Quick Links

• Google offers the YouTube Creator Institute for future filmmakers, talk show hosts, sportscasters and media executives. Happens this May. Any U.S. citizen over 18 is welcome to apply, and candidates may apply online at www.youtube.com/creatorinstitute from now until midnight on March 25
  
  
• Robin Schmidt explains how he did the post effects on his latest SMR video: Behind The Edit – SMR VS Facebook
  
  
• The 30 Seconds of Action Challenge. Three submissions will be selected to represent the festival as Official Bumpers of ActionFest 2011 at events and screenings, and each finalist will receive two VIP badges for this year’s festival
  
  
• Embedding a Speech Transcript in a Flash Video with Adobe CS5: Michael Hurwicz shows how to create a scrolling transcript synced with a Flash video, using Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Story, OnLocation, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth and Flash Professional).
  
  
• Sony PMW-F3 Tests: Dennis Ersöz has posted videos comparing latitude with the Panasonic AG-AF100 (AF101) and the Canon 5D, as well as image quality compared to the Sony EX1R: Latitude F3K AF101 5DmkII | F3K vs EX1R (latitude & look) | F3K vs EX1R II
  
  
• Twitter ends it's reign as the Next-Big-Thing (because they are locking out developers.) Alexandra Samuel, Harvard Business School: Twitter Locks Down, Ending Its Reign as the Next Big Thing
  
  
• Stills in Motion: a training video with Drew Gardner. You can see little excerpts on Vimeo here: Stills in Motion, The Photographers guide to shooting HDSLR Movie