Video
30 Days of CS5: Indesign Interactivity
The past several months have been a wild ride for anyone looking to create and distribute interactive Web sites, digital video and multimedia accessible via desktop Web browsers and mobile devices. Apple’s reluctance to allow Flash onto the iPhone and iPad, and the resulting brouhaha between the two companies, has taken some of the steam [...]
30 Days of CS5: Adobe Media Encoder
It’s great to have seemingly unfettered control of your digital video, but this freedom is all for naught if you’re not able to deliver your video to the people who want to view it. For many, video encoding is a black art, complete with esoteric terminology, a range of buttons, dials and pulldown menus that [...]
Inspiration: Coke Quest
In trolling through the dozens of RSS feeds I subscribe to, I often come across videos, photos, quotes and things I find inspirational. I don’t, however, often post them. I’ve decided to change that. Because we all can use a little extra wind in our sails and a creative boost every now and again. I [...]
Correcting Video With Photoshop
Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro offer powerful color-correcting tools for digital video. The trouble is, they are more difficult to use than the tools you’re accustomed to using in Photoshop. The good news is if you have Photoshop CS3 or CS4 extended, you can open and correct video using adjustment layers, Photoshop [...]
Art Among The Collisions: Brilliant Architectural Cinematography
Alex Roman’s Kahn’s Exeter Short Film left me speechless for two reasons. First, it is a stunning exploration of light and composition using the library at Phillips Exeter Academy, designed by renowned architect Louis Kahn, as the subject. Kahn’s Exeter Short Film from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Perhaps more important, this film was created using [...]
TIFF and JPEG images in Adobe Premiere Pro
In a series of tests I conducted earlier this summer, I discovered that TIFF and JPEG images are displayed differently in Adobe Premiere Pro. First, it appears the difference is found only on the Mac platform where JPEG files are decoded by QuickTime and TIFF is handled internally within Premiere Pro. This leads to two [...]
Time-lapse Experiment
Here’s a quick experiment using still photos from the Olympus E-30 assembled in Adobe Photoshop Premiere Pro to create a time-lapse movie. Thoughts?
Good Shooting Guide
Many of us are learning how to transition from still photographers to multimedia communicators by learning how to capture and edit video, gather audio and combine all these elements into a compelling story. The BBC’s Good Shooting Guide is a valuable resource which walks you through the finer points of selecting between different microphone types, [...]
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