Naples Video Production

Post production also involves editing and can be referred to as that. Once you have all the footage you need it’s time to make sense of it all and piece it together to tell the story.

Editing is much easier since computers took over the process. Editing software makes things much easier to manage and allows for much more powerful editing to take place. Once the footage has been digitized and copied it’s time to start work. I shouldn’t need to mention it, but keep a copy of the original footage somewhere, preferably on an external hard drive or somewhere separate. Mistakes happen. It’s easier to redo an edit that have to redo the whole shoot.

When editing the footage, bear in mind the overall goal of the piece and the intended audience. Don’t be tempted to overdo the special effects, transitions or be too fancy. To begin with, keep it simple, you can always add embellishments later if you need to. It’s easier to add effects than take them away, so reign in your enthusiasm and be conservative to begin with.

The technical aspects of editing involve making the piece title safe, i.e. to make sure it fits within the screen. It can be re-edited for 4:3 or 10:9 after the initial edit is complete. The audio levels also have to be controlled from here. There needs to be a constant level otherwise the audience will pick it up and probably turn off. Titles and credits need to be added too, like the name and title of a speaker in a formal piece, the classic “Two years later” caption in a movie or other text element that needs to feature.

The cut is the most used editing tool there is. It involves cutting from one shot or scene directly to another. Any budding editor needs to get this right before moving on to anything else. The fade is probably the second most popular tool, where one shot fades into another a little slower than a cut.

Insert editing is another technique that an editor needs to know to make interesting videos. It’s where a master audio track is run but visual scenes are cut in as it’s happening. For example, the wedding vows, the audio of the couple taking the vows runs in the background while clips of the family and friends are cut in to see reactions. The scene remains cohesive because of the audio track, but different points of view are explored alongside it.

Editing can also mean dubbing in sound. Often the sound acquired at the shoot isn’t used because of interference, or the difficulty of placing microphones so a technique called “Foley” is used where the sound is dubbed in post production to complete the soundtrack.

So that’s it for our three-part overview of video production. You now have a rough idea of what pre-production, production and post production entails, and the amount of work that goes into making even the most simple video. Hope you found it useful.

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KHARTOUM, Sudan – A 16-year-old south Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said in the latest case to push Sudan’s Islamic law into the spotlight.

The mother of teenager Silva Kashif told Reuters on Friday she was planning to sue the police who made the arrest and the judge who imposed the sentence, as her daughter was underage and a Christian.

The case will add fuel to a debate already raging over Sudan’s decency laws after this year’s high-profile conviction of Sudanese U.N. official Lubna Hussein, who was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.

Hussein, a former journalist who used her case to campaign against Sudan’s public order and decency regulations, is touring France to publicize her book about the prosecution. She had faced the maximum penalty of 40 lashes but was given a lighter sentence.

‘We all sat and cried’
Kashif, whose family comes from the south Sudanese town of Yambio, was arrested while walking to the market near her home in the Khartoum suburb of Kalatla last week, her mother Jenty Doro told Reuters.

“She is just a young girl but the policeman pulled her along in the market like she was a criminal. It was wrong,” said Doro.

Doro said Khashif was taken to Kalatla court where she was convicted and punished by a female police officer in front of the judge.

“I only heard about it after she was lashed. Later we all sat and cried … People have different religions and that should be taken into account,” she said.

By Melica Johnson KATU News and KATU.com Staff

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Gamer’s Facial Expression Cloning – Next Big Thing in Gaming?

A group of researchers are reporting on a new setup, which could finally result in every facial expression made by a gamer be cloned to the avatars face. The results produced by this method are truly amazing. Commercialization of this could be a big change in multiplayer game’s immersiveness.

Immersiveness has played a significant role in games development over the recent times. Game producers have engaged every possible technique to make the gamers feel deeply involved with the game. Customization of the gaming character (avatar) is one such method, where in the gamer feels more involved when the avatar has been customized to look like him/her or to his/her liking.

Multiplayer games have taken gaming to the next level, as the gamers get to compete with real people in real time. Most multiplayer games include chat, emoticons and VOIP for letting the gamers exchange their emotions/feelings over the game. Consider one gamer wearing extra strong body armor is being shot by an enemy with a very tiny gun. Chat, emoticons or VOIP could not really carry over the expressions or emotions of these players, would it not be awesome to see the player (avatar) being shot – laughing hard in this situation. This should be possible very soon, as a group of researchers have designed a setup which makes this possible.

Sample of expressions captured from human(left) to two different avatars

However, this process has had several bottlenecks. Human face which is non-rigid and morphological very different from that of an avatar introduces several complications. Several earlier researches focused on using one camera and achieving this. However it is almost impossible to do this, due to the excitements caused during the games, gamers move around in various directions and this produces large lateral movements of the face, which makes it difficult for a facial analysis system to track and analyze.

