A more technical video post this one that came about in a bit of a long winded way. But bare*  stickwith me
Chuck Fadley posted a link on the newspaper video group to a youtube video showing Sony’s latest HDV recorder thingy - HVR-MRC1 . It comes as standard with the HVR- XZ7 and the HVR- [...]

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Picking up on my mention of the need for more training in my post about my video survey, Katie Cannon from the front line club has sent me details of some of the video related courses they run.
They offer a number of courses from filming to editing which look kind of interesting.
In the interests of fairness I’m [...]

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Over the last few posts I’ve focused two of the three s’s that I think are areas to focus on for web/newspaper video- script and  sequences.  The last in the series was going to be sound.
In that way the web works I’ve come across a series of posts on the Apple website that  says pretty [...]

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Every so often I realize just how the posts on this blog have mounted up and how stuff that is always worth remembering gets lost in the archives. Blogrolls work okay, popular posts links cover some of the stuff but every now and then I think it’s worth reminding myself of the good stuff that [...]

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Amongst the things going on I have found time to do a bit of playing around with the new imovie 08. Having seen the ad’s and a couple of the demo movies on the apple site I’d expressed a level of geeky impressed’ness so you can imagine I was keen to try it [...]

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I’m doing more training at the moment and whilst chatting about editing  I was reminded of a clip I had from Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe programme. As an intro to the impact editing has it’s pretty good and the reality show example is great. 
Someone else has uploaded it to Youtube so give it a watch [...]

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Update: Read my  review of imovie08 to see if it lived up to my expectations…
The new version of imovie is out and it looks great. In particular the way you can interact with thumbnails by ’skimming’ them.

Watch the video on the Apple web site and prepare to go ‘oooooooh’

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Catching up on more reading I had a trip over to Michael Rosenblum’s web site where, as VJ Cliff Etzel put it :
A lively dialog has developed over at Michael Rosenblum’s blog about how the so called “Lower class” VJ paradigm equates to those who learned to read and write back in the [...]

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