Posts Tagged: video
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Aug 11
Parkouring on a Bike?
Amazing skill. Nice camera work. Good sound. (I have no desire to do any of this, but I would like to learn basic parkouring.)
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Jun 11
Video Wednesday: Grand Rapids Strikes
Grand Rapids, Michigan was unhappy with being in the top ten cities that some list considered to be “dying” and so they struck back by, well, striking up the band. Or, in this case, they struck up the entire town and lip-synced to Don McLean’s “American Pie,” which seems an apt response to the declaration of their dying status. Roger Ebert called this “the greatest music video ever,” and having seen what amounts to a single camera shot of the entire town singing the song, I think I have to agree.
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Apr 11
Yes, the Flip is dead; let it go
So Cisco bought a perfectly good little company with a perfectly good product and then lost it all by not figuring out how to distinguish their product from the wide variety of multi-use devices that were packing “good enough” functionality into their units. The Flip is dead, and I’m okay with that. No, I don’t think the video recording functionality, including ergonomics, of my iPhone is quite as good as the Flip, but that also goes for my point and shoot Canon camera, which has largely sat in its case of late. I think the really great thing about the Flip was how some of my colleagues were using it in their classes: it was a great “good enough” video camera that made it easy to work with video. That part I will miss — I don’t see my university buying a bunch of iPod Touches any time soon. And negotiating with multiple device interfaces and usages does slow things down in the classroom.
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Apr 11
Amazon Unbox Still in the Box
I have been very happy with Amazon’s approach to selling digital materials: I read Kindle books on my iPad and iPhone with ease and I listen to Amazon MP3s on those devices as well as my Mac computer. I was, and am, impressed with Amazon’s valiant effort, by means of their cloud drive, to win a victory for consumer’s owning content.
But, erm, I’m really underwhelmed by their instant video offerings. Consider the following evidence:
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Mar 11
Motion Capture for Everyone
Motion capture and computer-generated imagery (CGI) are fast becoming standards in Hollywood productions, but the ingenuity of folks playing with off-the-shelf hardware and software never ceases to amaze me. Take a look at the video below which details how a handful of guys use the motion capture system built into Microsoft’s Kinect for the 360 game console in order to make the kind of movies they want to make:
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Mar 11
Final Cut Pro Resource
I came across a link to Larry Jordan’s site on an Ars Technica Open Forum discussion about the release this spring of the next version of Apple’s Final Cut Pro — which is supposed to be an extensive overhaul of both the underlying code as well as the interface. Jordan’s site offers a range of resources, many of which are free, and he also has a Youtube channel with lots of great tutorials.
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Feb 11
Two Promising Video Library Apps
I have discovered nothing so far that does for video, and audio for that matter, what Lightroom does for photography. Aperture can handle video files, but I don’t think it’s quite what the doctor ordered. Er, the professor.
There are two applications mentioned in a recent thread at Ars Technica that look promising: Usher and Clipstart. Usher looks more sophisticated, but both apps probably deserve a test drive. They are approximately the same price: Usher is $35 and Clipstart $29.
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Jan 11
Analyzing Video Game Sequels
Arthur Kabrick’s post at GamrFeed is an interesting exercise in data mining. I think it would be interesting to take his idea further and analyze the prose of the reviews as well.
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Dec 10
James Burke is back
James Burke is back on the web. I thoroughly enjoyed re-watching his The Day the Universe Changed series when they first appeared on the web some years ago, but then they disappeared. He seems to have found a home on YouTube for the time being. My recommendation is to watch while you can.
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Dec 10
Another Typography Animation
This one took 500 hours and involved four different applications. I would link to Celo’s infamous typography video, but I trust my readers can find it on Youtube. The video below is also a “music video,” but the animation of the typography is much more thoughtful and creative:
Shop Vac from Jarrett Heather on Vimeo.
A kinetic typography music video for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac. Created using After Effects, Toon Boom Animate, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere.
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Jul 10
More Good University Videos
A number of people have written in about the video I posted from BYU that was a parody of the Old Spice ad. (Check below for the post.) Here’s another one, this time from the University of Evansville. Given that the south is known for both its oral storytelling traditions as well as its humor, where are the videos from southern universities that are like this?