Archive for August, 2009

Designing the Neil Young Archives - Article in Creative Cow.com

-Megan McKenna
Total Media Group and Creative Director Toshi Onuki were recently highlighted in a 6-page article for Creative Cow Magazine - a popular industry “go-to” magazine for resources, tips, and to learn about the technology that shapes our world of communications.

The article mainly focus’ on the nuts and bolts; how the project came to be, and ultimately, how it was managed by a project standpoint (how did we manage over 3,000 assets?). It’s a pretty interesting read (if I may say so myself. I ended up writing it). It was great to step back and look at the project from a birds-eye view, and really nice to sit with Toshi and just talk about the experience. Toshi has some great viewpoints that I rarely get to hear.

The online article is not as pretty as the magazine spread…….but there is far more information contained in the online version. Go figure. I’m thinking of the beauty and the image of the darn thing…..

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/designing-the-neil-young-archives

If you would like to see the magazine spread, you can download the 6MB file  here - just select the “Download Read Friendly Spread”.

http://magazine.creativecow.net/issue/heavy-lifting

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Posted in What's New

Working with Analog and Digital Sources

- Adam Sturgeon

One challenge that we always encounter is the crossover between the newer digital technology and the older but still popular analog technology.
We take pride in our abilities to work with most formats, whether it is for a simple tape duplication or for a large event production where we provide project management and design, produce, edit projects for our clients to use on a national stage.  Because today’s media technology is rapidly evolving and our clients are interested in using this new technology, we are continually transforming our media capabilities to handle more High Definition media production and editorial within our facility.
As Total Media Group shifts gears to prepare our clients for the future of media technology, we still have requests that are from an analog source such as Beta SP, VHS, 3/4 “ and hi-8.  As a technician here at TMG, it is my job to take these variable sources and complete the job with the highest quality possible.  Usually the types of requests that go along with these sources are DVD dubs, conversions to WMV or QT files, or digitizing.  There is a little more work involved to get these older analog sources prepped and ready to be used for our digital machines.  Although it is a challenge to integrate much older media technology with the latest and greatest technology, Total Media Group has continued to own and operate equipment old and new in order to give our clients the best variety of work possible.

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Posted in Production & Events