Archive for February, 2008

Izzy Video 80 – Intro to Particles in Motion

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Several viewers have asked me how I create the intros and outros for the different shows I produce. The answer is that I use Apple’s Motion. It’s extremely powerful, and in Izzy Video episode 80, I show the basics of how to use particles in Motion. The particle emitter is very useful, but it can [...]

How to play RAR video files

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Sometimes video files are sent having the RAR extension. RAR is not video format. It is a compression technology to shrink and archive files. If the file is very large it is sometimes broken up into multiple files which make up a multi-volume archive. A multi-volume archive will come with extensions like .rar, .r00, .r01, [...]

Izzy Video 79 – Improve Your Online Video

Monday, February 18th, 2008

A few months ago I ran a session at Podcamp AZ, and it was called “Improve Your Online Video.” It was an hour-long session, but for this installment of Izzy Video, I condensed it down to under six minutes. Inside you’ll find suggestions for how to improve video, and three keys (which I learned from [...]

Izzy Video 78 – Intro to the Soft Box

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Controlling soft light is difficult because it tends to spread out everywhere. For the first members-only episode in February, I do a quick intro to the soft box. This is one of the best tools for both softening and controlling a light. I show how to assemble one, and what it looks like on the [...]