Video & Animation
Sony NX70 Tutorial
Introduction This is an instructional tutorial on how to operate the Sony HXR-NX70U. This camera, also colloquially described as simply Sony NX70, is a portable high-end consumer level camera that is also used by many professionals. This means the camera includes many automatic features for novices, as well as manual overrides that allows experienced photographer to…
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VIDEO TECHNIQUES BEFORE YOU BEGIN There are a few how-to-be-a-multimedia-journalist articles that are required reading for any aspiring new media journalist. You aren’t allowed pass GO and collect your $200 unless you take the time to familiarize yourself with these essential readings from the new media canon (according to us.) The list is always…
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iMovie is a simple, easy to use video editing program that comes free with the Apple operating system (it has no Windows PC version). Despite its simplicity, iMovie offers many of the same features – dropping clips on a time line, cropping them, adding transitions between clips, etc. – as more advanced video editing programs…
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There are many free applications and online tools journalists can use to make different types of stories, from interactives and graphics to data visualizations and maps. These are links to many of the most useful and popular ones and tutorials on how to use them for effective storytelling. Google Charts Google Charts lets you generate…
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Tutorial: Multimedia Storytelling: learn the secrets from experts By Jane Stevens Not all stories make good multimedia stories. The best multimedia stories are multi-dimensional. They include action for video, a process that can be illustrated with a graphic (e.g., “how tornadoes form” or “how this new surgery works”), someone who can give some pithy…
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