Apollo 11 TV promo

In 1989 I was young gun starting out in the TV business. I have always been a Space Program fan and I jumped on the opportunity to make this promo for WVUE-TV channel 8 in New Orleans where I worked at the time. I heard thru the grapevine they wanted a promo to announce the news special they were doing to mark the 20th (!) anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.

So I went home that night and drew an unsolicited storyboard to show the promo director the next morning. He said "do you think you can do this?" I said "yes" and thus was born my very first promo spot! This was made on a Grass Valley S2 switcher with graphics from a Dubner CG! Super old school!

Thought this would be a good way to celebrate Neil Armstrong's legacy.

Saints (Video) Training.

This summer I taught a Final Cut Pro class at the Saints Football training facility in New Orleans.

Even though it was off season it was still fun to be in the 2010 World Champion New Orleans Saints training facility and to be able to visit the locker-room.

The class was for the Saints Football internal video department and the online and social marketing department.  Their needs range from providing video feeds and highlight reels to broadcasters, to training reels, marketing materials and online videos.

We had a very intense and focused class touching on in-depth principles of editing, media management, compression, graphics and animation.  

I just wanted to say thanks to the guys at the Saints Football training facility in New Orleans for such a warm welcome.  In particular I would like to thank Jason Trosclair for booking the class and making sure everything worked great.  I would also like to thank Erica Dudas and the folks at NOVAC for scheduling and facilitating this class.

..and of course Go Saints!!

Bronze Telly Award

 

I am very happy and proud to announce I have just won my second Telly Award for editing on Reebok, Old Orchard Beach.  This was a big project which involved logging 35 hours of footage shot in 4 American cities.  I had 3 assistant editors help with ingest, logging and selecting the footage.  Wrangling all the footage and all the moving parts was a big challenge which took advanced media management skills.  Another technical tour de force involved seamlessly matching into footage sourced in different formats.  I cut a 28 min. mockumentary for Reebok that included interviews of over 20 people.  After cutting the long form piece, the client requested a 'hotmix' or 3 min. trailer, which you can view here on Vimeo.

The video was produced by David Wales at Ministry Of Culture and was written and directed by David Wales and Mara Marich of Aquarium Creative Agency.

Final Cut Pro at Mississippi Public Broadcasting

Just returned from teaching a great Final Cut Pro class at Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson, Mississippi.  I got to meet experienced and talented TV producers, directors, editors and cameramen
who wanted to polish up on their understanding of editing with Final Cut Pro.  It's always a great pleasure to have a class filled with dedicated professionals who share an understanding of TV production and post production. 

I wanted to say thanks to everyone for being so hospitable and friendly and in particular to Scott Colwell, Director of Production at Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

Final Cut Pro 7 Advanced Editing at UT in Austin

Just taught a great FCP7 level 2 class at University of Texas last week with the Digital Media Academy. The students were very motivated and skilled and we were able to explore in depth editing concepts such as color correction, proper acquisition and ingest, and media management.

Thanks to Rolando, Gino and Valerie for a great class and special thanks to Scott Hall in Austin.

Sound Track Pro cert