Just wanted to let you all know that Nick Rivero will be teaching a FREE workshop on ProPresenter at the Birmingham, AL Apple Store on September 16th, 2010 from 9 AM to 11AM.

This workshop will be an introduction to ProPresenter, rather than an advanced session, but it would be a great way to connect with those of you in the tech world of Birmingham, as well those in other organizations around you. I will also gladly take questions after the workshop

The class is free, but you do need to register. Head over to The Apple Store at the Summit and then scroll down the page to “Schedule of Workshops and Events”. Click on the small calendar icon, and select September 16th.

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Lately we’ve been busy working with Belmont University and taking their orientation events to a whole new level… By doing so, our team meet with many of the different departments on campus and asked how we can help them bring a new professional look to their specific event.

The group we were most excited to meet with was Belmont Athletics, mainly because if you’re a fan of Orange Thread Media, you also share a common hatred toward the evil Lipscomb Bisons (yes, bisons is not a grammatically correct name, however thats what they call themselves.). Sorry, thats actually just what I believe… not anyone who knows us… but it was fun to work with anyway.

So we built this really high-energy event intro piece to introduce Belmont Athletics to the incoming freshman/transfers! Here’s a few screen shots.
 

 
 

 

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I wanted to share with you another new piece of content that you can pick up for your events or organization. I posted one a few weeks back called Sunbeam 3, and this one is from the same family… It’s called Sunbeam 1. (there are 5 total and available as a collection if you are interested).

It’s got all the texture, color, motion and simplicity that you will need to have great looking motions, and soon we’ll be rolling out the triple-wide versions of all 5 motions. [Read more →]

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In the grand scheme of life an individual, no matter how smart or creative, yields a very small amount of influence or power. When a group of people can rally around an idea or a shared interest they become a much stronger influence. The past three months I had the privileged to travel the United States with a team of people helping facilitate worship to thousands of middle and high school students with an organization called Student Life.

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As the speed and processing power of computers are increasing at a stellar rate, the thirst and hunger from live visualist to harness that speed is also growing. It wasn’t but a hand of years ago that I was enjoying the simplistic wireframe graphics of the now classic Pong video game. I remember around the same time seeing Disney’s Tron for the first time and being amazed as a child at the computer generated visual effects. Now as “grownup” artist I have a computer that fits in my hands that has exponential more computing power than any of the machines it took to render out the few short CG sequences in the original Tron. Now with software like Quartz Composer, Processing, VVVV, OpenFrameWorks, etc. some of the most visually stunning CG videos can now be created and modified on the fly.

In the past few blog post, I’ve mentioned how QC can be used to generate content. QC is not limited to just making jumpy little lines and circles, or sending synchronizing data over wifi, or acting as a translator from PlayStation controller to MIDI notes. QC also has the potential to effect a live video feed in the same way as it can manipulate a pre-rendered video clips in terms of color/ tint, blurring, distortion, speed, etc in real time. (maybe another Quartz Week?)

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hope you are enjoying the Quartz Week so far… we’ve got some great resources for you tomorrow that we think will jumpstart your journey in learning quartz… but in the meantime, we wanted to give you a chance to get your hands on a Playback Drive at a great price!

ONLY $275

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