I wouldn't mess with it anyway. You can use Ghostscript. And you can used the modified primo pdf from active pdf. it's a free PDF creator.
http://www.primopdf.com
works great. one time it will ask you for personal info after you make like 25 pdfs, but you can just push the cancel button if you don't want to give them any statistical information. It appears as a printer on your computer. I use it, it's great.
It's true that a Feature film is distributed on average of about 6 reels of 35mm film. The days of switching reels are over. Now the projectionist will wind all the reels in succession onto a large platter system and all the reels make one big flat reel on the platter. The movie is played, winding from the center out. Like a CD.
The projector then through a series of pulleys, play the movie and wind the movie onto a lower platter in the tower. When the movie is finished and lays on the lower platter. The projectionist pulls the beginning of the film from the middle of the reel (after winding it through a brain) and through the pulleys for a next showing.
In a 20plex theater, switching projector reels would take the man power that your local cinema can simply not afford.
The cigarette burn illustrated from Fight club interesting enough still shows up although is mostly useless. The one illustrated in fightclub on the screen was actually at the changing of the reel, so you saw the genuine cigarette burn in the real movie. It was later put into the DVD specially.
Unless you are Abraham Zapruder, I doubt anyone's homemade film has the significance that they would go through that much time and effort for a transfer.
You're better of just hi-res scanning a few frames of the movie into photographs for posterity.
On the other Paris Hilton has been known to make a few home movies worth archiving for years to come.
A lot of people are touting mac, true final cut pro and imovie are good, downright excellent. At the same time though if you're not used to Mac, I wouldn't just jump and get one and then find out you might not like the feel of Mac. (shocking but sometimes true) Mac people would never believe it.
If you are already running windows, which I assume you are since premiere pro only works on windows. You might consider using the free Avid software at first.
If you dont' have editing experience it's a good way to go. You can import using a lot of free software. Including virtualdub.
At least look into the free version. I made a first movie with the most junky linear decks back in the day. I would have killed for free avid back then.
what are your film specs? how long? any effects? any 3D. any other special camera or fx work? You may be just fine cutting together your movie with Adobe Premiere Elements. It's been rated very highly.
Look into DVD Lab too if you need to make DVD's with sophisticated menus. You can also make a DVD with TMPGenc. Google will help you find it my son.
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It's time to switch when the apple interface allows you to resize your document windows from all four sides and corners. Currently you can only resize from that lower right hand corner.
I need to reposition my programs all the time because the interface puts them wherever the hell it wants, mostly hidding the bottom of the windows beneath the screen.
So you can't resize it without much hassle. Not very user friendly to me. I hear a lot of things about mac that are good, but honestly this is extremely lame.
Falun Gong practitioners not only don't have freedom of religion, they are murdered in huge numbers, taken into rehab hospitals, drugged until their brains are so toxic they forget who they are.
I don't support China's government, so anything you can do while you live there for the good of humanity, I say do it, spread democracy the peaceful way.
There is no way in hell I'm going to use a Mac until they allow in the interface to resize windows from all directions. The interface is pretty, I'm sure it's strong, but I've never seen something so lame as to constrict a user from only resizing a window from the small stainless steel right side corner.
Even if final cut pro is the best software for it. It's not even a money issue, it's only this windowing problem.
Look at pmwiki.org. it's the most customizeable wiki I've seen yet. PHP running on anything will do it.
It's so easy. and about 250k. drop the pmwiki comment "includes" into your html, save it as the template file. add your CSS file too. the whole site will run off of a completely configurable single template file. want to change the site? change the single template file and the CSS file and you have a new look.
my site uses it now, and you can create new articles just by using wiki words.
You can create your own menu, and link to the stories that way, I really think the story writers will like it the most as they can log back on and fix any changes immediately. just password protect it, it's all in the instructions.
I've tested and use GanttProject extremely thoroughly. It's a great desktop app. It does have 2 routes you can go when you create a new project. 1 is a software project, with all the default job titles, the other is standard, and you customize your own project. The best thing about it is you can see your timeline, and see if it looks reasonable. Then move tasks around rearrange and make it so things flow in the right order. It doesn't offer bug tracking from what Ive seen. It does work well if you have a boss who wants to see your project, you can even upload it to a wevdav server and share the project.
I'd recommend it to a business project manager, one who might use microsoft project, but not really will it assist in solving problems. it's more like time / week / month management. And helps you flesh out your project in visual form.
If your goal is to create good software with no deadline, it's useless. If you have a deadline, on your project it might help.
If you are making calls to the same place, I think onesuite is the most convenient way to do it. I pay 5 cents a minute to japan. I dial my onesuite 800 number, punch in my speed dial number for my in-laws which is (55) and I'm connected. It's actually faster than having to remember country codes and their phone number.
