Like many installments before this one, I created this week’s Izzy Video based on questions I received from viewers. In this case, since so many people have asked me about my sound equipment, I thought I’d get into audio this week.

Although I’m not an expert in sound, I was thinking you’d like to see the equipment I use…and then I throw in a couple pointers along the way.

As always, thanks for watching!

This video is available to members only.

My father and I have already registered for The Portable Media Expo on September 29th and 30th in Ontario, CA. I’m assuming that many of you might be there too.

Are you going? If so, consider leaving a quick comment on this post.

I’m done for the most part. I’ll probably do some tweaking here and there as I run into issues, but the majority of the Izzy Video upgrade is done.

I’m trying to improve Izzy Video as a quality resource, and the website’s new look is only part of the plan.

In this installment of Izzy Video, I demonstrate how to do single frame animation. It’s easy to do, and if you have children (like I do), you might want to get them involved. They’ll love it too.

The editing software I use is Final Cut Pro, but you could just as easily use iMovie or any other video editor that allows you to import digital photos.

As always, thanks for watching!

This video is available to members only.

Update –

Within a couple hours of when I posted today’s installment of Izzy Video, I received this great email from Dave Morrison. Dave, thanks for the helpful tip!

Hi Izzy,

I’ve really enjoyed your video tutorials over the last few months. I REALLY
enjoyed tonight’s offering about single-frame animation because I can
finally contribute back to you! There’s a MUCH easier way to do this
operation and you already have the necessary software.

Here’s all you do:

1. shoot all your still-frame images in just the manner you described
2. put them all in one folder
3. open Quicktime Player Pro.
4. go to the pulldown for Open > Image sequence
5. point it to the folder where the images are contained
6. pick whatever frame rate you desire
7. sit back and enjoy your movie

I’ve used this for a multitude of timelapse projects and it works great. If
you’re into a more “long form” video, here’s a site where they describe a
fairly inexpensive intervalometer that you can get to capture images at any
rate you want:

http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/Accessory.html

have fun,
dave morrison
st. pete, fl

Additional update:

Another time-saving strategy, this time from Ryan, who writes:

Izzy,

Good podcast, just a few shortcuts for if you are doing stop-motion (single frame) animation in FCP:

1) You can change the default still/freze frame duration in the USER PREFERENCES to be 1 or 2 frames (or any duration) so that when you add the images to your project, FCP automatically assigns them all the same 1-frame duration. (note: you must change this setting BEFORE importing the imgages into FCP)

2) Since digital photo cameras number the photos filenames sequentially, you can just select all the photos from the browser and drag them into the timeline. It will order the photos numerically according to the filename, so it will add them all in the timeline at once, and in the correct order.

Thanks for the great Podcasts!! Keep up the great work!!

-Ryan

The shownotes to The Anywhere Office are up, including a link to the show’s MP3, in which they interview me. Thank you Phil and Jason Montero for having me as a guest.

If you want to listen to the recorded interview, click here. I’m on for the last 30 minutes of the show.

Today I’m going to be interviewed on “The Anywhere Office”, www.theanywhereoffice.com, an excellent internet radio show. I’ve listened to their shows and they are very interesting.

I think they’ll be asking me about video podcasting and my background in video. If you’d like to listen live, their show will start at 2pm EST/11am PST. It lasts one hour, and my interview starts about half-way through. Just go to www.theanywhereoffice.com and look for the “Click Here to Listen” button.

If you’d like to hear it, but can’t be there for the specific time, there will be a downloadable MP3 in their archives later today I believe.

Anyway, if you hear the interview, please leave me feedback in the comments of this post.

What kind of show is The Anywhere Office? From their website:

Do you think work life balance is some type of circus trick? Have you spent time trying to apply the concepts of feng shui to your virtual office? Are you so busy that your to-do list has a table of contents, and you’re wondering if technology could help lighten your load? Then you don’t want to miss a single broadcast of “The Anywhere Office”! This live, entertaining and informative weekly talk show hosted by brothers Phil and Jason Montero takes a big picture approach to the philosophies and strategies of navigating today’s digital lifestyle. “The Anywhere Office” covers topics such as: work life balance, home offices, virtual teams, virtual offices, mobile work technology and all aspects of the changing world of work. While targeted at mobile professionals, remote workers, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and solo professionals; Phil & Jason’s knowledge, humor, and insight make “The Anywhere Office” of interest to anyone dealing with living a digital lifestyle.

This video tutorial demonstrates different techniques for dealing with backgrounds in video. As it happens, this one is all outdoors. I plan on doing indoor backgrounds in a future Izzy Video.

This is another one that’s for members only.

As always, thanks for watching!