I love Christmas. I love being with family.

But sometimes things get weird...

For example:

Tonight we went to a Christmas party at the place my grandma lives (it's a group home). The entertainment for the night was a 78 year-old, retired salvation army officer, accordion playing lady. She led us in some Christmas carols played to the tune of her accordion. After that, she presented the gospel, told some long story I can't remember, and prayed for us. I felt blessed.

Here is proof:



As you can tell, my sister was having way too much fun.



And here is a little snippet of the glorious accordion (and our wonderful singing).



I can't wait till next years party.

For some reason Final Cut Pro was giving me some weird looking green crap after I rendered dissolves on text....

I was tasked in creating a promo video for our Jr. High Summer Camp 2008 using a full tape (60min) of amateur footage from a miniDV camera to create a 2 min video. I was asked to do fast cuts, and so I did.

In order to try and make the cuts line up with the music I tried something new (for me anyways). I simply brought the song into the timeline, and played it through. As it was playing I would hit the marker shortcut button (the key with the wiggly icon to the left of the "1" key) to certain beats of the song - such as accents, builds, etc - keeping in mind the spacings and rhythms of cuts it would produce. Then as I cut and brought clips in from the source they would "snap" into place, and I could adjust the length of the clip accordingly. This really sped up the process of completing this video.

Here are some screenshots of the markers in action:







This isn't the most flashy video ever made, but I think it works for the intended audience. Also, even with an hour of footage, good shots were hard to come by so there are some shots used twice - which I wouldn't normally do - but it was suggested to me so I went with it.

This is the result.

I have grown to a great fascination of the Internets and I use them for pretty much everything.

Lately, I have been checking out a lot of sites of different ministries and people that lead those ministries. It is cool to see what other people are doing, and is always inspiring me to continue pursuing creativity, efficiency, and effectiveness in my ministry and daily life. Here are some that I have been bookmarking:

http://newspring.cc/
http://www.tonymorganlive.com/
http://www.virb.com/leemcderment
http://www.avclub.us
http://gccwired.com/
http://www.leadingsmart.com/
http://kemmeyer.typepad.com/

To say the least there is a lot of information out there on the Internets. You should use some tools to save some time and manage your finds. Some good ones that I use are Google Reader, and Google Bookmarks. If you are like me, you will need these tools to save yourself from the never ending rabbit hole.

This seems to my like an extremely nerdy post that has to do with nothing in particular so I may force it to end.

This is the bottom line.

Hello World.

I am entering into the World Wide Web bringing my vast knowledge of life to everyone.

That is a lie. I know nothing.

Why I am doing this I am not entirely certain, but I do know that all of my reasons are entirely selfish.

What I will do is attempt to capture some thoughts, commentary, and worthless crap to document my journey here on earth.

We'll see how this goes.

Here are some sites that I frequently check out in no particular order:

Products:

www.presonus.com
www.digidesign.com
www.m-audio.com
www.apple.com

Creative People:

NewSpring Video Guy
NorthPoint Video Guy
Granger Video Guy

Tools:
Google Reader
Gmail

Forums:
Gear Slutz
Bwacks Forum

Music:
emusic
Your Music

This list will continue to change as I add things. Go figure... Feel free to give me some ideas.

Videos via Vimeo...


Family Worship Night Promo from Wave.Theory on Vimeo.

Wave Theory is an online collection of media, thoughts and randomness by one Mark Anderson.

I am involved in Video and Audio Production, and am constantly seeking ways to grow, and become more creative.

Why 'Wave Theory'?

Because being an audio guy that takes audio classes you learn about waves, and waves are cool.

Wikipedia has the answers.