David Bourne

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How to Make iPhone Video With Phone as The Camera, iPad as Monitor With Edit in DaVinci Resolve

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What My New YouTube Channel is Teaching Me

This month (of March 2023) I’m re-launching my YouTube Channel to help coach creative folks who want to ship and share their Big Ideas to the world.

I wanted to test using my iPhone camera with my iPad as a monitor, so I did a “single-shot-multi-cut” shoot and edit.

  • First, I setup my iPhone 14 Pro as the camera on a tripod.
  • Then I plugged in my DJI wireless lav into the lighting port on the phone.
  • Using the MoviePro Camera app as my recorder, I opened the MoviePro Remote app on my iPad 12 in to monitor.
  • This helped me see myself moving around within in the frame.
  • I Airdropped the movie to my iPad for the edit in Resolve.

Here’s the video….

How to Make iPhone Video With Phone as The Camera, iPad as Monitor With Edit in DaVinci Resolve

What I Learned Making This Quick Video

  • Remember to playback and test the audio with headphones. There was a subtle rumble from a loose connection that I could not hear at first.
  • I need to pause more between movements. It was hard to get a clean edit.
  • My head is too high in some of the shots. I need to move back or move the camera, next time.
  • More script practice is always good. This is not very tight delivery of content.
  • The MoviePro iPhone app worked great with its companion Remote control app.
  • DaVinci Resolve for iPad is powerful for video editing, but new users will need help. It’s not as intuitive as other iPad apps.
  • My studio has too much echo. I need to make some sound treatment panels.
  • I’m a dork. Oh well! At least I’m having fun.

My 1st Test Edit with DaVinci Resolve for iPad

This was my first quick edit in DaVinci Resolve for iPad.

I think I like it!

It was not super intuitive at first, but I think I’ll keep using it. Especially since I’m converting from Adobe Premiere Pro to Resolve as my main video editing software.

My edit was quick and dirty. Not perfect but fast and easy!

Are You Shipping Imperfect Work?

I hope so!

I find it’s a great way to grow fast and push your boundaries in meaningful ways.

How to Effectively Use Images in a WordPress Website

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Images Matter a Lot On the Web

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Why Your Content Needs Images

We all want to be remembered. That’s human nature. So when you want to convey a valuable piece of information to your audience, you want the info to be memorable, too. Images can help you do that.

Elephants are supposed to have good memories. Therefore, a photo of an elephant connects the idea of remembering a concrete (and in this case a very large) object.

Why Images Are Sticky

A photo or a graphic that is relative to your content will give your viewer’s minds something to remember. That’s what mean by “sticky”. Images help your brain by associating an idea with a visual.

Words are abstract, so they need a visual to help our brains have something to hold onto. All alone, words are good, and images are good. Put the two together and you can get something great.

Watch the Video To See A Screencast of Why and How to Imbed Images

How to Best Use Images in WordPress

Remember these 3 things, and you will be good to go.

  • Pick Something Relative to Your Content
  • Resize images before uploading
  • Put images near the very top of your posts

Pick Something Relative to Your Content

Remember what I said about remembering? Images help us remember, but the words need to match up with the graphic somehow.

Resize Pics for the Web Before You Upload

Your pages will load faster if you make the images the right size BEFORE you upload. This helps keep your site lean and makes it more efficient. It’s also easier to back up and easier to manage, overall.

This one is a pretty big deal, folks, so resize before uploading! A great web-based resource for resizing file sizes is the awesome TinyPNG.com site.

Put Images at the Top of Your Post

As a rule, the image should be one of the first things your web viewer sees. Otherwise, they might miss it.

Stories are Sticky Too

Never forget the importance of storytelling. The mental images that stories create are very powerful connectors within our brains.

I took this picture of the angry elephant in Mana Pools, Zimbabwe during a trip I took down the Zambezi River. I’ll never forget thinking that this lone bull might get mad enough to charge.

We saw several elephants on that 10-day trip, but none were this close, and none seemed this aggravated that we were nearby.

I’ll never forget that elephant. And, hopefully, you will make a memorable connection, as well.

Dictate Content Quickly with the Otter App

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When Speed Matters, Pick the Method that’s Fast

What’s the quickest way to write something, when you don’t have a keyboard or even a pen and paper?

A dictation app.

I’ve used several dictation apps and Otter, by far, is my favorite.

Why I Love Otter for Dictation

First I liked it for the price. It’s for free for 600 minutes a month.

It turns out to be about 20 minutes a day, so 600 minutes is plenty for most folks. If you need more than that, Otter is definitely worth the price of $8.33 a month.

With the paid premium version, you get 6000 minutes a month. Otter perks that I like are that you can upload podcasts or videos and get transcription files. It also integrates well with Dropbox.

How I use Otter Daily

I used otter a lot this past November when I was doing the National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. I was able to dictate in my car, or just about anywhere that I had a couple of minutes to get some ideas down.

If you happen to be offline, you can still record and Otter will do the work whenever it gets a connection to the cloud. Otter makes an audio recording. And then it uploads that to the server.

If you are online the whole time you are speaking, it will upload as you speak. This way, transcription is usually pretty instantaneous.

Is Otter All I Use for Transcribing and Dictating?

Don’t get me wrong. I still use the built-in dictation for iOS, when I just need something quick. Maybe I need to just jot out a quick text message, or I need Siri to write something out for me quickly in Evernote.

Siri is always good for the less than one-minute quick stuff.

But if you need to do an extended dictation that’s more than a minute long, and you want it to self punctuate, then Otter is for you.

So check out Otter.ai and start making content more quickly. Otter’s a great tool you will reach for often in your content-making tool kit.

And yes, I dictated this whole post by using Otter!

Instagram Can Automatically Post to WordPress

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from Instagram: http://j.mp/2kT6vGs

IFTTT The Awesome Automator

This was my first test of using If This Then That (IFTTT) to post to this WordPress website.
It’s not very configurable (as far as I can tell) but it works!
This means that when I post to Instagram, I can automatically send that same image to several places at once.
This image went to Instagram (of course) and Facebook (via the switch) then Twitter (via IFTTT, since you can send a real image, not just a link) and now this WordPress site.

Why This is Nice

I like this because I can add context and links to my images. The automation makes the setup easier, and I can pick more customization.
Plus, and this is a big plus. I own this site and have great control over it. That’s something you can’t say for all the other Social media sites I just listed. Remember, don’t be a digital sharecropper and let another company control yours.
David Bourne

David Bourne

I am a nature loving, creative technology-obsessed dad who wants to change the world. I coach independent business owners to tell better stories about themselves and their work. Change Your Story and You Change the World.

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