Video Compression Workshop – 10 Steps to Better Compression

1.) De-interlace your video: Most video files are interlaced, which means that half of one image is blended with half of the next. On a Television this produces smoother motion, on a computer it produces junk. 2.) Lower your audio standards: Most users are listening to computer audio on tiny speakers. Cutting your sample rate […]

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MoMB – The Museum of Modern Betas

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The MoMB just crossed the 5555 betas mark (the 5555th app listed is the super sharp Ameritocracy.) A few fun charts: As most of you know we focus on plain vanilla public betas (77.7%). But we also collect sites in alpha (4.9%), sites which have not publicly launched yet (private alphas, private betas, sites in […]

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Compressor 3: A “virtual Cluster” Makes an Impressive Speed Boost

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A large number of us do our encode/transcode work in compressor on the same single machine as we did our FCP editing on, or are about to author our DVD on. The point being that many of us don't have the luxury of raw extra computing power just sitting in a stack next to our […]

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Lighting diagrams for the Mac: Omnigraffle

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I don’t have a lot of time to learn new software packages, so I tend to fall in with packages that don’t require me to read the manual. That’s why Omnigraffle works for me. I’ve been working with computers since the third grade, so I know a thing or two about them. Having said that, […]

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SmartJog unveils new website

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Los Angeles (July 2008) – SmartJog just launched its newly redesigned public website (www.smartjog.com) which provides visitors with new sources of information on SmartJog’s services and technology in a dynamic environment. New Features include : * Downloadable fact sheets related to SmartJog’s industry solutions and services* Full list of companies that are part of the SmartJog […]

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Tweak Software’s RV adopted by Lucasfilm Ltd.

San Francisco, CA (July 30, 2008)-Tweak Software, developers of RV, the image and sequence viewer for animation and visual effects, announced today that Lucasfilm Ltd. has selected RV as its playback tool of choice. RV will replace Loupe, the legendary playback software originally developed at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and used at sister companies […]

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Gefen contributes its DVI Extenders for Barco LED processors to award winning project

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CHATSWORTH, CA – Connectivity solutions provider Gefen contributed its DVI Extenders for Barco LED processors to an audiovisual project that received the 2008 ARCHI-TECH AV Grand Prize Award. The winning project, Victory Park Screens in Dallas, was selected from the Best Over $1 million category, designed by TFO Architecture, The Whitlock Group-Dallas and Vantage Technology […]

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Semantic tagging for dummies

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The semantic web is often referred to as the “next phase” of the world wide web. It’s also sometimes referred to — perhaps pretentiously — as “Web 3.0?. Wrapped up in this semantic web is an appearance of artificial intelligence as it involves computers “understanding” content (eg: teaching a machine that “Africa” is a continent […]

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Preservation metadata

Preservation metadata is an essential component of most digital preservation strategies. As an increasing proportion of the world’s information output shifts from analog to digital form, it is necessary to develop new strategies to preserve this information for the long-term. Preservation metadata is information that supports and documents the digital preservation process. Preservation metadata is […]

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