Thu, 19 November 2009 A loose review of an event I attended this evening focusing on the launch of Avid Media Composer 4.0, Avid's mainstream digital video editing tool. At two thousand plus dollars it's not for everyone. But for anyone interested in a career in video and especially feature motion picture editing, it's the gorilla in the living-room. A lot of technical stuff was presented but I've chosen to talk about a few features that I thought were particularly interesting and useful, including an open plug-in format that allows Avid to ingest media directly from AVC, P2, SxS and other solid state camera media cards without converting it to the Avid MXF file format - saving time and space on your drive. Media Composer now allows you to store files it's using anywhere on your computer, but there are risks involved. The tracking feature allows you to stabilize the picture on the frame and it automatically resizes the image so it completely fills the width of the frame. The remarkable thing about this stabilization tracking feature is that instead of the standard practice of using one or several bright spots in the frame as reference points for holding the image in the same location, it uses the entire screen. This is better because, depending on the footage, reference point objects, usually very bright points of lights, like reflections off shiny objects, can be blocked from view during capture. Not a problem now. The last new feature I mention is the ability to place clips on the same timeline with different frame rates. Something Apple has been able to do for a number of years. Avid says it does the conversion in realtime, faster and with better results than Final Cut Pro. There's certainly enough settings to adjust to make it so. Providing you have the time and money to figure it out. Comments[0] |
Sat, 14 November 2009 I visited a job fair in western Massachusetts this week. Comments[0] |
Mon, 9 November 2009 Conversations That Matter Handmade in America Session: Session: Social Media Levels the Media Distribution Field Presenters: Example of artist who has successfully promoted herself through social media: Social Media resources for independent filmmakers: Podcamp NH 2010 June or July Comments[0] |
Sun, 8 November 2009 Podcamp NH 09 Location: New Hampton School Distributed video production podcast: Spidcast Session: Brandcasting Dan Freund Podcamp NH 09 http://podcamp.uptownuncorked.com/blog/ Spidcast http://spidcast.com/ Dan Freund http://kinneyhill.com/v4/ Comments[0] |
Sat, 7 November 2009 Driving up to New Hampshire for Podcamp NH 09. Lovely cold fall day. Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 July 2009 What's in this show: I'm going to talk mostly about some of the events at PAB 09 in Kingston. It's been a month and I'm just now getting my thoughts down. My apologies to Bob and Mark, the show's promoters, and thanks guys, for once again producing a first class happening. First I have some updates about my computer. Then, after I give you a quick reminder of what PAB is all about, I talk about Jowie Taylor and the Six String Nation Guitar. Check out the site, it's full of really interesting stories that I can talk about only in passing. Better yet, if you can attend an event where Jowi Taylor speaks(his schedule is right on the homepage) about this remarkable artifact, you should attend and get your picture taken holding it. As a counterpoint to Jowi's story I discuss some sobering and pragmatic information presented by Chris Penn of the Financial Aid Podcast and Marketing over Coffee. This guy's good! All this leads me to talking about identity, personal and national, and the power of the stories that people tell… I'm serious about my offer to interview any Canadian expatriate, or emigrant to Canada. Send me an email at videostudentguy@gmail.com and we can talk via skype. It's easy! Oh, if you can help me understand what to do with Twitter (@bermamot), I'd be very grateful. This is a long show, about 45 minutes so I've listed the time-code for the sections so that if you want to get on to another subject you can scrub your way forward. 00:16 Introduction 06:47 What is PAB? 08:55 Jowi Taylor and 6 String Nation Guitar 25:04 Chris Penn 32:14 Networking 101 33:41 Social Media History 35:51 Personal History 37:29 Call to Action 40:42 Good Intentions 45:46 Close Comments[0] |
Mon, 1 December 2008 I recently attended a filmmaker's conference that included screenings
of independent films. My film was included and while that was
gratifying, I found the real value was attending the filmmaker's panels
and viewing other people's reactions to my and other people's films. I picked up
a lot of valuable information about ways to navigate the independent
filmmaking process and I've included highlights in this show. I am preparing a number of changes on this site and an upcoming video podcast, as well as completing my film, so, from now on for an indefinite period of time, I'm going to post shows twice a month instead of every week. Once I get a few new projects running I'll return to a weekly show. Here are the links to people and sites I"ve mentioned in the show. Ruff Cutz Film Conference Jim Jermanok - Producer, Writer, Director Steven Jermanok - Writer Dale Carnegie - How to make friends and influence people Michael Corrente - Federal Hill Ed Sanchez - Blair Witch Project Michael Phillips - Academy Award winning Producer Patrick Smith - Animator Comments[1] |
