Tufuga Media

This is a very useful tutorial!  We are going to learn how to take an audio track that is Mono and convert it to a Stereo audio file.  Certain equipment records audio as a mono file, so the sound only comes out one speaker when the audio is played over stereo speakers.  This tutorial will show you how to remedy that problem!

Tutorial Runtime: 2:47 (more…)

I found this video online.  It demonstrates 10 tricks for using Final Cut Pro. These 10 things include:

10. Shift and option dragging

9. Quick Ken Burns effect

8. QuickTime vs Quicktime Conversion.

7. The Black and code button.

6. Option 1,2,3 for transition alignment

5. Esc, tab, spacebar to navigate windows (more…)

Heres a fun project! I created this for the Samoan club to preceed our performance at the BYU Hawaii culture night. The videos purpose was to show that no matter where you are from, you can be a part of the Samoan club. We also hoped to inspire people to join the Samoan club. Finally, we just wanted to blow people’s minds away and get the crowd going before we came on stage! It seemed that such was the case last night! (more…)

On October 17, Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepuleai, also known as the Laughing Samoans, came to Honolulu, Hawaii – the first of their 5 city US tour. They performed their “Crack Me Off” show. I got a chance to film backstage. I wasn’t expecting to edit it, but it turned out to be fun!  DISCLAIMER:  The video quality is terrible, and the audio is even worse!  I know this…but I didn’t know what I would be given to film with until I got there.  Turns out, camera was not the greatest and worst of all, I only had the on camera mic to work with.  Nonetheless, it turned out to be pretty fun to create.

You can learn more about them and buy their DVDs and other stuffs at laughingsamoans.com. This video was supposed to be included on their newest release, “Crack Me Off”, but we had some complications when trying to get the DVD to New Zealand.

Please support these uso’s, they are great guys!

The Kauai documentary is close to being finished. I guess, more accurately it should be called the documentary of the Salsa Orchestra/Brass Quintet tour in Kauai. This is just a few opening seconds. I was involved in filming this project, am responsible for the editing and distribution, and also graphics. There is a cool title sequence at the end of this one, so be patient through the beginning.

I had a near catastrophe with this video. It was edited on a 1 terabyte external hard drive, until one day I smelled something burning in the area of the hard drive. Sure enough, my hard drive seemed to be burning. To make a long story short, we thought all was lost and that I was going to have to start over. Fortunately, a very helpful fellow over at the TV studio was able to salvage the files, and I am actually now using the hard drive, now converted to an internal drive, to finish the edit.

This all after a long wait for follow up work to be done on the video, including interviews, script writing, etc. Its been a pretty long turnaround, but sometimes that happens here at the school. (more…)