“Susannah” - OpenCut 1.0

I can’t say enough good things about OpenCut. The idea is pure genius- Open Source video editing. While I could explain how liberating the concept is (as far as media democratization goes) I’m going to look at it from a business standpoint. Silverado Systems (the main sponsor) builds/implements ‘SICK’ media systems. A techie’s dream. Thus […]

Neustadt Group Case Study

About the Creator

Mike Greenberg began his affair with the image as a medium during the eighth grade. He continued on this path throughout high school servicing local community until he took an internship at a post-production facility at age 15. Shortly thereafter at age 16 he founded Konspiracy Studios providing print, web and video services.

While working part time in the industry he attended Thomas Edison HS of Tech. (TEHST) in the graphic design program. After taking home 4th in the Maryland Skills USA advertising competition and joining the National Technical Honor Society, Mike graduated with the student of the year in the program.

Mike was awarded one of the NFIB’s Young Entrepreneur Scholarships, and spent a semester at George Mason University in the film and video major. He reevaluated his options and decided to major in business administration at UMUC so that he could work full-time and continue to grow Konspiracy Studios.

OUR BLOG

Quickly Adding Z-Depth in Motion from Photoshop

Pro Video Coalition posted a video tutorial on creating a 2.5D scene from a layered photoshop file.
In it is the solution I have been looking for to one of Motion’s most vexing problems. How to quickly change the depth of a layer whilst scaling it so it doesn’t appear to move!
The answer is with the […]

In Defense of Satire & Creative Expression

A society that remains successful in appealing to the lowest common denominator (lcd), breeds ignorance and detachment. [lcd break] Freedom of speech is a right (obligation?) to offend, with the hopes that audiences might ponder subject matter longer than their stunted minds generally permit. [lcd break] In a modern nation, where people have the opportunity […]

The Move from Free Wordpress to Hosted Wordpress

Today marks the first day in which my old blog is finally dead. When I began using wordpress I had no idea you could host it on your site, I viewed it much like a facebook profile, or myspace page. Now several months after moving everything to my own domain I’ve deleted the old site.Generally […]

You Send It Releases FCP Plugin

You Send It, a replacement for FTP, allows you to send files up to two gig files over the internet. Cool.
Yet a little while back they released a plug-in for FCP which allows you to export your project out and send it for approval, or to another editor. This is a very cool initiative on […]