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JavaScript video technology only 17 years in the making

Post author By Philip
Post date August 22, 2012

JavaScript video technology only 17 years in the making http://t.co/t1FCSNf7 Not sure why this is relevant, but you might have an idea!

Yes, the lack of need for a browser plug-in is good, but that’s the role of HTML5 which has largely standardized on H.264/MP4 (thank goodness). It will be hard to win against the momentum behind HTML5 and frankly I’d prefer there not to be another alternative, now that we have finally got something like a standard.

Personally, I think this is an interesting technology looking for a reason to exist. I find the claims of “90% less bandwidth” to be suspect at best, and the company provides no details on their site (that I could find).

Item of Interest The Business of Production

Pixorial, Rumblefish in tune on copyright-cleared soundtracks

Post author By Philip
Post date August 22, 2012

Pixorial, Rumblefish in tune on copyright-cleared soundtracks http://t.co/enGAmtMF.

This is a new deal between online video platform provideo PixorialÂ and Rumblefish:

gives Pixorial users access to the “world’s largest copyright-cleared soundtrack catalog,” the two companies said in a news release.

So, it’s a new source of licensed music for your video – if you use Pixorial’s platform.

Interesting Technology Video Technology

New MPEG Standard – H.265 – What does it mean?

Post author By Philip
Post date August 17, 2012
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Australian news website ITwire, has an article up about the MPEG’s announcement of the draft standard of their next generation of video codec, due to replace H.264 over time. Hopefully now that we’ve mostly settled on H.264 as the “one codec to rule them all” it will be a comfortable transition to the next generation.

Apple Pro Apps Metadata

From eight keystrokes to three – for the same job in FCP X.

Post author By Philip
Post date August 15, 2012
2 Comments on From eight keystrokes to three – for the same job in FCP X.

While logging the Road to Ra material I’m working on, I’ve developed a pattern for the Content Logging part of the process, so I can do it all with the keyboard. The process was:

Apple Pro Apps

My Final Cut Pro X frustrations: Number two

Post author By Philip
Post date August 14, 2012
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Because I was using a lot of double system on my recent shoot, I kept running into this problem.

I would apply appropriate Keywords to the audio and video that would make up a synchronized Clip, making it easy to find them when I was ready to synchronize them up.

Metadata

Context vs Content Metadata

Post author By Philip
Post date August 12, 2012
7 Comments on Context vs Content Metadata

In my continuing desire to analyze what types of metadata we use, and how we use it, I think there’s another useful distinction to be made, within the Added Metadata section. Long term readers will know I categorize metadata into six types:

The Business of Production The Technology of Production

Waves of Operating Systems and what it tells us about NLE evolution

Post author By Philip
Post date August 7, 2012
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We were thinking about the evolution of computers over dinner – the fact that we’re both reading the Steve Jobs biography right now might have something to do with it – and I realized there were parallels between the evolution of the “PC” and the evolution of the NLE.

Item of Interest The Business of Production

YouTube to spend $200 million on professional videos.

Post author By Philip
Post date August 6, 2012

YouTube to spend $200 million more on professional videos http://t.co/Imw3YvFl

Google-owned YouTubeÂ will drop another $200 millionÂ into the programming to more effectively market the nearly 100 channels boasting professional videos, the company told the Wall Street Journal in a report published yesterday.

Continue reading “YouTube to spend 0 million on professional videos.”

Business & Marketing Item of Interest The Business of Production

Did You Know That Professional Writing is Dying? Or Not.

Post author By Philip
Post date August 4, 2012

Did You Know That Professional Writing Is Dying And Only Taxing The Public To Pay Writers Can Save It

The Indie Ebook Scene Is Growing: Here’s Over 170 Authors Who’ve Sold More Than 50,000 Copies

In another one of those discussions about business models, the first post above stems from an article by Ewan Morrison,

Apple Pro Apps Interesting Technology Metadata

Final Cut Pro X and Mountain Lion – now that’s interesting!

Post author By Philip
Post date August 2, 2012
18 Comments on Final Cut Pro X and Mountain Lion – now that’s interesting!

Last night we arrived back from the Solar Odyssey as our involvement finished on Sunday (long story shot, “creative differences”) and today my welcome home present to myself – a nice new MacBook Pro retina. Naturally I immediately updated to Mountain Lion. (New machine, new OS, might as well get it all over together).

One of the first apps I was looking at was Final Cut Pro X – very nice to see a full size 1080P signal in the Viewer window 1:1 and still have a whole heap of screen real estate. (My confession is that I’m using all the pixels 1:1 not in Retina mode. I already have to wear glasses for a computer screen so I might as well capitalize on it.)

Of course I look through the menus and what do I find in the Edit menu but: