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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April 22, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
For one of our online courses, we wanted to include some video testimonials with former students to discuss how the class prepared them for the real world. The only problem was that some of former students we wished to talk...
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March 29, 2019
By: Mich Donovan
Recently, I had the opportunity to make a short profile video about a robotics graduate student here at Duke, Victoria Nneji. The goal of the video was to compel middle school students to start thinking about college and their future...
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March 13, 2019
By: Todd Stabley
One portable field encoder that looks like a powerful way to deliver a live broadcast is the Live U Solo. The live U has options to interface directly with Facebook Live as well as a number of other destinations. It...
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March 6, 2019
By: Joseph Johnson
For a recent project I was assigned the responsibility of shooting and editing a short 1 minute promotion for the Technology Engagement Center. Initially I came up with a nifty electric laser title for the piece but it came off...
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