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MediaStorm Guide to Enhancing Adobe Premiere Pro’s Auto-save Functionality

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:December 3, 2012

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. Like Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro offers an auto-save vault. The functionality is similar. Premiere incrementally saves a backup of your project at a user-specified interval. To customize this feature on your Mac choose the menu Premiere Pro > Preferences > Auto Save. There are three options in this menu: A checkbox to enable the feature, plus two options boxes. One tells Premiere how often to backup and the other designates the maximum number of versions that will be saved before the application begins to delete the oldest ones. I like to save every 10 minutes. That’s about as…

MediaStorm at Unofficial Google+ Film Festival

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:November 30, 2012

MediaStorm is excited to be part of the 2012 Unofficial Google+ Film Festival this weekend. The festival will be held online all weekend on the UGPFF Google+ page. Brian Storm will be participating in the panel on Creative Music and Licensing with Cary LoGrande from Audiosocket at 3:30pm PST (6:30pm EST) tomorrow, Saturday Dec. 1. Tune into the panel online here. Also, find MediaStorm in the festival's online marketplace. The Unofficial Google+ Film Festival The Unofficial Google+ Film Festival is an online, interactive, live, international short film festival that brings the film festival experience into your home or any other location. The festival runs from Friday Nov. 30, 2012 at 11:00 am pst (GMT -8) through Sunday December 2, 2012 at 3:00 pm pst (GMT -8). Anyone with an internet connection can attend and participate. There are also live public showings in Asheville, NC and Los Angeles, CA. Filmmakers from around the…

Call for Participants: POV Hackathon 2

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:November 30, 2012

The PBS documentary series POV has announced its Call for Participants for POV Hackathon 2. Ten teams of filmmakers and technologists will converge for a January weekend in New York City to create prototypes that seek to reinvent the documentary for the web. The application deadline for filmmakers, developers and designers is December 7, 2012. There is no fee to apply or participate. More information is on POV's hackathon site at http://www.pbs.org/pov/hackathon/.

LA Times Summer Internship Open for Applications

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:November 30, 2012

The Los Angeles Times is accepting applications for their summer 2013 visual journalism internship. Applications are due December 10, 2012 and accepted by mail only. Details below. Summer Visual Journalism Internship The Los Angeles Times offers a 10-week paid summer internship in photojournalism. Interns will work side by side with photography / multi-media staff and editors. This is an advanced internship in which you will be working on multi-media stories and daily photojournalism for all sections of the newspaper including news, features and sports. Qualifications Applicants must be actively working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree. Graduates may be eligible if you’ve finished school within six months of the start of the internship. Internships are for students who have not worked professionally as staff photographers.Applicants must have a valid driver’s license and access to a car in good working condition. Candidates should have 1-2 previous internships. How To Apply Applications are accepted…

TIME Hiring Picture Editor

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:November 29, 2012

TIME.com is currently hiring for a picture editor. The position is based in New York. Details below. Picture Editor TIME.com is looking for an experienced and innovative online picture editor with a proven hard news background to curate visuals for the TIME.com homepage, site features, LightBox essays and photo galleries. Innovation and confidence is a must; TIME values team members who bring bold new ideas to an agile, forward-thinking, cutting-edge team – a team that is already refining the way it tells stories and fortifying a foundation for groundbreaking projects. The new picture editor must possess a mature understanding of how to visually articulate the top stories of the day. They must also be able to work efficiently in a team environment, often under stringent deadlines. Whether the ideal candidate comes from a print or digital background, he or she must understand – and embrace – the intersection of platforms and devices.…