February 17, 2014

by Jeff Riegel, editor

Last year, Imagineer Systems was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Scientific and Technical Award for mocha and its ground breaking Planar tracking technology.  Coremelt, creator of the Lock & Load (my favorite) and SliceX plugins, has recently released TrackX using mocha… within FCPX.

Gone are the days of tedious rotoscoping — the task of painstakingly tracking or removing an object from/onto a video one single frame at a time.  FCPX editors can now effortlessly track text or graphics to follow background movement for cool title effects, or track and insert a new layer for screen replacements, like replacing a sign on the side of a moving bus or the screen of a computer.  Coremelt’s newly released TrackX uses the same powerful mocha tracking and interpolation engine by Imagineer Systems previously found as a plug-in for Adobe’s…

Thanks to Steve Klein for this contribution to my series of advice for a new adjunct journalism professor:

Too often, new instructors are over-ambitious in the classroom.

And even some veteran teachers never seem to learn that one thing.

A teacher can bring a packed 20-pound bag of valuable learning to a class but probably only has time — and the necessary students’ attention span — to empty a fraction of it.

Which brings me to “The One Thing.”

What do you most want your student to learn from each class?

What will each student remember from each class?

What will each student remember at the end of the semester?

What will each student remember five, 10, even 20 years later?

That’s why you don’t want to over-pack that bag you bring to class.

And that’s the one thing every teacher should remember!

Steve sent this slide show to make…

Kevin Hart is one of the biggest comedians in the game today. Along with the fame he’s basking in, Kevin Hart gets invited to many prestigious events. One such event proved to be one of the biggest days in his life. Hart was a guest on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” where he shared a story of when he was invited to the White House by President Barack Obama. While Kevin admitted that he doesn’t get starstruck when he meets celebrities, Obama was one that made him lose his mind.

At the White House event, Kevin got excited when the president called him out by name and said that he was glad Kevin could make it. Hart says he and Obama became best friends when Obama called him “Kev.” Hart told Fallon as he crossed his fingers tightly, “He called me Kev. He didn’t call me Kevin Hart…