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5 Minute Guide to Video Editing

John Tynan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:52:37 +0000

Thanks to @AbsolutEvan for the help with Final Cut Pro. #cronk

Setting up a scratch disk
Keyboard Shortcuts:
b = blade
a = pointer
command+l = delink all audio
Alt+L = delink selected audio tracks
command+r = render
command+h = hide windows (yay!)

Inspired about Animation

John Tynan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:45:15 +0000

I came away from our panel on Embracing Independent Media inspired on multiple levels. One way that I was inspired was in the area of animation. Chris Hastings showed us a video entitled War Games by Heather Arment.

I had been thinking of how to approach an animation project that Rene had started as a result of her producing a segment of an interview she had done with me as part of putting together her Kindle Story.

Armed with Rene’s audio, and a new vision of how I could approach the animation, I put together this first draft of what someday, given more time and experience, could be pretty fun:

While I’m on the subject of animation and Open Call, I have to say, I cannot thank Chris Hastings enough for his understated, yet marksman like abilities as a technologist. He deserves a lot of credit for making sure our presentation ran smoothly.

Kino Evil

John Tynan — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:17:08 +0000

This past weekend, Rene and I went to a local casino to see the Neil Diamond impersonator, Jay White. It was super salt-o-the-earth fun. The next morning, we had an hour or so on our hands before we could order room service, so we decided to make a movie. Here it is…

(please note: people have been frightened by the presence of chest hair in this video. Next time we know not to film me with my shirt off).