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Apple have finally unveiled a tablet computer, the iPad. The anticipation leading up to this launch and the speculation surrounding it has been truly staggering. Yet I find myself strangely underwhelmed by the device.
These stunning demo reels from Stargate Studios provide a little insight TV/movie production:
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Anyone who has visited YouTube.com in the past four years knows that you can embed video in a web page. But prior to HTML5, there was no standards-based way to do this. Virtually all the video you’ve ever watched “on the web” has been funneled through a third-party plugin — maybe QuickTime, maybe RealPlayer, maybe Flash. (YouTube uses Flash.) These plugins integrate with your browser well enough that you may not even be aware that you’re using them. That is, until you try to watch a video on a platform that doesn’t support that plugin.
HTML5 defines a standard way to embed video in a web page, using a <video> element. Support for the <video> element is still evolving, which is a polite way of saying it doesn’t work yet. At least, it doesn’t work everywhere. But don’t despair! There are alternatives and fallbacks and options galore.
And Mark Pilgrim goes on to explore this fascinating and long-overdue addition to web-developer’s armoury. As we have come to expect from Pilgrim, all the technicalities are covered and the essay is written in an easy-to-understand manner with exquisite presentation. The “bible” for video-over-web people everywhere.
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Index + Exhibit: A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, images, movies and sound. Looks interesting and I’ll use this as soon as I have a project for which it would be appropriate.
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If you work in design in any way or, indeed, if you interact with customers at all, then you have got to watch this video. It’s so true, so very true. I almost wet myself.
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Video for Everybody is very simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element which offers native playback in Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3 & 4 and an increasing number of other browsers.
This script will automatically turn on recording in iChat for AV Chats (audio, video, document share). Whenever an A/V Chat commences, the other parties will be asked if it’s OK to record the chat; if they accept, recording will automatically start.
I’ve just upgraded my QuickTime software to QuickTime Pro and so I thought I’d experiment with producing a QuickTime movie and with publishing that movie through WordPress.
Now you might be wondering why I’m messing around with QuickTime when the rest of the world seems to have opted for Flash-based movie embedding via YouTube or Vimeo. I answer your query with a single word, quality. To my eyes QuickTime videos always seem to look better. They stream better. They exhibit less visible artifacts. Colours seem more vibrant. Frame rates seem to be higher (the videos seem smoother). So I’m adopting QuickTime as the de-facto video player for the Urban Mainframe.
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I normally avoid political posts, especially ones concerning the politics of another country. But I couldn’t resist this: Matt Damon, a man whom I hold in high regard, is worried about the “absurd” prospect of Sarah Palin becoming President of the United States. As Mr. Damon says, “I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. Because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes!”
Now where’s Jason Bourne when we need him?
