Post Modern Group (also known as the place I do my Blu-ray menu work) has teamed up with some producers and created a new weekly online show they are calling OnAAiR. It stands for Advertising and Arts in Review, or something clever like that. It’s a way for us to not only show off ourselves, [...]
Netflix sends me these free one month trial things every now and then and I don’t really know anyone who wants them. So if you want to try it out for a month, here are the codes:
M206361290975
M216321290245
M206341290225Â
M236311290235
Just go to netflix.com/tellafriend to redeem it. They expire October 31, 2008.
You can also get Blu-ray discs from them if [...]
Some non-Blu-ray news.
Yesterday Apple released a codec for QuickTime that allows you to play anything saved with the ProRes codec. I’ve been waiting for something like this for a while as the ProRes codec looks great and keeps files down to SD uncompressed sizes. As I occasionally capture something in HD on a Final Cut [...]
Some non Blu-ray news for once. Digital-Rapids has finally released their 2.5 version of their Stream software that was announced way back in April at NAB. They seem to always announce their software and then wait a few months before actually making it available.
For those of you who don’t know about Digital-Rapids (which is probably everyone), [...]
I discovered something a little disappointing today. Apparently the H.264 encoder in After Effects and Premiere doesn’t make progressive download friendly files. When you put these on the web the entire file has to be downloaded before it starts playing instead of playing as soon as it buffers enough. Adobe says they are working on a bug fix which [...]
For those of you who have tried my HDMV Flash Viewer and use Firefox as your default browser you may have noticed the image was very small. About 200 pixels tall to be exact. This seems to be a bug in Firefox using 100% height with Flash.
Well, I finally found a solution. For those who [...]
I made a few changes to the HDMV Flash Viewer. Here is the change log for those interested:
Version .12 – Made the menu center on the screen to create a “letterbox/pillarbox” effect
-Added variable named “f”. This is for framerate. Default is 24.
-Added variable named “s”. This is for Selected Loop. Default is True.
-Added variable named [...]
We are just starting to play around with subtitles for Blu-ray, and I found this free application that seems pretty cool. It’s called URUWorks Subtitle Workshop and it will open up a ton of different subtitle formats, and supports HDMV BDN subtitles exporting. I haven’t tried it yet besides a quick output test since we [...]
Tutorial 5 is up, and this time we go over how to set up and use the HDMV Flash Viewer. It’s not super complicated, but does have a couple tricky steps. Basic knowledge of FTP and web sites is recommended.
I released the first public version of the Blu-Ray HDMV Flash Viewer. It can be downloaded by following the link on the right. I’m planning on recording a short screencast that will show how to use/install it to your server in the next couple days.
For now, here’s a quick explanation on how to install. Just unzip [...]
I just got back from wondering around the Las Vegas convention center and am a bit overwhelmed with the number of companies out there, especially the ones I don’t know what the even do. I mean, how many distribution/AVC Encoding/IPTV company’s do we need? But I thought I’d list what things I saw that I [...]
I’ll be at NAB this Tuesday through Thursday. I plan on checking out a few things, but am most interested in-
Digital Rapids
Sonic Scenarist
Any Adobe Products
Cinamacraft
Sony XD Cam
Sony Blu-ray
Red Camera
Aja Kona
I’m hoping to see some new software and hardware from these products. I’ll try to take pictures and post anything cool I see. I know a [...]
I’m going to be using Flash to play any videos or tutorials I have on this site, but I’ll be using H.264 compression instead of the normal FLV compression. What does this mean? First of all, it means better looking videos at lower bitrates with fullscreen and HD support. However it also means you need [...]
For client approvals, I’m developing a Flash viewer that takes your Sonic Designer code, reads all the images and buttons, and creates a basic menu out of it. Here is an example of it for a title we are currently working on.
For now it’s just for my own use, but I might end up releasing the [...]