Have
talent/interviewee bring an alternate set of
clothing.
Herringbone,
stripes, or small patterns do not look good on
camera.
Keep jewelry
simple.
Do not allow
interviewees to wear bright white. Cream,
eggshell, or light gray are
preferred.
Utilize a
make-up artist. People give a better interview
when they look good. Decision-makers favor
approval copies when their people look
professional.
Maintain eye
contact throughout the interview.
“Edit
in the Camera.” Encourage short answers
and come back to topics again. Better to focus
on good, tight answers, than trying to cobble
together six takes to make your
point.
Avoid
enumeration or the phrase “Like I said
before.” It is highly likely that you may
use step three, without steps one and two. You
also wouldn’t be asking the question
again, if you were happy with what the answer
was “before.”
Don’t
be afraid to stop and start over. Do not let an
answer ramble on. Smiles and nods encourage
subjects that they are
‘on-target.’
One of our favorite
services has to be blip.tv. This robust site
let’s you publish your video to many
outlets (including nontraditional ones like
TiVo and internet connected TVs). In fact
the company claims that its network
“reaches more than 80% of Americans on
the Internet and a growing number of
television households.”
We really like how flexible blip.tv is in that
you can choose your distribution format. You have
options to use Flash, MPEG-4, QuickTime, and
more. Their player is also highly customizable
and can be fully branded to your site or brand.
The service has both a free version and a paid
version at $8 per month. The paid version offers
priority encoding so your files are available in
multiple formats. This is a great feature as it
lets others re-syndicate your content using a
player of their choice. The control panel for the
site is very robust, and gives you complete
control over targeting specific networks and
social media sites.
While working
onmy latest Photoshop
book, I did some
research on Actions. I was looking for some
new examples of actions that push the
boundaries of what Photoshop can do. I came
across several beautiful actions created
byPanos FX.
From postcards and
filmstrips to paper and sketch effects. These
actions are great, they produce powerful results
and are flexible enough to create several looks.
The website has more than 30free actionsand the
powerful ones for sale are very affordable. Be
sure to check out their many products to build
up your Photoshop toolbox. If you did pick up
the new book, be sure to look on the DVD for
some additional free actions.
We've been using
storage systems from Drobo in our shop for quite
some time now. We've got the entire office wired
so we can share HD video projects to any
workstation. We've also been backing up files
from our HD shoots with Drobo Pros. We've been
quite happy with the arrangement and Drobo asked
us to explain our workflow.
You can check it out here –http://drobo.com/resources/vm_video-storage.php
Too few
slides
2 Too many words
3 No ‘road signs’ (where are you
going?)
4 Reliance on gimmicks (skip sound effects)
5 Ignoring design
6 Not rehearsing
7 Forgetting your audience
The Rules of Presentation
Design
Limit fonts
used
• Use a heavy font
• Avoid stock templates
• 3-7 bullets per page
• A bullet is 2-5 words
• Readability test, (stand 15 feet away
from the screen, can you read it easily)
• Design for the back of the room
• Create your own templates
• Use builds or simple animations to
bring bullets on line by line
• Justification & capitalization (be
consistent)
• Consider screen vs. print
• Use transparency
• Ease to change
• With multiple presenters, utilize a
style guide and templates
Windows Media Encoder is dead... In it's place is
the Expression Encoder 4. There's a ton of new
features, but the biggest for me is that it
finally recognizes QuickTime files. If you are on
a Mac, you'll need to run it under VMWare or
BootCamp. But it's a free application (with a
more advanced version for free). Be sure to check
it out —
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder4_Overview.aspx
"Learning how to spot problems in your images and
then choosing the right correction technique is
an essential part of mastering Photoshop. Richard
Harrington describes the most important tools and
shows you how to use them to make the best color
correction and enhancement choices.
The primary purpose of Photoshop is to act as a
digital darkroom where images can be corrected,
enhanced, and refined. How do you know an image
needs touch-up? You can pretty much assume every
image can look a little (or even a lot) better
than how the camera captured it. Whether
it’s adjusting the exposure, increasing
contrast, or boosting saturation, Photoshop is
the place to improve an image."
The OneLoad service from
TubeMogul (www.TubeMogul.com) offers both a
robust free version (which allows for 100
videos per month) and a scaled paid service
with advanced features for large publishers
(priced at $50 per month and up). The
principal benefit here is that it offers a
single point for deploying videos to the top
video and social networking sites.
You first set up accounts at any of the 30 sites
supported by TubeMogul. You then upload a video
to TubeMogul’s site and it is sent onto the
other sites. This means you need to spend a
little time setting things up, but once
you’ve published more than two videos, this
method is substantially faster. The site also
offers detailed analytics (for supported sites),
that can show real-time viewership, geographic
tracking, stream quality and more.
