Connecting Community

A few months ago I was asked to produce a video featuring the volunteer work of Greeley of God. The experience is like taking a missions trip in your own backyard.

The goal of Greeley for God is to feed and connect the homeless and working poor to community resources in Greeley, CO. The focus of the video is not to make people feel bad, but to help viewers to understand a need of the community they live in. Producing a story makes an impact on false perceptions that people may have about a given issue. The video shows that volunteering to serve a meal is a simple way to do something about a never ending problem in every community in the world. Viewers no longer have to feel intimidated by the homeless problem.

MXO now works with Premiere Pro CS4.2

I downloaded and updated my copy of Premiere Pro CS4 to version 4.2 and found the I/O updates working very well.

I loaded a project and went into sequence settings from the top menu. Then I programed the sequence to use the MXO box I have tied to my MacPro system. The MXO box now works perfectly with both my SD Sony 24" reference monitor (dwnconverted from a 720p timeline) and 23" HD Apple cinema display. I can also monitor audio via the MXO box. I've been waiting for MXO I/O support since 4.0, so this new update is a very welcome improvement. Now I can work with Premire Pro 4.2 and have an acurate frame/color and audio reference. The set up also works with Adobe Soundbooth.

As a note: I don't recommend FCP and Premiere Pro to be open and sharing the MXO at the same time. This causes the MXO to go offline and Premiere Pro/Final Cut Pro will sometimes crash. You have to work with each program one at a time to avoid the problem.

Happy editing.