Blending life, nature and technology.
Photography
Video compositing
Jun 19th
Just created my first good composite video using Adobe Premiere CS4, Adobe Media Encoder CS4 – for h.264 720×480 final media output, a video clip from ArtBeats, and a sound clip from The Nutcracker. Reference book l used is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 – Classroom in a book.
Heres a picture of my workspace setup during the final stage.
Below is a web 360×284 Flash 2Mb version of the original NTSC DV 10Mb opening title video. This was also encoded using Adobe Media Encoder.
Start_Video from Steve M on Vimeo.
End video
EndVideo1 from Steve M on Vimeo.
End Video 2 – Black Backgroud
EndTitleBlack from Steve M on Vimeo.
Samsung Camera Codec…
Apr 1st
If you own a Samsung pocket camera, such as the Samsung TL-100 which records HD video [720 resolution], you probably have problems playing the AVI video files on your window PC media player. You might want to try using DivX or simply downloading and installing Xvid Codec – GNU from xvid.org. See also this link.
Heres the link to Xvid.
China in Video 2009….
Dec 16th
Videos l converted to wmv – windows media format from HD using Adobe CS4 Media Encoder, taken by a friend James Soult on his recent trip to China using his Canon Vixia HD camcorder.
My videos Shanghai China 2006
Stayton Oregon …
Sep 21st
Drove here on 9/12 to help take wedding pictures of relatives. Took a total of 1270 with my trusty Canon XTi Found out that an external power supply CA-PS700 for the camera is very very useful when you only have just one camera battery. I got the external power suppy unit mainly for doing time lapse videos.
Heres a silverlight encoded video of the main event. Congrats to the Crockett family. Click here for a direct link.
Big Brother…
Sep 10th
This show is driving me nuts, and the grand finale is next Tuesday. I just cast my vote now! Click here for the link.
Basically l want Natalie gone. If its between Kevin and Jordan, let the best man/woman win.
Congrats to Jordan for winning for the FIRST time, a very crucial competiton!!!
Sad that Chima [from Nigeria - my country of birth] couldnt obey simple game rules and stay on the game.
Downtown Portland…
Sep 5th
Video clip l created using Picasa 3, of pictures l took around Downtown Portland, Oregon – mainly showing the construction site of the new Park West 33 tower skyscraper. I then uploaded this using Microsoft Silverlight streaming website silverlight.live.com
St. Louis Primary School…
Jul 5th
Internet search on google for my first school located in Kano, Nigeria – came up positive with a link to the schools website as well as pictures of my 2 principals – St. Brigette Burke and Ms Elizabeth Major . Completed nursery, then primary classes 1 to 6, then moved onto high school – called secondary school there – at Federal Government College, Kano. Schools there then as l know, were based on the British system, since Nigeria was colonized by the British. We got our independence in October, 1960.
Simply amazing finding this…
Shanghai, China….
May 28th
See links below of very good recent pictures taken by a friend Yongkie Hurd from a recent trip to China. I had the opportunity to work in the great city of Shanghai – China in 2006.
Build your own Virtual World…
May 14th
Check out this amazing video – World Builder by Bruce Branit Some day l guess we might be building entire cities virtually like this, walk through them and then create them. Beats a 3D object molder.
Heres a direct link to the quicktime .mov file for faster viewing on your PC. [ Right click, save as, download]
Using Adobe Bridge CS4….
Mar 29th
Heres how to add meta tags automatically to your pictures using Adobe Bridge CS4, which helps protect your photo with information relating to you the owner, no matter where the photos end up.
