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Stan Ng replied to Becca's discussion 'Documentary - My local bakery owner! (test)'

Sad to say, no. This is "just a test." But its a testament to how much people *want* this to be true, that Becky, Annie and I all wanted to be a part of this!

November 1

Becky Sanders replied to Becca's discussion 'Documentary - My local bakery owner! (test)'

Is this happening? I want to help. I am great at producing. And I do great craft services and boom holding. i plan to be mentored in the near future on audio and camera in the field. I lack those skills, sorry to say.

October 30

Stan Ng added a blog post

Video Black Level "Setup"

"Black Level Setup" aka "Pedestal Setup" aka just "Setup" is one of those things you might hear bandied about. Here is a primer on this subject. JVC Tutorial on Black Level Setup Ultimately a commercial for JVC products, but a good visual explan...

October 29

Stan Ng commented on Scott's blog post 'Here's a tip for sound effects and music: keep one of these in your back pocket.'

Nice! You effectively had a sound fx computer.

October 23

Scott added a blog post

Here's a tip for sound effects and music: keep one of these in your back pocket.

Just trying to mix sound effects and music together and last night at the Media Center on Theatre Factory show, and found the easiest approach was to patch my (1/8-in stereo) laptop audio output into the board via (1/4-in) insert returns. (see ca...

October 22

Scott commented on Becca's video 'How-to: Studio Camera'

I just watched the switching, floor directing and camers episodes. These are great! These should be asigned as pre-homework for the studio class!

September 28

Stan Ng added a discussion

Canine Companions for Independence

Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit which provides service dogs (hearing dogs, or companionship dogs) to those who need them. They breed dogs for their suitability as service dogs. But puppy dogs are not suitable yet to be service d...

September 21

Stan Ng replied to Becca's discussion 'Documentary - My local bakery owner! (test)'

Hi Becca! - I am available 10/1 at 6. - I can do any task you've listed - I would welcome the chance to mentor others, and to be mentored, on any task, especially editing and interviewing.

September 18

Stan Ng added a discussion

Toastmasters Bay to Bay - 3 minute interviews every month

I produce a monthly 1/2 hour TV show, "Toastmasters Bay to Bay. Toastmasters is a club which allows members to improve their public speaking skills. The show has Toastmaster members speak on the show, and then be evaluated on their speech content ...

September 18

Midpeninsula Community Media Center now has groups

September 18

Becca added a video

How-to: Studio Camera

This video provides in-depth instruction on how to use the cameras in the Media Center Studio. Review this video to brush up on your skills or if you are new to studio production altogether!

September 18

Annie Folger replied to Becca's discussion 'Documentary - My local bakery owner! (test)'

can I help? sounds like fun!

September 17

Elliot Margolies updated their profile

September 17

Becca commented on Becca's video 'How-to: Floor Directing'

A Camera how-to will be posted later today or tomorrow. A DEKO one is in the works...but not sure of the progress of that one. But I love the idea too!

September 17

Stan Ng commented on Becca's video 'How-to: Floor Directing'

"Inside the MC" would be great idea. I can think of no better recruitment tool. What do we have coming up? and what do we lack?

September 17

Becca updated their profile

September 17

Blog Posts

Video Black Level "Setup"

"Black Level Setup" aka "Pedestal Setup" aka just "Setup" is one of those things you might hear bandied about. Here is a primer on this subject.

JVC Tutorial on Black Level Setup

Ultimately a commercial for JVC products, but a good visual explanation of what's meant by "setup.

Posted by Stan Ng on October 29, 2009 at 6:34am

Here's a tip for sound effects and music: keep one of these in your back pocket.

Posted by Scott on October 22, 2009 at 3:31pm — 1 Comment

Making a Film in a Weekend - Debuting at a Big Screen Near You!

So, I get this email from a friend Wednesday, saying he needed a film crew for the weekend. Turns out I had a weekend (relatively) free so I asked him what was up.

Turns out he had a special opportunity to do a film for the 48-hou… Continue

Posted by Stan Ng on August 18, 2009 at 11:00am

2009 Summer National Senior Games

http://mcmcinternship.blogspot.com/

Posted by Wes Rapaport on August 6, 2009 at 10:00am

Compressor and Shake - Speed up your jobs 9x using the Classroom computers!

Hey everyone. I've been experimenting with QMaster and Compressor and I'm finding that I can speed up long compression runs about 8-9x by using the classroom computers and turning on QMaster. I recently had to do compressions that took 2+ hours for a high-quality video, but when I run Qmaster, the run took only 16 minutes--so I could do several retries of my video in a couple of hours.

It's really easy to do. When in Compressor, you just click on the box "Use unmanaged services on other… Continue

Posted by Stan Ng on August 4, 2009 at 6:47pm

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