In the proposed setup, two cameras are installed on the edges of the screen to acquire real time images of the gamer. Whenever one camera is not able to get sufficient data (due to movement or rotation) of the face, data from the other camera is associated. A multi objective active appearance model is then used which produces data to be used in a synthetic face database. Very briefly, in the 2D frontal view of the gamer, several land marks are established and x coordinates of landmarks in the profile view are combined with it to make a 3D shape model. 2D texture of only frontal view is mapped on the 3D shape and is thus called as 2.5D AAM (active appearance model).

Transforming the observed facial expression of the gamer to the avatar is made possible by a mathematical relationship between their appearances using a database which has a collection of the gamers (human) facial expression and a second database is an optimal database of synthetic facial expressions. The gamer’s facial database is built by requesting the gamer to imitate few specific facial expressions. Results got from the facial analysis in real time are then analyzed using the mathematical model and mapped to an appropriate synthetic facial expression and thus making it all possible.

The researchers report that the accuracy (as shown above) and efficiency of the proposed method have been very high, and hope that this system would not only be used in gaming but also in large events like conferences and meetings. They also propose that this system can be used as an efficient communication where the band width is limited to transmit actual video footage.

Journal Reference: Gamer’s Facial Cloning for Online Interactive Games, Abdul Sattar, Nicolas Stoiber, Renaud Seguier, and Gaspard Breton

By Daily Mail Reporter

Police want to speak to this man who was filmed on CCTV in Finsbury Park 30 minutes before the attack

A heavily pregnant woman was raped at gunpoint in her bedroom by a gang of armed burglars who broke into her home.

The 33-year-old victim, who was seven months’ pregnant, was watching TV with her boyfriend when the balaclava-clad men forced their way into their North London home.

Her 39-year-old boyfriend was threatened and hit around the head with the butt of a sawn-off shotgun as they demanded the keys to their Audi TT which was parked outside.

The woman was then grabbed and forced upstairs by one of the attackers and forced to perform a sex act on him which police have described as ‘oral rape’.

He threatened to shoot the couple unless she did what he said.

Speaking for the first time about the rape, the victim said: ‘I just wanted to protect my baby. I was absolutely terrified and being so late in the pregnancy I didn’t want to get into a fight where they might hurt me or my baby.

‘He (the rapist) said it was my lucky day.’

Her boyfriend added: ‘I pleaded, I was shouting, “She’s pregnant, she’s pregnant, leave off her, tell me what you want”.’

The men took the couple’s grey Audi TT and other items including an iPod, cash, debit cards and a laptop from their Finsbury Park home on May 14 last year.

The car was found abandoned two days later in Portland Road, near Seven Sisters Underground station.

Police believe these two men, captured on camera outside a mini-market at the corner of Seven Sisters Road and Durham Road, ten minutes before the attack could be part of the gang

Police said details were being revealed only after other efforts to trace the men had failed, adding that a £20,000 reward is being offered for help in catching the gang.

Officers said the woman went on to have her baby without any problems.

Detective Inspector Robert Pack, the investigating officer, said he hoped ‘allegiances had changed’ over the past 14 months as he appealed for information.

He said: ‘Every rape is a very serious crime but what makes this all the more shocking was that the victim was so clearly heavily pregnant.

‘It was all the more traumatic because it took place in the couple’s home.

‘Concerns for the unborn baby can only have exacerbated what was already an emotionally and physically traumatic experience.’

He added: ‘Allegiances may have changed over the last 14 months and we would urge anyone with information to contact us.

‘There is a reward on offer of up to £20,000 and I hope there are people out there who are prepared to do the right thing and tell us what they know.

‘Do you know the men who did this? Do you remember hearing anyone boasting about stealing an Audi TT around this time? We would like to hear from you.’

The couple are still haunted by the attack.

The female victim said: ‘Everything that you believe to be safe is no longer safe. You can’t walk into the bedroom and feel relaxed because you remember that someone was in there who wasn’t supposed to be there.’

The couple had been watching TV when they heard a noise outside at around 10.30pm. The boyfriend opened the front door to see what was going on.

He saw the three men, all wearing balaclavas and scarves, at the end of the path and tried to shut the front door but the men forced their way inside and shoved him to the ground.

The suspect who carried out the sexual assault is described as black, 6ft, aged 18 to 25 and stocky.

He wore a black balaclava, black jacket, black tracksuit bottoms and black shoes.

A second man was black or Asian, 5ft 6in and about 18.

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The area of North London where the attack took place

He wore light grey tracksuit bottoms, black trainers and a zip-up jacket with red sleeves.

The third suspect, who had the gun was black, 5ft 10in, and aged between 18 and 22. He was wearing burgundy tracksuit bottoms.

Police said they were keen to trace the men if only to eliminate them from their inquiries.

DI Pack said he believes the men who carried out the attack either live locally or have links to the area.

He added: ‘They clearly felt comfortable committing a crime at the top end of the scale which suggests they know the area.

‘We need people to give us names to open up other avenues of  investigation for this enquiry.

‘It is unlikely that these men will not have spoken to someone about the robbery or about the fact that they stole the car.’

