In 1980 the broadcast business was just about to go digital but not quite ready. There was a world class competition between B format from Bosch-Fernseh in Germany and C format from a conglomerate of Japanese manufacturers. C format had the advantage of being able to hold a still frame when the the tape stopped. B format needed a digital frame store to do the same, but the quality was far superior. C format was a totally inferior format. Low frequency noise caused video to be considered unusable for multi-generation special effects and millions of dollars of equipment was sold across the world for a format that disappeared in 5 years or so. Quality rules when it comes to production. The filmakers have always understood this, but the video manufacturers are always looking for the C-heap way out. This carelessness about quality continues today with digital recording formats.
Thanks for the education on acronyms being pronounced as a single word. Whatever we call it CMX was a tradename and copyrighted title for the original computer editing company that was a partnership between CBS & Memorex. Would you agree that fact should be preserved? Also what do we call letter combinations that form a new entity but can't be pronounced as a single word...like IBM? One more question. Does anyone know how Memorex magnetic tape technology was related to Bing Crosby?
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - www.vidiots.us
Most readers are too young to remember that CMX is the name of the partnership between CBS and Memorex to develop the earliest computerized editing.
This music company project will lose because it tries to "overwrite" a well established name that should not be obliterated or whatever you call it these days.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - www.vidiots.us
At Videography Lab we are in the middle of a major copyright claim based originally on a website. The US Patent Office will not consider any content, academic or otherwise that is submitted via HTML. The documents must be fixed like jpg or other bitmap files... perhaps a dynamic PDF. In this case all reference files in the PDF must be bitmaps that become part of the PDF package submitted.
We understand that you are talking academia, but patents and copyrights are the end game. So we would like to hear from anyone who has made a claim with a dynamic PDF and succeeded.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab
In order to even begin to comprehend the issues facing US Videography Lab, long ago, proffered "Battlespace Videography", where we are all vidiots . . . "useful idiots". So it is no surprise to us that China is capitalizing on cyber intelligence and warfare. The Chinese are skilled in the field of visual anthropology, which we know well. Visit www.videographyblog.com to understand how we are currently immersed in "the age of videography". Only the brainless believe that videography is just about using video cameras.
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The "E" or "digital" or "IT" or "cloud" president is a fractional representation. We are living in the "age of videography" [Miller Freeman publishing - 1996] & all media count. 95% of all information today worldwide is conveyed through "video" monitors.
Mahaloha !!! - Bob Kiger - seminal author of the word "videography" [OCT 1972 American Cinematographer magazine] - Videography Lab - www.videographyblog.com [Rated page 1 on www.live.com, on page 2 of Yahoo search and buried on page 6 on a google search for "videography". Referred to in Wikipedia under "videography" definition but not linked because of "E-vanity" BS.
I'm waiting for a standalone reasonably priced USB or Firewire connected Blu-Ray burner. Right now the densest storage media I have is a dual layer DVD so I've become an 8GB per day shooter. I say this because I shoot on 8GB SDHC cards and than make the transfer. Give me the burner and I'll go get some 32GB cards and a bunch of batteries for my digital cameras.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - videographyblog.com
A couple of years ago I had an insider position as a beta tester for Adobe's Video Collection. I went a bit off topic as the the test came to conclusion and requested that Adobe Acrobat come out with a Full Screen reader that would "scroll across panoramic landscape spreads" using either a mouse or the left right arrows.
I finally got this reply from an arrogant project manager for Acrobat named Alan Pageant [name slightly changed] that my requested feature would be done "when I say it will be done". PowerFull guy!
Well to this day the feature has not, to the best of my knowledge been coded. This is sad . . . because some really good panoramic picture books that are too expensive for print to paper, could easily be distributed via any platform if the feature were deployed.
For those who need an illustration of the desired format, see: http://cruiserbob.com/TourdaMaui_spread_compressed.pdf and try to get it to fit top to bottom on the screen and scroll using either your mouse or the arrow key. Last I checked it could not be done except inside a window.
Those of us that want an e-Book want full screen with no windows.
The most striking thing about the intel / OLPC story is the naming of the culprit as a "saleswoman". I am not a female . . . and am in fact a male with pretty strong attitudes about modern women. I would assert that the sex of the salesperson who put on the pressure for Intel is totally irrelevant to the core story and the naming of the sex of the "culprit" is very sexist.
I'll go farther and say that, judging by the media's coverage of "that woman" who is running for president of the US, that sex trumps race or creed for biggest boogeyman of 2008.
Bob Kiger
Videography Lab
www.videographyblog.com/ages.html
Two years ago I was directly hooked to Adobe Systems executives on a variety of subjects. Behind their Video Beta wall I challenged Bruce Chizen to get Macromedia Flash or face online annihilation.
