Film speedsThrough the cameraFlicker flashThe light imprintsScenes of lifeReal or imaginedBurned into silverSpun into goldLight returnsBack to lifeReflected in facesOn the edge of their seats © 2005 Mark Boszko
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
NAB 2005 Day -1
This morning was the Apple “Special Event”, at which they reminded us of Tiger’s emminent release (with QuickTime 7, including 24 simultaneous audio track capture!), and announced the new versions of Final Cut Pro 5 (with Multicam and native HDV support), Motion 2 (whose most impressive new feature seems to be its ability to use…
NAB 2005 Day -2
Well, it’s NAB time again, and that means Vegas, beh-beh! A short jaunt to Indianapolis and then a longer jaunt with my current client/boss out to Vegas, we met our third at the Vegas airport (another colleague), and proceeded to our hotel, the MGM Grand. Nothing much happening this night, so we grabbed some grub,…
Tip for Successful On-Lining
Article: Simplifying Your On-Lining Lots of good tips on using Final Cut Pro to online your video project without all that pesky wailing and gnashing of teeth
Jewelcase
Optical Alchemy has a wicked keen iTunes visualizer— Jewelcase, which displays a 3D rendered spinning jewelbox of whatever album your currently playing song is from, complete with tracks listing and cover art. Of course, it uses your cover art in iTunes, so it works best if you’ve loaded in all your cover art (or got…
Screentfont.ca
All about fonts for captions and subtitles: Watching TV is bad enough. Reading TV shouldn’t be worse.
SpamSieve
I’ve tested a few spam filters for my email over the last year, including the built-in one in Apple Mail, SpamFire and SpamSieve, and decided on the latter of the three as my final solution. SpamSieve does a great job, using Bayesian filtering to detect the probability of a message being spam, and it integrates…