Archive for November, 2007

Nov 28 2007

British Invasion 2.0

Published by peter under web, news, videojournalists

Earlier this week guardian.com toppled nytimes.com as the most popular newspaper website:
“With 18.4 million users in October, the Guardian was ahead of nytimes.com, which registered 17.5 million users in the same period, according to Nielsen / NetRatings” via Buzzmachine
Yesterday Reuters announce that bbc.com draws 40 million users a month from outside the UK.

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Nov 26 2007

UGE - user generated edits

Published by peter under cinematography, online video

Download all the footage (and the soundtrack) from Bruce McDonald’s latest feature and edit it yourself. Compare your version to the released feature and other user versions. Great way to finesse editing skills. Win Final Cut Pro if you are in Canada.

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Nov 26 2007

Shlock tactics

Published by peter under online video, videojournalists

Spurred on by the spectacular success of YouTube, media departments and newsrooms around the country rushed to flood the net with 3rd rate video under the banner “no-one cares about quality anymore”.
Now it seems that advertisers and viewers do care.

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Nov 23 2007

More audio goodness from B&H

Published by peter under video tech, videojournalists

Mike Prescott pointed out that the Guide to Portable Digital recorders is not the first tutorial from the audio department at B&H. Past features include:

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Nov 19 2007

“Seam carving” now for video

Back in August I linked to a video on “intelligent” photo resizing and wondered how long it would be before they could successfully port the same technology to manipulate video. The answer it seems was just a matter of weeks:

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Nov 18 2007

Guide to Portable Digital Recorders

Introductory video guide to the choosing and using one of the new portable digital audio recorders from Zoom, Marantz, M-Audio, Edirol and Fostek.

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