It’s the End of the World as We Know It…

I posted a fun little video about creating a shoulder mount rig for the iPhone 3G S on Friday. You can see it here. While done in a tongue and cheek way, the most important thing for Pros watching the video is actually the first minute. I was dead serious there. The new iPhone is […]

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Managing and Archiving Your Photos

Image via Wikipedia Introduction This is first in a series of articles that will review options in managing and archiving your photos. Closely related to the overall topic of Digital Asset Management, “Managing and Archiving Your Photos” will show you options available, how to choose what is best for you, how to build a management […]

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Using Keywords to Kick the Bucket System of Organization

When dealing with digital photos, it extremely important to develop an organizational system that’s intuitive and easy to use. This is not only due to the high number number of images today’s photographers are shooting, but also because of the digital nature of all of the images. This type of organization is referred to as […]

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So Why Can't Major Record Labels Provide Accurate Accounting To Bands?

Image via Wikipedia from the because-that-would-mean-paying-them-accurately deptThe more you learn about the way major record labels work, the more ridiculous it seems. Unlike pretty much every other creative deal making situation, musicians who sign major record label contracts basically hand over all their rights to the label. The label gets the copyright. It gets to […]

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That DAM Show

http://www.thatdamshow.com/ Welcome toThat DAM Show. The podcast covers content and digital media management for the Internet, publishing, broadcast, and anywhere else media is preserved, monetized, archived or managed. We hope you enjoy the show and join in the conversation. About the hosts: Dan McGraw Dan is Founder/President of Seven Dials Media, a DAM/media workflow consultancy. […]

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The iPhone 3G S can’t really EDIT video!

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Okay, let’s get one thing straight about the new Apple iPhone 3G S … it can’t edit the video it shoots. What it can do is trim the beginning and end of each and every clip. That may just be semantics talking but I’ve seen lots of stuff on the Interweb saying that you can […]

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Take the Adobe Non-Linear Editing Software Survey

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Adobe has recently posted an online survey about non-linear editing software. The link was floating around Twitter and it’s a great survey to share with the rest of the editing community. There’s a lot of questions focusing on 64-bit support and workflow. It’s great to see Adobe reaching out to the community and hopefully they […]

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Mikey Hands On: Migrating from iPhone 0G to iPhone 3GS

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So I skipped the 3G since it wasn’t different enough, but the 3GS and the end of my contract (I was one of those Day Zero, $600 mow-ronns), but REAL GPS (with direction), 4 times the capacity, voice commands, better camera with video was enough to convince me. Happy discoveries: new and improved headphone cord […]

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ToonBoom Special San Francisco Event Monday

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I love toying around with ToonBoom. As there’s lots of interaction with video and animation, this might be a great little event next week if you live in the Bay Area. Here’s the scoop: Toon Boom CEO Joan Vogelesang and CTO Francisco Del Cueto will be presenting “More for Less”. As the animation software global […]

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Learn Flash and After Effects Essentials for Free

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I recently co-authored a book that seeks to bridge the gap between Flash and After Effects. The book shows all sorts of ways to use the two applications together. My publisher just released two free chapters with hands-on files for practice. These chapters teach an AE user Flash and a Flash user AE. Feel free […]

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