2007 NPPA Photojournalism Summit

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The National Press Photographers Association's 2007 NPPA Photojournalism Summit will be held May 30th - June 2nd at the Doubletree Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. There will be speakers in three tracks of workshops: Still photography, multimedia and television. Speakers for the multimedia portion include: Rich Beckman, professor of multimedia design and production at the University of North CarolinaAndrew deVigal, multimedia editor for The New York TimesSeth Gitner, multimedia editor for The Roanoke Times and Roanoke.comDirck Halstead, editor and publisher of The Digital JournalistRichard Koci Hernandez, deputy director of multimedia and photography for The San Jose Mercury NewsTom Kennedy, managing editor for multimedia at Washingtonpost.com and Newsweek InteractiveDavid Leeson, executive producer for video and new media at The Dallas Morning NewsJudith Levitt, photo producer for The New York TimesRegina McCombs, The Star TribuneJim Seida, multimedia producer for MSNBCBrian Storm, president of MediaStormJoe Weiss, creator and developer of Soundslides Topics and times are…

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MediaStorm’s Guide to Restoring Preferences with Final Cut Rescue 5

Final Cut Rescue 5 is a simple utility that deletes Final Cut's preferences and replaces them with clean new ones. To setup Final Cut Rescue, first quit FCP. If you are using FCP 5, delete the preferences below: Users/[Your User Name]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist Users/[Your User Name]/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs Users/[Your User Name]/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/Final Cut Pro Obj Cache Users/[Your User Name]/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/Final Cut Pro Prof Cache Next, restart FCP, make some changes and then save your project to create new preferences. Open Final Cut Resuce and click "Backup." You've now saved a clean set of preferences. The next time FCP is acting oddly, close the application, open Final Cut Rescue, and click "Trash" then "Restore." FCP should now be good to go. Final Cut Rescue 5 is freeware. Learn more about our approach to producing multimedia by purchasing MediaStorm's Post-production Workflow. Spanning more than…

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Laith Bahrani’s “Everloving” Trailer

Laith Bahrani's new trailer is a beautiful sneak peek into his upcoming animated music video set to Moby's "Everloving". The animation tells a poignant story of a firefly and a prisoner who explore a world together, ultimately drawing upon raw human emotion. Torchlight Gallery is a collection of Laith's illustrations made in 2006 leading to the development of this project.

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MediaStorm Wins Webby Award

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We are proud to announce that MediaStorm has won a prestigious 2007 Webby Award in the Magazine category. Other nominees in the category were Salon, Nerve, Zink and Worldchanging. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites. The 11th Annual Webby Awards received 8,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.

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AP Digital Seeks Sports Multimedia Producer

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The Associated Press is looking for a Sports Multimedia Producer for AP Digital in New York City. From the job listing: This multimedia producer creates in-depth Flash-based interactive graphics focusing on sports and helps to coordinate AP's online presence in the coverage of sporting events. Strives to innovate and find new uses of technology to give AP subscribers cutting-edge design and new approaches to storytelling. This producer works with third parties and customers to integrate content into AP presentations as well as AP content into customer sites. This person coordinates with editors, reporters, photographers, graphic artists and broadcast journalists based in New York and around the world to produce award-winning multimedia presentations. This producer may be asked to help train other journalists in multimedia newsgathering. AP's multimedia content is published on major sites such as Yahoo and AOL, and hundreds of newspaper, TV and radio sites. For more information contact The Associated…

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