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Started by Kathy Cordova in Community. Last reply by Kathy Cordova Nov 15, 2010.

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The Zoom In Forum is dedicated to help you find or join a video crew to do documentaries in your community. Check there for projects currently needing help. If you have a project idea that needs coverage, please email Becky@midpenmedia.com to submit a project proposal. We can find you crew who can help you videotape, produce, edit or be on-camera talent for your video project.


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Stan Ng

A Primer on Video Connection Types

Component vs. SVideo vs. Composite vs. RF. Not to mention HDMI and DVI. If you're confused about which is which, and which is better, have a look at this...

 

http://lyberty.com/encyc/articles/svideo.html

Posted by Stan Ng on September 28, 2011 at 12:07pm

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Some simple tricks for better titles and lower thirds

Creative Titles in FCP

This video from theDVshow is a couple years old, but demos some simple tricks to improve you titles with color gradient, and the shortest path to snatch a logo and key it into your titles.-- fun for Red Sox fans anyway.

Posted by Scott on April 23, 2011 at 9:00am

Stan Ng

The Knight Digital Media Center

"The Knight Digital Media Center offers workshops to mid-career journalists to enhance their expertise and multimedia skills..."

 

That's what the "About Us" page says about this great website. They are housed at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and in addition to live tutorials and videos from journalism industry experts,…

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Posted by Stan Ng on February 25, 2011 at 11:14pm

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Making a custom leader for TV Show roll-in

If you're producing a TV show at the Media Center, we ask that your master tape contain

  • 0:10 Black
  • 1:00 NTSC Bars and 1k, 0db reference audio Tone
  • 0:40 Black
  • 0:10 Countdown Leader
  • 0:10 MC Logo Splash Video

After that, you can start your show. If you start your show with a custom video, then you'll need to put it on a miniDV tape that is immediately preceded by the stuff above. Where do you get this?

Typically,…

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Posted by Stan Ng on December 9, 2010 at 4:00pm

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Producing TV News

Just found an online book about producing TV News shows. Looks authoritative though a bit old (from around 1997). Written for TV journalism students.

Posted by Stan Ng on November 30, 2010 at 11:00am

 
 
 

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