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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A few quick ‘go-and-play’ links:

A new version of soundslides is in Beta - Soundslides Plus
Google have introduced Streetlevel to their Google maps. It seems to serve no other purpose than to make you say ‘cool’ a lot. It allows you to interact with…I’m not going to explain it. Just go and have ago. You can [...]

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I’m in the middle of teaching more newspaper people the joys of video at the moment. They are out shooting and when they get back they will be gently introduced to Avid.
So,considering I’m a about to launch in to a day of how to use Avid, I feel a bit guilty (and not a little [...]

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Steve Outing talks about Newspapers in an unbundled world in an article over at Editor and Publisher
The whole article draws a number of parallels with the changing distribution and business the models the music industry deal with and the problems newspapers are facing.  Steve highlights ways that we can learn from the music biz’s move [...]

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Heres a great illustration (via Steve Garfield at Off on a tangent) of a simple v-logging workflow by Cheryl Colan

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Mindy MacAdams set down what I now realise was a bit of challenge. A challenge, because I needed to work out how to say what I wanted to say in less than a phone books worth of type.
In a comment on my previous post about Online video Mindy asks for my views on:
…how a TV [...]

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