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Beginners guide to Sheety (python), an API to update Goodle Sheets

18/11/202119/11/2021ben

Sheety is an API that allows you to update Google Sheets. It’s fairly straightforward to use but the documentation is fairly minimal. The below examples are in Python. These examples are all with authentication set to Non, the default. Will add authentication section soon hopefully. Greate a Google Sheet Create a simple google sheet...

WordPress MultiSite domains with Letsencrypt SSL Webmin/Virtualmin

06/04/202025/05/2020ben

Setting up WordPress multisite with Letsencrypt SSL certificates in Webmin/Virtualmin is actually fairly east. This guide assumes you have your multisite working. You need a domain to hang all the multi-sites of (parent domain). The TLD .xyz is fairly cheap so I use them. Before doing this get your parent domain and setup multisite....

Creating Premiere Pro Ingest Presets for Fixed Frame Size

15/06/201918/10/2019ben

Premiere Pro Ingest Presets are usred for creating Proxy Files. Took me a wile to work this out, lots of places on how to create a Premiere Pro Ingest Preset which matches the Frame Size of the sourcce clip but for Proxies you generaly want to create clips for a smaller Frame Size. Its...

Tom Antos – Great filmaking Tutorials

19/05/201912/06/2019ben

Filmaking tutorials Thought it was worth mentioning these great filmaking tutorials. Youtube channel. Tom Antos has a lot of great turorials for filmakers. Verry short and to the point. Some examples are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQWQ-uGw-Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz2U-SHQ7_w&t=352shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvNuop0hzghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwyGtf08Q-0...

Promo for Princes Trust ‘Young Innovators’ programme.

10/05/201816/05/2019ben

Princes Trust Recently worked on filming and editing for The Princes Trust. The video is a promotional piece for Princes Trust Young Innovators’ programme. https://vimeo.com/257490881 “In 2017, Innovate UK and The Prince’s Trust commissioned YouGov to carry out independent research with 18 to 30 year olds who were not in employment, education or training,...

The King and Dai – My Elvis film won best welsh documentary

24/07/201721/05/2019ben

We just won Best Welsh Documentary Film at the Welsh International Film Festival. It’s been a long road but finally the documentary is finished. We also did a screening at The Cube Cinema and it went down great. The King and Dai is a documentary about The Porthcawl Elvis Festival. This is the biggest...

The Loft Life – Loukas Morley (3 mins)

24/07/201710/05/2019ben

Edited for Loukas Morley. I told James Murray-White, who shot it, to get him to sit down and wax poetic about what he did did and thought of wood. Seems to of worked out very nicely.https://vimeo.com/209817152...

Mark Todd New Zeeland Olympian

09/10/201614/06/2019ben

Recently shot a video for the new Zealand Herold. It consisted of an interview and cutaways and was edited by The herold. The video can be viewed at http://features.nzherald.co.nz/nzs-greatest-olympians-mark-todd/...

The House That Kids Built

06/05/201610/05/2019ben

Recently finished cutting a 20 minute documenters ‘The Schholhouse Project’ about school-kids (from the sage of 7) who built a house. Kids with power tools, what is there not to like. The project was the brainchild of Dame Sally Coates (headmistress) and Roderick James (founding Director at The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)) and...

Notes from a Editor to Camera People

07/07/201510/05/2019ben

I was recently asked for feedback from a Cameraman from and editors perspective for a job I was editing. I have also asked other editors for things that help in the edit that camera people can do. Here are some notes. Following there should get you better footage and help you get hired again/build...