And here is Wednesday's (4/30) schedule:
10:00 am Olivia Everett
10:30 am Ana Shepherd
11:00 am Andy Hogan
Noon: Cameron Parkins
1:00 pm Cynthia LeFevre
2:30 pm Sara Epperson
3:00 pm Mike Allison
3:30 pm Freddie Wong
4:00 pm Evan Bregman
4:30 pm Leanne Joyce
5:00 pm Matt Jung
5:30 pm Isomi Miake-Lye
6:00 pm Erik Gieszelmann
Monday, April 28, 2008
Filmic Interview Schedule with DJ// TUES
Hi Gang--
As promised, here is the interview schedule which DJ will conduct with you on Tues for my class, Wed for Anne's. He will do all of them in the podcasting room (which is also the sound room, next to Mike Jones's office). Again, MY CLASS MEETS 5/6 @ 5 PM Blue Lab and no formal meeting tomorrow (4/29):
TUES 4/29
11:00 am Tiffany Ikeda
12:30 pm Rachel Kerry
3:00 pm Jessica Janner
3:30 pm Xing Chen
4:00 pm Matt Lee
4:30 pm Ash Hsieh
5:00 pm Matt Gerhardt
5:30 pm Sonia Seetharaman
6:00 pm John Visclosky
6:30 pm Pat Skelly
7:00 pm Alexis Lindquist
7:30 pm Dustin Johnson
8:00 pm Beth Nakasone
As promised, here is the interview schedule which DJ will conduct with you on Tues for my class, Wed for Anne's. He will do all of them in the podcasting room (which is also the sound room, next to Mike Jones's office). Again, MY CLASS MEETS 5/6 @ 5 PM Blue Lab and no formal meeting tomorrow (4/29):
TUES 4/29
11:00 am Tiffany Ikeda
12:30 pm Rachel Kerry
3:00 pm Jessica Janner
3:30 pm Xing Chen
4:00 pm Matt Lee
4:30 pm Ash Hsieh
5:00 pm Matt Gerhardt
5:30 pm Sonia Seetharaman
6:00 pm John Visclosky
6:30 pm Pat Skelly
7:00 pm Alexis Lindquist
7:30 pm Dustin Johnson
8:00 pm Beth Nakasone
cleaning up your thesis project...
Hey gang. Please go over your projects with the following advice in mind. Dave Lopez looked at each and gave me this list of common issues. We will discuss the final upload/date this week and Dave will be available to meet with you if you have issues/concerns.
(Tues class, remember we don't formally meet this week but you see DJ for your appointed interview--schedule to be posted soon--and then we meet next Tuesday, May 6, at 5 pm).
Also, I shared a Google spread sheet with everyone which is set up to take your thesis parameter sentences. A few of you have completed it already but it needs to befinished by the end of this week. (If you didn't get it, ping me--they were shared with the USC addresses from our roster.)
(from Dave)
Optimization is basically making sure your project isn’t huge.
IMAGES:
-Some websites have images which don't look as sharp as they can. Try using JPGs
-Some Flash projects have imported large images which are driving the SWF's size up.
From what I've seen, there shouldn't be a single Flash project over 2 MB.
-In Photoshop, open your source images, resize them to the appropriate size and do a File > Save for Web. Press the 4-Up tab and you'll be able to compare different compressions, choose the one that gives you the
best size to quality ratio.
-You don't want something pixellated anywhere (unless that's part of your design)
-You don't want a thumbnail that's over 500 Kb
VIDEO:
-This is the biggest resource hog in projects. H.264 and AAC compression is great, but not always enough.
-Videos should be resized (dimension-wise) to the appropriate size before being imported or streamed into projects
-Sometimes it is possible to successfully upscale a video in your software, further reducing your project's size.
-720x480 video is way too big for anything online (read: no one does that....anywhere). 400x300 is usually good.
-The biggest determining factor in all video compression is bitrate. You'll have to play with this number to get good results.
SOUND:
-MP3s at 48,000 Khz and 128 kbps sound great, but so do MP3s at 44,100 Khz and 96 kbps
-If its an interview or narration, play with smaller numbers to see how well things sound, i.e.: 32,000 Khz and 80 kbps, Mono
TYPOS:
-Read over your project, then ask a friend to read over your project since when you have worked so hard with these screens, you tend to read right over typos. A second set of eyes helps to catch these.