It's because the onesuite website let's you setup several numbers to be recognized when you call in, so no annoying calling card number. After that you can setup about 7 numbers to be accessed from a 2 digit speed dial. Their site was so easy. When I run out of minutes, log on, deposit another 10 bucks and I'm set.
There is no setup fee. You just need to either use the minutes or purchase more minutes once every six months, or they consider you a dead account.
I guess if you had 3 bucks left in your account and were inactive for 6 months, they would cancel your account and keep your money. Not a big deal. Just make a call to somebody and keep the account active.
10 dollars goes a long way, it's a much better deal than a long distance monthly fee that you pay wheter you use it or not. If you read the company info, they are really cool and up front about everything too.
I think I walk the middle of the road when it comes to this subject. You need the technology available as a resource, which everyone who has commented positively has stated how they were successful with it. On the other side, it can hinder things and you could quickly waste your money. Make the technology an extra. Not a requirement. Don't demand using course software, just make the media files and testing etc available for those savvy enough to access it on your server.
Invest in a japanese DVD collection, let it grow over time. DVD will give you the subtitle on / off option. Having 50- 100 Japanese DVD's to choose from in various genre's is a great resource.
Here's something you should try. I know it would work awesome. Get a ton of markers and sticky labels. Label everything in the school with it's Japanes name, hiragana, katakana, kanji. Label a door, pencil, drinking fountain, ceiling, blackboard. you get the idea. Label EVERYTHING! New students will be exposed to it, and can associate the object with the words. a few months in, they will have it memorized. That's how those CD roms work, they show you objects and you pick from labels. Do it in real life.
You gotta get Japanese TV. And Guess what? NHK, is Free. If you know what PBS is in America, it's the Japanese Equivalent. but it's way better. NHK can be recieved if you know how to get it. Buy one of these, and beam it into the school. http://www.gavilan.net/nhk.htm 300 bucks, no monthly fees, all the worlds free TV, legal. You'll be recording shows, make them available in your library. Access to NHK is huge for students. And you'll save not having the cable bills.
Start emailing some Japanese teachers at all universities you can think of, find the teachers emails on the schools' websitesite. Email the teacher about what book(s) they use for efficient language learning, Find the best ones. The best schools use the best books right?
If you need a boatload of online resources, you can check out my bookmarks. I've been collecting the gems for a while now. http://smick.net/bookmarks/xbel.xml click on Japan and JAS links.
Moodle is pretty awesome, I couldn't install it on my server, config problem, but it is really easy once installed. Create courses, create teachers, create tests. Best I've seen. Blackboard should be concerned. Moodle's better and Open source!
email me at michaelbuddy 'A T' gmail.com if you want more suggestions, I'd love to know how things work out for you, and help if I can. I've got my own online japanese project I'm working on now.
By the way, Do you know who Jim Breen is? Trust me, you will.
On the flip side of the glass, Doesn't that 45 degree angled cause sunlight to then be beamed directly into the camera lens? A crispyfried CCD, great. So we have a perfect monologue, with a nice lens flare halo blocking the shot. Hmm, I guess he won't need AfterEffects.
I think I'd spend the 800 on those mini lcd versions with the black case rather than build my own. Look at the size of that thing. He's got a jumboprompt. After doing 2 or 3 productions with that thing, odds are he'll get tired of carrying it and chuck it into a ravine.
Since many people programming open source software have a sense of altruism (giving their work away) to whom ever can benefit, I'm surprised they would mind that users of the most used OS by the common people benefit from their software too. If you want to reach a ton of people, and get your product out there, it seems to be Windows is the way to go.
The other side is, if you don't want to spend time on it, it's your choice. If your business is based on OSS programming and service, you might reconsider that, since you can get more business.
I use Win, Mac and Lin and I started getting interested in Linux after finding some really cool tools for Windows that were free. People are slow to change, and certainly aren't going to risk losing their OS, or erasing it because there is one cool software out there, they dont' have on Windows.
If anything, they need to be filled up with free OSS programs on Windows, then after they are using all of them, they would see going to Linux as a cinch.
Should we be worried about web based apps or Java apps, that work everywhere, and thus people aren't going to leave windows? I think Multi OS apps, and easy file portability will switch users. Leverage to Linux after that is simply looking at buying the upgrade. "well, I can get all my win apps on linux and I don't need to pay 160 bucks for the longhorn upgrade."
Simple fact is, people will exert more effort if their is a risk of losing something, than the would if it's just moving towards a benefit.
example: I could use this rad new app if I install linux, but I don't think I will because my wireless network is going to have to be reconfigured and might not even work after I do that. People avoid things out of pain, or potential pain.
It'd be great for PDF or any word processor to use a tool like this. Scratch out, proof reader mark up red right on the docs. Open Source would be killer. The utility would save the scratches as vectors in the PDF, and you could email back the writers.
