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10 tips for editing video in a thoughtful, compelling way. By Kari Mulholland One of TED’s video editors, Kari Mulholland, hard at work.

Below, her editing advice. Photo: Biljana Labovic The techniques that video editors use to shape their content reveal a lot about how people create meaning in the world. Editors have a deep understanding of how people think, feel, remember and learn, and we use this knowledge to build powerful, moving stories and experiences. The TED Talk editing toolkit is small when compared to ones used to cut a narrative feature or documentary. Now, compare that to the same excerpt edited competently. What made the first excerpt so uncomfortable to watch was that the edits were unmotivated; every edit was random. Choose the best camera angles for each moment. Now the “um” is edited out, by cutting between two shots during an action-filled moment.

Think about who’s speaking and who’s listening. Now let’s watch the same excerpt edited like a TED Talk. Electromagnet Dot Display for TNT's "Perception" 20 Entertaining Examples of Motion Graphics. Motion graphics are graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects.

Motion graphics are usually displayed via electronic media technology, but may be displayed via manual powered technology (e.g. thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, stroboscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope, flip book) as well. The term is useful for distinguishing still graphics from graphics with a transforming appearance over time without over-specifying the form. Motion graphics extend beyond the most commonly used methods of frame-by-frame footage and animation. Computers are capable of calculating and randomizing changes in imagery to create the illusion of motion and transformation.

Not only are the following videos are inspiring, there are also very entertaining. The Forty Story How to Train Your Dragon – Live Projections Vodalabs – The Digital Alchemists CS6 Stinger ilovedust showreel 2012 Spherikal. BBC London 2012 Olympic Games advert (full length) Bendito Machine. SubWars. Sigg Jones. Pop-Up Books Get the Magical Movie Treatment [Video] Intricate papercraft designs are mindblowing enough.

But what happens when you add elements of film, puppet theater, pop-up books, and interactive light projection? "The Ice Book," a spellbinding traveling show by Davy and Kristin McGuire. Which sounds hard to grasp, but watch the video: The husband-and-wife team says they "always had the dream of creating a theatre performance that opened up like a pop-up book. " They actually wanted to produce a life-sized version; The Ice Book was created as a smaller-scale "demonstration model" to lure funding, but then turned into a sensation all on its own. images © Davy & Kristin McGuire In addition to pop-up books and theater, the designers took inspiration from pre-cinematic illusions like zoetropes and magic lantern shows.

Kristin took care of meticulously designing and cutting the pop-up paper scenes; Davy created the animations from a combination of live-action footage (shot with a Canon 5D Mark II) and Adobe AfterEffects. The Jedi Path book presentation box. Its silver vault doors sport an embossed image of two moons setting over the rounded edge of a nearby planet and two hands clutching a lightsabre...

Press the button on the bottom and, in a wash of blue light and sound effects, the doors slowly open and the book within rises on a platform. Yes, folks it's the packaging for The Jedi Path, a limited edition book, created collaboratively by print production company Imago, publisher becker&mayer! And, of course, Lucasfilm. "The biggest challenge for us was that George Lucas (no relation to CR's Gavin) did not want the opening mechanism to be activated electronically," explains John Hine at Imago.

"The only electronics present are to power the blue lights on the book platform and the sound effects that are generated on opening," he adds. The book itself is no simple production. The book has been available in the US for a few months, but we're told the publishers are finally allowed to talk about it to press in the UK. COMPETITION GIVE AWAY! Karakuri. Obsessives: Soda Pop - CHOW.com. Everything is a Remix Part 3.