Agreed. I've watched all of Fringe so far, and I don't particularly like it. I keep watching just because there's not much scifi on TV, and I miss it. Third season IS better, but Fringe is not a timeless show though. Still, it would make it on my #9 of all time TV shows. As much as this sounds high, I only regard as "great" my top-5.
My husband hates Fringe btw. He finds the dialog and characters pretty artificial.
I'd say that the second season of StarGate:Universe is better than Fringe btw. Thankfully, SG:U has nothing to do with the two older pedestrian Stargate series. Too bad it got canceled too.
What you say is of course true, but it doesn't have to be this way. Four months ago, the most expensive Greek TV series ever, The Island, was broadcasted: 150,000 Euros per 50 minute episode (26 episodes were made). What they created for that amount of money, I'm sorry to say, rivals any of the US efforts for Star Trek or Star Wars indie fan films. Greek TV generally sucks, but they got it right on this show. But of course, there are no unions in Greece, and salaries are smaller there. Still, it's something that US needs to think about when the unions put crazy minimum prices for cast and crew.
I personally signed out of Comcast CableTV *exactly* a week ago! Between the web series, Netflix, Vimeo via my Roku box, and Hulu Basic via my laptop's HDMI, I don't need any cable box. I bought an indoors TV antenna too, just in case, but I haven't connected it yet.
I'm an indie filmmaker myself (used to be a tech nerd a few years ago, but turned into movie magic 3 years ago). I'm constantly trying to find such good shows too, online. And I have quite a list for you.:-)
Exactly. This is one of my problems with CC-NC as well, and with the "commercial" definition in general.
The problem is though that there is nowhere a real definition of the word. There are so many cases, and new cases arise daily as technology moves on, that it's very difficult to put your finger on it and say that something is commercial or not.
The CC study was rightfully made. It showed that the definition really is in the eye of the beholder. You CAN'T put it in the license, because the definition is so extremely broad and complex. It's like the "fair use" clauses. It's for a judge to decide.
Simply re-license them for CC-BY 3.0. If this is not your primary way of making money for your household, let people reuse your images any way they want to. That's what I do. All my videos and pictures are CC-BY 3.0. The only ones that are not CC at all are the ones involving music videos for local rock bands (videos I shot for them), which I don't have the power to CC-BY them since I don't own the copyright.
But anything else *I* created and own, it's all out there for free. Do the same, and you won't have the problem of people stealing your images.
However, if these pics are your primary way of making a living, then yes, sue them.
Regulating downloads is impossible. And if it's made possible, it will come with a GREAT PRICE to indie artists. Bono is not an indie artist, so he sees the world from his point of view, but there are more indie artists than major ones, so I fail to see why Bono should have his way. I actually wrote a blog post about all this, replying to Bono and explaining why he's wrong, on my own blog (I wrote it before I saw the Slashdot news post).
I can't take seriously these project properties shown in the screenshot. "30 frames per second"? How do I use 29.97 exactly? 23.976? Where do I setup in the project properties that I want global de-interlacing using interpolation or blend fields or yadif? Or that it's progressive? Where do I tell the editor what the aspect ratio of my footage is?
And TWO preview panes? This is so last century.
That UI needs serious love btw, it looks extremely bad. Huge icons on the side of the pref dialogs, stretching the dialog UI vertically making it look super-ugly.
Palm should go with Songbird. Songbird is not 100% stable and bug free (I have been testing it lately), but if they offer a bit of assistance to the SF-based team, they could make it work for them just fine.
And in the process, maybe they would be able to open the doors for more smartphones/players who are in need of a capable mp3 organizer.
Rewriting the same file over and over is known for being risky. The proper sequence is to create a new file, sync, rename the new file on top of the old one, optionally sync. In other words, app developers must be more careful of their doings, not put all blame to the filesystems. It's so much that an fs can do to avoid such bruhahas. Many other filesystems have similar behavior to the ext4 btw.
The Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) music from 1995 was the best music ever written for any video game. When the new Warcraft versions came out, I was really disappointed that the music did not have the depth and melody and uplifting of that version.
I looked at Youtube a few months ago, and there are A LOT of people who have the exact same opinion as well. I really wish someone could license that music and create a proper classical album out of it (the original was lower-quality electronically-created audio you see).
>you can also share your workout stats with others
Unless you are a professional athlete -- in which case you would use pro equipment to measure your work-- I see no point of this.
