LumaFusion Tutorial: Animated Handwriting and Drawing

iOS Film Making, Videos/Film

I’ve just released a new LumaFusion tutorial which you can view above. This video shows you how to create your own handwritten titles and drawings and overlay them on video inside the LumaFusion app for iPad and iPhone. Make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel to get the latest tutorials for LumaFusion.

Tones and Semitones – Music Theory Lesson

Education, Music

A couple of years ago I made a bunch of videos about learning Music Theory. I made 6 in total and intend to make another 7 over the summer. I’m gradually reposting these to YouTube. Here’s the first lesson on Tones and Semitones.

A Foray into 4K

Blog, Personal, Technology

This week I’ve been creating and uploading 4K video. I say video… I, like many other people don’t yet own a device capable of recording 4K video so that is a little misleading. No, what I’m actually creating are photo slideshows in 4K.

A decent DSLR can take images with enough megapixels to cover the 3840×2160 dimensions found in this new Ultra-High Definition video format. Unfortunately, Aperture for Mac has very poor support for 4K video exports so I’ve resorted to Final Cut Pro instead. My poor MacBook Pro loses about 60GB of space every time I create a 2-3 minute video in 4K. When exporting, the fans go into overdrive and my work-horse laptop suddenly finds out what hard work really is.

The Battle with Sony Music

Blog

As you may have heard from the last Episode of the Matt Keil Podcast, my band Le Monnier found ourselves in a dispute with Sony Music over rights to a song we uploaded to YouTube.

We think Sony may have been making money out of our music by falsely claiming one of our songs as their own. Are they doing this to other bands? We hope not. After Sony finally removed their claim to one of our videos, I posted this blog video on the band’s YouTube channel.