Monday, July 20, 2009

Resources to make video programs and documentaries

We can easily record in many devices, such as HD Video cameras, iPhones, Notebooks, Still Cameras, all this footage needs to be stored and also produced with good graphics and overlays. It takes years and a lot of education to create professional quality programs. Now here are some tips to setup a mini production centre in your own home or office to get you started.

One way is to use HP MediaSmart Server to store various Videos, Still Photos, Music. This can all be streamed to your PC's, Mac, iPhone as well as being stored in your own personal server. Its like having all your media in cloudspace but physically stored at your own location and with your own privacy settings. Software products such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth can be used to edit video and overlay sound.

Zaxwerks allows you to quickly create animated titles that can be overlayed into the video, Digital Juice has broadcast quality video overlays and video backgrounds and many other stock images and footage to give you the professional touch and sparkle.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

#CanadaGoGreen

Design Media Creations has come with a new hashtag for twitter, Any articles, youtube video, ustream. Blogs, Facebook comments, should be prefixed with #CanadaGoGreen. This prefix can be used to group all commentary made in the Social Media and Networking social graph to promote renewable energy, sustainability and the Green initiative of Herman Scheer within Canada.

The more we see similar initiatives and hashtags trending on Twitter or any other Social Media platform over the following years, the more we can measure interest and may start seeing real progress and significant results in renewable energy, sustainability married with sound economic stimulant.

Time for Canada to use Social Media and take the lead in Green renewable energy

We all know for sure that there is finite energy oil, gas and coal. Now as we start to run low and demand keeps on growing and prices start to climb Canada is yearning for a change and a new approach.

We have always known more has to be done to create renewable energy but a major shift in Green thinking hasn't taken hold to the momentum and scale of Hermann Scheer green revolution in Germany. Slowly the trend is turning though, we now are learning to recycle much better, aware of making sure we care for local environment so that it is safeguarded for future generations, municipalities strives for more public transport money to invest in a greener infrastructure and reduce car commuters, there is a cost for each grocery bag.

Now is the special ingredient Social Media and Networking that is needed in Canada to tip and cause the Green revolution in terms of renewable energy to the scale of Germany and beyond, we know if we study Germany's endevours, many new jobs were created and the economy was stimulated. Social Media and Networking is great for collobrating, discussing, areas that need immediate attention, and making significant changes for the good especially when all of this technolgy is embedded in a smartphone.

More articles, action plans, positive results, issues needed to be flowing through the whole social graph here in Canada using Facebook, Twitter, Google earth, Youtube, Ustream, Blogs. Lets hope we can fasttrack renewable energy initiatives and start the momentum soon and take Germany as a benchmark and miss going through the hard way.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Video Renaissance is happening now

There have been many Renaissances in the past, most of them actually resulted in making humanity enlightened and paved the way for more inspiration. Another renaissance is happening now, it is in the video and media technology.

A new standard in video encoding has emerged H.264(Mpeg4), this gives the masses high definition and high quality streaming. This technology is being embedded everywhere, in video cameras, Youtube, Flash Video, Video editing and Live streaming, smartphones. With solid state memory also becoming cheaper and cloudcomputing, the possibility of creative video production is becoming endless. Flatscreen TV's and digital Personal Video recorder are becoming the norm, is it just a matter of time before even more innovation comes from embedding H.264/Social Media/PVR into your TV sets and bluetooth/Wifi technology is used to transmit video from camcorder to screen.

It surly is the most exciting time to be in the era of Video production, we now have all the right technology, lets see if the good qualities of renaissance happens in video production from the social graph and is different from some of the tired predictable Hollywood formula.