Mandy Helwege made over $100,000 in the first six months of 2022 by Photoshopping pet pictures. She started a business called Seeing Double Edits. She would Photoshop an image of a dog next to an older image of that same dog as a puppy. This was started as a little...
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Cut On Motion
To cut on motion means that the subject in Shot #1 is in motion at the out point of the edit and another subject in Shot #2 is in motion at its in point, so that both subjects are in motion at the edit point. Cutting on motion can cover a multitude of editing problems...
Ten Commandments of Video Editing
1. Thou shalt not screw up thy client's job. 2. Thou shalt saveth thy project every ten minutes. 3. Thou shalt backup all sources, masters, and EDLs in more than one place so that thy precious video might be saved from eternal loss. 4. Honor thy Almighty Vectorscope...
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Charles Clyde Ebbets (1905 – 1978) was an American photographer who took the iconic photograph "Lunch atop a Skyscraper." The 1932 photo was taken as a publicity stunt to promote the sky scraper called the RCA Building. While there is some uncertainty about the true...
Storing Cables and Accesories
What a great way to store cables in these storage bags on a rod Find them here on Amazon.
The Best Life Hacks Ever
I discovered these wise gems in David Brooks NY Times column. He discovered them in Kevin Kelly's Technium blog. Kevin is a tech journalist who shared these for his 68th, 69th and 70th birthdays + + + When you have 90 percent of a large project completed, finishing up...
Sony’s $9000 Airpeak Drone
Sony's $9000 drone has retractable landing gear to avoid getting its legs in the shot. The Airspeak is plug and play for any Sony camera. The remote control can adjust any of the camera settings like exposure and shutter while you fly. Sony designed this quadcopter...
Gaffers Tape vs Duct Tape
It's still the same old story. A fight for love and glory. A case of do or die. Those lines are from the song "As Time Goes By (A Kiss Is Just A Kiss)." DISSOLVE TO THE SCENE IN THE MOVIE CASABLANCA. The battle between gaffers tape and duct tape is nearly as old. A...
How Many Ads Does It Take
If you've been reading this newsletter for a while, you know I have experimented with many marketing and advertising tactics for my video transfer business. I have used yard signs, newspaper ads, direct mail, moving billboards, Local Search Engine Optimization, Google...
YouTube Shorts 30 Billion Views
YouTube is focusing more resources into their new YouTube Shorts which is a short-form video platform designed to compete with TikTok. The new platform, YouTube Shorts, now averages more than 30 billion daily views, according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Alphabet is...
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