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Xcoders Seattle: How to App Video

finalcutprose, geek, howto, Seattle / By Mark Boszko

These are the “show notes” from my How to App Video talk at Seattle Xcoders, on May 21, 2014 at 7:00 pm.

Slides, AV Script Format, and Videos

My Xcoders talk was recorded and now available on (and embedded above)!
My Slide Deck — not sure how helpful this is without the talk, but there it is. These are actually the slides from the previous presentation of this talk at Renaissance 2014, but very little has changed, aside from MouseTools, and including both Mac and iOS instead of just iOS.
AV Format Markdown CSS (on GitHub) to use in BBEdit, Marked, and Ulysses
If you’re printing out the script from BBEdit, and want the shading to print behind the video side of the script, check out the instructions in this post.
At the moment, BBEdit doesn’t obey the CSS page break styles when printing, to avoid weird widow/orphan issues. It seems it’s an Apple Web View bug, and they are working on a solution for that.
Final OmniOutliner View Settings “Support Short” video from The Omni Group
Final video from MartianCraft
Final spec spot, and a on how we did some of the special effects.

Tools

Telestream ScreenFlow — Mac screen recording app
App Dynamic AirServer — AirPlay to your Mac and record what you stream
You may not need AirServer in the near future — check out WWDC 2014 Session 304 for information about recording iOS 8 devices with QuickTime Player on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
Apple Final Cut Pro — for editing
Adobe After Effects — animation and compositing
Rode Podcaster USB Dynamic Microphone is a great USB mic at a decent price.
MouseTools — app and source code for scripting smooth movement of the mouse on the Mac.
How to Chroma Key in Final Cut Pro X
Imagineer Systems Mocha AE — planar tracker, to track the real crean that you’ll composite your fake screen into
CoreMelt TrackX — motion tracking for Final Cut Pro X
Apple Compressor — to compress file size of video to share with your team and upload to your website.
Wipster to share work-in-progress video with clients and team members, to gather feedback.
Vimeo, YouTube, and Video.js players to distribute your video
Web Video Text Track (WebVTT) Specification for accessibility captions
Jubler — subtitle editor

More Bits

Indian-head test pattern
A partial list of my pre-Omni credits on IMDb
Post Atomic Horror Unofficial Star Trek Episode Guide — Not currently available while we retool for new content and make it less broken on iOS 8, but you can still read about it.
I’m @swizzlevixen on Twitter, and I curate the RSS feeds that power the @objectivec Twitter account, and its mirror on alpha.app.net
The Optical podcast and blog, where I talk about how movies are made. The Optical also has a Twitter account.
Jaws Script
Video frame rates — 24, 30, 60, etc.
Video interlacing

Renaissance 2014 — How to App Video

finalcutprose, geek, howto / By Mark Boszko

These are the “show notes” from my half of the Master Video talk at Renaissance 2014, on January 21, 2014 at 10:30 am.

Slides, AV Script Format, and Videos

My Slide Deck — not sure how helpful this is without the talk, but there it is.
AV Format Markdown CSS (on GitHub) to use in BBEdit, Marked, and Ulysses
If you’re printing out the script from BBEdit, and want the shading to print behind the video side of the script, check out the instructions in this post.
At the moment, BBEdit doesn’t obey the CSS page break styles when printing, to avoid weird widow/orphan issues. It seems it’s an Apple Web View bug, and they are working on a solution for that.
Final OmniOutliner View Settings “Support Short” video from The Omni Group
Final video from MartianCraft
Final spec spot, and a on how we did some of the special effects.

Tools

Telestream ScreenFlow — Mac screen recording app
App Dynamic AirServer — AirPlay to your Mac and record what you stream
Apple Final Cut Pro — for editing
Adobe After Effects — animation and compositing
Imagineer Systems Mocha AE — planar tracker, to track the real crean that you’ll composite your fake screen into
Apple Compressor — to compress file size of video to share with your team and upload to your website.
Wipster to share work-in-progress video with clients and team members, to gather feedback.
Vimeo, YouTube, and Video.js players to distribute your video
Web Video Text Track (WebVTT) Specification for accessibility captions
Jubler — subtitle editor

More Bits

Indian-head test pattern
My Pre-Omni Video Resume
Post Atomic Horror Unofficial Star Trek Episode Guide — Not currently available while we retool for new content and make it less broken on iOS 7, but you can still read about it.
I’m @swizzlevixen on Twitter, and I curate the RSS feeds that power the @objectivec Twitter account, and its mirror on alpha.app.net
The Optical podcast and blog, where I talk about how movies are made. The Optical also has a Twitter account.
Jaws Script

Post Atomic Horror Unofficial Star Trek™ Episode Guide

geek, merch / By Mark Boszko

Hey, did I mention that I launched an iPhone app in the App Store a couple of weeks ago? I don’t think I did.

The Post Atomic Horror Unofficial Episode Guide is a fun and humorous guide to the all of the Star Trek™ adventures featuring the original crew. It helps you keep track of which episodes you’ve watched, and offers easy access to the comedy review podcast, the Post Atomic Horror.

You don’t have to be a Trekkie to love this app: Let my good friends, podcastronauts Ron “AAlgar” Watt and Matt Rowbotham, be your guides to the incredible world of Trek — and listen to them joke while they watch the bad episodes, so you don’t have to.

Buy it now on the App Store!

This app contains written content from the Post Atomic Horror’s first book, The Post Atomic Horror Unofficial Episode Guide, volume one. The book also has bonus content, and artwork by Ramon Villalobos. Check it out!