Back with a vengence! Loomis, Watch out for the SUN, deinterlace DAMN IT!
July 28, 2007
KCET Online - Explore Ca - Web Stories - Iraq - Loomis
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Rick Loomis has covered the Iraq war for the Los Angeles Times. His outstanding series on "The Siege of Fallouja" and his heartbreaking Los Angeles Times multimedia report on wounded soldiers in "The Lifeline" have pushed the boundaries of mainstream journalism. Loomis generously agreed to open his photo files to us and recounted his life-changing experiences from his four years of deployment in Iraq.
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Video Copilot Products and Tutorials for Video Professionals
FREE Adobe After Effects Video Tutorials For 6.5 7.0 and CS3 Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
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50+ WordPress Plugins for Multimedia
50+ WordPress Plugins for Multimedia July 27, 2007 — 06:44 PM PDT — by Adam Ostrow — Share This There’s a lot more to blogging than just writing compelling text. Pictures, video, and audio make your blog more exciting for readers while giving you more ways to express yourself. There are hundreds of plugins available for adding multimedia to your blog and here we take a look at more than 50 of our favorites. Also see the other posts in this series: 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins, 30+ Plugins for Wordpress Comments and 50+ Tools For The WordPress Admin.
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CyberJournalist.net Media Jobs - Job Listings
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From print to Web: The Washington Post goes digital - August 6, 2007
Can the Washington Post survive? Newspapers are dying. At the Washington Post Co., CEO Donald Graham is banking on the Internet to save serious journalism. If he can't figure this out, nobody can. Fortune's Marc Gunther reports.
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Macworld: Review: Soundbooth CS3
Soundbooth CS3 Audio editor provides essential tools for multimedia producers
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Large prints made from your photos or artwork. Simply upload a digital photo, hi-res or vector graphic and we'll print it on reusable vinyl, glossy poster paper or fine art canvas. Start personalizing your walls today!
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Good and bad news for online video : the x degree: exploring and redefining multimedia storytelling
Good and bad news for online video Posted on July 25, 2007 by Melissa Worden
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Online Storytelling Forms - CyberJournalist.net - Online News Association - Tips and Tools
Online Storytelling Forms Here's a look at how to tell stories online and the range of forms being used by major online news organizations. This list was the first comprehensive effort to document online storytelling forms (Has since been updated).
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digital video marketplace. We're a community-based content marketplace where all forms of digital video, stock footage, short film, motion graphics, animation, and still-images can be bought, sold, and requested. Consider us a blend of Flickr and eBay
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inspiring stuff here! please take some time to explore!
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i thought i was the online media god, guess not!
ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Photographers, Videobloggers, Podcasters & Musicians
ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Photographers, Videobloggers, Podcasters & Musicians
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Will Sullivan's Journerdism
Journerdism Stompin’ ground for journalists and nerds.
Keep it up, you rock and can't wait for 4.0!
you may not find some stuff there anymore, but guess what you'll find it HERE! like:
- Confusing, rambling 32472389472398 word headlines
- Only one to three updates a week
- Low levels of comments and conversations
- A lack of social book marking tools and half a dozen other utility enhancements
tnxs will!
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Everyone: Deinterlace Your Video Footage!
Flashcomguru.com: Everyone: Deinterlace Your Video Footage!
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Introduction by Michelle I. Seelig, Ph.D., University of Miami, School of Communication In late fall 2006 and spring 2007, I embarked on a study to advance our understanding of how sound interacts with still images
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Observations, Textures, and Trash
me likes!
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finally, keeping my ROMENESKO of MULTIMEDIA title going,
I think the sun is going to explode!!!!! The Las Vegas Sun, that is. They just hired two of the brightest people i know and the only two folks i hope to work with one day, Zach Wise and Mark Damon (love to work with him again), Plus,
MediaStorm: Blog
I’m excited to welcome Diane Cook as a Multimedia Producer at MediaStorm.
HEY BRIAN WHAT ABOUT ME!!!!!!!!!! A little west coast office?
