Harrison Ford has in fact seen the Indiana Jones films before, but Dogfood Films created this video by using clips from a Japanese TV ad which shows Harrison Ford playing a video game called “Uncharted 3”. Discovered at HaveYouSeenThis?!
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5-min Time-Lapse Video: A Journey Around the World
Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse from Kien Lam on Vimeo. Photographer Kien Lam created this time-lapse video of his journey around the world. 343 days, 17 countries, 19 airplanes, 58 buses, 18 boats, and 6237 photographs later he had what he needed to create this video, which is less than five […]
Continue readingThe Village Voice lays off long-time film critic J. Hoberman
The once-great Village Voice is dying. Hoberman, an institution at the paper since joining the staff in 1983, is the latest casualty of the newspaper industry’s austerity measures. link
Continue readingThe dog was robbed
Apparently Rin Tin Tin received the most votes for best actor for the inaugural Academy Awards in 1929 but he got snubbed in favor of the human Emil Jannings. Susan Orlean, author of a recent biography of Rinny, is campaigning to correct this miscarriage of justice. link
Continue readingMust-see online videos: Op Docs from the New York Times
Short-form documentaries by notable filmmakers both established and emerging covering a whole range topics from current affairs to historical subjects. The film that led me to the series was The Umbrella Man by Errol Morris. It’s a short about the mysterious man holding the umbrella at the location and moment at Dealy Plaza when President […]
Continue reading3D Text in After Effects
LiveTut3DText3dStroke from Nick Campbell on Vimeo. Here’s a tutorial on how to create 3D text in After Effects. This is very useful for creating great movie credits and titles. It also enables you to give more depth to the usual After Effects animation options. Discovered at ae tuts+ and GreyScaleGorilla.
Continue readingHow to lengthen your sound effects by looping in Audacity
Here’s a short tutorial that show you how to lengthen a sound effect by looping it in Audacity. Audacity is free Mac, PC, and Linux compatible audio editing software you can download from here.
Continue readingThe Three Keys to Great Audio for Video
Do you want better audio for your video? This might help… This video shows the three keys to great audio for video. They are: Equipment Placement Monitoring Excerpted from Izzy Video.
Continue readingFinal Cut Pro X users: Be sure your external drive is formatted for Mac
Any Final Cut Pro X users using their external drive in the lab should be sure it’s set for compatibility with Mac, or they risk losing (or being unable to open) their work. We’ve had a number of people come into the lab to work in Final Cut X, only to have their projects not […]
Continue readingKhan Academy- free lessons
This site offers great video tutorials on topics including math and physics, GMAT prep, art history, and much more. http://www.khanacademy.org/ Some teachers are using this resource to “flip” their classroom, so students watch the Khan lecture at home and then class-time is used for doing the homework/problem solving. A great way to use simple video […]
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