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  • Adventures in our Nation’s Capital

    Just returned from a grueling,longer-than-expected trip in Washington, D.C.  It wasn’t all for naught – though I had to wait until Friday for a series of grueling job interviews that had been scheduled for Monday, it resulted in a job offer. And while I waited, I snagged some video footage of the DC blizzard –…

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  • Searching for a Soundtrack

    Debunking common myths about music for video editing, followed by a long list of free and / or inexpensive sources of music for your video project.

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  • Animation How-To Videos

    One of my discoveries this week on Vimeo was an excellent series of how-to videos by Carleton Torbin.  I’m guessing he made a short film with lots of different kinds of animation, and followed up with the series of how-tos, as a kind of “the making of” series.  I could have it backward.  Other than…

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  • Washington DC meets Bonanza

    Sharing how I created a bonanza-like “unburning” credit, overlaid over several other images, with multiple chroma key or “green screen” effects – using basic home editing software and materials you can find around the house.

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  • TimeLapse on Vimeo

    I’ve been continuing to research better timelapse video, and found a great channel on Vimeo. I could sit and watch these all day!  I’m concluding the best way to do landscape/nature timelapse where you may be operating in low light is (besides expensive gear) to record individual frames at specified time intervals, ratherthan simply recording…

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