Chris Christie to NJ: Drop Dead
Closing the door… With a population of more than 8 million people, New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the USA It is also the second wealthiest state in the country, when measured by median income. Thus...
Read moreFinding Bibi – A Young Iranian Filmmaker’s Success
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPX7AfbCVBY&feature=spotlight[/youtube] Bita Haidarian, an award-winning Iranian American filmmaker fresh out of film school, sets off on a journey around the world to answer the big questions – who am I, where do I come from, and where can...
Read moreHow Video Can Save Lives
Just one of 20,000 Somali refugees who have arrived in Kenya this week… The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and...
Read moreTeaching the UN to Shoot: Why Hope CNN Shows Up?
We are here in Geneva this week training Public Information Officers for the UN who work for UNHCR – the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. These people have come to Geneva from all over the world – Congo...
Read moreFCP-X: Our First Lesson
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flc5TQ2pfv4[/youtube] and now it begins… Our Introduction to Final Cut Pro X on NYVS.Com Final Cut Pro X has been nothing but controversial Professionals across the blogosphere (and a few German dictators from the 1930s) have expressed their rising...
Read moreThe Day We Turned Our Backs On The Future – And Why
The high point of American civilization On July 20, 1969, American placed a man on the moon. It was the culmination not only of a decade of hard work and extraordinary engineering and courage, it was also the culmination...
Read moreWhy Is Travel TV (and video) So Bad? (when it could be so good?)
Grenada by Bob Krist Today we are wrapping up the USA TODAY Trave Video Academy USA TODAY is going to start building an online/mobile/tablet presence and a great deal of that is going to be video In this case, video about...
Read moreNY Post Goes VJ – Is Nat Geo Next?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LV6MtZIR8o[/youtube] The New York Post Around here we believe that the greatest career opportunities for video are in newspapers and magazines as they transit to iPads and mobile. iPads and mobile are, by definition, screens. And screens demand video...
Read moreConan Trashes FCP X
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Read moreUSA TODAY Video Academy – Day 1 in NY
first day of class Today we launch our first pilot session of the USAÂ TODAY Travel Video Academy USA TODAY is moving their content online and onto tablets and mobile. All of those devices are viewed on screens. And screens...
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