http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/ Video technology news, reviews and opinions en-us Copyright 2009 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:25:40 -0600 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:31:51 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sony today announced the NXCAM, an AVCHD-based "professional" camera which bears a striking resemblance to the EX1 and Z5U. You get 1080p exmor CMOS chips (presumably 1/3"?) and records AVCHD to the highly popular (sarcasm) Memory Stick media. Pricing... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/205521.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/205521.html News Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:25:40 -0600 Do you love AVCHD, but hate the long, disk consuming transcodes? Well, ClipWrap 2.0 is here, and it lets you turn your AVCHD mts files into Quicktime compatible mov files, with no transcoding, and no generation loss. Dig it.... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/199947.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/199947.html News Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:59:34 -0600 Sony has announced a couple new additions to the XDCamEX family - the PMW-350 and the PMW-EX1R. The 350 is a shouldermount camera with interchangeable lenses and 2/3" chips. That puts it somewhere between the 1/2" PDW-F355 and the... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/199100.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/199100.html News Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:10:19 -0600 So I've been playing with an interesting "feature" in PCP2 - the "chapterize" command generates different results when it can talk to the window server versus when it can't. In my case, it generates much better results in the... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/198479.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/198479.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:56:42 -0600 I've seen some hilariously uninformed posts about the new Apple iFrame specification. Let me take a minute to explain what it actually is. First off, as opposed to what the fellow in the Washington Post writes, it's not really... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/197899.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/197899.html News Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:18:03 -0600 Sure enough, Apple has announced iMovie 8.0.5 with support for the iFrame format. I win the prize!... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/197470.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/197470.html News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:52:26 -0600 Sanyo has announced some 'A' revisions to their existing FH1 and HD2000 cameras, which add a new "iFrame" mode. It appears this is an i-frame only h264 mode, at a reduced 960x540 resolution. It's a very interesting idea -... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/197411.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/197411.html News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:28:38 -0600 It appears that when embedding Quicktime in a webpage, being viewed by Safari 4 in Snow Leopard, Quicktime no longer passes cookies to the server. So, if you're having the Quicktime plugin load a file that uses cookie data to... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/191975.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/191975.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:33:09 -0600 I've been working on documenting the REST api that PCP2 uses for client server communication as part of a new project. I thought it might be useful to other folks. Consider this a work in progress - I've only... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/190610.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/190610.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:19:40 -0600 Adobe is getting into the script management business with Story, and they've launched a free preview to show it off. It's an interesting space for Adobe to enter, and it'll be interesting to see how it stacks up against... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/190392.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/190392.html News Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:38:07 -0600 If all of this scheduled publishing stuff has worked, you'll find a handful of posts about Podcast Producer 2 below. I just took all of the notes I've collected while working on a PCP2 project over the last month or... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188963.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188963.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:05:00 -0600 The chapterize command has the option of outputting an XML in addition to (but not instead of) modifying the source quicktime. You can take advantage of this in cases where you'd like the raw chapter data, perhaps for creating your... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188917.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188917.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:00:00 -0600 Podcast Producer (or, specifically, the "podcast capture" application) gives you a simple "good," "better," "best" set of options for selecting compression codecs. If you're on a machine with Apple Intermediate Codec installed (IE, any machine with iLife), the "best" preset... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188919.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188919.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:00:00 -0600 Podcast Producer 2 includes a great GUI for building workflows. But sometimes you'd like to be able to do things outside the workflow. For example, say you've tweaked your settings to output the video chapters to an XML - you... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188920.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188920.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:00:00 -0600 If you try to use an Epiphan VGA2USB LR as a remote camera with Podcast Producer 2, you'll quickly discover that the quality is awful - washed out and gross. You'll also find that, no matter how you modify your... http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188926.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/188926.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:00:00 -0600