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video from youth-league players’ ceremony, HS game

here’s a recent video from Farmington last Friday. i’m uploading right now from my mom’s rancho in the South Valley of ABQ (beautiful!). the video’s a bit long, but it’s actually two events in one.

i shot stills from the game for our sports section (i’ll post a few here later), and this video of the whole afternoon of the young’ns followed by the game (in Canon 5d Mark II, 640×480 compressed-video format). it was my first time shooting action (or anything major, really) with the 5D’s video mode, which is manual focus so a bit tricky…but it turned out fun. it’s awesome to have an SLR that can do that! i’m looking forward to shooting more video with the 5D in the future, and since most other events will be shorter, i can use the full 1920x1080p and have enough memory to handle it.

Enjoy.

a quick link to my cutting video from NHSF Rodeo, and a portfolio edit

thanks for looking. i also recently tried a re-edit of my photo portfolio — i appreciate any feedback.

and here’s the video. fun time, but i do wish we had an HD cam or something a little better. mic inputs, perhaps.

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here’s some fun video from an opening ceremony at a local baseball game, where little kids ran all over the field (in an orderly fashion — actually, single file). a bit long, and i might cut a lot of the continuation of the high fives out sometime. other than that, it was a fun video, but lots of tape logged. i never shot baseball before, either, and was happy i got some decent game action.
enjoy

TEA party (no, not the kind with little teacups Ana ; ), with catch-up photos to come

well, just wanted to check if my Brightcove login for my Daily Times account works *UPDATE: it does. now the video is linked from my Vimeo account*.

looks like it does. kind of nice to have a good-looking player now. now i just need to get a new video camera. umhmm.

i’ll be updating some photos here soon, and throw up some recent stuff from Fmtn.

about the video camera: once again, i am surprised by the ability of it to record usable (for internet video) audio in WINDY, New Mexico weather. probably not going to win an Emmy, but usable nonetheless.

bye

a video from Farmington — from my last day

my internship at The Daily Times in Farmington flew by. after all, it was a brief, six-week stint.

the Farmington Renaissance Faire was a fun assignment to get for my last day. i got to do video while Daily Times chief photog. Lindsay Pierce covered stills — a luxury allowed by our normally slow Sundays at the paper.
the juggler in the video is definitely a character. let me know what you think.

Farmington Renaissance from Xavier Mascareñas on Vimeo.

video from last week…storytelling festival

a very windy day in the Four Corners — which doesn’t help when you have a little video camera without any mic inputs, but…i was impressed by the ability of that little mic to act like a type of shotgun-mic. overall, i’m happy with the way this daily-video turned out, and i was able to get a nice photo of the event to run in the paper to tease to the video online. also shot another assignment, and did some non-video related work, which i wouldn’t be able to do unless i’m stepping up the pace on my daily-video turnaround..yay!

enjoy:

Four Corners Storytelling Festival from Xavier Mascareñas on Vimeo.

re-embedded my video with Vimeo.com. Big and Free video

i just saw a post where someone recommended Vimeo.com to post HD videos…and it works! no frame rate issues, or overly-compressed YouTube looking clips. seems like a home version brightcove (more or less).
let’s just see if it stays free. updates on week two from F-town to come.
update: here’s links to my new Vimeo account, where i will be embedding from: http://www.vimeo.com/xm

enjoy

UPDATE: video embedded for ‘Geraldine’s Pies’ video, back from Nashville, dig in

i was going to embed the video player here, but it was bogging down the page a bit too much. soooo, Please check it out here (found a site called Vimeo.com that lets you do much better quality than YouTube !)

Geraldine’s Pies from Xavier Mascareñas on Vimeo.

never had a chess pie before, but damn they’re good.

the multimedia training with Val Hoeppner through the Chips Quinn Scholar’s program was intense — one week of working and learning 8 a.m. to 10 to 11 p.m., but it was well worth it.

thanks to Meredith Rodriguez, my teammate and co-videoer, who kept her cool while we had to ingest video twice while on deadline due to a timecode flub.

also to Rachelle Gines and Charles Pulliam, my teammates from the day before who worked on this video: CLICK HERE, and go to the sixth video in player , which was about photos from Hurricane Katrina at the Parthenon in Nashville. a challenging place to film, and a little rough ending, but a great effort from everybody.

if there’s time to check out all the videos, do it. the first video in the first link’s player, ‘The River,’ is especially touching. it’s all really impressive, especially considering most everyone came in with no video experience. Val does an amazing job in the classroom.

much thanks to everyone else involved with the instruction too, Quincy and Ann, and the Freedom Forum staff coordinating everything with the Diversity Institute. enjoy

Portfolio and finished work:

Making an entry to easily link to, to see portfolio and finished work. This is it.

portfolio slideshow:

here’s a player that has my daily videos:

Video post, and updates of photo work

Alright, time to update the blog. Here’s some recent stuff, along with a video piece I did earlier this week. Hopefully the link works fine, until I can get my own Flash compressed copy (does Blogger support posting of SWF’s or FLV’s, without a player?).

If anybody has experience with that, do share.

Directly above the video is the photo that ran on B1 (thankfully, because it promoted the video) as a standalone.

Thanks.

6/25/08 – Xavier Mascareñas/AMERICAN-STATESMAN; Tafari Roberston, 12, watches Kenneth Avery, 12, play the tenor steel drum during an impromptu quiz Wednesday given by teacher Cecil Francis during a class at Austin Community Steelband on Tenth Street.

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