Audio/Video/Photo Tips from CNN

Here are some useful tips from CNN on taking photos, shooting video and recording audio:

http://www.cnn.com/exchange/ireports/toolkit/tips.html

New Hardware & Software in Gelardin

The center recently upgraded some of its hardware and software!

• Final Cut Studio 2 which includes Final Cut Pro 6
• Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Premium
• The older editing room G5's have been replaced with new MacPro computers
• Six new Canon flatbed scanners have been installed in the Picchi room for image scanning

Saving/Downloading YouTube Videos

Here's a link discussing some of the ways to save YouTube videos:
http://mashable.com/2007/05/05/download-youtube-video/

Although the quality is low for YouTube videos there may be some uses for them in video projects. The comments are worth looking at as well since they mention some additional resources.

Final Cut Pro tips

Here's a link to some Final Cut Pro tips:
http://www.stephenschleicher.com/htm/tutorialsfcp.html

Tim O'Reilly on Web 2.0 and Education

Some comments from Tim O'Reilly on how Web 2.0 technologies can apply to education:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/web_20_and_educ_1.html

TLISI 2007

This year's Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Institute (TLISI) will be held from May 21 - 25 and a number of Gelardin staff will be teaching workshops. Some of the workshop topics include video and audio production and post-production, web design and photo editing.
http://cndls.georgetown.edu/tlisi/

Online production courses from the BBC

Some online video production courses courtesy of the Beeb:
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp

Multi-word Unix directory names

Here's my tip for the day. In Unix, To change to a directory that has two words like My Directory, enclose the directory name in quotes:

cd "my directory"