Friday Video
Friday, July 29th, 2005Balancing is a very cool video that will help you relax and get ready for the weekend!
Balancing is a very cool video that will help you relax and get ready for the weekend!
Cinelerra is a free high-end video editing solution for the Linux family of operating systems. If you’d like to try Cinelerra but don’t want to mess around installing LInux, try the Dynebolic Live CD. It is a customized version of the popular Knoppix Live distribution that runs from a bootable CDROM drive.
Microsoft will be releasing 6 new fonts in 2006 that will ship with its operating system and other software products. The new typefaces have been created especially for extended on-screen reading.
[via What do I Know]
A fun way to create photographic type is to try Spell with flickr! It grabs images from the flickr group named One Letter. The PHP source code for the script is available on the site, so it shouldn’t be too hard to create a dynamic banner for your website?
Laura Murphy has a nice site that attempts to explain Canadian copyright in simple and plain laguage. Her article titled Understanding Copyright covers:
Image * After is a stock image gallery where the images are free for commercial and personal use. The gallery currently has 8525 textures and images available for download.
Rustboy is a short film project by Brian Taylor that began as a 2D image for a short story illustration. Since then, Rustboy has moved from being a hobby to a full-time job for Brian. His website documents the process of creating the short film and includes lots of gems like storyboards and some short movie clips.
Chris Becker has a very nice gallery of photographic work created by light painting.
Light painting is a technique in which light sources are projected or “painted” in selective areas during the camera exposure. All work is done on camera, no computer manipulation occurs. Exposures can range from 20 seconds upwards to 5 hours to achieve.
videotech is a blog that has been created by a colleague of mine. Johnny Blakeborough is a Multimedia Technicain at Malaspina University-College, and is posting information that will be useful for those using digital video in educational settings.
EMediaLive.com has a great guide on Streaming for Videographers that has tips on shooting, editing and compressing video for delivery on the web.
[link via “JD on MX”]