At the same time I requested an e-book GUI for their Acrobat platform that would allow for a simple scroll across panoramic e-books. I ended up assigned to this arrogant project manager named Alan P[isser] who wrote me saying that "if this is going to happen, it is because I am going to make it happen!"
Wholly avid response!
I also asked that they offer the outdated code for Premiere 6.5 into Open Source so the Linux community could have a slick video editor. Amidst record profits [or so they say] Adobe shined me on both ideas.
Bob Kiger
Videography Lab
Oceanside, CA
http://videographyblog.com/
For 4 years we have been conducting video editing and streaming tests, using cellular aircard, and find Pentium M machines most satisfactory for "desktop" work. A mouse can be attached via PS2 port leaving USB 2 available for all manner of peripherals.
Here are some provisos we recommend when driving a vintage Laptop Desk for videography.
Be sure to load up with memory to 1GB. Replace all drives with 7200 rpm in order to avoid "write delays" on video. If your computer has "universal drive bay" that's another mainline to the mother board and can enable multiple hard drives, DVD burners, extra batts etc. These are the main big deals.
With 4 fast connections [firewire, USB2, PC Card and universal drive bay] you can do most every task.
Also consider keeping code load down with installed software. We use Office 2000 and Adobe CS2 and that is pushing the size of our 60GB C: drive.
We ask you to consider holding at this level until the next generation HD platforms come out of flux. Anticipate all NAND memory drives and quad core in these units.
Bob Kiger
www.videographyblog.com
There is a workflow published in the archives at www.vidiots.us
A couple months back it was nearly impossible to by a PC without having to purchase Vista. Then the rebellion started in corporate ITs, and with manufacturers like Dell announcing the sales of "naked" PCs which allowed the user to choose their OS. Linux is making giant strides and MAC is consolidating it's gains. Adobe (the number 2 software manufacture) is in locked combat with Microsoft to protect its domain in graphics, photography and videography.
Vista is a giant horrible joke! It is code heavy, non-intuitive, hardware impaired, and will go the way of Millenium Windows, C format videotape, Betamax, 8 track and other "standards" that manufacturers tried to shove down the throats of consumers in my lifetime.
More on this coming soon at www.vidiots.us
There is a common ground which, if all vidiots would allow to flourish, could provide a scientific basis for developing information based solutions (as opposed to vengeance) in this traditionally volatile part of the world.
I am a videographer and consider all bitmap and vector graphics to be my tools including motion video. I've tested Lightroom but not Aperture. Wasn't impressed. Than I got a hold of Media Pro, now migrating from it's founder iView, into the Microsoft camp.
This is one sweet program and priced identically with Lightroom and Aperture it covers ALL the videographers digital cataloging needs. I don't think a catalog should be anything more than a catalog but their is such a panaply of uses for catalog software, including batch meta tags, quick access to off-line assets etc. that it is a most important category for those of us living in the "Age of Videography".
While there are anciliary elements of behavior in the National Geographic article . . . the dominant factor in this research IMO is to reinforce the notion of "punctuated equilibrium".
The introduction of the predators affected the entire eco-system of the islands just as the crash of the comet 65,000,000 years ago into the Yucatan affected the Earth's entire eco-system.
I wonder what Stephen Gould and Louis Alvarez feel about this?
While hiking the Sumaria Gorge in Crete I took a nasty spill and was badly abraided. Luckily a German lady doctor came hiking along . . . carrying a spray disinfectant and plastic skin.
This "miracle" bandage, stopped the bleeding, prevented infection and soothed the pain.
Why don't we have this product in the US? Or do we and I just haven't been able to find it?
Slashdot . . . YouTube . . . Al Jazeera . . . NY Times Op-Eds are just filters through which people view the world of information in this "Age of Videography". All of it is real___ly slanted to the "vid" of the media you choose. If you don't know much about videography, or if you think you know, "What Does It all Mean?" please check out http://videographyblog.com/ and find out from the original author of the word (OCT 1972 - American Cinematographer journal).
When researching the original videography article, I worked at CFI film labs in Hollywood which used 8 (or so) washing machine sized hard drives to store one half hour of workprint b/w video for random access editing using the CMX 600.
Those interested in the history and roots of videography can read the whole story at www.videographyblog.com or if your really nuts . . . check out www.vidiots.us
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In 1980 the broadcast business was just about to go digital but not quite ready. There was a world class competition between B format from Bosch-Fernseh in Germany and C format from a conglomerate of Japanese manufacturers. C format had the advantage of being able to hold a still frame when the the tape stopped. B format needed a digital frame store to do the same, but the quality was far superior. C format was a totally inferior format. Low frequency noise caused video to be considered unusable for multi-generation special effects and millions of dollars of equipment was sold across the world for a format that disappeared in 5 years or so. Quality rules when it comes to production. The filmakers have always understood this, but the video manufacturers are always looking for the C-heap way out. This carelessness about quality continues today with digital recording formats.
