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Mammoth day

TJ Mullinax — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:22:10 +0000

Shot a couple fun assignments today. I’ll write more from my computer later. Here’s one of my photos that I pushed into my iPhone app lomob.

Long night lightshow

TJ Mullinax — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:16:10 +0000

A lightning storm blew threw about 12:30 a.m. and I was able to capture a bit. This version was edited on my iPhone using the lo-mob photo app.

Night turns to rockabilly Crabs

TJ Mullinax — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:46:48 +0000

After the track, stopped by Sports Center to listen to the Seattle group Black Crabs.
Shot some video and a few stills to test out the Canon 7D. So far it looks like 2000 iso is about as much as I would want to push for video quality. Also the audio is peaked out and distorted. Not sure how to deal with that yet.

Track night rocks

TJ Mullinax — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:38:17 +0000

Went out to Renegade Raceway in Parker Wash. tonight on a fact finding task and it was very cool for a story angle.
I hope to shoot it on Saturday two weeks from now.
(photo by Scott Francis)

Post tournament golfing

TJ Mullinax — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:30:36 +0000

Here’s a video of Tony Overman’s swing while golfing at Apple Tree in Yakima.

The photo is of Andy Bronson. We had a ton of fun following state basketball.

Back from furlough

TJ Mullinax — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:59:54 +0000

It’s been a while since I made a post, but my furlough time is up and I’m back at work.

It’s been nice doing family things, taking iPhone pics and also getting sick. You can find some of the photos in the mobile gallery on the left.

I hope to write a post about a meetup of NPPA regional folks by the weekend.

Testing Christmas Live iPhone stream

TJ Mullinax — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:25:47 +0000

Testing out a new app that supposedly gives the iPhone streaming video capability. Lets see how it works?

Free video chat by Ustream

Success! Editing and uploading full resolution video from iPhone 3GS

TJ Mullinax — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:41:31 +0000

What do you get when you upload video from your iPhone 3GS to youtube or through email? A low-resolution piece of junk online… At one point that wasn’t so bad, however when the ReelDirector app came out, allowing for simple iPhone video editing, I wanted to actually shoot, edit and upload decent little videos to my blip.tv account. Or to take that further, upload short breaking news video stories to our newspaper site when it’s your only option, or your best when time is precious.

Let’s just say it hasn’t been easy finding a way to upload to blip.tv from your iPhone, but thankfully the latest Pixelpipe update has given iPhone folks a way to do it. But it takes forever. Oh, well. At least I can get my videos from my phone into blip.tv without being at home or in the newsroom.

I have tried FTP apps, cross-post upload apps, etc. with no success, until tonight. Now from just about anywhere I can shoot video sequences though my iPhone, edit them in ReelDirector, upload them to blip.tv using Pixelpipe, then post the video embed code (from my blip.tv account) into my blog or my newspaper Web site.

I am no longer tethered to the youtube service and can publish my full resolution video where I want it.

The benefit to this is being able to ‘live video blog’ from the field with the best size video the iPhone can put out. ReelDirector is also a boon, because it allows for simple edits, basic transitions (if you need them) and title/credit text before pushing it out to the public. I cannot wait to try it out on something a bit more structured than this family video. Enjoy!

Fun in Eugene

TJ Mullinax — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:29:06 +0000

Saturday was exhausting but worth every moment of driving between Portland and Eugene – twice. The SPJ Oregon conference was fun to speak at and I hope those who went came away pleased. SPJ is lucky to have Tamara Kent and the good folks at the U of O getting this put together.

I plan to post a few PDFs later from my computer on Monday that includes instruction on audio ethics, final cut editing and a reporters tool kit for shooting video.

(Photos below are from: 1 Biggs, early early early… on the way to Eugene. 2 A lamp on the campus of University of Oregon. 3 A panel talks tech in the newsroom at the SPJ conference.)

It was a “Day at the park”: in-iPhone video editing

TJ Mullinax — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:49:25 +0000

Just got a hold of a new iPhone app that provides basic video editing options. I used some clips I shot of the boys shortly after getting the 3gs and discovered I could not splice clips together; until now. Thank you ReelDirector.

This clip is just over one minute long and took the iPhone four minutes to encode with transitions and title/credit text. Far faster than dumping it into my MacBook. The next update to the software is supposed to provide some audio editing/overlay control.