Behind the scenes: producing BCS videos after the game
Last night, Oklahoma lost to Florida 24-14 in the BCS National Title game in Miami. David Jones and Paige Dillard met me in the OPUBCO Studios about 10 pm to watch the final mintues. The Oklahoman’s Mike Sherman sports editor came down to the 7th floor from the 8th to tape three segments.
I had three videos pre-produced: graphics and script. Paige pulled photos from The Oklahoman’s staffers in Miami ready for our videos. Jones prepared the studio for the three shoots.
We knocked out the first video, a post game show that lasted about five minutes talking about the game.
Then we rearranged the sets and taped two segments – one about Sooner coach Bob Stoops and quarterback Sam Bradford.
We finished taping around 11:30 pm. We record and edit using Final Cut Pro. We encode the FCP .mov files into .flv files using Adobe Flash Encoder. Exporting and encoding is by far the lengthiest part of the production.
We left the office two hours later after posting the videos and editing NewsOK.com and NewsOK.tv to properly display the videos.
NBA in OKC: Team name TBA
One of several videos we produced today in the OPUBCO Studios, Mike Sherman and Mike Baldwin talked about tomorrow’s press conference to announce – officially – the team name of the OKC NBA franchise.
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5 Questions with…
Mike Sherman, sports editor of The Oklahoman. Baseball’s Mitchell report was released today. Mike Sherman provided analysis from an Oklahoman’s perspective.
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5 questions for…
Mike Sherman, sports editor of The Oklahoman… about Matt Holliday, Bob Stoops, Bedlam, Zac Robinson and the Sonics.
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Gundy, Carlson driving NewsOK (hello Paraguay)
First of all, you may have experienced problems getting NewsOK to load this week. You won’t be surprised the Mike Gundy-Jenni Carlson situation is the reason. We’ve had serious traffic from people everywhere.
Let’s break it down:
The top referring Web site to NewsOK is ESPN.com. CBS Sportsline and CNN SI are also in the top five.
Yesterday was the highest trafficked day in NewsOK history. Today will top that before 5 p.m.
Users from 152 countries have visited NewsOK this week, including one each from Fiji and Paraguay. Allow me to personally say thank you to both of you. We love you.
The top viewed video on NewsOK was Jenni Carlson responding for the first time on camera to Mike Gundy’s press conference. We thank Jenni and Mike Sherman for their time.
But the real thanks goes to you the user. Thank you for visiting NewsOK and sharing your comments and dialogue. Keep it clean, but keep it coming.
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