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JAILED FOR KENNEDY, Why you should read it?

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www.mattkprovideo.com/2024/10/17/jailed-for-kennedy-why-you-should-read-it/

What stories await you when you read JAILED FOR KENNEDY?
Nic Ciacelli spent a lifetime amassing the worlds most complete collection of John F. Kennedy Memorabilia, including a, exact replica of Kennedy’s limousine.
This brought him into contact with Presidents and film directors who wanted to use his limousine.
Ir also landed him in Jail

Jailed for Kennedy is available on amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and other fine booksellers

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What stories await you when you read
Jailed for Kennedy
Nic Ciacelli spent a lifetime amassing the world’s most complete collection of John F Kennedy memorabilia
including an exact replica of Kennedy’s limousine
This brought him into contact with presidents and film directors who wanted to use his limousine it also landed him in jail
On a summer day a SWAT team came to my house
I said what do you hear from for
they said we got you for contempt to court
I said for what
when I was in jail for a civil order for divorce to save my Kennedy collection
this mean guy with a grill came up to me and said
I want those Staples and those magazines
I said no you can’t have them and I said
I tell you what I’ll play you a game of chess we’ll see who wins
You know it was taking an hour to feed all the inmates the real criminals and you know what I said
I tell you what since I used to own McDonald’s let me take over the Food Service give me three people to help me and I’ll get you guys out of here in 35 minutes but I want all the free food I can get plus my three helpers and they gave it to me
A couple of times a secret service called me up they wanted to use my car for a parade in Miami
I let them use it one time a secret service agent fell off the back of the car
I got a I got a call at my McDonald’s from Oliver Stones production company called Camelot Productions and they wanted to use my car for the movie JFK
I said yeah right this is born in the 4th of July right
after I believe them we shipped the car to Dallas Texas
I was at the inaugeral of h Bill Clinton and uh I wanted to get up on that platform to take pictures as he went by
that all the news media was on International and in national news media
So I pumble myself with cameras and I had a press certificate from one of the discovery movies okay and I walked right in act like I belong there
I got a pictures of the president
I met Jim Leavelle on the set of JFK when we were filming that in Dallas Texas
who became friends we used to go eat chicken fried steak together and you know he was a kind of guy that uh he talked in short sentences but they were a volume of of what he was saying okay of material
Jailed For Kennedy is available on amazon.com at Barnes & Noble and other fine book sellers

YouTube, 1280 versus 4K?

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www.mattkprovideo.com/2024/09/26/youtube-1280-versus-4k/

I have always assumed I should be shooting and editing in 4K (3840 by 2160). I also did my Photoshop and After Effects work in 3840 by 2160.
I did this even for projects that I knew were only going to YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook video.

I recently had to do some projects that the client shot themselves on 1280 by 720.. I upscaled it to 4k and added lots of B Roll and graphics ( that were made at 4K dimensions) over the video.
When watched the finished projects on YouTube a few weeks later, the 1280 by 720 parts looked terribly stretched out.


This is the episode that started off in 1280 but bumped up to 4K, with 4K B roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGERTmLA8ss&t=2617s

But I also knew that when I download stock shots off of YouTube, they are in 1280 by 720. Even scaled up to 4K the footage looked… ok. Not great but just OK.


When I download old shots off my OWN YouTube channel, footage I created myself in 4k and uploaded in 4K (but somehow lost it) they are in 1280 by 720.


Does YouTube turn all footage uploaded to it, even 4K footage into 1280 by 720?

As an experiment, for one of the projects I was crafting from the 1280 by 720 footage, I kept everything in its original 1280 by 720 dimensions, The motion graphics and B Roll, that were created in true 4k? I downscaled them to 1280 by 720. I exported them as 1280 by 720 to YouTube.
The export and uploading times were much faster than 4K projects.

THIS is the show edited and exported in 1280 by 720:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9sk5pbuVJ4

When I looked at this project on YouTube a week after uploading and it looked fine. No signifigant difference in picture quality.


And I don’t mean just watching it on my phone or laptop. I watched it in the YouTube app on my 4k big screen TV. And it looked the same as my 4K projects. The projects that had 1280 by 720 footage stretched up to 4K looked bad, but the episode that was kept in 1280 looked ok.

Am I wasting my time rendering projects in my full 4K, if YouTube is just going to scale it down to 1280?

Oswald Rabbit Test

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mattkprovideo.com/2022/12/06/oswald-rabbit-test/

Oswald Rabbit Test

2D animated cartoon footage made with Adobe Animate ( Nee Flash) and Adobe After Effects.

The logo is stacked layers to give it a 3D look.

I added adjustment layers of GLOW, BLACK & WHITE, GRAIN, CONTRAST and DUST.

Of course, this isn’t really the work of Oswald’s copyright owners. Its an experiment in making video look like aged Black and White film.

Poundcake and Pals, Trailer V1

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mattkprovideo.com/2022/08/30/poundcake-and-pals-trailer-v1/

Poundcake and Pals, Trailer V1. Written by Bryan Ensign.

A trailer for a fundraising campaign to make a pilot for a children’s cartoon about rescue dogs.

Written by Bryan Ensign. Preliminary animation by Matthew Kordelski.

Crafted with Adobe Animate (Flash,) Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

Music taken from “Free Facebook Music”

Tracks: “Bow dee dow” and “SF-Car=Crash”

#animation, #animated_cartoon, #cartoon, #2Dcartoon, #cartoon_dog, #poundcake, #pals, #rescue_dogs, #2D, #kickstarter, #fundraiser,

Oliver Stone, After Effects

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mattkprovideo.com/2022/07/03/oliver-stone-after-effects/

Oiver Stone, behind the picket fence in Dealy Plaza, Dallas, Texas.

Made with Adobe Photoshop (Paint Brush and Pen Tools) and Adobe After Effects.

Fight Videos

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mattkprovideo.com/2022/03/22/fight-videos/

I love to shoot and edit hand to hand combat!
I co produced two “Ultimate Fighting: documentaries in the 2000’s : “Blood Sweat and Teeth” and its semi sequel: “Rage in the Cage”.” I shot with a BetaCam SP Camera, while other crewmembers were in the audience with handheld camcorders. I did all of the editing on an AVID Media Composer with a lot of elements created with Photoshop and After Effects.

“Rage in the Cage” on Daily Motion:

Blood, Sweat and Teeth Trailer:

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Ialso shot some Pro Wrestling video (that was edited by someone else for a seperate project) :

Martial Arts themed commercial I animated: