Bruce McKee

I am a volunteer Certified Producer for the PEGASYS Public Access TV Station in Ithaca, NY (cable channel 13 in Tompkins County, NY), and my current activities include:

Developing commercials & documentaries for local charitable & educational organizations.

Helping produce TV programs broadcast from the PEGASYS TV studio.

Video production nicely combines my interests in community service, story-telling, and technology.

Technical Details:

At the PEGASYS TV studio I work on live and taped broadcasts with teams of community volunteers. Depending on the show, I may run an Inscriber real-time titler; handle a video switcher for three programmable cameras, a DVD player, and a laptop computer; set up. light, and mike the set; and monitor the sound board.

I also do field recordings, post-production, and have recently started writing and performing voice-overs.

I currently use standard-definition DV camcorders, and my post-production and editing is done with Sony Vegas 9.0c running under Windows XP Professional. I render my projects to DVD, NEXUS MP2 format, Windows Media 11, Quicktime 7, and Ipod formats.

Finally, I've started moving my commercials & documentaries from YouTube to the Vimeo streaming video site. Vimeo lets you upload and play arbitrarily long videos, unlike YouTube's 10-minute limit on video length.