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Your Life is a Movie and You are the Editor

By Katie Curtis | Apr 4, 2019 | 0 Comments
This is a video film strip

The Director may have the vision, and the Camera Operator may capture the shot, but it is the Editor who decides how the story flows, where the scenes appear, which shots gets seen and which don’t. We are all Editors – irrespective of whether we make videos for our selves/businesses or not, we are all …

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Three Ways to Turn your Vertical Photo into a Horizontal Image in Final Cut Pro X (video)

By Katie Curtis | Feb 26, 2019 | 0 Comments
Loki Pokey is adorable

Vertical, Square, Horizontal… there are so many formats for our media nowadays! It’s hard to know what format you need when going into content capture mode. Good thing we can transfer between platforms and formats! In this Tutorial Tuesday video I’ll show you three ways to turn your vertical photo (this would work for vertical …

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My Best Life Speech : Inspired (video)

By Katie Curtis | Nov 19, 2018 | 0 Comments
Nothing like speaking at AND filming and event

I forgot to post this on my blog! Oh no! Last month I spoke at the Best Life Summit in Durham, North Carolina – it took me a long time to come up with what I wanted to say, but I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out – even if I haven’t exactly watched …

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It started with a donut…

By Katie Curtis | Nov 15, 2018 | 0 Comments
Now I'm hungry...

What did you do to your hand? The short answer is “I punched a wall”, the long answer is a little more embarrassing and a little  (okay, a lot) less indicative of anger problems.  On a totally nondescript Friday evening, after a productive (I think?) day of work, I was set about to sit down …

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How-to do Slow-Mo on your iPhone (video)

By Katie Curtis | Sep 20, 2018 | 0 Comments
iPhone Videography - it's a thing

I cut this part out of the video, but the MOST important part about doing slow-motion on your iPhone is REMEMBERING that you have the capability to do slow-motion! Don’t miss out on those cool moments because you forgot you could do this cool thing. Short clips from : The Matrix Guardians of Ga’Hoole The …

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Questions on Intellectual Rights and Answers from the Universe

By Katie Curtis | Sep 14, 2018 | 0 Comments
We look so cool

I’ve had a quandry rattling around in my head. Usually when we have some thought playing on repeat, it’s not something beneficial. It’s just some open loop that we run over and over looking for closure, mostly without realizing it, and usually not finding what we’re looking for until we finally bring it into focus. …

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TOP TEN Ideas for a video withOUT using your Face (video)

By Katie Curtis | Sep 9, 2018 | 0 Comments
But you have a lovely face, so use it sometimes, k?

If you just didn’t feel up to appearing in your own video, here are 10 ways to make a video without using your face! Resource section (aka giving credit where due!) Thumbnail photo by Adrian Pelletier on Unsplash My instagram Glenn Matecun- Estate Planning Lawyer Whiteboard software Kevin J. Anderson (he’s available for speaking engagements …

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Katie’s Top Ten Resources for Finding Music for Videos

By Katie Curtis | Sep 6, 2018 | 0 Comments
This is not MY microphone

So you make a cool video and you pop in your favorite song and try to upload it to Youtube… only for it to be BLOCKED. Because Youtube has determined that the content you used does not belong to you. Aaaaand because you used your favorite song that you don’t own nor have any ties …

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Tips & Tricks

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Reels vs. TikTok vs. YouTube Shorts: Where Should Your Business Be?

The internet’s IN LOVE with short videos, and it’s hard to ignore the phenomenon that has taken over our screens. You can’t scroll for long without seeing one. The big question is, with Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts all out there, how do you pick the best platform for your business’s videos? Let’s figure out …
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There's a thumbs up next to a cool coffee video still and a thumbs down next to a dog post

Don’t do THIS with your Social Media Videos

I see this mistake made with business's social media video posts. And their photo and text posts too. Don't do this!
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Canva Makes Video Thumbnails EASY

Ever played with Canva? Let's make a simple video thumbnail to begin! Gary Vee inspired this one.
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