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MediaStorm Welcomes Joe Fuller

MediaStorm is excited to welcome Joe Fuller, as our motion graphics designer. Fuller is a motion graphic designer, filmmaker, and avid drawer. His motion graphic work on features for the Kansas City Chiefs led to two Regional Emmy’s and several nominations for in stadium and publicity graphics. Fuller entered motion design as a means to combine video with his traditional art background. Through designing show opens for Kansas City Public Television, team intros and promos for various professional sports teams, ad campaigns, and viral videos, he delights in finding graphic solutions that are conceptually and aesthetically sound. Fuller earned his bachelors of fine arts from the Kansas City Art Institute, where he was awarded the Digital Filmmaking mentorship award in 2011.

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Philippine Revolution Revisited

Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Kim Komenich recently launched Revolution Revisited, an online presentation dedicated to the 1986 Philippine revolution and its relevance today. Revolution Revisited presents 13 multimedia stories of Filipinos—from field workers to government officials—that Komenich photographed in 1986 and 2011. It also serves as an entry point for Filipinos that were photographed by Komenich in the 1980s to connect with him in his effort to learn more about the people and revolution he photographed more than 25 years ago. Komenich took more than 28,000 photos between 1984 and 1986 during four extended assignments to the Philippines for the San Francisco Examiner. During this time he photographed the four-day People's Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos and brought Corazon Aquino to power. Komenich was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for this work. In 2011, he started to track down the subjects of his photographs from this…

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MediaStorm’s Post-Production Workflow

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MediaStorm is pleased to announce the release of our post-production workflow. Developed over the past seven years, the MediaStorm workflow covers every phase of editing, from organizing assets through outputting final projects and archiving. Covering more than 200 steps, our approach efficiently streamlines the editing process with a focus on organization and creativity. The MediaStorm Post-production Workflow includes: The full 200-step workflow MediaStorm uses everyday with Final Cut Pro 7 Exclusive access to MediaStorm’s Apple Aperture Workflow, including information on how to best use the image management program in conjunction with Final Cut Pro Exclusive access to MediaStorm’s Final Cut Asset Parser, a tool we developed to quickly generate a list of asset names used in a Final Cut 7 project Time-saving software suggestions for transcribing audio, syncing and converting and editing video Integration of more than 10 MediaStorm tutorials to help you choose the right music, color correct your video, work…

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Worth Watching #73: Whale Fall

Creative use of puppets to explain what happens when a whale dies. --Tim McLaughlin Whale Fall (after life of a whale) When a whale dies, the story has just begun Directed by Sharon Shattuck and Flora Lichtman for Sweet Fern Productions Director of Photography: Artem Agafonov Music by Rachel's Band A video compliment to Radiolab's 'Loops' episode, in collaboration with Lynn Levy See other videos that we think are Worth Watching.

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MediaStorm Guide to Basic Color Correction in Final Cut Pro 7

Color correction can dramatically alter the look of your footage. With just a few steps, you can transform washed out video into vibrant and rich imagery. In most instances, color correction is best left for the end of the editing process. There are two reasons for this. First, there’s no need to correct footage until you know for certain it will be in the final project. Second, color correction often requires rendering, which can slow editing down to a standstill. Setting Up In Final Cut 7’s Window menu, select Arrange>Color Correction. In the Timeline, select the video track that you’d like to color correct. From the Effects menu, choose Video Filters>Color Correction>Color Corrector 3-way. You can also drag the effect from the Effects window (command-5) and drop it on the clip. Double-click  the video clip containing the effect to open it in the Viewer. Click the Visual button to open the 3-way…

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