>help build community
A community of people who want to workout? Why would I wanna do that? I go to the gym to lose weight not to "build community" through my shoes and my iPod.
I have been personally bitten by this Samsung crippling "feature" too. Java apps/games can only be installed via a server/EDGE, not via USB or microSD or via Bluetooth file exchange. Samsung is the only manufacturer that does that, and I have my share of experience with many cellphones.
For bg music in addition to another audio track, use the "ADD" plugin between the two audio tracks and then use the iPO curve editor to make one of the two tracks louder or less loud.
As for other audio options, go to the panel at the bottom and click the last toolbar icon, the one that reads "Sound block buttons".
Kino does not do HD, but dvGrab, the utility that Kino uses does HDV capture. You simply need to use the dvgrab 3.x version (not earlier) and use it from the command line. It captures HDV fine, in.m2t format, that Blender supports.
You are talking bullshit (or you are just baiting). AVCHD records in 5.1 Surround, and DV is as much interlaced as HDV is. So all your points are mute, except that it requires more PC resources to edit HD video -- which is normal.
Most of the time is not necessary to re-encode, as they are on the right format already. But when I need to re-encode I just use Vegas Pro 8 at 5mbps. FFMpeg is able to do the job too btw.
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Agreed. I've watched all of Fringe so far, and I don't particularly like it. I keep watching just because there's not much scifi on TV, and I miss it. Third season IS better, but Fringe is not a timeless show though. Still, it would make it on my #9 of all time TV shows. As much as this sounds high, I only regard as "great" my top-5.
My husband hates Fringe btw. He finds the dialog and characters pretty artificial.
I'd say that the second season of StarGate:Universe is better than Fringe btw. Thankfully, SG:U has nothing to do with the two older pedestrian Stargate series. Too bad it got canceled too.
Yup. I believe they're owned by Sony, which explains their tactics.
What you say is of course true, but it doesn't have to be this way. Four months ago, the most expensive Greek TV series ever, The Island, was broadcasted: 150,000 Euros per 50 minute episode (26 episodes were made). What they created for that amount of money, I'm sorry to say, rivals any of the US efforts for Star Trek or Star Wars indie fan films. Greek TV generally sucks, but they got it right on this show. But of course, there are no unions in Greece, and salaries are smaller there. Still, it's something that US needs to think about when the unions put crazy minimum prices for cast and crew.
It's also on Youtube (and on Bittorrent legally free, I believe).
I personally signed out of Comcast CableTV *exactly* a week ago! Between the web series, Netflix, Vimeo via my Roku box, and Hulu Basic via my laptop's HDMI, I don't need any cable box. I bought an indoors TV antenna too, just in case, but I haven't connected it yet.
I'm an indie filmmaker myself (used to be a tech nerd a few years ago, but turned into movie magic 3 years ago). I'm constantly trying to find such good shows too, online. And I have quite a list for you. :-)
- Continuum, scifi: http://www.facebook.com/ContinuumTV (shot with a Canon 7D dSLR)
- Pink http://www.pinktheseries.com/
- http://mindseyeseries.com/
- http://www.minglemediatv.com/CursedWebSeries.html
- http://www.crackle.com/c/Trenches
- http://www.crackle.com/c/Fear_Clinic
- http://www.asylumseries.com/ (shot with a RED One)
- http://www.crackle.com/c/The_Bannen_Way
- http://www.crackle.com/c/Urban_Wolf
- condition:Human http://vimeo.com/user1160921
- http://compulsions.tv/
- and of course, the videos in these two Vimeo Channels: http://vimeo.com/channels/hd and http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks if you have a Roku, or a GoogleTV you can view most of these shows above via RSS, or via the Vimeo application for these two platforms. The videos in these two Vimeo channels, are really, really good indie work.
There's one more sci-fi web series coming out soon, but I can't remember its name. They use Canon dSLRs to shoot it.
Feel free to email me btw, if you like to discuss any of that, I'm a lot into indie filmmaking: http://eugenia.queru.com/
Exactly. This is one of my problems with CC-NC as well, and with the "commercial" definition in general.
The problem is though that there is nowhere a real definition of the word. There are so many cases, and new cases arise daily as technology moves on, that it's very difficult to put your finger on it and say that something is commercial or not.
The CC study was rightfully made. It showed that the definition really is in the eye of the beholder. You CAN'T put it in the license, because the definition is so extremely broad and complex. It's like the "fair use" clauses. It's for a judge to decide.
>"What can I do?"
