I’ve been trying to decide how to best go about building a site for a personal project I’ve been working on for a while. I’ve tried building it with a wiki back-end — and used DokuWiki, which is the least annoying wiki software I’ve had the pleasure of using. However, I’ve come to the […]
This new video is a great introduction to tracking screen replacements. Imagineer Systems makes Mocha, a planar tracker that will allow you to get excellent tracks of a flat (or flat-ish) surface, often without tracking markers. A lite version, Mocha AE comes bundled with After Effects.
Obviously, this isn’t a complete solution for iOS developers looking to demo their apps with live hand-held iPhone and iPad shots, but it’s an important piece of the puzzle. Imagineer has another screencast that shows more of what goes into a screen replacement on a touch screen. Even though it demonstrates the final compositing steps with an outdated version of Final Cut Pro, it gives you a good idea of the steps that go into this kind of shot.
If you produce or edit video, you might like to know that I’m selling my Mac Pro system. It’s a little overkill for what I need at home right now, so if you need a powerful video system, read on.
If you’re in Seattle, see the Craigslist ad.
This Mac Pro has been used as […]
I have an original AirPort Express 802.11g that I still use in the house, but for whatever reason, Apple has updated AirPort Utility so that it no longer works with that older unit. Pretty frustrating, because it otherwise works fine.
It used to be that you could just download AirPort Utility 5.6.1 straight from Apple […]
Updating my old blog post, Make OS X re-run the initial Setup Assistant, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (and perhaps even earlier versions, back to 10.5) require a slightly different method, since the NetInfo Manager has now been done away with. Thanks to this comment on Mac OS X Hints for the updated information. […]
Ahh… I’ve always wanted to write one of those link-bait post titles. Now at least I have a fun excuse.
I noticed today that in the “Smiley menu” in the Messages compose window, that the alcoholic beverages have been edited out. Normally, in the Objects section of the emoji menu, the order goes Baby Bottle, […]
Dear Apple,
I just started a new preditor job, and since FCP 7 is never coming back (as long as I tried to cling to it), I had to decide whether to go with FCPX or Premiere CC. Premiere CC seems closer to what I want in an editor, but since it also crashes like […]
