Travel - Human interest video - Benim Turkiye - My Turkey

We’ve been working on the railroad – doing 2D to 3D still image conversions and up-scaling 480i NTSC footage to 720p HD – below is our new version of the Benim Turkiye (My Turkey) video: The rest of the little movie should follow… Soon.

Benim Turkiye – My Turkey from Michael Minetree on Vimeo.

This is our new intro – entirely re-cut and converted to HD. We came out with 3 different versions – before stepping back to re-tool and convert the footage over to HD and create 2D to 3D conversions of the still images.

It’s taken us 17 months to finally get to a point where we felt comfortable that we’d be able to get the visual experience we were looking for.

All of the motion picture was shot on an old Sony Carl Zeiss Handycam NTSC camera and is as shaky as WWII gun camera footage. We’ve gone to great lengths to try not to use most of the really shaky stuff. To make up for it we switched to turning many of the stills into motion shots. It’s a lot of work, but so entirely worth it.

The piece is a combination of still and motion shots, and serves as the intro to the rest of the story – the discoveries I was able to make as I traveled with my wife to the Turkish countryside, through tumultuous parts of eastern Turkey to see the village she was raised in and meet her family for the first time.

The writing, voice over, music production and composition were done here at the studio using a variety of platforms – ACID Pro, Adobe Audition, Adobe CS5 and Vegas Pro for the NLE.

Spring at the Studio...

Sometimes we have to just sit back and think of things that have nothing to do with what we think about all day…

Enjoy…

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The times – they are-a-changin….

Below is a letter Digidesign-AVID (makers of ProTools among many other things) sent out to all their customers.

As you might know, one year ago we decided to combine all the Avid® companies—including Digidesign®, M-Audio®, and Sibelius®—into a new, unified Avid. Since then, we’ve taken steps toward transitioning Digidesign to the Avid name. We understand that you might have questions about the future of Digidesign and the product lines you’ve invested in. With that in mind, we’d like to share some information, answer some questions, and explain how these changes will affect you.
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The MineWurx Studio Voice Talent Directory – Enhanced Listings

Here’s a video describing the enhanced talent listings in our online voice talent directory. We just rolled out the feature and so far we’re very pleased. We hope you will be as well.

You can learn more about the enhanced voice talent profiles here.

The MineWurx Studio Voice Talent Directory - Open for Business

Our voice talent directory is now officially open for profile submissions. We’ve been taking submissions all along – but now it’s official – if that makes any sense. Here are some new features, benefits and costs.

As of today – March 24, 2010 – all current members of the directory were granted “Founding Member” status. There will not be any more Founding-Member designations given from this point forward. It won’t have any great meaning other than to let others know who the founding members were, but it can be used in search criteria to differentiate founding members in the search results. It’s our little way of saying thank you.

We now have an enhanced profile feature which allows you to display your direct contact information, your website URL, video demos and multiple audio demos. If you are interested in signing up for the enhanced feature please contact us to discuss your needs. Not everyone has video demos, which means some customization will have to be done to the enhanced feature display.

The base minimum for an enhanced listing in the directory is now $150 per year.

To check out more information about enhanced listings, go to the Voice Over Talent Directory.

There are two options available for the base fee:

Option #1 With Video: This includes account processing and setup fees, 10 audio demos and 10 audio demo updates, video demo editing and encoding for your directory listing, and “as you need it” FTP access for file uploads and downloads.

Option #2 Without Video: This includes account processing and setup fees, unlimited demos and 10 demo updates, the creation of a video place-holder for your directory listing, and “as you need it” FTP access for file uploads and downloads. This means that voice talent without video demos to promote can add unlimited audio demos to their profile for the same annual fee. To see an enhanced profile in action go here and look for the “Click here for more” link.

We are also offering a 3rd option with unlimited audio demos, unlimited audio demo updates and video demo editing and display for $200 per year. These accounts also come with “as you need it” FTP access for file uploads and downloads.

Here’s the bonus: If you don’t make your directory fee back within the first year of enhanced directory membership we’ll give you your second year listing free of charge. How’s that for a promise? This way you get a little security with your purchase.

We’ll be adding some new enhanced features as time goes on, so expect there to be more in the near future. Enhanced directory members also get personalized customer service from industry pro’s. We’ll help with your graphics, we’ll help with your audio, we’ll help with your video. Anything to see that you’re represented in the best possible light in the directory.

Basic listings in the directory are still free. To submit for inclusion in the directory you can go here:

If you have any questions at all about directory membership or inclusion in the enhanced feature – please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Voice Over Talent Directory Updates…Take 2…

We’ re about this close, you can’t see my fingers but they’re really close together, to re-opening our voice over talent directory for new submissions. It’s been undergoing a major facelift… Better than Kenny Rogers’ work… The links are already up to the new directory on the main page.

Come check it out….

Voice Over Talent Directory Updates…

Our Voice Over Talent Directory is undergoing some re-design work – so if you have recently submitted your name to the directory and you don’t see it listed be patient. Go ahead and continue to submit. Soon enough we’ll have the other design up and it will be a whole lot better!!