3. Create a new folder inside of Lightroom. You can do this by either:
    1. Pressing Command + Option + N
    2. Click on Develop in the Main Menu and select New Preset Folder

    3. Right-click in the Preset Section and Select New Folder
  4. Import presets into new folder by right clicking on your folder name and selecting Import
  5. Locate the unzipped folder that you extracted from the zip file earlier and select all of your presets for that folder and click Import

 

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Media Open Source

Adding WaterMarks to Videos in KdenLive


A range of video effects in Kdenlive
Image via Wikipedia

Kdenlive is a wonderful opensource program for video editing that I have off late become a huge fan of. The software is little tough to initially understand but once you get used to it, its very easy to make pleasing videos on it.



One of the recent problems I faced in Kdenlive was to add a watermark to a video I had created. One of the ways to create a watermark on a kdenlive project is as follows:

  1. Create the base project and save your project
  2. Now create a new project with same project settings – fps, resolution etc.
  3. Select «Add Clip» and select the first project you created
  4. Now create a title slide with the information that you will use to watermark.
  5. Now using the Composite transition place the title slide over the first project. You can use the opacity control to control the transperacy of your water mark
  6. Render you video.
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Linux Media Open Source

Managing Collections with Tellico

Tellico
Image by *Luana* via Flickr

Tellico is a versatile collection manager for Linux. The KDE based application is designed to handle almost any type of perceivable collection and convert it to a easily manageable solution. If you have a huge collection of movies, music, books, comics ect and regularly lend them out, Tellico is the perfect program to keep track of your collections.

Tellico has pre-designed support for collections of: Books, Comics, Movies, Music, Coins, Stamps, Board Games, Wines. Cards and Games. The databases are designed to make data entry and search both relevant and easy.

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Media Solutions Ubuntu

Joining Videos using Mencoder

Mencoder is an extremely powerful video converter that is capable of converting video from almost any format to any other format.  One of the simplest exercises to do with Mencoder involves joining two videos to make a single video.

To join the videos all you need are the videos and Mencoder installed on your system.  You can install Mencoder on your Ubuntu box using the command

sudo apt-get install mencoder

Now lets say you plan to join videos a.mpg and b.mpg to a video c.mpg

Go to the command line (to the folder containing the videos) and execute the command –

mencoder a.mpg b.mpg -ovc copy -oac copy -o c.mpg

Thats it!  You can join more videos with a single shot but remember that the order in which you have listed the videos the final video will be created in the same order.

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Media Open Source Solutions

Mplayer without Text

I upgraded my desktop to Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 yesterday and realized an unique problem. There was no text displayed in the OSD(On Screen Display).

Mplayer without Text

If you open the file in command prompt mode you will see the following message:

subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

The reason for was basically that Mplayer could not find the required font file to display the text. To solve the problem you need to open the .mplayer directory in your home directory. And do one of the two following things:

  1. Copy any font file of your choice to that directory and rename it subfont.ttf (You will find fonts at /usr/share/fonts)
  2. Open the config file in the .mplayer directory and add the following lines:
    font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman.ttf
    subfont-text-scale=2.5

Ps: You can replace the link to your favourite font after the font= command.  Also using Method 2 will let you even set the size of the font

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