Fri, 25 July 2008 I attended the Sunday sessions of Podcamp Boston 3,
which was held at the beautiful Harvard Medical School conference
center. I met a lot of generous, interesting people and really put the
work in networking. There were a lot of presentations, about 4 or 5
every hour, about 5 times during the day, but I spent more time talking
to people outside of these sessions. One of the cool features of this conference was something called a BrainTorrent, which was a beautiful oval room full of tables with name tents on them, each one with a different topic or concept and anyone was welcome to sit down and join the conversation. That's where I met Mary Anne Davis and Guido Stein. Mary Anne is a potter and Guido is a knitter and we got into a conversation about social media and craft and before you know it, I was recording it. My own feelings about the even were very positive. I'm so happy I met as many people as I did. More people than I can remember and credit. Meeting Keith Burtis was very fortunate. His live woodworking video cast is very cool and I'm looking forward to conversations with him about the production aspects of creating video shows. I'm always impressed by the number of people who blog but aren't yet podcasting who attend these shows. It's a good sign that the events don't put off an exclusive feeling and it's healthy to talk to people who are just as passionate about new media but aren't in the podcasting fish bowl. Sharon Couto is one blogger who attended the event with an eye on moving into Podcasting. I moved into a new media space that I hadn't intended to become involved in, at the encouragement of Mary Anne. I now have a Twitter account, the user name is Bermamot. I haven't posted anything, anything at all since Sunday. I'm a busy guy, but I'll give it a chance. There are definitely two camps, people who are infatuated with Twitter or microblogging, and people (and one of them) who don't see the sense at all and don't have any time for it. I feel as though I'm standing at the door to the Twilight Zone. Finally let me mention a cool site I saw at a BrainTorrent table. I'm going to use it when I set up my upcoming website. It's a program that analyzes your website for Search Engine Optimization - SEO. It explains what each suggestion means and it appears very thorough. It's free at websitegrader.com. Thanks to Mike Volpe from Hubspot.com for coming to the conference and showing it off. Comments[0] |
Thu, 17 July 2008 Welcome to the longest show I've posted to date. On average these shows
run about 15 minutes and when they've gone over 3o minutes I tend to
break them into parts. The main reason for the length, which is about
52 minutes, is the inclusion of multiple comments and excerpts from
presentations from PAB. My main goal here is to give you a sense of the
event, which is quite unique among conferences. But the downside is how
much time it adds to the show. And editing multiple interviews
complicates the production process. Even up to the last few hours
before posting I found some errors that required me to rerecord some
sections. Most of the changes are changes in attributions, another time
sink in production, which I got wrong on the first recording pass. I'm satisfied with the final show, even though it's long. If it's a bother, let me know, I'm compressing it down as much as I can. In the future, I'm thinking about using Apple's AAC format, which makes mp3 files smaller but retains higher quality. It also allows me to bookmark and add graphics, but, as far as I know, AAC files only play on iTunes and iPods and I don't want to exclude any listeners. Any thoughts? Because I am including a number of voices besides my own I've added a note at the bottom of the blog that indicates the type of Creative Commons license I'm using, which is attribution, non-commercial, share alike. I'll talk a little more about CC in a future show, right now understand that you can use all or part of this show as long as you include the name of the speaker and where the audio came from. You can't sell it and if you include any part of it in your own podcast you are bound by the same license. Thanks to Connie Crosby for pointing me the the right direction on this topic, for some reason I find the legal aspects of publishing baffling. This show is about my experience at Podcaster's Across Borders and begins with my personal thoughts about the event. Halfway through I have some excerpts of presentations and some brief commentary on what I took away from the experience and then I finish with a series of interviews I recorded at the end of the weekend as the room slowly emptied. It was a great experience and I've put in a lot of effort trying to put into words what it all meant, because, as I try to explain, PAB wasn't your regular new media conference. Lots of people were trying to figure it out besides me. Check out the comments on David Peralty's blog and you'll see a wide range of reactions. If you're just interested in the excerpts I've got the timecode listed below. In addition, all the presentations will be posted at Podcaster's Across Borders throughout the summer. Subscribe! I've also listed the names and URLs of all the people mentioned or heard in this show. Some have podcasts, some blogs and some are thinking about it. If there was any message or call to action people took away from the event (and there was plenty) one of the most important was find your voice and share it. I second that. Contents:
