February 3, 2020
By: Mich Donovan
[caption id="attachment_4192" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Insta360 One R[/caption] We've been experimenting in the 360 video / VR headset space for a couple years now and it's been fascinating to follow the trend in real time. In particular, we've been working with...
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January 9, 2020
By: Todd Stabley
Insta360 just launched their latest 360 camera, the ONE R. It's actually a modular system and not a single, self-contained camera. Only time will tell, but it seems like the ONE R could be an innovative approach to solving the...
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December 20, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
This year, I had the privilege of working with Mark Delong to bring his annual poster symposium deadline video to life. You can watch the whole video here: https://youtu.be/OGDSXK5crd8 Mark had a particularly ambitious vision for this year's video, so...
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September 16, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
They say the best camera is the one you have with you. With Apple's upgrades to the camera in the recently announced iPhone 11 series, this adage may be more true than ever. For most of our production on online...
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August 28, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
For a recent project, I was tasked with a designing a screensaver that had an ethereal pulsing background (like a less busy version of this video). It had to be 1 minute, loopable without any hiccups when it restarted, and...
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July 16, 2019
By: Stephen Toback
I needed to produce a short video about my department's role in building the new Karsh Alumni & Visitor's Center at Duke. One problem, I was 3000 miles away from Durham. Zoom to the rescue. The producer for the project,...
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June 26, 2019
By: Michael Blair
As part of our continuing exploration of new options for transcription and captioning, two members of our media production team tested the automated services offered by both Rev and Sonix. We submitted the same audio and video files to each...
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June 6, 2019
By: Michael Blair
The color correction tools built into most editing software are obviously useful for fixing glaring problems with variables like exposure and white balance, but spending a few minutes applying simple correction can make even decent looking video pop. Video scopes...
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May 30, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Producers from the digital agency Blueline presented to Duke's Video Working Group this month about their video production process and experience working with universities. There were a lot of highlights, but I've tried to consolidate their comments and takeaways here....
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May 1, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Another year, another Camtasia release. My thoughts on my experience testing the new features: Audio Leveling - this seems to be the marquee feature, or at least the first listed in TechSmith's marketing. Basically, you set a project to autolevel...
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