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Media Composer 5 and ProRes Files
I am fairly new with Avid products, but I do realize that many post-houses use Avid over Final Cut Pro. I am going to do a series of short video tutorials from a Final Cut Pro users perspective....
August 3rd by chip
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Presentation is everything
When I first finished college I thought I knew how to present: fire up a projector, give a few power point bulleted slides and then talk to those points. I was doing it wrong for years-I recently read a book entitled the Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, and I was skeptical a...
July 12th by chip
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Erykah and Ricky at the pier
I have a lot of respect for photographers. I don’t consider myself one at all, but every now-and-then, I get the chance to do a few shoots. Erykah and Ricky are getting married in 2011 and we were in Fells Point in Baltimore and I captured some pics for them. Enjoy. To...
June 12th by chip
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It always starts with a song
I was looking at a friends Facebook profile and they had this song entitled, “Find My Way to Love” on their profile. It is such a great song by an artist named Chantae Cann and I was inspired to finish the last trailer for Jared and Anika’s wedding. It always ...
May 24th by chip
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Loves Composition
I recently worked with JAR Media on Loves Composition-Jared and Anika’s wedding trailer video. We shot the video in Old Town Ellicott City, Maryland. We shot the train sequence by Ellicott City Station and it was a great place to film the interviews and for some grea...
May 14th by chip
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JVC GY-HM100u Footage
Thanks to my friend, Bryant Taylor for sending me some test footage of the JVC GY-HM100U. I testing the editing with the camera and the native Final Cut Pro support. The camera worked flawlessly in the edit session. I exported the video using Compressor and it worked flawles...
May 13th by chip
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Adobe Photoshop CS 5 Three Key Features
Andy Russell of JAR Media and Design gives a tutorial showing three key features in Adobe Photoshop CS 5....
May 8th by chip
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Howell Funeral Home
We had the opportunity to complete a web site for Howell Funeral Home located in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the first funeral home web site project we have completed and we learned a lot about the funeral home industry as a result of this project. The site was moved from a static...
May 8th by chip
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Plural Eyes for Audio Sync
I wrote in an earlier blog post about audio for the Canon 5D MK II and Canon 7D and my audio set up. I did a brief tutorial on PluralEyes, by Singular Software and how you can use the software to sync audio from multiple camera sources and line up audio tracks, like I did [...]...
April 25th by chip
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Apple iPad Review
All the hoopla has passed now since Apple’s iPad has been released. I was very skeptical in my first review of the iPad, but I have changed my views. (Sigh) The iPad is like leather interior on a car, you don’t need it, but it sure is nice if you have it. There ar...
April 17th by chip
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