Thanks for the education on acronyms being pronounced as a single word. Whatever we call it CMX was a tradename and copyrighted title for the original computer editing company that was a partnership between CBS & Memorex. Would you agree that fact should be preserved? Also what do we call letter combinations that form a new entity but can't be pronounced as a single word...like IBM? One more question. Does anyone know how Memorex magnetic tape technology was related to Bing Crosby? Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - www.vidiots.us
Most readers are too young to remember that CMX is the name of the partnership between CBS and Memorex to develop the earliest computerized editing. This music company project will lose because it tries to "overwrite" a well established name that should not be obliterated or whatever you call it these days. Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - www.vidiots.us
At Videography Lab we are in the middle of a major copyright claim based originally on a website. The US Patent Office will not consider any content, academic or otherwise that is submitted via HTML. The documents must be fixed like jpg or other bitmap files ... perhaps a dynamic PDF. In this case all reference files in the PDF must be bitmaps that become part of the PDF package submitted.
We understand that you are talking academia, but patents and copyrights are the end game. So we would like to hear from anyone who has made a claim with a dynamic PDF and succeeded.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab
Weather balloons are a great idea. Just check out this USAF ID chart at http://videographyblog.com/USAF_ID_chart.jpg
It is a great idea if you review the USAF ID chart at http://videographyblog.com/USAF_ID_chart.jpg
In order to even begin to comprehend the issues facing US Videography Lab, long ago, proffered "Battlespace Videography", where we are all vidiots . . . "useful idiots". So it is no surprise to us that China is capitalizing on cyber intelligence and warfare. The Chinese are skilled in the field of visual anthropology, which we know well. Visit www.videographyblog.com to understand how we are currently immersed in "the age of videography". Only the brainless believe that videography is just about using video cameras.
The "E" or "digital" or "IT" or "cloud" president is a fractional representation. We are living in the "age of videography" [Miller Freeman publishing - 1996] & all media count. 95% of all information today worldwide is conveyed through "video" monitors. Mahaloha !!! - Bob Kiger - seminal author of the word "videography" [OCT 1972 American Cinematographer magazine] - Videography Lab - www.videographyblog.com [Rated page 1 on www.live.com, on page 2 of Yahoo search and buried on page 6 on a google search for "videography". Referred to in Wikipedia under "videography" definition but not linked because of "E-vanity" BS.
Brilliant bulldada!!! bob
I'm waiting for a standalone reasonably priced USB or Firewire connected Blu-Ray burner. Right now the densest storage media I have is a dual layer DVD so I've become an 8GB per day shooter. I say this because I shoot on 8GB SDHC cards and than make the transfer. Give me the burner and I'll go get some 32GB cards and a bunch of batteries for my digital cameras. Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - videographyblog.com
A couple of years ago I had an insider position as a beta tester for Adobe's Video Collection. I went a bit off topic as the the test came to conclusion and requested that Adobe Acrobat come out with a Full Screen reader that would "scroll across panoramic landscape spreads" using either a mouse or the left right arrows. I finally got this reply from an arrogant project manager for Acrobat named Alan Pageant [name slightly changed] that my requested feature would be done "when I say it will be done". PowerFull guy! Well to this day the feature has not, to the best of my knowledge been coded. This is sad . . . because some really good panoramic picture books that are too expensive for print to paper, could easily be distributed via any platform if the feature were deployed. For those who need an illustration of the desired format, see: http://cruiserbob.com/TourdaMaui_spread_compressed.pdf and try to get it to fit top to bottom on the screen and scroll using either your mouse or the arrow key. Last I checked it could not be done except inside a window. Those of us that want an e-Book want full screen with no windows.
