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MediaStorm Online Training Launches ‘The Making Of: Take Care’

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:February 6, 2013

We are happy to release The Making Of: Take Care, the fourth module in our Making Of training series. This new educational module invites seasoned multimedia professionals and beginners alike to learn about the decisions, both in the field and in the editing suite, that went into the making of MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop story Take Care. Take Care is a story about family, choices and reconciliation. It offers a glimpse into the life of Virginia Gandee, a 22-year-old woman who lives in Staten Island, New York. At first glance one is struck by Virginia's bold appearance; her bright red hair and the dozen tattoos that canvas her body. When she was 15, Gin left home to marry a 20-year-old she met online. Two years later, she was a teenage mother. Today, Gin is raising her daughter as a single mother and pursuing her dream to become a nurse. Meanwhile we see that…

MediaStorm Guide to Creating Freeze Frames in Adobe Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:January 16, 2013

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. Adobe Premiere Pro offers several ways to create a freeze frame from a video clip. Here are three options. Hold Video This is the most straightforward method. In the timeline place your playhead on the frame you’d like to freeze. Then create a splice (Command-Shift-K). Next, and this is important,select the clip. Then, from theClip menu, select Video Options > Frame Hold. In the Frame Hold Options Window select Hold On and In Point from the drop down menu. Your entire clip with change to your select frame. To review the original clip again, move your playhead over the…

MediaStorm Guide to Rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:January 7, 2013

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. If you’ve spent any time in Adobe Premiere Pro, you’ve probably noticed the various colors above the timeline. According to Adobe’s help pages they can be decoded as follows: Green: There are preview files available for this section that will be used during playback. Playback will be in real time. Yellow: There are no preview files available for this section. These sections will render just before the playhead reaches them. Playback will probably be in real time. Red: There are no preview files available for this section. These sections will render just before the playhead reaches them. Playback will…

MediaStorm Guide to Dictation with Apple Mountain Lion

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:December 11, 2012

Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. See his other recent tutorials here. I am a slow typer. I dread transcriptions, something we do at MediaStorm for every interview. Recently I discovered an alternative that's built right into Apple's Mountain Lion operating system: dictation. It’s quick, easy and most importantly, pretty darn accurate. To turn on dictation select the  > System Preferences... then choose Dictation & Speech. In the Dictation tab click the On radio button. Choose a shortcut key to trigger dictation. I use the suggested fn key on my MacBook Air. Finally, select your language. Transcribing To begin dictation open TextEdit or another text editor. Our application of choice is Barta Technologies’ $29.99 Transcrivia. (Built-in dictation does not work with Google Docs.) Then double click your trigger key. A microphone icon will appear. Dictate a sentence or two, then press your trigger key once again. The microphone…

MediaStorm Guide to Enhancing Adobe Premiere Pro’s Auto-save Functionality

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:December 3, 2012

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. Like Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro offers an auto-save vault. The functionality is similar. Premiere incrementally saves a backup of your project at a user-specified interval. To customize this feature on your Mac choose the menu Premiere Pro > Preferences > Auto Save. There are three options in this menu: A checkbox to enable the feature, plus two options boxes. One tells Premiere how often to backup and the other designates the maximum number of versions that will be saved before the application begins to delete the oldest ones. I like to save every 10 minutes. That’s about as…