anablepo{blog} » video http://blog.anablepomedia.com storytelling though communications, design, & family Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:30:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Dinosaur Song by Johnny Cash http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/08/15/dinosaur-song-by-johnny-cash/ http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/08/15/dinosaur-song-by-johnny-cash/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:22:32 +0000 Robert http://blog.anablepomedia.com/?p=133

The final exercise in my After Effects Basic class for the Multimedia Design Certificate was to create a unique music video. To thank my wife and kids for the time spent to work on this project I selected “Dinosaur Song” by Johnny Cash. It was a fun short project in After Effects.

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This was a fun project to keep simple all of the way. There were times that I wanted to do so much more but it did not represent the couple well. So I kept it simple, yet with some class that After Effects can deliver.

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As I watched them interact with this video, I was in awe of how these photos brought him more to life for them since they never got to meet him. They understand that he lives in Heaven with Jesus.

I was also reminded of how precious each moment is with the ones we love. How do we love one another? How well do we love our neighbor? We are given a blessing to walk in the name of Jesus each day. It is my hope that I can continue to reflect Jesus in the lives of my children, to my wife, and my community.

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Some tips from my experience to help in organizing digital photos and scanned photos so that you don’t have multiple DSC0120, IMG5612, etc…

{STEPS}

  1. Create a NEW folder called YEAR. (i.e. “2009″)
  2. Create a NEW folder called TEMP within YEAR (i.e. “2009″ > “TEMP”
  3. Whenever you bring pictures off your camera, load them into your TEMP folder!
  4. Go through and delete bad, close to duplicates, etc…
  5. Using a program like Adobe Bridge, Google’s Picassa. Do a batch rename of all you files to the date created as YEARMONTHDATE (i.e. 20090609_001.jpg, 20090609_002.jpg or 20090609_robert heather in backyard.jpg, 20090609_grace abraham in the pool.jpg
  6. Tag each of your photos with keywords (i.e. name, place, etc…) Keywords can be whatever you want. The key is to use words that will help you in being able to do a search for photos later using the keywords assigned to each of the photos.
  7. Edit the photos as needed (i.e. crop, lighten, darken, etc…)
  8. Now you can move these photos to the “YEAR” folder or subfolder (i.e. “2009 > “01-03_Jan_Mar”, “2009 > “04-06_Apr_Jun”, or however you want to name you subfolders.)

The overall key is to first place the photos in a general TEMP folder so that you know these photos have not been looked through. They need to be renamed, tagged with keywords, edited, etc… Once they are in the overarching YEAR folder, you know that these are the photos you wanted to keep and importantly to find quickly and view the photos you were looking for.

Please comment if you have questions or other digital photo organization tips to share.

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This was a fun challenge to create an engaging video with text only for my Digital Video Production class.

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This video was for my Digital Video Production exercise three. We had to storyboard and film an instructional video teaching something. Martha was gracious to help me in this project and she did wonderful!

Ingredients

  • 1 pound of creme filled cookies
  • 16 ounces of Bakers chocolate
  • 8 ounces of softened cream cheese
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This was a fun challenging wedding video to merge the stories of two individuals as they join together into the wonderful mystery of marriage.

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Prodigal, an opendoor door series based on Luke 15:11-32. This was a fun series as me and Bryan Quintard filmed and edited a short promo film. From the video footage I used three frames for the series graphic.

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Tribute video for my father who passed away November 2005.

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