Browsing Archive: August, 2016

The name...now you know

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Saturday, August 27, 2016,

I get asked this a lot - where does the company name come from? It's a function in Avid Media Composer you use a lot during any edit session. So there, nothing fancy. I just named the business after the tools I use.

Carry on.
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New on YouTube

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Friday, August 26, 2016,

The annual end-of-the-year rush usually starts around middle August and this year is no different. Among the projects I completed this month is this one for the marketing and communication folks at NWU Vaal. Plenty of run-and-gun work here (and a bit of a struggle to get shy people to stand still and speak to you) but I'm happy with the results.

The more of these I do, the more I realize how essential camera tools with good low light capabilities are. When producing news programming you wil...

Nyet. Soundtrack is fine (GoPro jets. Because GoPro. And jets)

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Friday, August 26, 2016,

As a self-confessed military aviation/all things military science-related nut I'm a regular reader of David Cenciotti's blog The Aviationist and he keeps on posting these really cool GoPro jet movies from YouTube. This one was produced by the Russian Ministry of Defence for Russian Aerospace Force Day. It's really well done and features some great footage of various Russian fast machines. Around 1:14 and 1:48 it even features footage of Russia's answer to the 5th generation F-35 and F-22 figh...

MCD Training

Posted by Corne Scheepers on Saturday, August 13, 2016,

I completed a video for a brand new client this week and I'm thrilled with the results. Even better is that they are thrilled with it also!

MCD Training is doing great work in addressing the massive skills shortage in South Africa by providing a wide range of technical training solutions to companies and individuals. Their video is on YouTube and will also be showing at their booth at the 2016 Sasol TechnoX expo from 15 August. The video was shot over two days and we had a lot of fun doing it...