Yes, that’s right — Safari is useful for something after all! If you Firefox devotees can find it in your souls to go to your Applications folder and open up Safari (probably for the first time since your Mac arrived from Cupertino), you will find that this otherwise inferior browser…
Metadata Hootenanny, an open source program for adding metadata to QuickTime movies, is not as much fun as it sounds, nor is it in any way related to owls. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it’s (kind of) intuitive and makes full use of the dizzying array…
In their memorable hit single from 2000, the Baha Men asked, “Who Let the Dogs Out?” Their lesser-known follow-up album, “We’re Pretty Sure Dauger Research Let the Dogs Out,” focused less on woofing and more on Message-Passing Interfaces (MPIs). It was panned by audiences and critics alike as “too cerebral,”…
QuickTime Pro has a very cool add-on application called QuickTime Broadcaster, which allows for on-the-fly encoding. It accepts any video input — including iSight and Firewire — and offers a wide range of compression formats. While Broadcaster is designed to stream files over an Xserve, there is also a handy…
After spending some time wrestling with DVD players, I devoted the rest of this afternoon to figuring out the media skins feature in QuickTime Pro. It allows the user to create an environment for video playback, with the possibility of customized controls and interactivity. What I did is to capture…
Here’s my most recent edition of the Self-Service Documentation, taking into account the additions Yianni made as well as some of the questions people around here have been asking.Â
I’ve been meaning to get this done, but faculty projects keep popping up and delaying me. I think this is basically a final draft, though. I tried to revise the documentation based on the questions people have asked me most frequently, which range from “Where do I put the DVD?”…
I’ve written a short helpsheet on the basics of Snapz Pro X. Hope this helps. snapzpro_helpsheet.pdf
The new narrator.
I’ve uploaded a shorter verison of what I’m hoping to do with the iMovie tutorials when they’re all finished. This sample only contains an intro and one tutorial, because WordPress doesn’t allow uploads bigger than 50MB (at least when I tried). I’m planning on melding all the short videos into…