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GeekNights 080414 - Ye Olde Internete
Couldn't see this on the feed, so I tested the url, and here it is for those who don't want to wait any more.
News: Racetrack memory(Wiki entry)
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss the old days of the Internet and their ramifications for the future. In the news, IBM enters the tacetrack, and we explore the Dead Sea of IT.
Scott's Thing - JavaScript Mario and How it Works
Rym’s Thing - Red Light Cameras / Drive 55
News: Racetrack memory(Wiki entry)
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss the old days of the Internet and their ramifications for the future. In the news, IBM enters the tacetrack, and we explore the Dead Sea of IT.
Scott's Thing - JavaScript Mario and How it Works
Rym’s Thing - Red Light Cameras / Drive 55
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You mean something like this?!
As you pointed out, Rym, when it comes to FLOSS video compositors there really isn't much out there. Cinelerra is basically the GIMP of video editing, though full featured, using it is for masochists and masochists only. I am not sure if you know this, but Blender has a node-based compositor and a non-linear video sequence editor. Together, these two features might be useful enough for you guys in your early video experiments.
When it come to professional software, it doesn't matter what you do. We all end up with Adobe Premier and Final Cut Pro. They really are the best out there. I stick to Adobe Premiere because it's basically the same as Final Cut Pro, except that it's fully compatible with the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite. Adobe After Effects is good for any sort of graphical post-work that needs to be done to your video. Instead of just purchasing the stand-alone Adobe Premier and After Effects to save moneys, I highly recommend getting the Creative Suite 3 Production Premium for a few reasons. One, it comes with Photoshop. Photoshop is the multi-tool of the digital imaging world. Two, Adobe has been putting a lot of work into redesigning all of their applications under a unifying architecture (hence the name Creative Suite), so file interoperability between all of the Adobe applications is generally seamless, which you won't be getting if you end up with Final Cut and a copy of Photoshop. Three, the Creative Suite comes with OnLocation (*a Windows only app), which facilitates the direct recording of live video to your computer. This is hella useful. You won't be fuxin' with tapes and the time it takes to rip off of a DV tape. Four, there is a cool trick with Adobe software to offset the cost. If you have an old copy of, say, Photoshop you can pay for an "upgrade" which will knock off a few hundred bucks off the price.
As for hardware, if you guys create what you want with Blender you won't need any hardware more powerful than what you have. Your largest constraint will be encoding times. I don't have anything personal against Macs, but I don't think a Mac Pro is necessary unless you want out-of-the-box setup. Personally, I'd spend the 3k on a good multi-core processor or two, a decent set of large screens, and a reasonably priced high-end gaming card to push the pixels of those two large screens. Unless you guys go HD you'll never need anything more than commodity hardware for encoding.
An afterthought: I was just thinking that you might want to look into if Final Cut runs in a native 64-bit environment. I'm pretty sure none of the Adobe stuff does. That could make the Mac a little more appealing . . .
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-25530473-Premiere-Elements-4/dp/B000UK6OUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1208291487&sr=1-1
It has all the features you will actually use, and has a very very nice interface.
Not broken, so don't fix it?
At the top of Google docs, there should be an offline button.
And it's pretty old news. I'm surprised you guys aren't up to date on this already... Agreed.
Regarding adding science stuff - I'd rather see Mondays get turned into 100% tech, then have science stuff tacked into Thursdays.
Regarding adding science stuff - I'd rather see Mondays get turned into 100% tech, then have science stuff tacked into Thursdays.
They need a science day. I listen to 5 other science podcasts, and I think Rym and Scott could add an interesting perspective. Most others simply report the news and offer a short opinion, but I like the way GeekNights goes in depth a lot.
No, CS does not count as a science.
I'm always up for a chance to talk about what I do. Of course, some things may go well over listeners' heads.
Thus, it's BARELY a dedicated science day. This is also another big problem.
So I still stand by that Mondays should only be tech and science should be bumped to Thursday.
Oh, and regarding speed limits...yeah, up here in Ohio most of the high way speed limits are bullshit, too. There's a 55 highway, and no one goes 55. Also, this weekend, I drove down to Columbus for Anime Punch. Along the way, all the speed limits are either 60 or 65. I went around 75-80 the entire way. There were more times than one where people were passing me...yeah.
Regarding politicians and internet bones in the closet...Deleting your facebook and/or myspace is ridiculously easy. Deleting blogs is easy. Deleting old forum posts is easy. Sites go down. So on and so forth.
I mean, I'm sure you guys full well realize this...but still. Covering up most of your bullshit on the net isn't that hard, especially if you're a politician who wants all that covered up.
edit: Final Cut Pro (FPC) is way more than you guys will EVER need. It's mainly for special effects, filters, animations, and stuff. It's for people who make million dollar budget films and commercials.
For the PC/Windows side of Video editing, Adobe Premier Elements will cost about less than $200 and it works fine on my old PC/Win/Linux/etc. Box. with 3 Ghz cpu and a gig of ram. It worked fine for me and I know that another gig of RAM should fix that.
So don't go off dropping money like it's hot and buying the latest and greatest, and I'm being seriously when I say that the Mini should work fine, any mac should work. I was using iMovie '06 on my PowerBook G4 and it worked fine (1 Ghz cpu PPC, 1 gig RAM).
Just wanted to give you the heads up and I'm sure that your computers that Rym has should work fine. The only time you guys will notice a difference is when your rendering video.
Good luck and save the money, (but feel free to buy a mac.)
Plus, there are other factors that haven't come up. We kind of need Flash and some other things as we ramp up our game design/development. At that point, we'll most definitely be buying one of the big old Adobe packages. This "cheap(ish) video only" question will become moot within a year.