Simply re-license them for CC-BY 3.0. If this is not your primary way of making money for your household, let people reuse your images any way they want to. That's what I do. All my videos and pictures are CC-BY 3.0. The only ones that are not CC at all are the ones involving music videos for local rock bands (videos I shot for them), which I don't have the power to CC-BY them since I don't own the copyright.
But anything else *I* created and own, it's all out there for free. Do the same, and you won't have the problem of people stealing your images.
However, if these pics are your primary way of making a living, then yes, sue them.
Regulating downloads is impossible. And if it's made possible, it will come with a GREAT PRICE to indie artists. Bono is not an indie artist, so he sees the world from his point of view, but there are more indie artists than major ones, so I fail to see why Bono should have his way. I actually wrote a blog post about all this, replying to Bono and explaining why he's wrong, on my own blog (I wrote it before I saw the Slashdot news post).
Just one. There's no reason for fluff. Modern NLEs only have 1.
I'd say it's more pre-alpha.
I can't take seriously these project properties shown in the screenshot. "30 frames per second"? How do I use 29.97 exactly? 23.976? Where do I setup in the project properties that I want global de-interlacing using interpolation or blend fields or yadif? Or that it's progressive? Where do I tell the editor what the aspect ratio of my footage is?
And TWO preview panes? This is so last century.
That UI needs serious love btw, it looks extremely bad. Huge icons on the side of the pref dialogs, stretching the dialog UI vertically making it look super-ugly.
Palm should go with Songbird. Songbird is not 100% stable and bug free (I have been testing it lately), but if they offer a bit of assistance to the SF-based team, they could make it work for them just fine.
And in the process, maybe they would be able to open the doors for more smartphones/players who are in need of a capable mp3 organizer.
Their server is extremely slow right now that Slashdot's linking it. Here's some binaries:
Win: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.6a-win32.exe?download
OSX: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/Wesnoth_1.6a.dmg?download
and the source code:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.6a.tar.bz2?download
The Linux binaries page doesn't load right now to get more links, sorry.
Rewriting the same file over and over is known for being risky. The proper sequence is to create a new file, sync, rename the new file on top of the old one, optionally sync. In other words, app developers must be more careful of their doings, not put all blame to the filesystems. It's so much that an fs can do to avoid such bruhahas. Many other filesystems have similar behavior to the ext4 btw.
The Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) music from 1995 was the best music ever written for any video game. When the new Warcraft versions came out, I was really disappointed that the music did not have the depth and melody and uplifting of that version.
I looked at Youtube a few months ago, and there are A LOT of people who have the exact same opinion as well. I really wish someone could license that music and create a proper classical album out of it (the original was lower-quality electronically-created audio you see).
Check here for more info on how to download the music http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/17/warcraft-ii-music-part-2/ (from what I can gather, Blizzard released the music free of charge, legally).
>you can also share your workout stats with others
Unless you are a professional athlete -- in which case you would use pro equipment to measure your work-- I see no point of this.
>help build community
A community of people who want to workout? Why would I wanna do that? I go to the gym to lose weight not to "build community" through my shoes and my iPod.
The AIM part. The guy is interested mostly in IM video chat, not Skype or Ekiga SIP.
Vimeo is your best bet, especially if your footage is HD.
I have been personally bitten by this Samsung crippling "feature" too. Java apps/games can only be installed via a server/EDGE, not via USB or microSD or via Bluetooth file exchange. Samsung is the only manufacturer that does that, and I have my share of experience with many cellphones.
For bg music in addition to another audio track, use the "ADD" plugin between the two audio tracks and then use the iPO curve editor to make one of the two tracks louder or less loud.
As for other audio options, go to the panel at the bottom and click the last toolbar icon, the one that reads "Sound block buttons".
Lots of links here:
http://www.blender.org/community/user-community/
Yes, of course. :)
Kino does not do HD, but dvGrab, the utility that Kino uses does HDV capture. You simply need to use the dvgrab 3.x version (not earlier) and use it from the command line. It captures HDV fine, in .m2t format, that Blender supports.
You are talking bullshit (or you are just baiting). AVCHD records in 5.1 Surround, and DV is as much interlaced as HDV is. So all your points are mute, except that it requires more PC resources to edit HD video -- which is normal.
Most of the time is not necessary to re-encode, as they are on the right format already. But when I need to re-encode I just use Vegas Pro 8 at 5mbps. FFMpeg is able to do the job too btw.