Thursday, August 28, 2008

flashThisMoFo

I just wanted to help publicize a great blog by a friend of mine, Fred Gerantabee.

Flashthismofo.blogspot.com

Fred was the lead author of Dynamic Learning Flash CS3, a book I was a contributing author for. This guy is absolutely brillant at flash and multiple-media design.

thepixelsmith

Posted on 28 Aug 2008 at 12:09 UTC

I just wanted to help publicize a great blog by a friend of mine, Fred Gerantabee.

Flashthismofo.blogspot.com

Fred was the lead author of Dynamic Learning Flash CS3, a book I was a contributing author for. This guy is absolutely brillant at flash and multiple-media design.

thepixelsmith

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Posted on 11 Aug 2008 at 01:26 UTC

My wife bought me an I-phone G3 for our 10th wedding anniversary. It really is as great as everyone says it is.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

VideoMaker Magazine
Advanced Editing Workshop


Video Editing Technique
Video Capture and Asset Management
  • Scene Detect
  • Log and Capture
  • Storyboarding
Working with Clips and Sub-Clips
  • Creating sub-clips
  • Extracting Audio
  • Audio Channel Mapping
Cuts, Transitions and Wipes
  • Cuts only Editing
  • Dissolves
  • Wipes (Batman Bat Symbol, StarWars Push)
Adding Video Effects
  • Understanding Effects
  • Animating Effects
  • Keyframe Interpoloation
Enhancing Color
  • Coloring
  • Color Removal
  • Color Correction
Compositing Techniques
  • Alpha Channels
  • Keying
  • Matte Effects

Video Editing Concepts
Editing: Beyond the Basics
  • The 900 rule
10 Editing Rules
  • Working with the Rules
  • Going Beyond the Rules
  • Understanding the role of the Thinking Editor
    • What is the Goal of the Project?
    • Building a Project Brief
Shooting to Edit
  • Advanced Planning
    • StoryBoarding
  • Relationship between camera work and editing
  • Shooting for FX
Crafting the Illusion
  • Willful Suspension of Disbelief
    • Building a Mood
    • Developing Story Flow
    • Lip Syncing
    • Breaking the Mood
Understanding the Meaning of your Cuts
  • Match Cut
  • Subliminal Cut
  • Jump Cut
  • Cross Cut
  • Cut Zooms
Creating Meaningful Transitions and Effects
  • Consider the implications of any transitions
    • Push
    • Dissolve
    • Split Screen
    • Focus transitions
    • Over/Under Exposure transition
Compositing
  • SuperImpositions
  • Chroma Keying
  • Working with Mattes
Understanding the Importance of Sound
  • Leading with Sound
  • The Effects of Sound
  • The Power of silence