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Continue reading →: Books I read in 2010
2010 was another successful year of reading! I read a good spattering of genres, including fiction, history, and instructional. I learned a ton, and hopefully a lot of it will make its way into my writing; I know the history books will. And that’s why writers need to read: to…
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Continue reading →: Edit Like Jesus—Save Often
THE TERRORS OF CRASHING Our team of editors at IHOP-KC have been working in go-mode for the past couple weeks. onething 2010, IHOP-KC’S annual youth conference, starts next week, with (at least) 20,000 people in attendance. Needless to say, we’ve been working a lot. Because of this, our computers are…
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Continue reading →: From Raw to Color Grade
The promo for the Joy album is nearing completion! I spent yesterday designing the graphics—or rather, I spent the day figuring out how to integrate the live footage with the CD artwork from the marketing department of IHOP-KC had designed. It took a little while, but eventually I came up…
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Continue reading →: Re-creating An Album Cover
My current editing project at IHOP-KC is the promo for the new album from Forerunner Music, JOY. It’s a great album and captures the songs that have come out of the IHOPU Student Awakening. Yesterday I put together the radio edit (a basic edit of the voice over and music-ups),…
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Continue reading →: Color Correcting & Grading
The reedit/redesign of the IHOPU 2010 promo is almost finished! I hoped to get it done by last Friday, and then by Saturday, and then by Sunday… and now finally, at 2am on Tuesday, I’m exporting the final video. The last hurdle is to send a H.264 encode off to…
