While most still photojournalists are fawning over the wonderful DSLR/video hybrid Canon 5D Mk. II, JVC quietly unveiled a new tapeless ProHD camcorder that shakes things up a bit in the news-video world. The soon to be released (April 2009) JVC GY-HM100U has some killer features that I have been waiting years for.
First and [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 29, 2009
JVC GY-HM100U and Final Cut Pro–A match made in heaven
January 25, 2009
Are newspapers losing their multimedia mojo?
Around the multimedia blogosphere, the January doldrums seem to have kicked in. My usual inspirational haunts like Newsvideographer.com, Teaching Online Journalism, Multimediashooter.com have all slowed their publishing cycles. Even my own blog is in need of a New Year’s kick-start. With all the newspaper layoffs last year, over 8,000 from one count, I’m sensing a [...]
January 19, 2009
A young girl’s death brings a community together
There was something about the short news brief on our website that caught my eye. A teenage girl had died in a two-vehicle accident on a state highway the previous day. Friends were organizing a last minute candlelight vigil in the girl’s honor. Lorissa Green, a 16-years-old Cheney, Washington resident died when the car she [...]
January 15, 2009
The Edit Foundry
One of my great frustrations as self-taught newspaper video storyteller is that I have not been able to find much help in taking my editing beyond the fundamentals. Sure, I’ve mastered the skill of editing wide, medium and tight shots into basic sequences. But when it comes to really understanding the “why” of a video [...]
January 13, 2009
Video thumb fix should increase traffic
Over at Newsvideographer.com, Angela Grant has an excellent critique of the multimedia capabilities of my newspaper’s new website Spokesman.com.
The one thing that Angela said she didn’t like was that videos linked with stories were only accessible through a tab.
A comment on her post by video producer Bill Mecca reinforced the idea that embedding the video [...]
January 7, 2009
Final Cut Pro’s Voice Over Tool is a Time Saver
It took me forever, but I finally tried out Final Cut Pro’s voice over tool yesterday for a daily video I did about a 100 people who lined up at a hardware store to buy snow shovels. The record 60-inches of snow that has fallen in the last month in Spokane, has made snow shovels [...]
