Talks underway to develop a strategic alliance between The Association of Video Professionals and ShoppingCenterVideo.com

May 12th, 2009, Miami Florida: ShoppingCenterVideo.com and The Association of Video Professionals (aovpros.com) recently entered discussions to develop an alliance that would benefit both organizations and more importantly, provide better service to their end customers.
ShoppingCenterVideo.com has quickly become a leader in the Shopping Center Marketing Industry. They are rapidly changing the shopping center industry by providing developers, brokers, appraisers, leasing agents, landlords and tenants with a specialized and user-friendly platform to market their properties.
One of the valuable services ShoppingCenterVideo.com provides their customers is the ability to post videos of the properties to their site so perspective investors can view and evaluate the shopping center prior to booking a costly trip. That’s where the Association of Video Professionals (AVP) come in.

AVP is a Nation Wide Network of Independently owned Professional Video Production and Service companies. They currently have listings in all 50 states through their findavideoprofessional.com directory with over 1000 plus participants and growing every week. The primary mission of AVP is to help its members succeed by driving qualified sales leads to them.

“I am excited about the potential benefits this partnership could produce for both companies” says Dave Mungai, Executive Director for AVP. “ShoppingCenterVideo.com has a need to produce quality videos for it’s customers with a quick turn-around. Through our national network, we can identify and book a video professional that meets those requirements resulting in a win-win for everyone involved”.

“We are excited to be in discussions with AVP because it gives us the ability to produce quality shopping center videos for our clients in cities on an as needed basis.” says Charles Silver, President for ShoppingCenterVideo.com
This is just one more example where business to business alliances can help strengthen growing companies and provide better value in the marketplace. Additional announcements will be made as the details of the program are worked out.

For more information on ShoppingCenterVideo.com contact Charles Silver, President @ 954.536.1367 or visit their website – www.ShoppingCenterVideo.com

For more information on The Association of Video Professionals contact Dave Mungai, Executive Director @ 850 934-9907, or visit their websites – www.aovpros.com & www.findavideoprofessional.com

Ran across the following site the other day when looking to add some custom shapes to my Photoshop library.

www.ladyoak.com

This is a fantastic site with hundreds of free shape libraries, layer styles, gradients, and even free tutorials. After the AVP training session in February on creating better DVD Studio Pro menu’s with Motion and Photoshop, I’ve been doing more with button overlays and custom menu’s. I was looking for more ideas on creative button’s and this site certainly filled that bill. Content is totally free. Check it out!

SACRAMENTO, CA - DeMello Video & Photo Services has been awarded Certification by the State of California Department of General Services as a Certified Small Business (OSDS Ref# 43536).

With this Certification, DeMello Video is now able to easily service all State of California offices with an easier procurement cycle for all of the states video needs.

DeMello Video & Photo Services is owned and operated by Jeff & Francesca DeMello in Stockton, California.

DeMello Video is also a Founding Member of the Association of Video Professionals, a member of the Stockton, Lodi, and Clements/Lockeford Chamber of Commerce, as well as a Fully Accredited Member of the Better Business Bureau, and a Member of The Recording Academy of the Grammys.

On Ken Stone’s Final Cut Pro Web Site, there is a new blog on Preprocessing in Compressor and Episode by guru Philip Hodgetts.

Philip says: “I consider pre-processing to be as important as the encoder settings. Getting them right makes the job of the encoding engine much simpler and therefore better results are obtained at reduced bandwidth. In fact, the pre-processing is probably more important than the encoder settings that the encoder is going to work with.”

Check it out for more efficient compressing!

Attached are some great free resources for stock images and other elements you can use royalty free in your projects.

http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/100-legal-sources-for-free-stock-images/

See the attached link for a quick tutorial on creating a gutter (space) in your scrolling titles. Maybe some of you know about this but I didn’t and thought it would be a good topic to share. The clip is only about 60sec!

http://www.fcptips.com/tips/12705.html

Apple, Inc. Sunday announced to a packed house Final Cut Studio 2, with major upgrades including Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, SoundTrack 2 and Compressor 3. Apple also introduced its own color grading and finishing software called, appropriately enough, Color. However, there is no upgrade to DVD Studio Pro, which is still on version 4, released in 2005.

Click here to read the complete story.

This is a great article for all you Final Cut editors out there…

http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=125747