What if all your multimedia were instantly findable on your newspaper’s website? What if the video player on your site was built for speed, incorporating the latest Adobe Flash technology? What if that player was large enough to showcase your video and had a full-screen mode that actually worked without stuttering? What if all your [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 28, 2008
Richard Koci Hernandez resurrects Multimediashooter.com
A news item on the National Press Photographers Association’s website took me by surprise.
Richard Koci Hernandez has left his deputy director of multimedia job at the San Jose Mercury News to accept a Ford Foundation multimedia fellowship at the University of California in Berkeley. He says the goal of his fellowship is to develop digital [...]
August 20, 2008
Free Video editing tutorial
For anybody who has edited video in Final Cut Pro, you know that there are many different ways to perform the same tasks. Recently I watched this free Apple seminar on how to rapidly edit news and sports packages. This tutorial is geared primarily for TV shooters and editors transitioning from tape-tape and into the [...]
August 9, 2008
Dog Days have me feeling verklempt
The dog days of summer have got me feeling a bit verklempt lately. Staring at this blank page for the last half hour has left me wondering if I have said all I’m going to say about my journey into multimedia storytelling. I know every blogger eventually hits that brick wall where words fail to [...]
August 2, 2008
Get creative with your video camera
As newspaper still photographers transition to shooting more video, they can get overwhelmed by all the non-creative tasks they have to do. With white balancing, audio monitoring and sequencing chores at hand, many new videographers forget to be creative with their video cameras. Here are some of the techniques I use to add a little [...]
