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Matter Ventures: Exciting New Opportunity for Media Entrepreneurs

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:December 6, 2012

Matter Ventures, a new start-up accelerator for media ventures, launched this week offering financial, strategic and management support to entrepreneurs looking to create meaningful and profitable media businesses. The program is designed for media startups with multi-disciplinary teams who have early-stage prototypes, mobile applications, B2B media services, and content production engines. Matter will invest in entrepreneurs who show high potential to create media ventures that make a meaningful, positive impact on society while pursuing a sustainable, scalable, profitable business model. Startups selected to participate in Matter will receive a $50,000 investment, work side by side in a creative space in San Francisco, and participate in a four-month intensive acceleration program. Matter was founded by three media nonprofits—KQED, the Knight Foundation and Public Radio Exchange (PRX)—to encourage media ventures that make a meaningful, positive impact on society while pursuing a sustainable, profitable business model. KQED and the Knight Foundation are each investing $1.25…

Apply Now for January 2013 MediaStorm Methodology Workshop

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:December 4, 2012

Whether you are a creative leader, an educator, an entrepreneur looking to start your own media company, or a professional interested in learning how to build a foundation for timeless, impactful multimedia, the MediaStorm Methodology Workshop is the right opportunity for you. Applications for the January 14-18, 2013 MediaStorm Methodology Workshop close Monday, December 17, 2012. The Classroom The methodology workshop gave me time to stop and step into a different way of seeing journalism. I came away inspired by what's possible if we commit to a different way of thinking about stories. -John Temple, Managing Editor, The Washington Post The MediaStorm Methodology Workshop is a five-day intensive workshop held at MediaStorm’s studio in Brooklyn, NY. The workshop is led by MediaStorm founder, Brian Storm, with individual sessions taught by full-time staff members. Our workshop size is always small (under 15 attendees) to ensure that sessions are lively and personal. What You…

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…

MediaStorm at Unofficial Google+ Film Festival

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:November 30, 2012

MediaStorm is excited to be part of the 2012 Unofficial Google+ Film Festival this weekend. The festival will be held online all weekend on the UGPFF Google+ page. Brian Storm will be participating in the panel on Creative Music and Licensing with Cary LoGrande from Audiosocket at 3:30pm PST (6:30pm EST) tomorrow, Saturday Dec. 1. Tune into the panel online here. Also, find MediaStorm in the festival's online marketplace. The Unofficial Google+ Film Festival The Unofficial Google+ Film Festival is an online, interactive, live, international short film festival that brings the film festival experience into your home or any other location. The festival runs from Friday Nov. 30, 2012 at 11:00 am pst (GMT -8) through Sunday December 2, 2012 at 3:00 pm pst (GMT -8). Anyone with an internet connection can attend and participate. There are also live public showings in Asheville, NC and Los Angeles, CA. Filmmakers from around the…

Call for Participants: POV Hackathon 2

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:November 30, 2012

The PBS documentary series POV has announced its Call for Participants for POV Hackathon 2. Ten teams of filmmakers and technologists will converge for a January weekend in New York City to create prototypes that seek to reinvent the documentary for the web. The application deadline for filmmakers, developers and designers is December 7, 2012. There is no fee to apply or participate. More information is on POV's hackathon site at http://www.pbs.org/pov/hackathon/.