and really, finally, this post would not have been made possible without the support of the following delicious and tasty people:
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enjoy or not,
-r
HBO | VOYEUR
July 19, 2007
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July 19, 2007
Chasing Aaron © Oakland Tribune
July 19, 2007
Chasing Aaron © Oakland Tribune
Jobs, jobs, jobs
July 16, 2007
This from John W. Poole at NPR:
I want to encourage people
with non-traditional, non-TV backgrounds to apply (and to very
liberally interpret the 5 year experience requirement):
#WEB1635 – Producer I (Video), NPR Digital Media
Pitches story ideas. Shoots and edits video on news, arts and music
subjects; collaborates with NPR reporters and producers to create
video reports; develops ideas for series on recurring features;
consults on appropriate video tools and technology; helps establish
technical standards for video; trains and mentors staff on tools and
creative approach; and cultivates relationships with third-party video
sources. Five years of professional television and/or video
experience in a news or documentary setting required. Must be an idea
machine with the skills to follow through; demonstrated excellence as
a writer and visual storyteller; demonstrated expertise in video
shooting and editing; experience working on a Web publication or
demonstrable passion for new media platforms, tools and approaches;
familiarity with a variety of computer systems and software
applications; ability to adapt to changes in equipment, software and
workflow; and understanding of journalistic ethics; experience
maintaining high journalistic standards under deadline pressure,
including standards of objectivity, balance and fairness. Significant
daily news experience preferred.
mail: employment@npr.org
Web site: http://www.npr.org
Phone: 202-513-2900
Fax: 202-513-3047
MULTIMEDIA DIRECTOR SOUGHT
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is seeking a visual journalist who can work with reporting teams to develop their multimedia storytelling. The candidate will help staff pick the best tools, help train them in the use of those tools, and coordinate the work of reporters, photographers, videographers, editors, designers and graphic artists.
A thirst for learning about new ways to tell stories is essential. Skill in bringing out the best in others is required, as is at least one year of experience working with multimedia tools.
To apply, please submit an overview of your experience and samples of visual storytellling to Bob Rose, Assistant Managing Editor for Presentation and Production, 314-340-8000 ext. 8333. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 900 N. Tucker Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63101.
The application deadline is July 27.
Please see our online multimedia by visiting stltoday.com/multimedia.
Thanks in advance,
Elie Gardner
Online Photo Editor
St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLtoday.com
314.340.8244 [office]
314.393.0514 [cell]
Star-Tribune
Employment Opportunities Web Applications Developer Posting Date: 2007-06-04 Posting #: 917 Department: Interactive Media/Direct Marketing Status: Full-Time Exempt Pay Range: DOQ Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm Job Description: Acts as the point person in implementing web applications throughout StarTribune.com, vita.mn and buzz.mn. Works collaboratively with Software Engineers and editorial staff to plan for and execute these applications. Acts as a Macromedia Flash ActionScript guru, supporting existing Flash applications that use ActionScript heavily, and being the lead developer on new ActionScript-heavy Flash applications. Manages stakeholder communications around installation and updates of these web applications. Other duties as assigned.
Landmark Communications, Inc. Roanoke Times
Multimedia Producer Job Description The Multimedia Producer reports to the Online Editor and is a member of the online news team. Primary responsibilities * Supports news staffers who gather audio and video, including training, editing, producing and posting multimedia elements * Creates multimedia packages and supports the multimedia editor and newsroom staff with multimedia for special projects * Coordinates, shoots, produces and posts podcasts and video casts on deadline * Provides spot coverage of newsworthy events that require audio or video * Mastery of emerging trends in multimedia storytelling * Seeks innovative ways to incorporate new multimedia elements into the site * Updates and maintains the multimedia database * Updates and posts content to the site
Albuquerque Journal Seeking Videographer/Multimedia Producer This newly created position of video producer calls for working on breaking news and creating major projects as well as providing training for other journalists. Description: ABQjournal seeks a journalist to join our multimedia newsroom to be the primary source of high quality video editorial and advertising content. Demonstrated experience with Final Cut Pro, AVID or equivalent software is required. Photoshop and Flash experience are a plus. Candidates should submit a letter of interest, resume and a list of links of work samples to dfriedman@abqjournal.com. This person will shoot, gather, select, distribute and edit video clips; and manage and coordinate various video content projects and schedules, including video from the public. The producer will also edit and proof the content and deal with digital rights issues. The position may include occasional travel and requires flexible hours, including nights, holidays and weekends. Qualifications * Bachelor’s degree in Journalism or related discipline. * A journalism background in newspaper, broadcast or photography preferred. * Editorial experience with news video production, including highly developed shooting, editing, script-writing, voice-over. * Must be willing to appear on camera. * Experience with HTML, Youtube, GoogleVideo and broader video production tools are a plus.Good luck!
enjoy
-r
Tutorial:High quality at low bit rates, Interview Basics, liveBooks, Metromix, DepicT!
July 12, 2007
The link below fr this wiki, is a good start for compression, I will soon publish an extensive 'cheat sheet' on compression, stay tuned!
