Yearly Archives: 2007
Tír na nÓg
Tír na nÓg: The Land of Eternal Youth or the Land of the Ever-YoungNote: In order to play this, you may need to update to Flash Player 9, which supports h.264/aac muxed in the popular mpeg4 container format. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh [...]
HV20 Workflow, Processing, and Image Quality
In a previous post, I briefly discussed some of the specific concerns of working with footage from the Canon HV20. In this post, I will talk about these things in a little more depth, and with some example pictures to more fully demonstrate what I’m talking about. Here is a full resolution frame-capture of a [...]
Posted in Evergreen, Tutorials Tagged Codecs, Compression, Dream Sublimation, Evergreen, HV20, Mpeg2, Production Entries, Technology, Video Leave a comment
Summertime
This blog has not received too much in the way of activity updates in the life of Jed. Accordingly, here is one on the subject of summertime. This summer was exceedingly much more busy than last summer, during which time I was unemployed and did not accomplish a great deal. This summer, I was fortunate [...]
SOS: Media – Week 10
For the last 7 days, I have been working pretty constantly on the Trouble With Unicorns. On Thursday of last week, we shot the Meadow pixilation sequence, and on Monday, we shot more stills of our actor who plays Morgan, whose name is Venu Mattraw, walking through forest. We also shot the pixilation scene that [...]
A List of Essential Windows Software
Often I have come across very intense opinions about the superiority of the Mac user interface. While true with “stock” software options, it is my opinion that when bolstered with certain amazing freeware applications, the Windows XP user interface experience can surpass osX in terms of efficiency of operations. Thus, in the style of those [...]
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SOS: Media – Week 8 Update
This last week I focused nearly exclusively on working on my Hybrid Music performance. I had been making it a second priority previously, and so had a lot of work to do to catch up. Fortunately, the visual component of my Hybrid project intersected significantly with my AI project’s abstract visualizations.Accordingly, I thought it might [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged After Effects, Hybrid Music, Music Technology, Projects and Thoughts, Technology, Tutorials 2 Comments
458nm + The Cags
I was just looking at some videos on MeFeedia.com, and came across this amazing 3D animated short called 458nm. “It’s midnight. A smattering of moonlight falls upon the forest floor. Two mechanical snails move slowly through the darkness. They confront one another and briefly take the measure each other’s powers before uniting in love play. [...]
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SOS: Media Spring – Week 6+7 Update
Well, it is 4 days after the promised date that I would give my (now long overdue) Week 6 update, and the end of Week 7 is approaching by the minute. Given the current circumstance, and my lack of desire to mislead anyone, I am going to make this post a Confabulation post! It will [...]
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SOS: Media Spring – Week 5 Update
This week was one in which I didn’t make a great deal of progress on my own work. One could say that I benefited as a person from my other activities. I taught part two of the After Effects workshop for Mediaworks. This time I was without any support from official people such as Stephanie [...]
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