Change is Good!
So I have been sporadic at best with blogging lately. Not easy for me to chase church tech and media solely like I used to. That’s okay, change is good.
A lot is happening personally. We are adopting a biracial child and that is certainly a big focus. So, this blog is going to morph… into… well.
A media junkie, addicted to all things Apple, who is an adopt(ing) father to be and works full-time as the creative media director for a church…
Whew! So that’s what I’m going to write about… I think it will be much more fun and certainly a broader range.
That is all!!
So much for the “It’s Only For Consumption” excuse.
Sure this is just one example, but it’s the stereotype that an in between product is going to receive.
How are you using the iPad to Create??
Shoes Dat Make Da Beat Go…
With technology and creativity, what isn’t possible? Ben, can you get these guys for WhiteBoard??
Updates From NAB Part 3
Editing on the Mac in Final Cut Pro, I have always used Compressor. It comes standard with FCP Suite and the improvements over the years have been great. That being said, Sorenson Squeeze 6 looks mighty appetizing.
Updates from NAB. Part 2
A great new solution for the DSLR rig from SmallHD.
(The ProPormpter is cute too!!)
Why TV’s Are Dead…
Original post written and published at DVICE.
The iPad has only been out for 12 days now, and yet during those 288 hours, iPad users have managed to watch some 650,000 TV episodes using ABC’s free app for the device. Mind you, a good number of those could be only partial viewings, but it all adds up to “several million” ad impressions, according to The Wall Street Journal. Translation: ABC is happy.
There’s definitely a benefit to hitting the scene early, as ABC has demonstrated. With some 500,000 iPads out in the wild now, ABC enjoyed 205,000 downloads of its free app. That’s over three episodes watched per person, bearing in mind that some watched none at all while others could have watched a dozen.
The takeaway here? There may come a time when you say goodbye to your living room as you know it. Jimmy and Suzy won’t want to hang out and watch whatever boring show mom and dad have on when they could just retreat to their rooms and put on something else. It could change the TV-watching landscape.
Also set to change: the power of advertising. The conventional television remains one of the easiest ways to get as many eyes as possible on what you’re selling. Hulu, founded by NBC (DVICE’s parent company) and a coalition of other content providers, got the ball rolling, but the increased presence of ABC and CBS on devices such as the iPad — with other television providers undoubtedly to follow — means that we could finally be seeing Internet streaming media coupled with a handheld device in a powerful package that cuts out the middle man between a network and its viewers, which would be cable companies.
As for ABC’s development on the iPad, The Wall Street Journal has an interesting tidbit about how it came about:
Twelve in-house ABC software engineers built the app in the five weeks after the Jan. 27 announcement of the iPad. Though Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is Disney’s largest shareholder, the network didn’t receive a prototype to work with in designing the app. Instead, the engineers relied on a software “emulator” provided by Apple.
On a personal note, we cancelled cable last month… saving $103.00 per bill. Whether you’re using a laptop, netbook or iPad, days of consuming TV shows on actual TV’s is all but dead.
What about you…
How are you ingesting main steam media?
Updates From NAB. Part 1
The iPad in Ministry
It’s here. Did you get one? Did you get it for ministry? I’d love to hear how you plan on using it. This “in-between” device (for now) will certainly be used in creative ways that we haven’t dreamed of.
Let’s hear it.
I Stole a WhiteBoard Box.
Sorry About the audio…