A reconstruction of the incident will be shown on BBC1’s Crimewatch at 9pm tonight.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216840/Heavily-pregnant-woman-raped-home-armed-gang.html#ixzz0SWIBt8NU

Routers are now appearing more and more in everyday homes. Once only part of a technicians or engineers equipment wish list, broadband is making them more and more popular.

Routers are an ideal way of managing internet access and bandwidth in households with multiple computers. They also add an extra physical barrier to intrusion over the internet too.

The most popular home router is the Linksys WRT54GS. It has been on the market for a number of years and has improved steadily. The installed firmware is efficient and pretty robust making it an ideal starter router for the budding amateur. As well as the standard firmware, there are third party, Unix based firmware which add considerably to the features of this innocuous blue box.

The router will work straight out of the box with the default configuration but none of the security features work. It will be our job to enable them straight away in order to secure your home network as much as possible.

The installation order should be, internet to modem, modem to input socket of router via network cable. The computers then connect to the four network ports on the back. Configuration is pretty straightforward, via a web interface. Access it by putting http://192.168.1.1 into your browser. The default username and password is admin.

The first screen in the overview of the network settings. We don’t need to change anything here to get things moving, as long as there is an IP address found it’s all good. If you have a wireless connection, choose the wireless tab next. If you don’t, disable the wireless and skip the next section. Just remember when you make any changes on a particular page to save them before moving on. Each will need to be saved individually or the changes will be lost.

The wireless settings are pretty straightforward, change the Wireless Network Name or SSID to something you recognize. Then set the wireless channel, ensuring you also set any devices you want to connect to with the same channel. Next comes Wireless Security where we will lock down the network. Set the Security Mode to WPA2 if your devices support it and set the Encryption to 128 bit. You can either generate a passphrase, or provide your own. Whatever you do, remember it as you will also need to add this to the wireless devices you want to use the network.

The most important of these changes is to enable the firewall. Choose the Security, then the Firewall tab and enable all of the options. Next we change the default username and password. Select the Administration tab and set it to something complicated but memorable, then disable remote management.

By following these simple steps, a user of any skill level can quickly secure their network from attack. The router can do so much more, but you are now safe enough to explore all the options you have. Despite having a hardware firewall on the router, ensure that each device connecting to the network also has a software one too, you can’t be too careful!

Acorn Will Help You Set Up Your Brothel, Dodge Taxes, Pimp Children

Ah Acorn, everyone’s favorite leftist thug organization.

In the videos below, you’ll see what happens when a young prostitute seeks the help of Baltimore Acorn members.  She wants to get her life together.  Do they get her off the streets? Advise her to give up a life of hooking and get her into some kind of program?  No, of course not.  This is Acorn!

They tell her how to beat the IRS by applying for child tax credits for the 12 underage girls she’s smuggling into the US, how to secure an Acorn backed home loan so they have a brothel to work in, and how to funnel the money into a future congressman’s campaign.

Remember, Obama gave these guys 4.2 Billion dollars in the stimulus package.

Your tax dollars at work.

- Robert Laurie

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Last month we told you about DDM.tv, and it’s Blu-Ray Quality HD Adult Movies that were on their way to Japanese PS3s. Now the world’s largest pornography producer want’s to bring Adult content to the PS3.

While speaking with MCVUK, Vivid Entertainment Founder and Co-Chairman, Steven Hirsch said the distrbution of adult films on the PS3, had “real potential”.

Hirsch also said:

“[DDM’s launch] is a good start. We hope that Sony will allow adult movies to be downloaded worldwide.”

What do you think? Does porn have a place on the PS3? Let us know by commenting below.

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The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world’s monetary system since the Second World War.

A number of countries, including China and Russia, have suggested replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency

In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and economic crises.

It added that the present system, under which the dollar acts as the world’s reserve currency , should be subject to a wholesale reconsideration.

Although a number of countries, including China and Russia, have suggested replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, the UNCTAD report is the first time a major multinational institution has posited such a suggestion.

In essence, the report calls for a new Bretton Woods-style system of managed international exchange rates, meaning central banks would be forced to intervene and either support or push down their currencies depending on how the rest of the world economy is behaving.

The proposals would also imply that surplus nations such as China and Germany should stimulate their economies further in order to cut their own imbalances, rather than, as in the present system, deficit nations such as the UK and US having to take the main burden of readjustment.

“Replacing the dollar with an artificial currency would solve some of the problems related to the potential of countries running large deficits and would help stability,” said Detlef Kotte, one of the report’s authors. “But you will also need a system of managed exchange rates. Countries should keep real exchange rates [adjusted for inflation] stable. Central banks would have to intervene and if not they would have to be told to do so by a multilateral institution such as the International Monetary Fund.”

The proposals, included in UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Report , amount to the most radical suggestions for redesigning the global monetary system.

Although many economists have pointed out that the economic crisis owed more to the malfunctioning of the post-Bretton Woods system, until now no major institution, including the G20 , has come up with an alternative.