Looking for a good comparison of audio and video
codecs. We've found a great comparison of digital
video, audio, and graphic formats. They've also
got some great shortcut guides posted for Avid
and Final Cut Studio applications.http://worldwide-studios.com/Worldwide_Studios/Resources.html
Looks like Apple is making it easier to find
Safari extension soon. The Firefox community is
already pretty vibrant in this regard and I look
forward to more coming out for my favorite
browser.
Apple sent out an email today asking for
submission to their "Safari Extensions
Gallery".
We'll soon be launching the Safari Extensions
Gallery, a new destination that provides you with
an opportunity to increase the visibility of your
Safari extension beyond your website.The
Safari Extensions Gallery will feature selected
extensions that offer an innovative user
experience. And a one-click installation process
will allow users to seamlessly install extensions
from a developerís website without ever having to
leave the Gallery.MacRumors.com
hasearly extensionsthat
have already been
released.
After Effects supports
scripts which can automate complex tasks.
One of those scripts can actually render a
file then email you upon completion. If
you’re a tech geek, the gears in your
head are already spinning. Just think, the
leash has been cut! You are free to leave
and relax while your machine churns away.
Open up your
General Preferences and be sure that the Allow
Scripts to Write Files and Access Network box
is checked.
Add your
files to the Render Queue like
normal.
Choose File
> Run Script > render_and_email.jsx, you
will now be prompted for your email
settings.
Enter server
smtp address: such as mail.mac.com, click
OK
Enter the
reply to address: such as the email you want to
use to send the message.
If your
server required log-in (most do), click YES and
enter your ID and password. Click
OK.
Enter the
recipients email address. Click OK
An email with
the subject AE Render complete will be sent
when the queue is finished.
How cool is that?
If you have an iPhone... you can also checkout
apps likeLogMeInandiTeleportto actually view
(and control) your screen from your mobile
device. I've actually set up rendered files
and sent them viaYouSendItto clients
remotely.
This is a great
short video about the history of Comic Sans and
is told by the font's designer. It's really quite
funny and he has a great sense of humor about it
all.
BMW introduces the next
level of automotive consumer electronic device
integration by supporting Apple's new iPod Out
functionality. The new feature allows
applications on Apple devices to be controlled
and experienced with the iDrive interface
concept.
Of course my kids would
probably destroy it.... maybe they's loan me one.
Here are two quick tips to
give you more control when you need to stop
or re-render an item in After Effects.
A Better Stop
Normally when you click Stop on an item in the
render queue, it adds it to the bottom of the
list and will pick up where it left off. That may
be what you want, but often you intended to bust
the render, tweak it, and re-render. To stop a
render and re-queue it to begin at the beginning,
hold down the Option (Alt) key when clicking Stop
Render. This will avoid the pickup and add the
item to be re-rendered from the start of the
original output settings.
Need to Re-render?
For one reason or another, it
always happens, the need to re-render. Perhaps a
small tweak to a keyframe or a timing issue.
Chances are while your animation may have needed
refining, the render queue was perfect. Save
yourself some time and Re-queue that animation.
Select a
previously rendered animation.
Press Command
+ Shift + D (Control + Shift + D) to duplicate
the render item with the same settings and
output name. This will rewrite over the
previous file to the exact same
destination.
Save your
work, then click Render when ready to
output.
One of my new
favorite resource sites isdpBestflow.orgproduced by the
American Society of Media Photographers and
funded by the Library of Congress. This site
contains a ton of great information about
workflow, digital imaging, and photography.
It's also totally free.
The purpose of
dpBestflow™ is twofold:
To create
guidelines for refined production workflows,
archiving methods, and best practices for
digital photography based on a variety of
capture methods and intended image use. The
guidelines will be developed on the basis of
research, analysis of software products and
other tools targeted at professional
photographers.
To
publish the dpBestflow™ as a website open
to the public. The adoption of the
dpBestflow™ guidelines will be promoted
to the professional photography community and
the public through programming at industry
trade shows and a nationwide series of training
events at ASMP chapters, trade shows, and
educational institutions.
If you’re a
Photoshop enthusiast or professional, you
should really be using Photoshop actions.
Photoshop is an extremely efficient program,
but you’re truly missing out if you
don’t learn how to use its automation
features.
Photoshop Actions record a series of commands for
playback on future images. They can be used to
generate extremely complex results. Actions
should seem pretty appealing, let’s learn
how to create your own.
You must first create a set to hold your personal
actions. Sets hold actions, and there’s no
limit to how many actions can be placed into a
set or how many sets you can load. Let’s
give it a try.
See the full article here for
free
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