Recently, doing the same project that I previously blogged about I was also asked to grab a movie off of YouTube (one banned in Cuba and only available through that medium). The quality of YouTube videos obviously is largely based on the slightly archaic codecs used by the YouTube interface…
Perhaps there should be a rejoinder to the title of this post – “the bane of the video world.” I have been spending the last week attempting to transcode a number of videos in a variety of formats to high-quality Quicktime movies. One big obstacle began in the form of…
Creating a Post This is just a little test from Screenflow, a pretty cool program that allows for screen capture on Macs. I made a tutorial for posting on WordPress, similar to my previous help pages. A major plus of this program is the ability to do “callouts,” which are…
I recently completed another lynda.com tutorial (see the previous post on DVD Studio Pro for more details on lynda.com), this time dealing with Compressor 3, an application that comes with FCP, and can be used to compress video files into a variety of formats. All in all, Compressor is another…
Ok, no more hijinx – thanks to Joe. An update on the Cold War materials; we figured out how to embed the clips from the Cold War documentary on Classes V2. This discovery has made many of us very joyous, as it will not require the time and effort necessary…
Recently, with the advent of a standalone .flv encoder and a better codec for encoding flash video (On2 VP6), we at ITG decided to try and take some videos on the Cold War that currently reside in .rm and .mov containers and move them to the .flv format. Firstly, .flv…
Having recently completed a lynda.com training series on DVD Studio Pro 4 – I think it is due time to blog about the experience – as well as the numerous things that I have picked up from the series. To begin – the method employed by lynda.com is that of…
Per the request of a faculty member, we have been looking into ways in which one might be able to embed metadata into a given movie, and view that same metadata without having to have an extra program, or opening Quicktime Pro. The benefit of such a process would be…
I have recently been working on some help documentation for the new version of WordPress (to which I realize this site is not yet updated) – and have posted the pages to the ITG blog. You can find them right at the top of the blog sidebar. Now, being predominantly…
Having mostly completed (for now) the physical inventory of the infamous “back room” @ ITG – I thought it might be worthwhile to post some about the process and the use of Extensis Portfolio in said process. Â To begin, the back room was in simplest terms, a place where…