But not always. So trust your ear, too.

From the MediaStorm blog:

You can select from three Training Modules – a Reporting Track, a Post-Production Track, or The Making Of: The Amazing Amy, or you can opt for a full subscription that includes everything (along with other Modules that we’ll be producing throughout the year).

Along with Brian Storm, I host three modules on post-production. Topics include pictured editing, using music, and editing techniques.

For more information, see the online training site.

Fortunately, my system is still covered by Applecare so I called for support. Turns out, if you unplug your computer and let it sit for a good thirty-seconds, the firewire bus will clear. When I rebooted my drives were back.

Presto.

The entry describes how to choose the right font, make aesthetic choices that aren’t distracting, and perhaps most importantly, deciding when to add subtitles and when to refrain.

Check it out here.

The problem with command-shift-4 is that it saves the image to the desktop, an intermediary step before I attach it to an email message.

Thanks to this TUAW.com article, I discovered a solution. If you use command-shift-4 + the Control key the screenshot will be sent directly to the clipboard, making it super easy to paste in to an email while keeping your desktop clean, too.

You can read it here on the MediaStorm blog.

The first,  MediaStorm’s Guide to Backing Up, details our back up workflow using shirt-pocket.com‘s SuperDuper!

The second, is an extensive list of Final Cut Pro resources available on the web.

Check ‘em out.

Blogs

I blog here at ericmaierson.com, of course, and have also written extensively for the MediaStorm blog. (See the tutorial section.)

I use the WordPress plugin, WP to Twitter to automatically update Twitter when I create a new post.

I also have two tumblr sites. Tumblr makes blogging fun; it’s an easy way to repost things I find on the tubes.

I save pictures to my dropbox during the week then post on Sundays.

Finally, I am the proprietor of a single serving site, WhatIsTheMostImportantThingAboutMultimedia.com.

Twitter

I have three twitter accounts. The first is my personal and often neglected feed @gboy.  It’s neglected because I spend most of my time curating @MediaStorm. There you’ll find lots of links about photography, infograghics, Final Cut and tech news–particularly related to Apple.

Finally, there’s my pet project @FCPkeystrokes where I tweet one Final Cut keyboard shortcut a day.

I use the facebook application Selective Tweets which posts my @gboy updates to facebook if they include the hash tag #fb.

My Twitter tools of choice are Tweetie for the iPhone as well as the desktop version.

I post, however, using the web application Hootsuite. Hootsuite provides an excellent bookmarklet that when clicked automatically populates a new tweet with the name of the current web site and a shortened link. The only drawback is the link creates an iFrame on the resulting page.

Photography

Flickr is the main archive for my photography online. I also use the online editing site Picnik for last minute color corrections. Picnik can be set up to work from within the Flickr interface. For more information on integrating Picnik see Flickr’s FAQ.

Pictures I make with my iPhone, I email to the dead-simple blogging site Posterous which promptly posts them. Posterous can also autopost to a number of other social sites.

I’ve set up my account to post a link on twitter and repost images to Facebook as well.

Aggregation

I’ve just started using flavors.me which uses dropdown menus to compact your social network in to a very useful aggregation.

What Did I Miss?

I’m always on the lookout for new sites and cool tools so I’ve overlooked one of your favorites please drop me or add a comment below. I’d love to hear from you.

Here’s the essence:

People tell me they want to produce work like MediaStorm. You can. Yes, we are fortunate to work with many incredibly talented photographers. But the storytelling techniques we use in our work are not revolutionary. They’re the same techniques described by Aristotle in his Poetics, 2000 years ago. What’s different is that we work our stories. We watch and re-watch literally dozens of times, replacing soundbites, removing the inauthentic, rearranging, restructuring, often for weeks at a time. Sometimes it feels endless but in the end, it works.

And it can for you, too.

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