Read more about the article MediaStorm Field Guide Now Available in 18 New Countries

MediaStorm Field Guide Now Available in 18 New Countries

The MediaStorm Field Guide is now available in 18 new countries, including New Zealand and several countries in Latin America. The change comes as part of Apple's expansion of the iBookstore to these new countries in tandem with their announcement last week of several new products, including the iPad Mini. The newly-supported countries include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. The MediaStorm Field Guide The MediaStorm Field Guide outlines fundamental concepts for gathering multimedia content in the field for documentary films. The guide is based on MediaStorm’s years of experience shooting and producing award-winning projects. Serving as a quick reference for multimedia teams in the field, the guide covers important concepts from picking appropriate gear, to setting up audio correctly, to shooting b-roll and backing up media. Additionally, each chapter’s most important points are conveniently…

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Read more about the article Adobe Premiere, It’s Damn Good

Adobe Premiere, It’s Damn Good

Editor's note: After seven years working with Apple's Final Cut Pro, we have decided to begin using the Adobe Production Suite. We were early adopters of FCP 7 and considered making the switch to FCP X. In the end, we felt more comfortable with Adobe's product than Apple's FCP X. We know that many people in the industry are struggling with the same decision, so our producers have agreed to share their reasoning for the switch. Today's post from Tim McLaughlin tells about his experiences editing in FCP X and creating MediaStorm's first project in Adobe Premiere Pro. Eric Maierson posted yesterday explaining the overarching reasoning for the switch. These two posts are just the beginning. Our producers will continue to share their experiences with you on our blog. Also, they'll be posting Premiere shortcuts on a new twitter feed @PrProShortcuts. And stay tuned for the release of a new Post-production Workflow…

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Read more about the article Why I’m Switching to Abobe Premiere, not Final Cut X

Why I’m Switching to Abobe Premiere, not Final Cut X

Editor's note: After seven years working with Apple's Final Cut Pro, we have decided to begin using the Adobe Production Suite. We were early adopters of FCP 7 and considered making the switch to FCP X. In the end, we felt more comfortable with Adobe's product than Apple's FCP X. We know that many people in the industry are struggling with the same decision, so our producers have agreed to share their reasoning for the switch. This post from Eric Maierson explains the overarching reasoning for the switch. Tim McLaughlin also posted with some details of his experiences editing in both FCP X and Premiere. These two posts are just the beginning. Our producers will continue to share their experiences with you on our blog. Also, they'll be posting Premiere shortcuts on a new twitter feed @PrProShortcuts. And stay tuned for the release of a new Post-production Workflow for Premiere that will…

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Read more about the article The Wider Image: New Reuters iPad App

The Wider Image: New Reuters iPad App

Reuters has released a new interactive iPad app to bring its award-winning news photography to life. The Wider Image is an unprecedented news photography experience from Reuters. Created exclusively for the iPad, it gives users a new way to engage with news photography. With updated daily content, it aims to position imagery at the heart of the user experience and to realize the unique potential of photojournalism. The Wider Image includes more than 100 stories by Reuters photographers from across the world, and they'll be adding new stories daily. The app allows viewers to interact with image sequences, read expanded facts and quotes, get to know the people behind the images through photographer profiles and in-the-field witness commentary, and visually compare social, demographic and economic differences between story and user locations. Take a tour of the Wider Image app here... Reuters-MediaStorm Interactive Collaboration The Wider Image builds on two Emmy-nominated interactive news-photography…

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Read more about the article MediaStorm Receives Three FotoWeekDC Awards

MediaStorm Receives Three FotoWeekDC Awards

We are honored to announce we have won three awards in the multimedia category of the 2012 FotoWeekDC International Awards Competition. A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan, produced with photographer Seamus Murphy of VII photo agency, received first place; Broken Lines, produced during our December 2011 Storytelling Workshop received second place; and Rite of Passage, produced with photographer Maggie Steber, received Honorable Mention. A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2010, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy. His work chronicles a people caught time and again in political turmoil, struggling to find their way. Broken LinesJoe Soll has spent half of his life searching for his birth parents, in the process he uncovered a mystery that’s haunted him for years. Rite of Passage When Madje’s dementia proved relentless, her daughter Maggie moved her life to care for her. Maggie documented the liberation from…

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