Five Shots” HD Cinematography competition is a venue for cinematographers to exhibit their creative and technical skills. Make a sequence of one minute or less consisting of related or unrelated 5 shots.

The Competition

 A film sequence of five movie frames edited to less than ONE minute.
 The shots can be of unrelated themes
 Format HD. The footage can be shot in any device of HD quality
 Sound track should be ambient sound
 A person can send more than one entry
 Kindly include a short synopsis and a short info about you

Criteria for judgement

 Composition
 Creativity
 Colour and tone
 Light and Shadow
 Movements

Send your entries to:

Don Bosco IMAGE
NH Bypass, Near Ernakulam Medical Center
Vennala, Kochi – 682028
Ph: +91 9544449990

For more details and updates visit: www.donboscoimage.com

Entry Fee: Rs 300/- per entry.
Kindly make your DD in favour of Don Bosco IMAGE, payable at Kochi.
Last Date of Submission: April 30th

Click here to download the registration form for photography competition

Google Docs

For those of you out there that are not aware of the wealth of good stuff that is Google Docs, you should take a look. Especially those of you needing an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft Office. Some weeks back, Google added the ability to store and share videos as part of the Google Docs suite. Sure, there is of course Youtube, as well as countless other video sharing sites. What if you want to share your client’s video preview privately?

Google now allows sharing (both publicly and privately) of video files via Google Docs.  A very simple interface, as per usual with Google, and one free Gig of storage space.

I have battled this problem with Vegas Pro 9E for weeks now. If you’ve stumbled across this post, I suspect you might be in the same boat too. I’ve tried countless “fixes” including the ever popular “reduce render threads to one” and “set preview ram to zero”. I even tried a solution using a tool to actually change a flag within the Vegas 9 .exe file. Not one of these solutions worked. By the way, my system still has plenty of memory free when the error occurs.

The music in this video isn’t my thing, but it might be yours. If not, you can always turn down the audio. If you’re having this particular problem, it’s worth your time to watch it.

Finally!  For years, those of us with dual (triple?) monitors have yearned to have fullscreen playback of flash video on one monitor, while we continue to work on the other monitor.  Until recently, when you enlarged the video to fullscreen on one monitor, clicking anywhere in the other monitor would return to the embedded web page version of the video.  There were a couple of hacks to supposedly work around this, but they never worked for me.

As of the most recent version of Adobe flash player, this has finally been corrected.  I just happened to noticed the update features, and fullscreen video on a second monitor was one of them.  Hooray!  This ends a long lived peeve I’ve had with the flash video player.  Especially since embedded video is too small on high resolution monitors.