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Elementary School Educator
Cindy K. teaches music to sixth graders. Each week she videotapes her 100+ students giving a solo performance. At the end of the semester, she sends a CD to the student’s parents to show how the student has progressed week-to-week. Using FrameVault and an iSight video camera, Cindy is able to accomplish this with just a few clicks of a mouse.
Videographer
On average, Jim X. handles more than 50 weddings per year along with another 100-plus corporate events. Proper organizing, retrieving, and archiving of video clips is essential to Jim’s business. FrameVault gives Jim the power he needs to manage his business assets, as well as the ability to transfer his media to a host of external hardware devices.
Modeling Agency
Uncommon Beauty has more than 30 top models on their roster. During Paris, Milan and New York’s Fashion Weeks, each model generates more than 100 new video clips for their portfolio. Uncommon Beauty uses FrameVault and Portfolius create and manage Digital Portfolios for each model that can be distributed by CD or via the web.
Casting Director
Mary Louise handles casting for over 50 films and video projects each year. Her database consists of video clips from more than 1000 actors who may or may not be perfect for her current project. Using FrameVault’s keywords and interactive searching, Mary Louise can locate the best actor for the job quickly and easily.
Media Services Staff
Tracey’s company handles media services for several dozen large clients. Using FrameVault, she is able to organize her media by client and project for easy access. When a project is complete, FrameVault allows her to archive the project off-line without losing any of the media’s organized value.
Broadway Theatre Sound Designer
Thor has written several possible soundtracks for a new broadway play. Using Portfolius, he creates a Digital Portfolio of all the musical selections for the show’s director. The director may listen to the music as Thor has arranged it or directly access each piece of music in whatever sequence he likes.
Documentary Film Maker
Darren P. has a $900 video camcorder, a couple of microphones and a passion for documenting the evolution of Mississippi Delta Blues. Darren has used FrameVault to tag and organize each clip he has filmed. Subsequently, he can interactively retrieve clips about a certain subject and create a "rough cut" of a scene without using an editor.
Chief Executive Officer
Steve J. talks to lots of folks about his software company. He uses Portfolius to create support material that he can display during his talks. Because any element of a Portfolius digital portfolio can be accessed directly, he is able to customize his talks without being constrained by the sequential nature of other presentation software.
Bloggers
Tassy Pink’s internet blog has become quite popular with more than 100,000 views per week. She wants to branch out and add a video blog (vlog) to lets her reader experience what it’s like to live a day in her life. Tassy uses Portfolius to build a small chapter-based movie referencing the clips that are to be included in this week’s download. Instead of downloading many megabytes, subscribers download only a few kilobytes.
Performance VJ
MC Photon is scheduled for a 30-city tour. In a one hour performance, she may use more than 3000 video clips in conjunction with hundred of recordings and audio fragments. FrameVault allows MC Photon to quickly and easily organize several variation of her performance. Photon can then simply connect her Powerbook to the external audio/video equipment, select the performance variation she wants, press play and the show is on.
Media Librarian
On a weekly basis, the professors in the Arts and Sciences college give a series of special lectures, open to all the undergraduate and graduate students. Marvin is responsible for archiving the 12 weekly lectures and for providing CDs to any students who have missed a lecture and want to view them on their own. FrameVault makes Marvin’s job a snap!
Arts Administrator
Katherine’s job as Director of Corporate Relations for the local Arts and Sciences Council puts her in front of the presidents of large corporation on a daily basis. To support her development activities, she uses a mix of digital images, audio, and video clips from the major arts groups in her area. FrameVault allows her to organize her material and present it effectively; and also she can interactively search her collection of clips to provide additional material if needed.
Director Sportif
Fausto manages an up and coming cycling team based in Europe. To determine which riders are best suited for a specific race, Fausto maintains an archive of video clips from each race for each cyclist. Using keywords to organize his data, Fausto can quickly retrieve the clips that will help him build a winning team. Using Portfolius, Fautso can also provide feedback to riders, showing them areas where they excel or need additional work.
Usability Testing Professional
Austin spends his days looking over other people’s shoulders observing how they use various products, like software or toothpaste. Using several iSight cameras, he records the user’s interaction with the product. Austin uses FrameVault to archive and organize his observations, as well as dynamically filter video clips before doing comparative analysis.
Real Estate Agent
For each property listed, Anne’s firm creates a 3 minute "walk-thru" video that provide potential buyers with an overview of the layout and features of the home. FrameVault allows Anne to search through the available listing and build a custom archive of clips for each of her buyers.
Internet Newscaster
The Cable News Company makes the segments from their daily newscast available as a video podcast. Mexil uses Portfolius to create the podcast. He simply drags the news segments to the Playlist Table, orders them as he would like, creates a Digital Portfolio, and copies the result to the CNC server.
Jury Consultant
Mary Jo has thousands of video clips of potential jurors that support her work Jury Selection consultancy. FrameVault gives her the organizing power to make the selection process quick and easy; and FrameVault gives her the archiving power to prune her collection when things get too crowded.
Sex Researcher
Each day, Karlsen observes several couple engaging in sexual activity. These video sessions, along with the associated physical response measurements, are available as a QuickTime file. Framevault helps Karlsen to organize his observations providing a practical platform for high-level data filtering and additional visual analysis.
College Professor
Jensen is a professor of Adapted Physical Education. In class, she uses video clips to demonstrate techniques for adapting standard physical education programs for special needs students. Jensen uses Framevault for presenting material in class, as well as for creating CD archives of material for students who have missed a lecture.
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