On today’s Tech, No Babel: The Rule of Thirds vs. Nose Room. When you’re composing a shot, and you have the subject in either the left or right third, but their nose is close to the edge of the frame, is that okay? If not, how do you fix it?…
On today’s Tech, No Babel, Headroom vs. The Rule of Thirds. When you’re composing a shot, when you see “too much room” above the subject’s head, but their eyes are on top third line, what do you do? Subscribe for free: RSS feed iTunes one-click subscription For more questions, comments,…
On today’s Tech, No Babel: Using Music for Your Videos. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t play one on this podcast, so this isn’t legal advice, but I understand that every audio work has inherent rights granted at creation to the creator. These are sync, mechanical, performance, master recording,…
My friend Lauren at ChurchTechToday.com listed 7 church tech podcasts to listen to. Tech, No Babel was listed at #5. In my mind, that’s two big honors in one month. First, TrinityDigitalMedia.com was listed in ChurchM.ag’s top 30 Church Tech Blogs. Now this. I feel the momentum building for what…
On today’s Tech, No Babel, downloading, streaming, and live streaming. There are three ways to deliver video online. One is to put on a server so that it’s downloadable. If you want the video to be available to watch as they download it and then delete automatically, that’s streaming, kind…
On today’s Tech, No Babel, “Educating” the pastor. As techies, we sometimes have an idea of why something should be a certain way. What do you do when your pastor disagrees or makes it hard to do what you need to? Address misconceptions Assume the best Show; don’t tell Do…
On today’s Tech, No Babel: Inside the mind of a cameraman. There are a lot of things to consider when running a live, roaming camera. You need to consider shot composition, not tripping on the cable, aperture, focus, and a few other things. This is a peak into what’s going…
On today’s Tech, No Babel — Three-point lighting is the basis for most great video and on today’s episode, we talk about what each of the lights do and how to create a light kit on a budget, with some talk about color temperature thrown in for good measure. Paul…
On today’s Tech, No Babel, if you need to get a signal from your computer or video switcher to a projector, what cable should you use. If you have a Mac, how can you use Keynote in other ways. Subscribe for free: RSS feed iTunes one-click subscription For more questions,…
On today’s Tech, No Babel, using a DSLR for video. In the old days, cameras were cameras and camcorders were camcorders. Some models did what the other was good at, but they didn’t do it well. Today, the video that a DSLR creates is beautiful. You just need to keep…