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Media Professionals of Florida, Inc. provides informative meetings on the second Tuesday of each month For more information contact David Rosenblatt at info@mediaprofessionals.org
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Program
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"Film Procedures Move to HD:
Why It Takes Two Pros to Follow Focus Well.”
We'll see a veteran 1st A/C (1st Assistant Cinematographer) demonstrate master techniques for precise focus in settings of minimum depth of field. Taped examples of focus techniques -- both auto and manual. Discussions will address various special gear and
options. Coordinated by Tom Krug of CLARITY Presentations Inc.
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Information
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Networking: 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Meeting & Program: 6:30 p.m.
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Location
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Pinellas 18 333 Chestnut St. Clearwater
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Directions
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Directions: From Tampa, take the Courtney Campbell Causeway to Clearwater and stay on that road (Route 60). It turns into Gulf to Bay Blvd. Proceed west to the business bypass where the road forks. Stay in the left lane and proceed straight from Gulf-to-Bay. The road turns into Court Street. When Court intersects Ft. Harrison, turn left (south), and go two blocks to Turner St. Turn right (west). Go to the next street, Palm St. and turn right (north). The building on the left is Pinellas County's Communications facility and you can park next to the building and come in the front north entrance on Chestnut St. in the back. Enter at front of building.
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Guests and spouses are welcome!
First time guests are free
After that $10.00 per meeting or join for only $50.00 per year.
Students can join for $35.00
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April
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Follow Focus |
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May
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NAB Wrap-up |
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"Streaming Video? Progressive Download?
What’s Going On?"
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Networking at WFLA was fun, great food in the studio and as always an excellent opportunity to make new business contacts.
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David Rosenblatt, president of Silver Image Interactive, Inc. was our presenter for the March MPFI meeting. He covered streaming video, progressive video and the encoding and compression needed to get there.
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David went into detail on the different video formats, codecs and compression options available.
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Above are examples from the multimedia presentation showing streaming technologies and how they worked.
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Throughout the program video examples were shown with the encoding data available for comparison.
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Here David discusses how to suck strawberry jam (video) through a straw (56k modem).
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After the meeting we had an excellent tour of the WFLA, Tampa Tribune and Tampa Bay Online facilities.
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| Here Tod Sullivan, Production Supervisor, takes us into the heart of the WFLA news room, where we see the reporters at work. |
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| The control room is completly automated and we got an in-depth look at how it operates |
| A special Thanks to WFLA for being a great host to the Media professionals of Florida. |
Speaker
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Dave Rosenblatt-Silver Image Interactive, Inc.
Dave has been in television production since 1967 and has designed and produced interactive programs since 1979. David has been working with Director since 1985. David is president of Silver Image Interactive, Inc., a Clearwater-based corporation since 1991. Silver Image Interactive, Inc. develops interactive museum exhibits, interactive corporate CD-ROMs, digital audio and video products and touchscreen kiosks throughout the state and around the world.
For more information contact David Rosenblatt at info@silverimageinteractive.com or at http://www.silverimageinteractive.com
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