Business & Career Building
How To Succeed in the Business of Video Storytelling
You may have great storytelling chops, but it doesn’t matter if you can't help your client tell theirs. Nobody knows this better than Rob Shore, who began his filmmaking career in 2005, honing his skills as a creative director with an in-house video team in Washington D.C. before establishing his own video production company, Picture This Productions in 2015. Adobe's Eric Philpott spoke to Rob about the challenges of storytelling when it’s someone else’s story.
Eric Philpott |
Business & Career Building
Steps for Having Your Clients' Videos Translated
Business owner and Creative COW member since 2001 (!!!) Greg Ball has been providing translation services for everything from commercials to children's cartoons to feature films and episodic TV, and seen it make a real difference to these projects' success and his own bottom line.? Greg breaks it all down for you, including the pluses and minuses of subtitling and dubbing, and of outsourcing or managing the process yourself.
Tutorial
Greg Ball |
Corporate Video
The Holiday Gift List
In this article, CreativeCOW's Jim Harvey takes a look at a few items that might be on any of our holiday gift lists. Take a look and see if you agree.
Feature
Jim Harvey |
Corporate Video
Media 100 Producer: Media 100's software-only editor
Creative Cow's Nick Griffin, a longtime Media 100 user, switched to Final Cut Pro a few years ago. Here, he explores Media 100 Producer, a new software-only editor from Media 100. Media 100 Producer offers a mobile and scalable editing environment as well as FireWire I/O and Panasonic P2 acquisition capabilities. Ideal for in-the-field or mobile editing, editors using Media 100 Producer can shoot using their Panasonic P2 camera and immediately begin editing. In addition, Media 100 Producer can use media captured by Apple Final Cut Pro and Media 100 and output via FireWire or export to DVD or web. Nick explores this latest offering from Media 100 and gives it 4-1/2 Cows out of five. Why? read on...
Review
Nick Griffin |
Corporate Video
MediaFiler 2.0
MediaFiler 2.0 is a professional database software designed for the video production industry. It's an easy way to catalog, track, label, and organize your whole library of tapes and disks. In this article, Creative Cow Leader Aanarav Sareen takes a look at the software for use in his own production environment and determines that it is everything they say it is.
Review
Aanarav Sareen |
Corporate Video
Corporate Clients: What do they want?
Tim Kolb of Creative Cow gives some tips on how to really understand what your Corporate Client wants and how to deliver. He points out that: There are very few of us in this industry who can purchase a piece of equipment and have customers approaching us because of it. We must understand how to deliver a usable video/CD/etc., as most of us base our livelihood on our ability to provide a finished project that is successful. This is not a difficult premise, until you ask the question, What does the CLIENT see as being a successful project?
Tutorial, Feature, Business
Tim Kolb |
Corporate Video
Entering the Age of Expertise
Creative Cow's Tim Kolb, looks at our changing profession and offers some insights he's gained in his thirteen year career that has won him multiple ITVA, Telly, American Advertising, and Emmy Award honors. In the end, Tim concludes it isn't the kitchen that makes the cook.
Feature, Business
Tim Kolb |
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