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Take 5: Mission Control

Five Tips for Using Control Panel MDEs in Your Edits

Hosted by Rick Green

SEASON: EPISODE: 212  RELEASE DATE: MARCH 26, 2007

Rick goes on a mission to spark your creative juices and launch the quality of your productions into the stratosphere with Control Panels.

User Rating: 4.57 (46 ratings)

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40 User Comments

  • Aaron Harris, acharrisdesign.org
  • 6 months ago

great inspiration!

  • Rod Chatfield, Stagehand Prodctions
  • 11 months ago

very usable... thanks.

  • Ron Whitting, A.F. Productions & Duplication
  • 1 year ago

Very good and informative tutorial. Very easy to understand.
As always, the best from digital JUice.

Keep them coming. 5 Stars, always 5 Stars.

  • Ruth Happel
  • 1 year ago

Great ideas to bring more motion to otherwise static video elements. Thanks.

  • Tony A., Tony Allen
  • 2 years ago

Thanks Rick & Crew for another look at MDE's out, above & beyond the square... simply brilliant!!!
Cheers...
Tony...Perth, Western Australia :]

  • David Latimore, EUTE Productions
  • 3 years ago

All i can say is daaaaaaaaammmnnnnnnn they're good...DJ practically does all the editing and post work for you!

  • Gabriel Orantes, EJ Photography
  • 3 years ago

COOOOOOL!!!!

  • Paul Meyers, Azure IX Media
  • 3 years ago

i don't see any thing but white.

  • Robert Medrala, RAM Productions
  • 3 years ago

Rick, Great Job. I'm watching this again after many months and it's as good or better than the first time.

  • Lloyd Brown, Riddimworks
  • 3 years ago

very useful.......thank you for your skills

  • Lloyd Brown, Riddimworks
  • 3 years ago

pretty cool....thanx guys

  • keith Judish, image Pro Designes
  • 3 years ago

great job useing MDEs

  • john ward
  • 3 years ago

Very good as always

  • Francois Blawat
  • 3 years ago

Good information regarding MDEs. You gotta love this stuff! Thanks again for giving more ideas to get those "juices" flowing.

  • Coleen Lou, The Epstein School
  • 3 years ago

Cool!

Noticing a lot more use of MDE's these days. Good job Rick.

  • Steve Auferoth, Fitness
  • 3 years ago

Outstanding

  • Frank Wing, WINGS Television, Inc.
  • 3 years ago

Another great job. Thanks

  • Thomas Glinskas, TAG Video
  • 3 years ago

Wow, Rick. Those were some really cool ideas. #3 had to be the strongest, in my opinion, but they all are inspirational. Thanks!

  • Ing Chin Hii, Hua Sze Digital Photo
  • 3 years ago

Minority Report, this tip worth me to pay attention on Control pannel now :).

  • James Olson, Premiere Imaging, LLC
  • 3 years ago

Pretty sweet ideas. I can't wait to start playing.

  • Anthony Falk, Gryphon Designs Ltd
  • 3 years ago

Interesting piece Rick :) Some fun ideas, and yep have to agree with the chorus about #3.

  • Eric Hartmann, SeaLight Entertainment
  • 3 years ago

great work - just wish they would bring back MDE10 for $24.95 again so I can use it...........

  • Richard Myers, Newlife Church
  • 3 years ago

What can I say...another great one! Good job Rick...

  • Steven Washer, MedView Media
  • 3 years ago

What fun! Especially liked the loading on layers bit for creating custom jumpbacks so that this ham-and-egger can look like a player! The rest were very cool as well! Nicely done.

  • Bill C., Channell One Video
  • 3 years ago

Thanks Rick and crew -
Another awesome job. Great tips, well presented, with super samples.
really liked it - 5 stars

  • Stephanie Seek
  • 3 years ago

Once again you have inspired me! Thanks for another great episode Rick. I loved tip #3 and #5. Oh, and don't stop with the hands. I personally like it and think it is a great asset as a presenter. Stephanie

  • Nelson Mize
  • 3 years ago

Rick,

Great show as always. Love the Control Panel uses, #1 Ok, #2 Cool, #3 Way Cool #4 Umm,,OK #5 I'm sold!!!!

