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June 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Sony ICD-UX70
After some research I ordered a Stereo Digital Audio Recorder. The Sony ICD-UX70 has line-in and mic-in functions.
Monday, June 23, 2008
http://www.reaper.fm/download.php
Sunday, June 22, 2008
The Power of Spectacle
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562
IzzyVideo
http://www.izzyvideo.com
HD Cameras
Sony V1U HDV $3500
Canon XH-A1 3CCD HDV $3300
Panasonic HVX200 $5100
Friday, June 20, 2008
Mac Software Links
Check out Pure Mac [http://www.pure-mac.com/] for some great links to Mac software. This site seems to be well maintained with up to date content.
MP4 Encoding
3ivx [http://www.3ivx.com/] looks to be the fastest quality mp4 encoder / decorder available for all platforms. 3ivx has a free Mac OS X frontend called DiVa that appears to be over twice as fast as Apples Quicktime Pro and 40% faster that ffmpeg in converting a movie to mp4.
Screen Casting, OS X
With a slogan like 'If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine how priceless a movie would be…', it's hard to imagine that 'Snap Pro X' [http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/] would be free. Well for $69 it's not free, but does come highly recommended by friends. Macworld gave it a five mouse rating back in 2004.
Other screen recorders for Mac OS X include:
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Mac HFS+ on Windows.
Another solution for cross platform large media files might be to install drivers in windows that can make use of Mac formatted hard drives. Macdrive $39 [http://www.mediafour.com/] claims to do just that.
ntfs-3g Slow!
nfts is very slow with big media files. It took 12 mins to copy a 3.5Gb file from an ntfs drive to the mac.
Apple Leopard and NTFS
There is read-only support for NTFS in Apple's Leopard operating system. I would like to use external drives formatted in NTFS for sharing large media files between Mac and Windows. I found a couple of possible solutions:
- MacFUSE [http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/] with ntfs-3g [http://www.ntfs-3g.org/] provides read and write access to NTFS partitions. Both components are open source and free of charge. One article suggests that the write performance is slow due to poor caching system.
- NTFS for Mac is a commercial application from Paragon that provides full NTFS support in Mac OS X. It's reported have a problem running with VMare Fusion.
I have installed MacFUSE with ntfs-3g. It seems to be working. MacFUSE is very cool. Check out the developers video demo.
Demultiplex MPEG-2 Video
I need a good demultiplexer that does not introduce problems with the audio/video synchronization.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
ffmpegX is fast!
I converted an 8min flv to avi divx in under 1 min using the shareware product ffmpegX [http://www.ffmpegx.com/]. Flushed with that success, I converted a 15min NTSC mpeg2 file to divx. The file was created in under 3mins ... but in playback there was some very serious intermittent visual artifacts. I will investigate some of the options for the underlining memcoder.
It's time for Gigabit
Investigate getting a gigabit Ethernet pc-card for my HP laptop. I would like to setup a wired fast network to share very large media files between Mac OS X and Windows XP Pro.
NewEgg [http://www.newegg.com] has a Netgear GS605 switch for $37 and a Netgear GA511 PC-Card for $37.
Stealing Video
Here is the process of downloading a flash video from just about any web site.
web -> Tube TV
flash -> Tube TV
mpeg4 -> Premiere
mpeg2 -> Encore
master -> Simply Burns
DVD
Multiple Skype Logged in on Mac OS X
To run the second user account on Skype:
- Create a new user account to run the second user from.
- Load up Terminal
- Type 'su - USERNAME'
- Type PASSWORD
- Type /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/Skype
- Exit and close terminal
Monday, June 16, 2008
Qt - Hello World
Making the big assumption that everything is setup for Qt development, here are the steps used to compile and run my 'Hello World' example application.
- Run 'terminal'
- cd ~/My/Projects/QtDev/Hello/
- qmake -project
- qmake hello.pro
- make
- open hello.app
Qt is Installed
I downloaded and installed the non-commercial open source version 4.4 of Qt for Mac OS X. Qt is installed in my Projects/Qt folder. I am working through examples from 'C+ GUI Programming with Qt 4'. The examples are being stored in Projects/QtDev.
Blender Video Tutorials
Getting started with another 3D application can feel over whelming. Screen cast videos are one of the best ways of getting up to speed. Blender 3D [http://www.blender.org/] is one of the most sophisticated 3D programs available for many major platforms. Blender underground [http://blenderunderground.com/] has developed a number of videos to help you get started.
wxWidgets
I have not found lots of resources about getting wxWidgets up and running in Mac OS X. Geoff had some advice on setting up a XCode project that builds with wxWidgets. I am not convinced that wxWidgets is the best choice for cross platform. I was able to install Qt, compile and play with examples in less than an hour.
Miro - The Sketchup Show
I have subscribed to 'The Sketchup Show' [http://www.go-2-school.com/] and have been watching a number of episodes. The show provides great education on the use of Google's Sketch Up tool. [http://sketchup.google.com/] The production values are great and the content is meaty.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Editing Session
Worked with Bill McIntyre on editing a short video about Pete Seeger, America's best-loved folksinger and an untiring environmentalist, Pete Seeger is a national treasure. He has been at the forefront of the labor movement, the struggle for Civil Rights, the peace and anti-war movements, and the fight for a clean world. [http://www.peteseeger.net/]
We worked to after 3am mainly working on issues with the audio. There is still lots of challenges that perhaps an audio engineer can help with.
OnOpenSource
I subscribed to 'On Open Source' video feed that talks about all things open source. They have a good discussion about PostgreSQL on Solaris.
wxWidgets
The cross platform development tool kit wxWidgets is used by pgAdmin. I should check out the development environment for Mac OS X and it's documentation and examples.
PostgreSQL is Golden
I installed the Mac OS X distribution of PostgresSQL and pgAdmin. Using pgAdmin, I created a simple relational database that mimics the 'contacts' and 'relationships' categories that I setup using DabbleDB [http://dabbledb.com/]. Every thing is working fine. Doing this exercise reminds me just how cool DabbleDB is.
Cross Platform Tool Kits
There are several software development tool kits available that greatly assist in the creation of applications that need to run on multiple operating systems.
wxWidgets [http://www.wxwidgets.org/] is extensive, free, open-source, and mature. Applications can be targeted for Win32, Mac OS X, GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase. Applications look and feel native when developed with wxWidgets,
Qt [http://trolltech.com/] is the leading commercial cross platform development tool kit. It includes an intuitive API and a rich C++ class library, integrated tools for GUI development and internationalization, and support for Java™ and C++ development. There is a free non-commercial license option available. Qt is used by many commercial and open source projects.
Get Miro
Miro [http://www.getmiro.com] turn your computer into an Internet TV. Miro is free and open-source, because open media matters. I have been using Miro for several months. It's changed the way I think about video and television. I have subscribed to more than 25 channels. These channels are automatically updated with the latest content when it's released. Some channels are delivered in High Definition with excellent sound. Miro has a channel guide built in that lists over 4500 available channels.
PostgreSQL
PostgresSQL [http://www.postgresql.org/] is the world's most advanced open source database. It's available as a server component for Mac OS X, Windows and Unix. pgAdmin III [http://www.pgadmin.org/] is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL.
A ready to install Mac OS X version of PostgreSQL is maintained by Andy Satori at Druware software development [http://www.postgresqlformac.com/].
I Must Keep Notes
I explore so much new material each week. The details of the technical stuff are hard for me to remember even a short time later. Good notes should help and that what GotWiki is best for.
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