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Tue, 1 July 2008 There's an interesting event coming up towards the end of this month in Boston. Podcamp Boston 3 takes place July 19th and 20th. You can get directions and other information, including a list of sessions that will take place through the links I've provided here. I attended this event last year, and I talked about it in episode #56. The conference founders, Chris Penn and Chris Brogan, both attended Podcasters Across Borders last weekend and I was fortunate enough to interview Chris Brogan and asked him to weight the advantages of each. I was fortunate enough to interview Chris Brogan for a few minutes between sessions at Podcasters Across Borders and asked him to comment on the two events. I hope you get a better sense of both events through my comments and Chris' interview. There was only a few minutes to chat between some sessions, so our conversation was rushed. I think you'll find if you attend Podcamp Boston 3 that there will more time and space for conversations and meeting new people. I want to say thanks to Chris for talking with me. I know he's going to be at Podcamp and I hope you'll be there too. Comments[0] |
Thu, 8 November 2007 This episode of the Video StudentGuy is about the day I spent at Podcamp Boston
last Sunday October 28. This is my first time attending a podcamp and I
was really looking forward to it. Over all, it was a good experience.
I'm sorry I couldn't have attended the previous day, I was in class
There were a number of sessions specifically on video casting that I
know would have been interesting. To top it off I was really tired, it
was a busy busy week on all fronts. I never would have made it through
the weekend if I attended both days. Next year I'll be done with school
and I'll have a lot more time for user events like this. By the way, just after I posted this I found this link to a video recorded during lunch, Sunday I guess, from the sound of it. Fool that I am I went to the cafeteria and ate lunch! Anyway, its an ad hoc discussion about the value of the conference as the nature of new media and new media producers matures. I feel very strongly that those of us who are about to launch our careers in video should be up to our armpits in new media. This is our wave. Thanks to Bob Goyetche for recording and posting this video. On a side note there is a podcasting meetup that takes place monthly in the Boston area. CC Chapman is the contact person for this. It was on hiatus during the summer, but I spoke to him at end of the day Sunday and he said there will be something coming up soon. Like all meetups, its open to anyone, not just people producing podcasts. I hear about them mostly from Mark and Bob on the Canadian Podcast Buffet show, but I don't doubt they're friendly, congenial get-togethers no matter where they occur. One note about the show, I start out with a rant about the venue, the Boston Convention Center. I've got some pictures I need to put up on Flikr. Obviously it had a significant impact on me, but it doesn't in any significant way detract from the quality of the event, I just tend to notice UI issues and the convention center definitely has a UI problem. If you're not interested in listening to me go on and on about it, just move ahead to 4:18, thats when my review of the sessions I attended begins. I understand attendance was smaller Sunday than Saturday, and it felt somewhat subdued, so I didn't get a chance to meet a lot of people, but everyone I spoke with was happy to talk and share their ideas and knowledge. Guido Stein - it's a Purl, man - knitting podcast Jane Quigley - Digital Grit - exchanged cards, though I don have a card yet Ben Ortega - Phive Tacos - another card Faye Anderson - Anderson@Large - Citizen Jouralist - local politics, we had a nice conversation about the role of podcasting in political action C.C. Chapman - Managing the Gray, Accident Hash - go to guy on the local meetups Chris Penn - FinancialAid Podcast - cofounder of Podcamp Chris Brogan - cofounder of Podcamp Neil Gorman - Broken Toasters, Will Shatner and Podcaster Burnout - here's a link to a similar presentation he made at Podcaster's Across Borders Beth Lawrence - Grow See This - we had a nice conversation at lunch Gary Marriott Grow See This videographer - creativegeniuscollective.com Lead programmer at cyberwalker.com - he indulged my questions on videocasting production techniques Sessions Attended Recording Remote Interviews - Dan York Software for recording Skype conversations: Mac: Windows: Both: Social Media for Business - Isabel Hilborn Social Networking 101 - Chris Penn Creating a Great Podcast Listening Experience - Jared Spool -check out Chris Penn's site to see what I'm talking about. Comments[0] |
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