FONTS:
-Some projects had inconsistent fonts. For instance certain fonts in captions on video were different than fonts used in the video's
shell project
-A few projects had fonts that were pixellated. That can be fixed by simply outputting those images of text at slightly higher quality.
TITLE/ACTION SAFE:
-Some video projects had issues with chyrons (captions) not being set to Title or Action Safe
-Make sure your captions, titles, chyrons, etc in videos always fall within these boundaries otherwise, they will be cut off when the project is transferred in any way to a TV.
-Avid, Final Cut, After Effects, Motion and all other NLEs have toggles for Title/Action Safe boundaries
(Tues class, remember we don't formally meet this week but you see DJ for your appointed interview--schedule to be posted soon--and then we meet next Tuesday, May 6, at 5 pm).
Also, I shared a Google spread sheet with everyone which is set up to take your thesis parameter sentences. A few of you have completed it already but it needs to befinished by the end of this week. (If you didn't get it, ping me--they were shared with the USC addresses from our roster.)
(from Dave)
Optimization is basically making sure your project isn’t huge.
IMAGES:
-Some websites have images which don't look as sharp as they can. Try using JPGs
-Some Flash projects have imported large images which are driving the SWF's size up.
From what I've seen, there shouldn't be a single Flash project over 2 MB.
-In Photoshop, open your source images, resize them to the appropriate size and do a File > Save for Web. Press the 4-Up tab and you'll be able to compare different compressions, choose the one that gives you the
best size to quality ratio.
-You don't want something pixellated anywhere (unless that's part of your design)
-You don't want a thumbnail that's over 500 Kb
VIDEO:
-This is the biggest resource hog in projects. H.264 and AAC compression is great, but not always enough.
-Videos should be resized (dimension-wise) to the appropriate size before being imported or streamed into projects
-Sometimes it is possible to successfully upscale a video in your software, further reducing your project's size.
-720x480 video is way too big for anything online (read: no one does that....anywhere). 400x300 is usually good.
-The biggest determining factor in all video compression is bitrate. You'll have to play with this number to get good results.
SOUND:
-MP3s at 48,000 Khz and 128 kbps sound great, but so do MP3s at 44,100 Khz and 96 kbps
-If its an interview or narration, play with smaller numbers to see how well things sound, i.e.: 32,000 Khz and 80 kbps, Mono
TYPOS:
-Read over your project, then ask a friend to read over your project since when you have worked so hard with these screens, you tend to read right over typos. A second set of eyes helps to catch these.
FONTS:
-Some projects had inconsistent fonts. For instance certain fonts in captions on video were different than fonts used in the video's
shell project
-A few projects had fonts that were pixellated. That can be fixed by simply outputting those images of text at slightly higher quality.
TITLE/ACTION SAFE:
-Some video projects had issues with chyrons (captions) not being set to Title or Action Safe
-Make sure your captions, titles, chyrons, etc in videos always fall within these boundaries otherwise, they will be cut off when the project is transferred in any way to a TV.
-Avid, Final Cut, After Effects, Motion and all other NLEs have toggles for Title/Action Safe boundaries
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Posting Projects
From Willy: Instructions on posting your project to your IML account:
Students can show their work publically using the root of their ftp space. The url they will use is:
http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/portfolios/ (i.e. http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/portfolios/gparedes/)
As far as FTP Settings, the instructions are on the wiki ( https://imlwiki.usc.edu:8443/display/student/FTP+Server+Instrutions)
1. Open your FTP client (i.e. Fetch)
2. Type ftps server address (imlftp.usc.edu)
3. Set the Connect Using to FTP with TLS/SSL
4. Type your UserName and Password (same as IML portal)
5. Done
Students can show their work publically using the root of their ftp space. The url they will use is:
http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/portfolios/
As far as FTP Settings, the instructions are on the wiki ( https://imlwiki.usc.edu:8443/display/student/FTP+Server+Instrutions)
1. Open your FTP client (i.e. Fetch)
2. Type ftps server address (imlftp.usc.edu)
3. Set the Connect Using to FTP with TLS/SSL
4. Type your UserName and Password (same as IML portal)
5. Done
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