Here’s a good step-by-step guide to exporting video from Final Cut Pro for import into Vimeo from a German video and sound editor’s site. His Vimeo page is here.
Sep 022010
Sep 022010
Scanning through Vimeo recently, I happened across a couple of cool videos worth watching.
A video by David Blue Garcia featuring Blake Buesnel and Stephanie Hunt with music by Brian Satterwhite. According to David’s Vimeo page, the entire film was shot using still frames from the Canon 7D. More of his work can be seen here: davidbluegarcia.com and here.
According to the Vimeo page:
Thomas Noesner was in New York for a shoot of the new Mercedes R-Class. Right after the job, he took his camera and strolled through the busting streets of „The City“. While screening the pictures of a drummer in the tube station, I had the idea of creating a „remix“ of the recorded drum sequence to use it as a soundtrack for the film. That´s when our sounddesigner Toussaint came into play… We composed a track around the drum beat of this guy. Watch and listen to the beat of New York.
More links to the artists can be found here: stereoscreen.de, thomasnoesner.com, facebook.com/stereoscreen
The Tigris River flows through the ancient town of Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey.
The documentary film, Life in Limbo, has won four honorable mentions at the Archeological Channel’s Film and Video Festival in Eugene, Oregon. Directed by Sakae Ishikawa, the film portrays life in Hasankeyf, a small town in southeastern Turkey where a proposed dam project threatens its existence. Filmed by me and edited by Sakae, the film features the music of Christopher Tin and Omar Faruk Tekbilek.
Life in Limbo won: Honorable mention in Best Film competition by jury, Honorable mention for Cinematography by jury, Honorable mention for Music by jury and Honorable mention in Audience Favorite competition.
May 172010
I have decided to step down from my position as Director of Video at The Los Angeles Times. It was a difficult decision to make.
Journalism of the highest caliber continues to be practiced at the LA Times on an hourly basis by a staff of amazing visual journalists and writers. My time at the organization was filled with challenges, excitement and incredible experiences. I learned more than I thought I ever would.
But despite my happiness, I began to miss documentary filmmaking.
As a documentary filmmaker, I have been privileged to report, photograph and witness some of the most important stories and topics over the past decade. I have filmed in extremist mosques in Pakistan weeks after the attacks on September 11th, covered the invasion of Iraq as a unilateral journalist, followed a wounded U.S. soldier home to Pennsylvania, reported on ethnic tensions in northern Iraq, told the story of America’s secret war in Laos, covered various parts of the war in Afghanistan and have followed an artist placing a sculpture on a rocky outcropping in Iceland to honor an extinct bird.
Filmmaking and storytelling is my passion. Documentary filmmaking now faces an unclear future, and as I follow my passion to make films, I will be continuing the search for sustainability in visual storytelling. It has been a true honor to help guide a talented staff of video journalists at the LA Times over the past two and a half years, but it was time once again to return to the field.
Dec 232009
Advertising Age online has a short story about the plummeting rates for advertising online amid serious market downturns. The range, explained in a helpful slideshow at the bottom of the story, goes from nearly zero CPM (cost per thousand views) to well over one hundred dollars per CPM.
“The slideshow…culled from agency buyers and media sellers, is far from scientific, but gives a good sense of who can still charge bank and why.”
The takeaway: Organizations with specialized content (The Wall Street Journal, WebMD) or those with big audiences (Yahoo, Aol) command the higher rates. Makes sense.
Dec 212009
Nicholas Carlson, senior editor at The Business Insider, talks to Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 about what the big portals like Yahoo, Aol and Microsoft are generally doing with video strategy.