10,000 wax cylinders digitized and free to download

Posted Nov 8th on BoingBoing:

"The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed over 10,000 songs online for anyone to download, stream and re-use."

 UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive [UCSB]

Transferring Footage from the Camera to the Computer

Follow these steps for success:

 

1. Connect the camera
2. Launch Final Cut Pro
3. Create a New Project
4. Save that Project 
5. go to File>Log and Transfer
6. screen and name your clips, add them to the queue
7. edit and export
                             JOB DONE!

Video Cameras

Sony HDR-XR550VE

Sanyo VPC-WH1EX underwater camera

Toshiba Camileo H20

Sony DHR- PJ260VE

Canon 1200D 

Sound Equipment

Speak to Matt and Sophie about borrowing sound equipment.  They're happy to discuss your project with you and make some suggestions.

Green Screen Before Computers

A great video on the history of green screen - and a reminder of just how easy it can be now! So if you have any green screen ideas, run it past Sophie or myself. It's a fantastic skill to have, especially if you plan on studying film or media at university!

Matt

A bit of info on transferring your footage from the camera to the mac

Though it's for a Panasonic camera, the info here is in depth and explains the Log and Transfer function in Final Cut Pro 7 well.

https://www.american.edu/soc/resources/upload/White-Paper-Editing-AVCHD-with-FCP7-2.pdf

Lighting: Creating the Effect

A still from the thriller film Drive

An attempt at creating a similar effect:  coloured light, low key lighting with reflection in the computer screen.

Capturing stills from a DVD has changed on a mac

Simply taking a screen shot while the disk is playing with the built-in DVD player will result in this:

From the Mac users forum:

Apple has been pulling on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) reigns really hard.

It's a definite no go for any DVD Screen capturing (anything) using iTunes or their DVD Player.

Best bet is to use VLC.

Using VLC to play a DVD:

 

1.Click on the VLC player icon in the dock to launch

2.Go to File> Choose Disk

3.When the DVD is recognised, click Open

You will then be able to play through the disk and take screen shots as usual, using:

Cmd+3 for a shot of the whole screen, or

Cmd+4 for a target mode screen shot

 screen capture using VLC player to play the DVD

Tools for Blogging - Video Screen Capture

Check some of these products for live screen capture- they're free!

screencast-o-matic

webinaria

screenr

If you don't label your clips you won't be able to find them again

Here's a good article on getting organised for editing

One editor writes:

"There are two major concerns which I address in my system:

1. MEDIA MANAGEMENT Files should always have unique names, and never be renamed after capturing. FCP reconnects clips to any QT file, not checking for tc, length or tape number. Reconnecting when you got several identical file names – or if you don’t even know the file name – you bring chaos to your project.
2. EDITING Files should be easy to find, but also easy to backtrack – where are clips from the same situation? In large projects, I find a search takes far to much time, and the “Reveal Master Clip” doesn’t always work – especially if a clip is moved or copied to another bin.

I always log the clip before capturing. I make one bin for each reel."

tips for staying organised

click here for the link

musicless music video - an example of foley design