Jumpstart Your Startup or Idea – Incubators, Accelerators & More

I continue to be impressed with the quality of the Seattle Entrepreneurs meet ups. Last night’s session, “Jumpstart Your Startup or Idea – Incubators, Accelerators & More” proved to be an insightful and honest discussion, followed by more networking with some really interesting people. If you are in the area I highly recommend the group.

My First Projects Using Final Cut Pro X

My First Projects Using Final Cut Pro X

This week I completed my first three projects using Final Cut Pro X. I had used earlier versions of Final Cut Pro several years ago, but didn’t have a need for editing video again until last year when I made some Playmaker for Unity3D tutorials. I used iMovie 11, because it’s what I had available at the time, and it did a stand up job, but I missed the more professional editing features of Final Cut Pro. It looks like I’ll be editing a lot more video from now on, so I stepped up to Final Cut Pro.

I am a “Unicorn”!  I had never heard the term, but apparently entrepreneurs with technical skills are a rare and sought after beast.

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LWIT Multimedia Design and Production Portfolio Defenses

Last week I was on a panel of judges for the portfolio defenses by students of the Multimedia Design and Production program at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. I was really impressed with the work the students turned out this quarter! The program at LWIT is really stepping up!

New Playmaker iOS Fundamentals Video Tutorial Series!

New Playmaker iOS Fundamentals Video Tutorial Series!

I’ve finished up a new video tutorial series for my company Well Played Games, and thanks to a special arrangement between Hutong Games (Playmaker) and Well Played Games, this series is completely free! There are 13 videos in total, and they are rolling out over the next several days.

Spectral Synthesis – Introduction and Approaches

Spectral Synthesis – Introduction and Approaches

A couple weeks ago I made this quick video showing how to understand and use the spectrogram in a spectral synthesizer, demonstrated in Izotope Iris and Camel Audio Alchemy. I was inspired to make it after working with the new iZotope Iris synthesizer demo, and seeing many comments on line that made it clear spectrograms weren’t completely understood by many people.