At one point in my time at Austin Community College, I shifted my focus over to motion graphic effects. For one semester I was in this plan, and I left it because I found out that basically none of the credits were going to transfer to a 4-year university. I took digtial imaging (photoshop class), basic graphic design (design but using illustrator), and basic illustration (a class that teaches how to draw and shade correctly) within that degree plan. Within the digital imaging class we were learning how to use photoshop. It was literally straight out of an Adobe created textbook with lessons. The final project was to recreate a movie poster using our own assets from scratch and nothing from the original image. I decided to make a poster for God Bless America with my wife.
I've done some podcasting work over the last few years. The Texas Hemp Reporter magazine brought me in to guest host on it's first every episode of the Texas Hemp Show. It went so well that the host asked me to stay on a continuing co-host. I wound up doing over 50 episodes with the show over the course of about 1.5 years. In August of 2021, I set up the podcast for the Texas Cannabis Collective and our board settled on the name Lonestar Collective Podcast. We have done over 50 episodes now with me as the primary host, and a little over 20 videos of the podcast. The most recent intro was created by me with a montage of stock footage and some graphics templates. The videos have been uploaded to Youtube and are there for anyone to see and stream. Here are some episodes from each show.
I decided to split the cost of picking up a used 1080 professional grade video recorder over the summer. The problem with it was that the person informed my wife that the camera used an SD card, but did not tell her that the camera does not record video, only photos, to the SD card. The camera is of the age where DV tapes were still used. If you don't know, DV tapes require a firewire connection to converty to digital and must be transferred in realtime with the length of the recording. So, using my engineering ingenuity I used the clean HD out port that was a custom Japanese DV port to be converted into a composite cable av jack. Then a powered converter to change the composite cables into a HDMI cable. That way I could plug the HDMI into a battery powered video capture box. I then mounted the capture box on top of the camera using a cold shoe adjustable phone holster. This allows me to feed the live video from the camera with a clean output directly into the caputre box and record to an SD card. So far it has worked really well when I have tried it out. Here are a few examples of recent work I filmed and put together for some events.
If the videos are not viewable in the the browswer (Youtube on occasion has prevented embedded videos from playing), here are the links to the videos.
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