Ryan Freng

We started doing video because it was fun and entertaining. Over the years that has changed to working with clients to tell engaging and beautiful stories. The only thing this lacks is our goofiness and our own acting =) We’ve started to get back into that and couldn’t be more excited. We’ve created a new […]

  We recently picked up a new Macbook Retina for editing on the go. Since we are all Adobe all the time I only installed CS6 on this machine. There is no Final Cut, Motion, or Compressor on this machine. This left me without ProRes! With a bit of googling I was able to figure […]

Last October there was a great article in “InBusiness” magazine titled “The Online Video Phenomenon.” We always regale the benefits of online video to our clients and it’s always nice to see statistics. Here’s the gist: Citing various data sources, Digital Accomplice, a developer of brand content, reports that online video brings a much higher […]

Wave award for Mission: Small Business Merit award for Enchanted Barn

We recently finished a new promo video (link pending) for the St. Thomas More Catholic Newman Center in Mankato MN. Above are a few behind the scenes pictures from the shoot. In the first two you’ll see us rocking magic lantern on our 5d mark ii. The second two give you a glimpse into our […]

A great article here describes the danger of customer engagement on your website if your video buffers. The important part: A new study by Ramesh Sitaraman, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Shunmuga Krishnan, of Akamai finds that the exact amount of time before viewers begin to abandon online video as a result […]

Wednesday night was the 2012 Web Audio Video Excellence (WAVE) award show put on by MCA-I Madison, and we won some awards! The WAVE Awards Show recognizes the best web, audio and video media productions in the Greater Madison area. We helped produce the show by bringing the graphics and awards together into a fun […]

I’ve been in and out of the office this week with a cold. Naturally part of resting and recovering at home is watching movies. This time around I only watched one: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, and I had a blast. Perhaps it was my cough-medicine-induced haze, but i thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Here’s why I […]

Our previous website served a purpose, may it rest in peace, but we are very happy to move on. Being a web developer I foolishly thought I would have time to develop our website WHILE running a business. It was difficult, and the thing that always suffered was the website. From the time we rolled […]

We purchased a Wacom tablet this afternoon to streamline our storyboarding process a bit more. I was really excited to test it out but ended up having to scrap a half hour of work because I made a few mistakes. Here they are, learn from them: read the script – i thought i had the […]