I just tried out Microsoft's Photosynth slideshow thingy...at the moment, it's free, but anything you upload there is "public" in terms of viewing, although you can apply licensing to your images - anything from Creative Commons to All Rights Reserved. The downside, at this moment, is that the "synth" can only be hosted on their site. There is an embed code available for using on blogs and websites, and a link code for emails and forums.
It seems lately my poor photography blog is being used for testing instead of writing tutorials.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Circle of Light
Here's another promo, this time for a book. A very good book...one that I have read multiple times, and probably will read again and again.
The author is one Emily Roesly, who (to my knowledge) has written 3 books. I've read two of them, enjoyed them both immensely, and am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the third book.
Her books are available at bookstores across the internet, as well as on Amazon. Very much worth the purchase price.
I had initially planned to include a piece of video in this - a very close closeup of the the circle of light on the bookcover, backing away from it slowly til the entire cover was in focus, but sometime between my last clip shoot (36 seconds of the snow in our front yard) and the day I went to shoot the cover, my video cam died.
Guess I might need a new one.
The author is one Emily Roesly, who (to my knowledge) has written 3 books. I've read two of them, enjoyed them both immensely, and am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the third book.
Her books are available at bookstores across the internet, as well as on Amazon. Very much worth the purchase price.
I had initially planned to include a piece of video in this - a very close closeup of the the circle of light on the bookcover, backing away from it slowly til the entire cover was in focus, but sometime between my last clip shoot (36 seconds of the snow in our front yard) and the day I went to shoot the cover, my video cam died.
Guess I might need a new one.
Monday, February 2, 2009
A World of Freedom
Okay, here's a second try with the YT video using a different converter - at least this time the sound file is intact, though the image quality doesn't seem any better.
SWF Flash Files and YouTube
I've been driving myself crazy trying to find a decent way to convert my swf (swishmax files) files to acceptable formats for YouTube, AND have YT turn out a decent quality video. So far I'm not impressed.
I did find one converter that did a decent job of converting my swf file to an mpeg file - plays great when I look at it on my computer. The only drawback was that it stripped the audio file, which I sort of needed in there.
On YT I found a page that says it accepts swf files, and yes, I can upload the swf file, but it doesn't seem to be able to process it. The results of that upload - initially it shows a successful upload, but during the processing to YT format, it fails.
Frankly, I really don't understand the whys of converting to video format. The swf file is a lot smaller than the converted video file: in fact, the video file, without the audio is in fact 5 times larger than the swf file.
Why doesn't YT just package the swf files? The visual quality is about 100 times better unless you begin with a "real" video.
So, what did YouTube do to my decent flash file? THIS:
I did find one converter that did a decent job of converting my swf file to an mpeg file - plays great when I look at it on my computer. The only drawback was that it stripped the audio file, which I sort of needed in there.
On YT I found a page that says it accepts swf files, and yes, I can upload the swf file, but it doesn't seem to be able to process it. The results of that upload - initially it shows a successful upload, but during the processing to YT format, it fails.
Frankly, I really don't understand the whys of converting to video format. The swf file is a lot smaller than the converted video file: in fact, the video file, without the audio is in fact 5 times larger than the swf file.
Why doesn't YT just package the swf files? The visual quality is about 100 times better unless you begin with a "real" video.
So, what did YouTube do to my decent flash file? THIS:
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