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CROSS-MEDIA RESOURCES
This guide is an ongoing project of Paul Grabowicz, New Media Program, University of California at Berkeley.
Online Manuals, Guides, Tutorials and Other Information
Digital Video
Digital Audio
Digital Photography
Web Writing and Design
Animation - Flash
Web Databases
Multimedia Storytelling
Multimedia Ethics and Professional Standards
Digital Video
General Television/Video Guides
Television Production
An online guide to studio and field television production from CyberCollege/InternetCampus.
Medialink Broadcasting
Glossary
Glossary of broadcast terms.
Digital Video
Primer
Basics of digital video from Adobe (2.2 MB PDF).
Documentary Cookbook
J-School professor Jon Else's A-Z guidebook to preparing for, shooting,
and editing video documentary footage (draft form).
Digital Video
and International News
Excerpts from a conference on the impact of digital video technology
on international news coverage, sponsored by the Pew International
Journalism Program and held at the Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism.
Videophones
New York Times story on how broadcast reporters are making use of
videophones to file international stories.
Video Recording
Video Cameras
Sony TRV900
Sony User
Manual for TRV900
The official Sony manual that comes with the camera, in PDF format
(4.4 MBs). It requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
Using
the Sony DCR-TRV900 Camcorder
All kinds of tips and other information on using the TRV900 at
a Web site put together by by John Beale, an engineer and amateur
video photographer<./p>
Sony VX1000
Using Sony's DCR-VX1000
A brief introduction at Digital Producer magazine, with links
to other resources at the end.
Video Capture
Basic
Capture Techniques for DV
Moving digital footage to a computer hard drive using Final Cut Pro.
An article at the 2-pop Digital Filmmaker's Resource Site.
Video Editing
iMovie
iMovie
Quick Reference
Familiarize yourself with the iMovie interface. A reference sheet
put together by Stanford Academic Computing at Stanford University.
iMove
Tutorial
A basic guide to using iMovie put together by Stanford Academic
Computing at Stanford University.
Apple's iMovie Web page
The official home page for iMovie, with basic information on the
video editing program.
FinalCut Pro 2.0
Final
Cut Pro 2: An Ambitious Beginnng
Setting up a Final Cut Pro editing station. An article at the 2-pop
Digital Filmmaker's Resource Site.
Basic
Capture Techniques for DV
Moving digital footage to a computer hard drive using Final Cut
Pro. An article at the 2-pop Digital Filmmaker's Resource Site.
Making
That First Cut
Basic editing with Final Cut Pro. An article at the 2-pop Digital
Filmmaker's Resource Site.
Media
Management in FCP 2.0
Organizing your video files and projects. An article at the 2-pop
Digital Filmmaker's Resource Site.
Setting
Type in FCP: Lower Third Text Generator
Adding text and titles to your video in Final Cut Pro. An article
at the 2-pop Digital Filmmaker's Resource Site.
From
Final Cut Pro to the Web
Converting a digital movie to a Web format using Final Cut Pro and
Media Cleaner. An article at the 2-pop Digital Filmmaker's Resource
Site.
2-pop Digital Filmmaker's Resource
Site
Lots of articles on digital video, especially Final Cut Pro at the
2-pop Web site. There's a search engine for searching the archive
of stories.
Final
Cut Pro 3 for Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide
A good introductory book on using Final Cut Pro 3.0 by Lisa Brenneis,
available at the Peachpit Press Web site.
FinalCut Pro home page
The official page for Final Cut Pro (now in version 3.0) at the
Apple Web site.
Premiere
Creating
Video with Adobe Premiere
Guide at the Berkeley Multimedia Resources Center.
Video Encoding for the Web
From
Final Cut Pro to the Web
Converting a digital movie to a Web format using Final Cut Pro and
Media Cleaner. An article at the 2-pop Digital Filmmaker's Resource
Site.
Digital Audio
Audio Recording
Minidisc Recorders
Sharp
Recording with the Minidisc Recorder
The basics of using the Sharp minidisc recorder.
Playback with the Minidisc Recorder
Playing back your audio and finding tracks.
Getting out of Hold Mode in the Minidisc Recorder
What to do if your recorder doesn't work because it is in Hold mode.
Sharp
Minidisc Recorder Operation Manual
User manual for the Model MD-MT90 Sharp Minidisc Recorder, posted at the
Minidisc site. It's in PDF format and requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
Audio Editing
ProTools
Pro
Tools Reference Guide
A brochure by DigiDesign.
It's a 5.3 MB, 800-page document in PDF format and requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader. DO NOT print out the whole
thing. Print only the pages you need.