Tutorial:High quality at low bit rates - Quicktime Wiki - a Wikia wiki
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Interview Basics - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
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Looks like this could be a very cool site for inspiration, behind the scenes with photographers and the video pieces themselves are well edited.
liveBooks - michael jang
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Just a DAMN smart idea, I've been trying to sell this idea for a while…. that newspapers need to drop their damn old english masthead identity and get into the business of cool with their feature content. and above all get over their ego and 'hide' the fact that they are a newspaper. That's just what this site did!!!! Just go there and try to find out which newspaper runs this, it's hard to find unless you're looking for it Home - Metromix Los Angeles
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aiAlex » Top 50 Inspirational Websites for Designers
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Can you do it in 90 seconds?
"… a veritable treasure trove of tiny triumphs." The Guardian
DepicT! is Watershed's unique filmmaking competition, part of Encounters International Short Film Festival, which challenges filmmakers from across the globe to come up with a compelling, imaginative idea and distil it into 90 seconds of cinematic originality.
Just plain AWESOME, you must see
And the Red Man Went Green by
dir: Ruth Meehan DepicT! And the Red Man Went Green
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A Simple Apology funny stuff, off topic, who cares, we gotta laugh right?
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Forget the film, watch the titles
You know what they say about first impressions. That’s why both Hollywood and independent studios are spending valuable time and resources to create the most appropriate main title sequences for their films. At its very best, a title sequence is a self-contained hybrid that combines several moving image techniques – film, animation, cgi – to compress the essence of the film it introduces.
On SubmarineChannel, we love a good main title. That's why we've started an online collection of the most stunning and original ones. Some are engaging or wildly entertaining, funny, exhilarating or deadly beautiful. Some are oozing with visual treats while others hit you hard with their bold and audacious style.
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Cool videos for the Al Gore in all of us. Hey, it even won a Webby award.
TERRA: The Nature of Our World *Video Podcast* :: Home
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With our staff using more and more hard drives to store and produce HD video we've had a few 'meltdowns' Maybe this will help?
SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some ATA hard disk failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard disk. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disks that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems.
Oh yeah this too:
SuperDuper!
Have no fear. SuperDuper v2.1.4 is here! SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!
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Finally some house-keeping.
I have come to the realization that i am who i am. sometimes i don't like to capitalize, i love caffeine, the letter " " is brken on my laptp and i am tired of going back to fix it when i blog, i'm often in a hurry, and that's ok too, i'm a terrible writer, i love beer, and on and on. i love what i do and how i do it, especially this blog. so what i am saying is that i can't please everyone. i know i know, i should have learned that by now. thank you all for your email encouragement, ideas and support. this is what i do, enjoy the ride or get off! i mean that in a very nice way!
enjoy, or not,
-r
Rules for Video on the Internet
July 7, 2007
Rule Number 1
YOU ARE NOT in control, your viewers are.
Rule Number 2
Your viewers time and attention are precious, this is not FRONTLINE. Your pieces should not be longer than 4 minutes, otherwise, chapterize, the viewer can come back and see the rest IF THEY WANT.
Rule Number 3
Make your videos 'sharable.' The internet is about sharing the love and goodness, make is easy for viewers to link to or embed your video content.
Rule Number 4
Know your audience. Run some stats on your site, like Google analytics, to find out what browsers and therefore possible plug-ins your viewers might need, make it easy for them to download the plug-in if needed.
Rule Number 5
Compose the shots in your video for your presentation size. If your paper's website runs video, 320×240, then you should be shooting tight! And even if your site runs it's video presentations, say 640×480, still shoot tight because before you know it, and mark my words, it will happen, not matter how big you are able too run the video on your site, our future audience is going to be viewing our content on small portable 'thingys,' can you say iphone.
Finally, and most IMPORTANT,
Rule Number 6
Make something 'good' happen in the first 15, no, 10, wait, 5 seconds -you get my drift- or you are doomed. Don't bury your lede. Put the good audio quote or image up front.
Ok, the caffeine from the Diet Coke just wore off, i had a good dozen more rules, but i have no fuel to keep me going, good night and enjoy.
-r
“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.”- Samuel Butler
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”-Thoreau
Soundslides 7.1. Video plug-in (Mac) in case you missed it!
July 7, 2007
The Soundslides video plug-in converts your audio slide show to various video formats with the help of the free Quicktime Player on Macs. The plug-in is not included with the Soundslides application, and is purchased as a separate item.
SOUNDSLIDES.COM
Peripheral Landscapes
July 7, 2007
This is a great and inspirational way to present information, i’d love to see a newspaper site try this approach, hint hint.
Chole Comes Home
July 7, 2007
enjoy,
-r
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July 6, 2007
ICM Interview: Regina McCombs, startribune.com multimedia producer
