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Boost Your Brand with High-Quality Video Aesthetics

The Importance of Time-Consuming, High-Quality Aesthetics in Video Production In the dynamic landscape of video content, the quest for high-quality aesthetics may seem time-consuming, but the investment pays off in numerous ways. Jhoel Flores, a key team member, highlights this by stating, “This is mainly to increase the production value of the videos and for…
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Why Compression Matters (MMM#47)

Greetings everyone, Madeline here, back with the 47th entry in The Movie Minute. For this entry’s topic, we’ll be touching on something more technical but important- media compression! You’ve probably encountered a message about a file being too large to upload- and even if you don’t encounter that message, whenever you upload a video or…
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Project Spotlight: Mountain Man Memorial March (MMM#46)

Greetings all, Madeline here for the 46th Movie Minute. For this entry, we’ll be doing another project spotlight- this time on the annual Mountain Man Memorial March with Legacies Alive, for which we will be travelling to the Great Smoky Mountains this weekend! Mountain Man is one of three major events we cover for Legacies…
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Powering our Workflow with Frame.io (MMM#45)

Greetings all, Madeline here, hope everything is well with you all! For this entry, we’ll be exploring how Frame.io forms an essential part of our workflow. It is a platform that allows uploading of drafts of our projects to share amongst each other that is simple and easy to use. And with its integration with…
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How Mentoring Shaped Me — and Prepared Me to Be a Father

By Jacob Centeno I can count on one hand how many days have changed the trajectory of my life, the day I lost my dad was one of those days. Losing my dad Some of you already know my dad, SCPO Daniel R. Healy, was killed in 2005 when his helicopter was shot down in…
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How Media Encoder Makes Things Easier (MMM#44)

Greetings all, Madeline here, back with the first Movie Minute for March. For this entry, we’ll be focusing on one of our most powerful tools for the projects we produce- Adobe Media Encoder. When we finish a cut of our projects, we have to export it into a format that can be played easily- usually…
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Balancing Coverage and Efficiency (MMM#43)

Hey everyone, Madeline here with the 43rd entry in The Movie Minute. Today we’ll be digging into why it’s important to measure how much footage you shoot on a project. In addition to my work as an assistant editor and DIT, I also have the duty of shooting B-roll with my GH5 on projects that…
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Why We Shoot in LOG (MMM#42)

Greetings all, Madeline here with the 42nd entry in The Movie Minute. For this entry’s topic, we’ll be diving into a common tool used in our productions-shooting in LOG format. So what is LOG? Each camera we shoot with, whether the GH5, FS7, A7IV, EOS R, etc. has different color profiles for shooting video. While…
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Caring for your Cameras (MMM#41)

Greetings all, Madeline here with the 41st entry in the Movie Minute. For today’s topic, we’ll be focusing on how to properly take care of camera equipment! Many of the cameras we use, from the GH5 to the A7IV and FS7, are powerful tools for cinematic storytelling, but they’re also huge investments that must be…
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Micro Four Thirds vs. Full-Frame: Which is the Better Sensor? (MMM#40)

Greetings all, Madeline here, back with the 40th entry in The Movie Minute! For the very first entry of 2026, we’ll be diving into a comparison of camera sensors within the equipment we use! Think of a camera sensor as being like the retina in our eyes- it’s what tells our brain what we’re seeing.…
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2025: An Eventful Year of Creative Storytelling (MMM#39)

Hey everyone, Madeline here, and welcome to the 39th entry in The Movie Minute– the last entry of 2025! And what better way to close out this year than a reflection on some of the big things that have occurred so far at Poor Bear Stories? The year started out with a transition to a…
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