Two MediaStorm projects I produced were honored in this year’s Best of Photojournalism awards.

A Thousand More received first prize in Web Sites: Feature Multimedia Story and Honorable Mention in Web Sites: Best Use of the Web.

The Gulf Spill received Honorable Mention in Web Sites: Multimedia Package.

My friend and college Rick Gershon’s amazing work Surviving the Peace also received Honorable Mention in Web Site: Feature Multimedia.

Congratulations to all my co-workers and workshop students who made these productions possible.

For a few hours Friday afternoon, Remember These Days appeared on the front page of msnbc.com.

You can still see it here on the msnbc.com photo blog.

It’s been a busy month for blog posts at MediaStorm. I’ve written a new tutorial on basic color correction for Final Cut Pro 7 that’s available here.

The paper was written with my partner in crime Tim McLaughlin.

I’ve written a guide to using the Autosave Vault in Final Cut Pro 7.

From the MediaStorm blog:

Final Cut Pro’s Autosave Vault is your insurance policy against crashes, lost work and just about any other mishap. In short, it will save your bacon.

The vault works by saving an entire copy of your Final Cut Pro project file at a regular, user-determined interval.

This post will explain how to set up your Autosave Vault, copy items from a backup to your working project as well as replace your FCP file with a backup file.

Read the full post here.

50/50
Belleflower
Drive
The Double Hour
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Ides of March
Martha Marcy Mae Marlene
Peep Show
Shame
Take Shelter
Tinker Tailer Solider Spy
Young Adult

Shame is the real standout for me. From Steve McQueen, the director of 2008’s Hunger.

I’ve published two new white papers for MediaStorm.

From the MediaStorm blog:

The first, MediaStorm Compression Workflow: From Output to Web-ready H.264 (PDF) details our new encoding process.

The other, Setting up Qmaster for Faster Transcoding and Compression (PDF) shows how to use Apple’s Compressor for faster encodes that utilize all of your computer’s processors.

Both papers can be found on the MediaStorm resources page: http://mediastorm.com/train/resources.

A Thousand More, a project I produced for the MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Workshop, is nominated for this year’s Webby Awards in the Documentary: Individual Episode category.

The project is also nominated for a Webby People’s Voice Award. Voting is open from April 10th to April 26th.

I’ve published a new tutorial on the MediaStorm blog that explains our workflow once a project is complete.

You can read it here.

I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest project from the MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Workshop.

Rick Gershon and I were fortunate to work with the great team of Galen Clarke, Frederic Menou, and Marian Liu.

The piece was of course made better by Andrew Hida and B. Storm.

From the description:

For Walter Backerman, seltzer is more than a drink. It’s the embodiment of his family. As a third generation seltzer man, he follows the same route as his grandfather. But after 90 years of business, Walter may be the last seltzer man.

Watch Remember These Days here.