Other ProTools
Documentation
Manuals, documents, and brochures on the entire DigiDesign product
line, including ProTools.
Audio Encoding for the Web
RealAudio
What
You Need to Stream Voice Narration on the Web
A basic guide to streaming audio using RealAudio, by Mindy McAdams.
Digital Photography
Examples of Digital Photography
The Digital
Journalist
The photo documentary on AIDS at this site won the Online News Associations
award in 2001 for best feature journalism by an independent site.
HeraldSun.com: Touching
Hearts -- A Story of Hope & Help in Nicaragua
A photo essay Web site that won the Online News Association's 2001
award for best creative use of the medium by an affiliated site.
Journal E
"Real stories from Planet Earth." Images, video, and audio woven together in multimedia story presentations.
Stories About Digital Photography
A
New Image: Why Pros Go Digital
New York Times article.
Digital
Photos "Endanger the Past"
BBC story.
Digital Photography Resources
PhotoGraphicLibraries.com
A site with links to photo archives and libraries and other photojournalism
resources.
Taking Photos
Digital Cameras
Canon PowerShot G1
Canon
PowerShot G1 Camera User Guide
The official Cannon manual that comes with the camera. It's a
144-page document in PDF format (12 MBs) and requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
Photo Editing
Photoshop
Learning
Photoshop 6.0
A free online course on the latest version of Photoshop at the TrainingTools.com
Web site, with an emphasis on creating graphics for Web pages like animated
gifs and rollover buttons.
Photoshop Tips
and Techniques
Designs by
Mark
Photoshop Techniques (excellent resource for creating buttons, interfaces,
etc.).
Adobe Photoshop
Web Reference
Covers versions 3.0 and 4.0.
Web Writing and Design
General
Online Storytelling
Forms
Article by Jonathan Dube at CynberJournalist.net on the different
types of Web storytelling, including links to examples of each.
Writing
for the Web
Web page of articles and links put together by Crawford Kilian, author
of the book, "Writing for the Web."
Contentious
Amy Gahran's e-zine on creating and publishing content for online
media.
Web Design and HTML Tutorials
A
Beginner's Guide to HTML
NCSA's guide is probably the best place to get started with Hypertext
Markup Language, loading files onto a server, and creating workable Web
documents.
Davesite's Interactive
HTML Tutorial
This "hands-on" tutorial lets you test your HTML skills as you're learning
them.
Web Editing Programs
Dreamweaver
Learning
Dreamweaver 4
A free online course on the latest version of
the Dreamweaver Web editing program at the TrainingTools.com Web site.
Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen - Web Usability
Web site
useit.com
Columns
How Users
Read on the Web
October 1997
Top Ten Mistakes
in Web Design
May 1996
"Top Ten Mistakes" Revisited Three Years Later
May 1999
Animation - Flash
Learning
Flash 5
A free online course on the latest version of the
Flash animation program at the TrainingTools.com Web site.
Web Databases
PHP / MySQL Resources
Essential tools
PHP home
MySQL home
phpwizard (for phpMyAdmin)
Tutorials and Introductions
The intro tutorial
at php.net
Gimpster's Tutorial
Webmonkey's
tutorial
Intro
to Structured Query Language (SQL)
Discussions and Script Libraries
Hotscripts'
PHP Department
PHPBuilder
ResourceIndex' PHP Section
Evil Walrus
Books
MySQL/PHP
Database Applications (M&T Books)
PHP
and MySQL Web Development (Sams)
PHP
and MySQL for dummies
Multimedia Storytelling
Examples of Multimedia Stories
Multimedia Storytelling
A list of Web sites compiled by Jane Ellen Stevens.
360degrees.org
A site on criminal justice that won the Online News Association's award
in 2001for best creative use of the medium by an independent Web site.
Yahoo! Finance Vision
A streaming video site that won the Online News Association's 2001
award for most innovative presentation of information by an independent
Web site.
Washingtonpost.com
Videojournalism Stories
Seventeen digital videos produced by videojournalists at the Washingtonpost.com
that won 2002 Eyes of History awards from the White House News Photographers
Association.
Multimedia Ethics and Professional Standards
Guides and References
Radio-Television
News Directors Association Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Can We Tape
Discussion of the legalities of taping phone conversations at the
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Web site.
Photographers'
Guide to Privacy - California
Guide at Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Web site.
Best
Practices for Television Journalists
Description of a book by Av Westin published by the Freedom Forum
(along with a summary of a companion volume on Best Practices for
Newspaper Journalists).
Information on ordering the books is available at this Freedom
Forum Web page.
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