I love the way you bounce around from one idea to another, total info overload and it works. It definately helps me see more creative possibilities and gets those Juices flowing!! You can show me MDE uses anytime, I would love to see a Take 60 on MDE uses!!!!

  • Rick Green, The PowerPlant Multimedia Studios
  • 3 years ago

Thanks to all for watching and taking the time to post comments.

The DJ Forums are a great place for further discussion on the DJTV show if you are interested...we highly encourage it!

Trevor...I'll try dude...but, no promises on the 'hands in the pocket' thing!

Thanks again all!

Rick

  • Paul Hackett, Canberra Pro Video
  • 3 years ago

Good ideas and info thanks.

  • Trevor Varley, Mercia Productions
  • 3 years ago

Great as usual. I look forward to these videos if only for the inspiration benefits. We all get good ideas from them. Well done Rick. Oh, by the way, try doing one video with your hands in your pockets. If you can't do it we all get one free MDE pack :-)

  • Steve Gerrior, G2 Media Solutions
  • 3 years ago

DJ team, thanks for taking the time to create these. You guys certainly love what you do and it shows. As always, I love the demos. Yea they are a sales pitch, but if you buy their products you know that they are worth it - and they are so reasonable you would be stupid not to buy all they had. I just bought a friggen boatload of products, and I cant tell you how great I look to all my customers. Keep up the good work.

Would love to see a DJ episode on green screens. I do quite a bit of pro keying and am always looking to learn more.

Steve Gerrior
President
G2 Media Solutions

  • Mitch Krayton, 1stKIOSK
  • 3 years ago

Should rebrand these informercials for what they are. You still have tips but they are really sales presentations of your products, not tutorials. Take 5 With Juice would be more a more honest title (and that would be fine with me).

You never defined a control panel and your segment titles at the end review were obscure. You make a lot of assumptions on terms you don't define. When things turn to buzz-word soup confusion ensues.

Take 5 used to be just 5 quick tips on one theme, not five uses of each DJ element every way but Sunday. This was a mishmash of ideas and products and left me without a clear take away utility. Compare this series to how 'Audio Buzz' presents a clear concept and memorable take away points.

Simplify and focus. It worked for Thoreau, it will work for you, too.

  • Sandra Bruckner, US Dept. of State
  • 3 years ago

Rick, another very nice presentation. You always give us good tips and great suggestions for using DJ materials.

  • Erik Rabassa
  • 3 years ago

What a great clip. I do agree that #3 was the best yet. With that being said, I wish there was a short video or a thread on your forums that would go into more detail about the steps and programs that you used to make these effects.

As a video noob, spoon fed with Pinnacle Studio, all I can do is look at amazement at what can be done with your products. Yet, I am looking from outside the fence, wanting to learn how you do these and get an understanding of what more can be done with your products.

  • Adam W. Hampton, ANR Productions
  • 3 years ago

Perfect timing! Great ideas some of which I can use right now.
Thanks for the hard work you guys do!
Adam

  • richard Hellawell, Smallcog productions
  • 3 years ago

Excellent ideas really helps to get the creative juices flowing keep them coming.

  • Jose Fernandez
  • 3 years ago

My favorite episode of Rick/Take 5 so far. 5 stars.

  • Jerry Jones, JGJ Media
  • 3 years ago

Please never stop talking about MDE's...they are my favorites too....

Tip 3 was the best part. COOL.

Tip 5 was pretty cool looking too.

Great job....

  • Eric Kuentz, Empty Wallet Productions
  • 3 years ago

Thanks, guys. Though the Control Panels still seem a bit too specific for an across-the-board useful tool, this definately showed some options I hadn't considered. The "Minority Report" effect (tip #3) looked pretty sweet!

  • steff Golden, WithGod
  • 3 years ago

Rick, what a great job useing MDEs. I really love the (load on layers) keep up the great work.