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But daddy, I want them NOW!

By Sparky | July 14, 2006

The week is over and I’m video-podcasting again! This week I try out my new camera, and take a crash course in video editing. Sorry that it’s quicktime video, and not an embedded Flash video but I was having problems with re-encoding it and am too drained to futz with it. You might have to upgrade to Quicktime 7 if you are on Windows to see it because I encoded using h.264.

I’m happy with the camera quality, but my workflow needs a lot of work to avoid the compression artifacts that you will see in this video. I managed to have to re-compress it twice, both times losing significant amounts of quality. I also need to figure out how to wrangle audio - something went horribly awry right, but then I seemed to keep it under control.

Anyone have a recommendation of a lossless video codec that’s Mac friendly? I’m doing the editing using iMovie HD because it’s both slick and handy. Video editing in general seems to have a bit of a steep learning curve, but I’m always up for a challenge.

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Topics: Audio, Skype!, Technology, Video, Vodcasting |

One Response to “But daddy, I want them NOW!”

  1. br3 Says:
    July 14th, 2006 at 6:33 pm

    wow, great video quality. The dog Skype adds a lot to the video and kept me on my toes… Keep the dog in the podcasts!!!

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