article thumbnail

In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love capturing and sharing authentic stories with video – either with my iPhone (email to YouTube) or the Flip Camera. If the latter, I have a storyboard in my head and edit as I go. Some Tips. No matter the technology, the process of capturing and sharing a good story quickly is the same.

Alaska 94
article thumbnail

Rephrase.ai lands fresh investment to grow its synthetic media platform

TechCrunch

Since their early college days, Lahoti wanted to build a “text-to-movie” engine that could take a script or storyboard as input and generate a film, Malhotra tells TechCrunch. “With video becoming the default, what today bottlenecks video creation is the time and cost spent on production,” Malhotra said via email.

Media 72
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI

TechCrunch

. “I founded Descript with the idea of building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI,” Mason told TechCrunch in an email interview. “We’re on the verge of a generational change in the way we create content — fueled by AI.

Media 94
article thumbnail

How Public Speaking Skills Can Help You Run Your Nonprofit

Achieve

Many offices debate over whether certain meetings could be emails, but nearly everyone agrees that there are times when you absolutely must meet with your nonprofit’s team. Storyboard your presentation. fundraising emails. Tackling meetings more effectively. Well-run organizations are powered by efficient meetings.

Skills 96
article thumbnail

Will this video editing software also do my laundry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yes, an email from Steve Garfield this morning. In terms of the home-movie approach to screencasting, as you can see I didn't spend a lot of time scripting, storyboarding, zooming, additing titles or arrows, etc. And, have the end user learn something. Is there a way? Steve It was a pointer to this service. No rehearsal either.

article thumbnail

The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. the perfect app to share or explain something when email just won't do it. I'm getting email descriptions and since my depth of knowledge of SF isn't as deep, it is hard for me understand some of what I read in text.

Jing 50
article thumbnail

Tips for Taking a Tech-Fueled Approach to Nonprofit Training

DNL OmniMedia

With e-learning, you don’t need to organize an in-person event and have a staff member on-hand to lead it—you can simply email course access each time a new supporter wants to join your ranks. One of her favorite things to do in the e-learning world is jump in with a client to write a storyboard that is creative and application-based.

Train 52