Fixing Poor Lighting in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a truly powerful editing tool used mostly for video but also still photographs.

This post shows how video clips can be lightened or darkened. Ideally, interviews, b-roll and other types of video shots look perfect when done in the field.

But should that not be the case, this brief tutorial found on YouTube can help.

Here is an example of using this Premiere Pro lighting tool to improve a video clip. Below are still shots before and after. 

In my video production and editing class I gave the students a basic first assignment to post a 30-second video. Introduce yourself and/or talk about what you like about going to school at SC State.  Pretty simple assignment, but one that also brings into play on-camera presentation and delivery and shooting, composing video and getting good audio.

Green Screen "Where I Want To Be" Prezi-tations!

This post combines two recent projects in my digital media class.  The student recently completed a project utilized our program's green screens in the TV studio and another room to put together a visual that shows where they want to be, what they want to do, that type of goal or ambition.

They are next going to produce a top ten list using Prezi.  So this post will show them how to properly embed their Prezi into a Blogger post like this.

At the end of my blog post last spring is the HTML code and steps to do this embed.

Social Media Timelines (Prezi)

Here is a look at the evolution of popular social media going all the way back to the mid-1990s with the advent of the internet. What will be the next thing in social media?  Stay tuned!



Just as an aside, a few years ago the Associated Press decided to no longer capitalize the "I" in the word internet. So now in official news and public relations writing just go with "internet." The AP has ruled that internet is no longer a proper noun, hence does not warrant capitalization.  Same with "web" when referring in short to the world wide web or WWW.

"Bluetooth," meantime, is capitalize because it is a copyrighted name.

St. Michael's Church Graveyard Kizoa

Here is a new slideshow I created using the free and easy Kizoa platform.  The slideshow features photographs I took on Easter Sunday at St. Michael's Church in Charleston.

St. Michael's Churchyard

This is a second Kizoa that I produced in class while showing students how to produce these slideshows.

SC State Bulldog Country

SC State Best Bulldogs Prezi

SC State is Bulldog Country!  Just about everywhere on campus you can see bulldog statues,  engravings, cravings and depictions of the delightful dog.

Here is a Prezi presentation showing my 10 favorite SC State Bulldogs

"Imprezzing" With Prezi!

Want to take your class or work presentations to the next level?  Still always doing PowerPoints?

Time to try something new and improved!  Try Prezi.  Here is an example of a Prezi presentation. Give it a test drive. You won't do another PowerPoint!



Prezi is free to use, just go to this site and sign up.
Need some help getting going with Prezi?  Here's a good YouTube tutorial.
Embedding Prezi Next presentations requires going to this site to copy some HTML code.
Follow the instructions and in your blog post switch from the Compose mode to HTML.

<iframe src="your_view_link/embed" width="550" height="400">   </iframe>

Copy this code, paste it in your post while in HTML, then copy and paste your Prezi's unique URL address into the red code above- only the red code and make sure you don't have consecutive
// (backslashes). It won't work with two.
The Prezi URL will look something like this: https://prezi.com/view/9QF9z8i0UrmbqVosMHCi/

Three Recent Comm Graduates Come Back to Campus Friday!

1 Lt. Jaylaan Riley, U.S. Army (Class of '17), Kris Kaylin Bennett ('16) and Breylon Jones ('15)- each currently working in broadcasting and/or public relations- will be the featured panelists Friday, March 29, for the latest Communications Club Speaker Series.  The forum begins at 11 a.m. in Room 208.  The campus community is invited.

Click here for more information.

 

Pictured, from left to right, Kris Bennett, Z-93 Radio, Charleston and the Charleston RiverDogs; 1 Lt. Jaylaan Riley, Signal Corps, Fort Gordon, Ga.; Breylon Jones, 107.3 Radio, Greenville