A summary of the 2015 Storage in Media Survey Results conducted by Coughlin & Associates. Storage is essential to all digital media and this survey provides a snapshot of how it is being used across our industry today. (Included detailed PDF.)
Brief book review of: “The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging” by Blain Brown.
An essay on finding ways to set client expectations, and budgets, on creative projects.
Thoughts on technology that is making optical media obsolete and the impact that will have on media creators. This also provides options to consider when planning for the future.
This twelve-step workflow organizes your editing to focus on doing critical tasks first.
The seven basic ideas you need to think about before starting your own creative company.
Some good tips to keep in mind when you are interviewing someone on camera.
10 Rules to keep in mind when you are interviewed about technology products.
Ben Balser, an Apple-Certified Trainer for Digital Media, sent me the following commentary on investing the time to get trained. By way of background, Ben is a long-time educator and trainer.
Regardless of the video format we edit, understanding storage speeds and capacity, along with the data requirements of video can prevent a lot of problems. This is a detailed explanation of storage types, bandwidth, capacity and video codecs. You don’t need to memorize this, but you do need to keep it handy.
These thoughts have been bubbling around my head for the last few months, but developed into an article as I was trying to learn a particularly tricky piece of software. After reading the manual, watching the tutorials, and taking the training, I was more confused than ever. This article is an attempt to discuss how to create effective training, and specific techniques to avoid.
Here are a series of tips, gleaned from lots and lots of painful experience, that can help you find and land a great post-production job.
Editing is both a craft and business. Which means that, unless you are independently wealthy, you need to find a way to make money at it. This article describes how to calculate the rates you charge for editing, for the use of your equipment, and how to handle travel expenses. As well as provide a link to a tutorial I’ve created with more tips on how to grow your business.
Here’s a short, interesting discussion of key things to keep in mind as you pursue free-lance work from corporate clients. This includes a list of questions to ask before starting any project.
