Bruce Sterling against some obvious choices,
and his desire for the death of the most rapidly adopted
consumer-electronics technology surprised me. If he could name a
substitute…. What he provides is a really a cost-benefit analysis on
weapons, energy sources, and some pop-culture vanity. Disagree or no,
read his thoughts and think some of your own.
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The Onion proves once again the difficulty of satirizing reality.
You have to read it twice to be sure it isn’t true:
Need to put a media clip on your site? Not sure of the correct code?
Want to make sure it works? The University of California at San
Francisco has posted the Embedded Media HTML Generator,
for creating the correct code/script for the media type you’re posting.
QuickTime, Real, Flash, and Windows Media. It’s all there. Nice.
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The home of the pros, Los Angeles, delivers more informative goodies on Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro.
Extracting
Pamela just took an ITC workshop here on iMovie, and I just had to show her my blog… and now she’s going to get one. Bet on it.——-
“Dart(mouth We)blogs is a site where Dartmouth students, faculty,
staff, and alumni can create and host their own easily updated and and
anonymous weblogs.” Well, pretty soon every university will offer them.
Harvard Law School is using them already.
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“Too bad Adobe had to dump the Mac version of Premiere, though, an understandable
decision since it seemed most Mac users had defected to Final Cut Pro anyway.
But this new version will give those who are thinking of going with Final Cut
Pro, or even Vegas, pause. It’s a worthy alternative, and can do a lot of things
they can’t. But then, they can also do things that Premiere Pro can’t.” Like what, Charlie?
Charlie White offers lots of enthusiasm, but offers too little
comparison with the other NLEs for readers to make an informed decision
on which editor will suit them best. Read this for an overview of the
app, not a grounded dissection to help you decide.
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Chris Adamson at O’Reilly’s ONJava: “This completes our tour of QuickTime media structures, in which we’ve gone from
the high-level view of what makes up a movie to the low-level mucking around
with individual samples. This is a little ‘closer to the metal’ than QTJ usually
requires, but if you believe in keeping simple tasks easy and complex tasks
possible, this has been an example of the latter.” Part 2 of a series [Part 1 here],
with step-by-step code samples, using QuickTime for Java to make media
completely from scratch. An excellent chance for intermediate animation
or programming students to get a handle on the software architecture
that made digital video possible.
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