The most what I envied

During last 4 months, the most what I envied is the article totally separated from advertising. So reporters could focus on the writing and didn’t care the advertising.

But the most of Korean reporters couldn’t free from ad. Sometimes I also felt self-censorship when I wrote about big company such as Samsung or LG. Some big advertisers occasionally asked manager of newspaper to rewrite the article which contained adverse information for their company. It is very rare case that they asked to get rid of the article on the Web or newspaper. They suggest trading the article for the ad. The management of newspaper dose not refuse them easily. Especially depression makes harder.

I’m very sad to see the situation of Korean media in LA. There are about three Korean newspapers and 3 radio stations. Sometimes I can’t distinguish between the article and ad when I read the article in the economy section.

And I heard that some newspapers asked the owner of small business to advertise after reporting.

So it is not easy to cover the Koreatown. It is my personal experience when I was working on story about ‘Simulation golf’. At first the owner denied to answer my question. The reason is very extraordinary. He said “I have no money to advertise”. The article is the same word ‘ad’ for him.

After I explained I worked for American newspaper, he welcomed. It typified the Korean media in LA.

One more what I really envied is the tradition. LA Business Journal had the guideline about reception. They have prohibited receiving over 25 dollars(lunch or gift). We also had the same guideline but it was not observed. I’m very curious how to have roots this good tradition.

How to use Premiere Pro to make slide

I forcused on learning how to use multi-media tools such as 'Premiere Pro'. I really love to learn new technology. I always want to be an 'early adopter'.

I took a course 'Using Premiere Pro' which opened 'The Multi-media Institute' in Korea. My course is consisted of 40 lectures. I could take them via internet. Especially it's a free by courtesy of help of my friend. I recorded all lessons and made video files. I can share these files but you have to learn Korean before.

I finished my course just 10 days, it was not easy. Each lecture took about 30 minutes. And Ringo chu, photographer worked for the LA Business Journal, gave some tips. I also found the important skills on the Youtube.

My conclusion is that Premiere is really awesome and useful. It can be used to edit video and make photo slide.

First of all, thanks to Rodrigo. You gave me a motivation.

Let me show how to use Premiere to make photo slide.
1. Open 'New Project'
2. Maybe your program already choosen 'DV-NTSC\standard 48kHz'(It is default setting). NTSC used in US and East Asia such as Korea. PAL used in Eurpe and China(I'm not sure). It dosenot matter if you want to use your slide on the web. I follow default setting and named my project 'Memories'.
3. There is very important thing. If your photo file size over 720*480, I think most of case is over, you have to check 'customs settings\scale clips to...' If you don't, you can show a part of your photos.4. Click 'OK', start Premiere(after just P). You never forget this special tip before open your photos. You have to chose showing time each phots. If you didn't, all photos would show 5 seconds(It's a default settings). It's too long. But you can change the showing time manually, if you could spend all day. Choose 'Edit\Preferences\still image\ And then you can find 150 frames. Bear in mind '30 frames means 1 second'. So if you want to show 2 seconds each phot, you typed 60. 5. So you finished basic settings. Now open(ctrl+i) your photos. If you want to open serveral photos at once, you have to choose photos pushing ctrl key('ctrl+click'). Don't forget this one. If you choose several photos in the other folder and the file name is the same, you could open the last choosing file(P overwirtes automatically!)

For this reason, I made the other folder and copied phtos which is using slide. On this process, you could check the file names overlapping or not.

6. After choosing your photos, you can find the lists.

7. After choosing photos, drag to 'video1 track'. You can put the effect between phots.
Follow 'Effects\video2\slide'. You can find 'band slide and center merge...'. And then you drag your effect between photos. 8. You can add the music the same way. 'ctrl+i' and choose your music file and then your song added project window. Drag your song to audio track.
9. Only left final work. Choose 'File/Export/Adobe Media Encoder(for the web)'. You can find several file option, MPEG1,2 Window media....' I recommended MPEG2. And then type your file name. You've done. Try to make your own style photo slide!

10. You can also put the title using P. It's not difficult. Try to use the title tools(T symbol), you can understand.