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...Before Emmy won the title of Miss Massachusetts in 1998, she had a childhood of modeling for television and print. An avid performer, Emmy auditioned for a childrenis modeling and talent agency after soloing in a church choir. After turning down her first offer, Emmy began to climb through the ranks of modeling. iI was offered a contract, but Mom and Dad said no. I think the phrase echild modeli conjured up some scary images for them, and they were very against my having a Jon Benet Ramsey kind of life.i...
...with iMovie--film-editing software so intuitive that it doesn't have a manual, or need one. Learn to crop, clip and swap scenes with the tutorial, plug in the camera and bingo--you're in postproduction. Other editing suites include Adobe Premiere ($895) and top-of-the-line Avid Express...
...advanced graphics card that slides inside your PC (you need a Windows machine with a Pentium II 233-MHz or faster processor) and an external hub that takes analog video from myriad sources (VCR, cable TV, camcorder) and puts it on your computer screen. The accompanying software, called Avid Cinema, provides the easy-step editing tools. The quality of the new video you create is only as good as the original source, however, so you won't be able to touch up that grainy Christmas '87 segment...
Then there's the Avid Room, where producers use high-tech digitized footage...
...Though avid fans with cash to spare will want to spring for the full set, others interested in hearing a major artist at the peak of his powers should stand by for the release of individual volumes, starting next year. The bulk of The Rubinstein Collection is given over to later performances that too often are cautious, occasionally even bland. But the first 11 discs, recorded in the '20s and '30s and exquisitely remastered by Ward Marston, sizzle with the devil-may-care brio that made Rubinstein the best-loved pianist of his generation...