from DV Guru:
"Google Video, YouTube, Sharkle? With everyone jumping on to the video-hosting bandwagon one might need a little help in deciphering which service(s) to use. Or maybe you just want to find more places to share your masterpiece. Whatever the reason, Phil Harvey from Light Reading has put together a quick and dirty cheat sheet laying out the basic details of each site."
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June 28, 2006
June 27, 2006
Slow Windows XP emulation
via the AE-List:
Mac OS X Hints has a submission on how to fix slowness of Parallels Desktop running Windows XP on a MacBook. EvidentlyVM paging occurs even with 2GB of RAM because of caching and flushing memory routines. The reader developed a fix called PD Tweaker, a tiny plugin for Unsanity's Application Enhancer that loads only in Parallels Desktop.
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Mac OS X Hints has a submission on how to fix slowness of Parallels Desktop running Windows XP on a MacBook. EvidentlyVM paging occurs even with 2GB of RAM because of caching and flushing memory routines. The reader developed a fix called PD Tweaker, a tiny plugin for Unsanity's Application Enhancer that loads only in Parallels Desktop.
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June 23, 2006
12 Tips for Photoshop Text
John Nack from Adobe posted 12 Tips for Photoshop Text. It's a good way to get up to speed if you've become complacent in this area.
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Premiere and FCP should steal from Liquid
I saw an Avid Liquid demo and was impressed. It's pretty cool, but with an unattractive UI and perhaps some bugs that the demo guy tried to hide. It's an all-in-one deal developed by Fast then Pinnacle and recently Avid, so it doesn't understand Avid metadata or have an XML export function to get to other systems, like Final Cut's connect to Discreet finishing systems. But they can export a QuickTime alias from the regular Avid products and play it as regular media.
These are my favorite aspects of Liquid mostly not found in Premiere or Final Cut (or Avid):
1. The feature I liked the most was background rendering, which is really impressive -- and scaleable with hardware support. What's cool is that even complex processes previewed fine quarter screen even before finishing in the background. And you have control over how to delete old render files from the cache. You don't have to render nested sequences!
Hyperthreading allows you to switch to text or e-mail to check on client reviews while playback continues. I think all NLEs should have backround rendering, and hope After Effects will in order to stay abreast of the Combustion and Motion rendering model.
2. Liquid uses native codecs of a file without rendering or conforming, unless there's scaling or other things.
3. In Liquid you can change project properties like frame size anytime, and assign rendering to any appropriate codec.
4. You can add transitions to a selection of multiple clips.
5. View keyboard shortcut layouts in context with a virtual keyboard.
6. Correct or effect a source file, so further instances have the same correction.
7. Color correct by direct manipulation of vectorscope or histogram.
8. Actual 3D effects, like an explosion (think AE Shatter) that can be manipulated in the program monitor. I like the that crop, which includes a nice rounded corner feature, seems to be in the Motion area of Effect controls. Effects can be turn on or off via a timeline context menu.
9. You can have multiple clip bins, and have them open at the same time. When PPro has a patch that adds that feature, I'd be happy to use it.
10. Bins of various types can be shared apart from the project. Effect aliases can be in any bin.
11. There a Liquid desktop, like a master application shell window can hold open bins and individaul clips. Any part of the Liquid desktop can serve as a storyboard space and clips can be edited and previewed individually or as a sequence apart from any timeline.
12. There's a simple backup project function.
13. There's a dynamic timewarp with bezier controls.
14. Audio tracks can be stereo or disbanded quickly to mono in a context menu.
15. In DVD mode both menu and timeline plays out to NTSC (tho that might not work with just Firewire out). This is what I hope for in the next version of Encore.
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These are my favorite aspects of Liquid mostly not found in Premiere or Final Cut (or Avid):
1. The feature I liked the most was background rendering, which is really impressive -- and scaleable with hardware support. What's cool is that even complex processes previewed fine quarter screen even before finishing in the background. And you have control over how to delete old render files from the cache. You don't have to render nested sequences!
Hyperthreading allows you to switch to text or e-mail to check on client reviews while playback continues. I think all NLEs should have backround rendering, and hope After Effects will in order to stay abreast of the Combustion and Motion rendering model.
2. Liquid uses native codecs of a file without rendering or conforming, unless there's scaling or other things.
3. In Liquid you can change project properties like frame size anytime, and assign rendering to any appropriate codec.
4. You can add transitions to a selection of multiple clips.
5. View keyboard shortcut layouts in context with a virtual keyboard.
6. Correct or effect a source file, so further instances have the same correction.
7. Color correct by direct manipulation of vectorscope or histogram.
8. Actual 3D effects, like an explosion (think AE Shatter) that can be manipulated in the program monitor. I like the that crop, which includes a nice rounded corner feature, seems to be in the Motion area of Effect controls. Effects can be turn on or off via a timeline context menu.
9. You can have multiple clip bins, and have them open at the same time. When PPro has a patch that adds that feature, I'd be happy to use it.
10. Bins of various types can be shared apart from the project. Effect aliases can be in any bin.
11. There a Liquid desktop, like a master application shell window can hold open bins and individaul clips. Any part of the Liquid desktop can serve as a storyboard space and clips can be edited and previewed individually or as a sequence apart from any timeline.
12. There's a simple backup project function.
13. There's a dynamic timewarp with bezier controls.
14. Audio tracks can be stereo or disbanded quickly to mono in a context menu.
15. In DVD mode both menu and timeline plays out to NTSC (tho that might not work with just Firewire out). This is what I hope for in the next version of Encore.
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June 21, 2006
African music blog and music blog aggregator
Benn loxo du taccu, that's Wolof for "one hand can't clap" is Matt Yanchyshyn's 'African music for the masses.' See also Naijajams, a musicblog from a group of "like-minded Nigerians who share a common interest in Nigerian music," SoundRoots World Music & mp3 Blog, and free fair trade world music from Calabash Music.
You can find updates of music blogs at The Hype Machine, an audio blog aggregator that lets users sample the latest from "the finest mp3 music blogs."
Update: here's consolation for the end of the Benn loxo du taccu.
You can find updates of music blogs at The Hype Machine, an audio blog aggregator that lets users sample the latest from "the finest mp3 music blogs."
Update: here's consolation for the end of the Benn loxo du taccu.
Death by DMCA
by Fred von Lohmann and Wendy Seltzer
"A flood of legislation released by the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole classes of consumer electronics"
Video Comments, a WordPress Plugin
via Frank Capria, a really interesting beginning to all sorts of uses:
Video Comments allows you to post video in your blog and allows comments to be made on it in-time. A popup window displays the video and commenting area; as a video is viewed the comments associated with a current video time will be displayed, viewers can also see all comments and jump to a specific point in time.
Video Comments allows you to post video in your blog and allows comments to be made on it in-time. A popup window displays the video and commenting area; as a video is viewed the comments associated with a current video time will be displayed, viewers can also see all comments and jump to a specific point in time.
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