PROFESSIONAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
GARY G. BALLARD is a seasoned professional video producer, photojournalist, director of photography who based his independent freelance multimedia creative studio in San Diego, Southern California.
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 Apple dropped Quicktime support for their movie .mov format and broke all my movie pages.
I have inserted "DIRECT DOWNLOAD PLAY .MP4" links on my individual movie pages if you are interested in watching my movies.
Just click on a THUMBNAIL link (left column) of the movie you want to watch and then on the DIRECT DOWNLOAD .MP4 on the actual movie page.
The .mp4 should then pop up in a new window and start playing depending on your Internet speed and settings.
.mp4 should play on everything newer: iPhone, Android, Google, Windows, macOS.
These small size 320 pixels wide -- are how we did it in the old days of dial-up Internet...so they are pretty compressed and blurry by 2025 standards.
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EXPERIENCED CUT-CAMERAMAN
G. BALLARD has more than 20-years daily work experience directing people for photo shoots and he understands working with a team and shooting for editing sequences.
G. BALLARD Studio, established in San Diego in 1986 serving commercial and business clients with professional creative and consulting services.
"My greatest strength is cut camera...very few camera operators can equal my natural instincts for the frame, let alone my production discipline.
- -Gary G. Ballard
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RUSH SD HDV DVD Production
DVD PORTFOLIO 100% produced in house by Gary G. Ballard.
RUSH DEADLINE DRIVEN: Gary Ballard provides all the proven studio and location experience and desktop publishing expertise needed to script, shoot stills, SD, HDV video, edit and burn to Standard Definition SD and High Definition Video HDV Blu-ray AVCHD DVD.
Proficient in most aspects of multi-media production, including motion picture SD and HDV, still photography, ENG, journalism, Photoshop®, Final Cut Pro®, Compressor®, QuickTime®, DVD Studio Pro®, production authoring process to final DVD.
Editing still photographs to produce slide shows in DVD format are a studio specialty.
G. BALLARD PROFESSIONAL RESUME.
EQUIPMENT List:
NIKON D810, GoPro Hero 10 Black, Sony PD150, Sennheiser Mikes, Apple Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Compressor, professional MPEG-2 compression DVD, Blu-ray, AVCHD, .mp4 for internet. ProMax Cobracrane, dolly tracks, lighting, 12x Blu-ray burner....
SOUNDMAN — SENNHEISER AUDIO
G. BALLARD owns a variety of SENNHEISER microphones (please see above linked studio equipment list), and he is a qualified soundman on the job.
ZOOM H6 six-track audio recorder.
Sennheiser includes MKE 600 shotgun mic with blimp and wind sock, SK100 G4 clip-on kit, wireless EW G4 transmitter
FINAL CUT PRO X EDITOR
DVD Studio Pro
to SD Video and UHD Blu-Ray disc
San Diego production studio includes iMAC 2019 with 64 -128GB RAM, 8GB VRAM, fast 3,000 MBps Read/Write NVMe SSDs, with hardware-calibrated 5K Retina display.
Editing stations have Adobe Creative Suite CS6 installed.
Gary Ballard's Final Cut Pro editing skills are solid in the basics, but better suited to smaller projects.
G. BALLARD Studio digital video production services support clients with a general expert working knowledge of DVCAM, MINIDV, HDV (High Definition Video 16:9), SD Stand Definition Video (4:3) and Letterbox, Movie DVD, Blu-ray (BD-R), AVCHD (on DVD+R), publishing movies on the internet, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Compressor, QuickTime compatible file formats like .mp4, .mov, .m4a, MPEG-2 (DVD), Apple Intermediate, H.264, AVI, 3G, expert packaging video for YOUTUBE, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Blu-ray.
PROFESSIONAL PHOTO-JOURNALIST
A Syracuse University photojournalism major, GARY BALLARD has written hundreds of feature articles for national release, and thousands of web pages to hone his successful writing style.
G. BALLARD understands the story and knows how to talk to people while the camera is rolling and audio sound is properly miked.
COMMERCIAL PHOTOSHOP ARTIST
It only takes a glance for some people to see natural instincts and discipline, please take a few minutes to check out my other CREATIVE PORTFOLIOS.
- -G. Ballard
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G. BALLARD is an expert commercial-grade Photoshop® artist, graphic designer and professional workflow consultant for color management, pre-press, internet, large-format ink-jet printing.
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