Archives for December, 2009

The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

I just finished Twyla Tharp’s The Collaborative Habit, the follow-up to her successful 2005 book, The Creative Habit.
Here are some of my favorite passages:
“A great partnership is a lab where change happens every day.”
“In any collaboration, no one likes to let colleagues down. Crisis focuses energy. When it really matters, people rise to the occasion.”
“All [...]

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Thomson MediaStorm, Reuters Foundation, and Red Cross and Produce Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope

Friday, December 25th, 2009

I produced the stories section for Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope.
From the MediaStorm blog:
MediaStorm along with Thomson Reuters Foundation and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) announce Surviving the Tsunami: Stories of Hope. The project marks the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami.Combining imagery by Reuters photojournalists with [...]

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10 Final Cut Keystrokes I Use Every Day

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Here are some of the bread-and-butter shortcut keys I use most frequently:
Command-Shift-A Deselect all.
Contorl-B Enables/Disables a clip. This is a great one to use when trying to compare clips. Stack one on top of the other and use Control-B to turn your alternative on and off.
Control – and Control = Raises or lowers the [...]

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Replacing Footage With Pixel Accuracy in After Effects or FCP

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Say you need to replace low-res footage with a new, high-res version while maintaining pixel accuracy.
First, create a new layer. Stack the new footage of top of the old.
In Final Cut, right-click on the top layer and choose Composite Mode>Difference. In After Effects, use the layer’s drop-down Mode menu.
Your footage will take on an inverted [...]

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MediaStorm and CFR.org Win Emmy for Crisis Guide: The Global Economy

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Crisis Guide: The Global Economy, for which I produced the multimedia overview, was honored with an Emmy Award for New Approaches to Business & Financial Reporting.

Pictured from left to right are: Jacky Myint, Michael Moran, Brian Storm, Eric Maierson, Jeremy Sherlock, Lee Hudson Teslik.  Image by bryan-brown.com

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Changes Coming

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

I’m about to update my blog with a new, more spacious wordpress template.
I’m not sure how long the house cleaning will take so please bear with me.
Thanks.

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Profile Piece on InnovativeInteractivity.com

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Tracy Boyer at innovativeInteractivity.com was kind enough to interview me as part of her innovative individuals series.
From the article:
Question: How do you drive innovation in your work?
Answer: I want to be a better storyteller. I want to be a better editor. I just want to get better. I never want to feel like I’m doing [...]

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Navigating the After Effects Timeline

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

One of the more fundamental challenges I’ve faced learning After Effects is how to navigate the timeline. While I can fly in Final Cut, I tend to putter about in AE. One of the obvious reasons for this is that the key strokes are so wildly different.
To help me through this new terrain, I compiled [...]

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