Sparse clip demoing the simple system for handwashing. Nice foley. Not quite sure if the call to action nailed it though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdpd3roZjYw[/youtube]
Category: Video
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It’s in Your Hands – YouTube non-profit winner
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Canon colour on a Panasonic
Andrew Reid’s suggestions for getting closer to Canon colours out of Panasonic still gear.
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MediaCore: Open source video/podcasting CMS
Not sure if it’s any good. It’s now one year old. Might be nice for those who are building their own “YouTube” sites. http://getmediacore.com/
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HTML5 and web video, IE team discussion
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/02/html5-and-web-video-questions-for-the-industry-from-the-community.aspx
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Accessing QuickTime “legacy” codecs
For those following, and who are using Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and are wondering where the QuickTime System Preferences panel has gone (to turn on the legacy codecs option to get the MJPEG format as an option) enter the following command in a terminal window:
qtdefaults write LegacyCodecsEnabled yes
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Using the x264 plugin with Compressor
Andy Beach describes how to use the open-source x264 QT plugin with Compressor — might get rid of the apparent gamma sift using Apple’s h264 encoding plugin?
http://realworldvideocompression.com/rwvc/2010/5/7/using-x264-plugin-in-compressor.html
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Exporting WMV from Final Cut Pro
Ok article on exporting Windows Media from Final Cut Pro with Expression Encoder 3 (only version 4 is available now.) Expression Encoder is nice because it can read QuickTime files (finally!), although we’ve had some glitchy encodes with a sporadic pixelation in the bottom 20 pixels or so every 2 – 3 sec.
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HTML 5 video players
There are an increasing range of JavaScript / HTML 5 video players being developed. Here is a list of a few of them.