September 22, 2010 Leave a comment
My own trailer!
Sean Cannell and Jeff Moors have put together thinkintl.tv/ . They gathers resources to bring hope, spark creativity, and empower ministries, churches, and organizations around the world. Sean found me on youtube and asked if I would like to be interviewed.
Visit thinkintl.tv/ to see the cool things they are doing.
September 21, 2010 Leave a comment
I’ve been having a lot of friends ask me to teach them how to edit. Editing is diffidently a learning process and it involves many elements . In this video I give a crash course to a few guys from church.
This short video is about some basic video editing equipment as well as discussing the pros and cons of using a digital SLR camera.
More basic editing videos to come.
September 15, 2010 Leave a comment
She places her purse on top of her suitcase and sticks her red kite in the front pocket. The 27 year old girl gets in to line to check in. As she stands there she wonders what the wind will be like across the earth. “Is that a kite?” an older man ask her. She smiles and says, “Yes, I fly it around the world.”
“Hi, I’m Monica, where are you from?” The tattoo guy smiled back at her and said, “Puerto Rico.” She imagined blue skies, palm tress and beautiful sun sets. “Wow, one day I’ll go visit you and fly a kite.” He looked at her strangely not knowing if she were serious. “Sure”, he said with a big smile.
A white car drove up with her two house mates and guy friend packed ready to take her to the airport. The young girl knew it was time for her to go, although her heart was torn in to pieces. She hugged her friend good bye and told him, “I’ll be back soon.” He gave her a half smile and sent her off. She got inside the car and said hello to everyone. Each person inside the car had become such great friends. Inside, there was silent. What was there to say to each other, all of them had been though so much that year and a half. Her good friend Annette turn on her Michael Buble Cd, “I’m coming back home.” At this point in Monica’s life, she didn’t’ know where home was anymore. “Ill come back and visit, I love Australia.”
“Everything looks blurry” Angelene said with the vintage camera up to her face. “Do you wear glasses?” Monica asked.
“Yes.” They both laughed as Angelene went to put her glasses on. “Now its better,” she said.
“So, I’m coming down for a visit, will you hang out with me?” she asked her Australian friend. “I finally have some money, maybe I’ll go to New Zealand and fly Mr. Kite, that would be so cool.” She went on facebook to track down her New Zealand friend that she met in college. She read some of his post and got very excited, as he was returning home around the same time. She messaged him and asked if he was going to be in town. “Wow, I’ll get to visit your family and see what the real Sam is like.”
(Special guest: Sam)
“Hey, wanna go to San Francisco this three day weekend?” She asked her co-worker. “Sure, drive?” Christina asked as she checked her twitter on her phone. The question had to be answered fast before her co-worker was discouraged with this obstacle, “Mmm, Let me ask James, he has a good traveling car!”
“Lets go to New York.” Anabel declared to the world!
It’s easier to believe that Mr. Kite can fly anywhere in the world than it is for me to believe in one of my dreams. I often think of the money that would be required…but not Mr. Kite. He just worries about the wind.
Its all about baby steps.. if you keep on working towards the goal, one day, you will get there.
Mr. Kite is a great witness to that truth.
September 15, 2010 Leave a comment
Senior editor at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. He is my mentor and he is very talented. I say he belongs in Los Angeles, but instead he has devoted himself to the vision of the global church.
I came across this great artist on youtube and since then became great friends with her. She is very talented with great imagery videos and amazing drawings.
The moment I saw Julia’s artwork I contacted her asking if she would design my first tattoo. She is great to work with and her drawings are amazing. She also has some awesome animation films. I love her style and work!
I have found this young photographer from New Zealand to be inspiring and encouraging. Her work is breath taking, original and creative. She is only 17 but far ahead of her peers. I enjoy her personal work more than her personal shots.
Sean Cannell and Jeff Moors have put together thinkintl.tv/ . They gathers resources to bring hope, spark creativity, and empower ministries, churches, and organizations around the world.
A great book to learn the art of photography. The book gives great insight, ideas, tips, and piratical advice on how to take stunning images.
September 14, 2010 Leave a comment
Every week the team and I create videos for the weekend. We also create special event videos for conferences. With that, comes lots of files to manage. I’ve often gotten the question, “How do you file manage?”
Well here are some tips that work best for me. First NEVER leave anything UNTITLED! When you are capturing, ALWAYS NAME YOUR CLIP, if you don’t this, it will bite you in the butt, I promise. So from this point on, name every file. Also, don’t save everything to your desktop! It will run your computer slow, and you will lose files in the process. The only time its okay to save something to your the desktop if you are in a rush and have to export something right away cause you have 5 minutes to load it up on to the screens!
Oh right, here we go.
Numbering your folders will give you control on how the files are stacked up. The colors will help your eyes navigate through your folders faster.
1: Announcements: Every week I create the announcements, so this folder is the most used.
2: Projects: All other projects I put in here which has sub-folders. We will get to that in a bit.
3. Elements: This folders is full of my overlays, stock footage, tutorial I downloaded, gradients I created, etc. I often use these elements for many projects. It’s the box of tricks.
4: Final Cut Pro Doc: I set my Final Cut Pro scratch disk here. Also my AE RAM folder is here too. It’s now at an easy location to get to. I often delete audio saves of old projects, old renders, and old captures to save space. (Make sure you WILL never need that footage again before you delete it, or have it backed up on tape.)
5: MB: I have a personal folder to place random things I create.
6: Monica File Share: This is a folder that I tell the other editors to connect to through the church network to grab videos or voice overs that I have for them or to give me their completed videos. They can connect to my computer at any time.
7: Scripts: I use the same scripts often for repeating projects, so having them all in one locations instead of with the project folder helps me find what I am looking for faster.
8: Pictures: All my photography photos are in this one folder.
- Everything is named by date. I also have a FCP temp file that has the same set up that I open every week and do a save as.
Having an EXPORT folder allows you to place all your completed versions in one area.
- I name everything differently. I name by ministry or event.
-Each ministry has its own folder with
-Audio folder
-Render Folder
-Image Folder (specific images only. For common images such as overlays, those will go in the element folder)
-You can see the FCP file along with the AE file.
-The AE auto saves creates a folder where ever the AE file is at.
When more than one video is required.
-I place numbers next to my folder so it can be organized. As you can see some have the same number. I did that so videos can be next to each other that of the same “family”. All the videos that will be put in the conference announcements have the same number. All the building pieces such as images, audio, scripts, renders also have the same numbers.
When you look inside the specific project folder you will see that folder the project is broke up in to parts:
Audio, Exports, Images, Renders.
I encourage you to learn how to categorize your files the best way that works for you. This will help you save time when you are looking for something and will also help others who work with you to navigate through your files. Customize your computer for you, I placed all my most visited folders on the side bar. Its great.
Hope you got some ideas.
Ive been a video editor since 2002 and a photographer since 2009.
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