New Media

Postings on topics in New Media:

The Culture of Video
A few years ago I gave a presentation at the NMC entitled: Your Video Projects Suck, But That’s OK ’cause So Do Your Papers: Moderating Student Expectations When Teaching New Media In the presentation I outlined key aspects of film production for students who are working solo on their first project in an academic setting. [...]

What to do with all those photos?
I recently was on Applause with Dee Perry (link coming soon) talking about what to do with all those photos you took over the holidays. This is a quick recap with some helpful links. Edit Your Photos! First, you have too many photos – it’s great that you took so many but now its time [...]

Big Files and Portable Hard Drives
Big files can be very unwieldy. If you are working with digital video tapes you get some pretty big files (DV tapes are 200MB per min or about 12GB per hour). On a PC they are DV encoded AVI files and on a MAC they are DV encoded QuickTime files. They are pretty much identical [...]