The most striking thing about the intel / OLPC story is the naming of the culprit as a "saleswoman". I am not a female . . . and am in fact a male with pretty strong attitudes about modern women. I would assert that the sex of the salesperson who put on the pressure for Intel is totally irrelevant to the core story and the naming of the sex of the "culprit" is very sexist. I'll go farther and say that, judging by the media's coverage of "that woman" who is running for president of the US, that sex trumps race or creed for biggest boogeyman of 2008. Bob Kiger Videography Lab www.videographyblog.com/ages.html
Two years ago I was directly hooked to Adobe Systems executives on a variety of subjects. Behind their Video Beta wall I challenged Bruce Chizen to get Macromedia Flash or face online annihilation. At the same time I requested an e-book GUI for their Acrobat platform that would allow for a simple scroll across panoramic e-books. I ended up assigned to this arrogant project manager named Alan P[isser] who wrote me saying that "if this is going to happen, it is because I am going to make it happen!" Wholly avid response! I also asked that they offer the outdated code for Premiere 6.5 into Open Source so the Linux community could have a slick video editor. Amidst record profits [or so they say] Adobe shined me on both ideas. Bob Kiger Videography Lab Oceanside, CA http://videographyblog.com/
For 4 years we have been conducting video editing and streaming tests, using cellular aircard, and find Pentium M machines most satisfactory for "desktop" work. A mouse can be attached via PS2 port leaving USB 2 available for all manner of peripherals. Here are some provisos we recommend when driving a vintage Laptop Desk for videography. Be sure to load up with memory to 1GB. Replace all drives with 7200 rpm in order to avoid "write delays" on video. If your computer has "universal drive bay" that's another mainline to the mother board and can enable multiple hard drives, DVD burners, extra batts etc. These are the main big deals. With 4 fast connections [firewire, USB2, PC Card and universal drive bay] you can do most every task. Also consider keeping code load down with installed software. We use Office 2000 and Adobe CS2 and that is pushing the size of our 60GB C: drive. We ask you to consider holding at this level until the next generation HD platforms come out of flux. Anticipate all NAND memory drives and quad core in these units. Bob Kiger www.videographyblog.com There is a workflow published in the archives at www.vidiots.us
A couple months back it was nearly impossible to by a PC without having to purchase Vista. Then the rebellion started in corporate ITs, and with manufacturers like Dell announcing the sales of "naked" PCs which allowed the user to choose their OS. Linux is making giant strides and MAC is consolidating it's gains. Adobe (the number 2 software manufacture) is in locked combat with Microsoft to protect its domain in graphics, photography and videography. Vista is a giant horrible joke! It is code heavy, non-intuitive, hardware impaired, and will go the way of Millenium Windows, C format videotape, Betamax, 8 track and other "standards" that manufacturers tried to shove down the throats of consumers in my lifetime. More on this coming soon at www.vidiots.us
There is a common ground which, if all vidiots would allow to flourish, could provide a scientific basis for developing information based solutions (as opposed to vengeance) in this traditionally volatile part of the world.
g -on-worlds-vid.html
See: http://www.vidiots.us/2007/01/bin-laden-is-sittin
I am a videographer and consider all bitmap and vector graphics to be my tools including motion video. I've tested Lightroom but not Aperture. Wasn't impressed. Than I got a hold of Media Pro, now migrating from it's founder iView, into the Microsoft camp.
This is one sweet program and priced identically with Lightroom and Aperture it covers ALL the videographers digital cataloging needs. I don't think a catalog should be anything more than a catalog but their is such a panaply of uses for catalog software, including batch meta tags, quick access to off-line assets etc. that it is a most important category for those of us living in the "Age of Videography".
Bob
www.videographyblog.com
While there are anciliary elements of behavior in the National Geographic article . . . the dominant factor in this research IMO is to reinforce the notion of "punctuated equilibrium". The introduction of the predators affected the entire eco-system of the islands just as the crash of the comet 65,000,000 years ago into the Yucatan affected the Earth's entire eco-system. I wonder what Stephen Gould and Louis Alvarez feel about this?
WE are all a bunch of vidiots?
There all a bunch of vidiots! Bob Kiger www.videographyblog.com
While hiking the Sumaria Gorge in Crete I took a nasty spill and was badly abraided. Luckily a German lady doctor came hiking along . . . carrying a spray disinfectant and plastic skin. This "miracle" bandage, stopped the bleeding, prevented infection and soothed the pain. Why don't we have this product in the US? Or do we and I just haven't been able to find it?
So I go to Intel's website and look up "contest" and getta lotta nada. Where do I go to get my $1,000,000 for best design?
Slashdot . . . YouTube . . . Al Jazeera . . . NY Times Op-Eds are just filters through which people view the world of information in this "Age of Videography". All of it is real___ly slanted to the "vid" of the media you choose. If you don't know much about videography, or if you think you know, "What Does It all Mean?" please check out http://videographyblog.com/ and find out from the original author of the word (OCT 1972 - American Cinematographer journal).
When researching the original videography article, I worked at CFI film labs in Hollywood which used 8 (or so) washing machine sized hard drives to store one half hour of workprint b/w video for random access editing using the CMX 600. Those interested in the history and roots of videography can read the whole story at www.videographyblog.com or if your really nuts . . . check out www.vidiots.us Vidaddy