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 – Part 1 – Istanbul: Parts 2 and 3 should follow… Soon.

During editing it took 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. Now that we have it we’re moving along a lot faster.

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 NEW MineWurx Studio - Home Voice Over Studio Wiring and Construction

The New MineWurx Studio

It’s taken us a long time to get the “look” we wanted for our new workspace. We’ve had it up and running for some time, but the studio wasn’t shall we say, “client ready” due to the fact the booth and the other little construction projects were getting in the way of everything else. Now, we feel good about the overall look and feel of the studio and even though we still have a way to go to have everything up and complete, we’re at a point where we can switch on the lights and welcome people in.

The studio, as always has been designed around multi-tasking and multi-functionality. There are 4 Windows workstations and two Macs. The Macs and a few of the windows boxes handle video projects. The Macs are also the primary graphics machines. One Windows box handles Adobe Audition, another does ACID-Pro and we use one of the Macs for ProTools with an M-Audio Axiom hooked up to it.
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Voice Over Isolation Booth Video – Part 5.1

This is the first part of a two part video detailing the final touches on our long awaited voice over isolation booth. The booth is finally done – and has already patched its first LA voice over session. I can’t believe were finally done…