David Fulde has released some light leak footage for free on his site at:
http://projectmonday.net/post/19220762656/assets-for-free-hoorah-updated If that’s your kind of look.
Category: Video
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HD Light leaks for free
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World Press Photo multimedia awards 2012
Interesting collection of stories winning awards in the World Press Photo awards for 2012. (The second time “multimedia” was included as a category in the competition.) Interesting review and analysis of the finalists on Dan Chung’s blog.
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Tips for transmedia online documentaries
Some comments about “connected” documentaries and how to produce them and the differences between film and online. Not sure if you “just ship” like a web app, it needs to be the minimum to do something useful…
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School portrait
Nice little short — simple but effective. Great child actors!
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30133754[/vimeo]
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Fountain: markup language for screenplays
The first release of Fountain a text markup language for screenplays, based on the Markdown format by Gruber. Interesting concept.
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Longtail video state of HTML5 video
Longtail video has published a good round up of the current state of HTML 5 video support across different browsers and configurations. Useful to keep an eye on.
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Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker
Nice little doco about a Brooklyn guy who makes professional kitchen knives by hand. Not sure about the choice of framing for the interview, makes it a bit hard to get into sympathy with the subject.
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Disable Perian for best YouTube HTML5 playback
Just discovered that YouTube HTML5 video playback can be improved dramatically if the Perian QuickTime plugin is uninstalled — it seems that Google is trying to be smart and deliver a WebM format to the browser rather than h264 in an MP4 container. Bit of a pain, I was wondering why the player was dropping frames all over the place, and being generally unresponsive to scrubbing/play/pause interactions.