My first reaction to this was, why don't they open source it? It doesn't really give competitive advantages to them, it's just a way to communicate better between teams.
It will become the next overpriced franklin covey tool.
Some of us have time to look at all the sites, open directory, gnu win, sourceforge, and some of us don't have the time, or we like bundles of the good stuff. Personally I wish the openCD included a few more utilities, like Rename-it, extra python stuff for gimp, and as much simple documentation as possible.
But it's pretty awesome that they have put it together for people, offering it for free and promoting. As far as marketing goes, I don't see making postcards, and infomercials would ever work, since the return won't be high enough, but allowing all people who love open source to burn a CD quick, and show friends, keep in our tech kit, whatever is a good thing.
Yes it's for windows, 90% of people have that. It's great because it's kind of an official build that you could give to a school, or library.
the OPENCD is like an introduction. Then when you need to look deeper for tools and projects, you can start here.
Blackboard got into the game early with the online course stuff, so I guess it's a standard, but I don't know why people aren't dropping it for moodle. http://moodle.org/
It's got more functionality, open source, and less than a 20 meg setup using mysql and php. You can do content, testing, flash, and it's all easy, with template options, and flexible as far as you want to customize to your ability with CSS graphics etc.
blackboard is in the neighborhood of 100,000 dollars right? I'm pretty sure they do a yearly maintenance, or support fee right, and you can't mess with their system too.
ouch. Schools can use that money elsewhere. Get moodle, and invest in flash, and a dozen canon xl2 cameras and some vegas video workstations.
Make available as many discounted art supplies and free ebooks as possible.
I have looked into an open source course management product called moodle.
it's pretty awesome and apparently does more than blackboard too. perhaps your friend could get some ideas from it for his product.
I'm not sure what Scribus has to do with the parent's posting. Scribus is a page Layout application for Linux. It's pretty good, but isn't going to help you scan a slide or anything else for that matter.
My Thinkpad A31, gets closed and put in the laptop case every night, and goes home with me. I always think I'll open it at home and work a little, but I'm just not a company man I guess.
Then back to work, open it up, the same apps are open, reconnects fine.
Sometimes over a weekend or just randomly it won't come out of sleep, and I reboot it. so far 2.5 years it's been fine
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I wouldn't mess with it anyway. You can use Ghostscript. And you can used the modified primo pdf from active pdf. it's a free PDF creator.
http://www.primopdf.com
works great. one time it will ask you for personal info after you make like 25 pdfs, but you can just push the cancel button if you don't want to give them any statistical information. It appears as a printer on your computer. I use it, it's great.
It's true that a Feature film is distributed on average of about 6 reels of 35mm film. The days of switching reels are over. Now the projectionist will wind all the reels in succession onto a large platter system and all the reels make one big flat reel on the platter. The movie is played, winding from the center out. Like a CD.
The projector then through a series of pulleys, play the movie and wind the movie onto a lower platter in the tower. When the movie is finished and lays on the lower platter. The projectionist pulls the beginning of the film from the middle of the reel (after winding it through a brain) and through the pulleys for a next showing.
In a 20plex theater, switching projector reels would take the man power that your local cinema can simply not afford.
The cigarette burn illustrated from Fight club interesting enough still shows up although is mostly useless. The one illustrated in fightclub on the screen was actually at the changing of the reel, so you saw the genuine cigarette burn in the real movie. It was later put into the DVD specially.
Unless you are Abraham Zapruder, I doubt anyone's homemade film has the significance that they would go through that much time and effort for a transfer.
You're better of just hi-res scanning a few frames of the movie into photographs for posterity. On the other Paris Hilton has been known to make a few home movies worth archiving for years to come.
A lot of people are touting mac, true final cut pro and imovie are good, downright excellent. At the same time though if you're not used to Mac, I wouldn't just jump and get one and then find out you might not like the feel of Mac. (shocking but sometimes true) Mac people would never believe it.
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If you are already running windows, which I assume you are since premiere pro only works on windows. You might consider using the free Avid software at first.
http://www.avid.com/company/releases/2003/03010
If you dont' have editing experience it's a good way to go. You can import using a lot of free software. Including virtualdub.
At least look into the free version. I made a first movie with the most junky linear decks back in the day. I would have killed for free avid back then.
what are your film specs? how long? any effects? any 3D. any other special camera or fx work? You may be just fine cutting together your movie with Adobe Premiere Elements. It's been rated very highly.
Look into DVD Lab too if you need to make DVD's with sophisticated menus. You can also make a DVD with TMPGenc. Google will help you find it my son.
Just don't send money, send a gift...Send them a copy of Windows XP.
I could never buy a computer from a company with a cheeseball flash movie like Linaire has on the front of their site.
Wow, that is lame. Let's find out who their flash programmer is and throw dog shit on their front porch.
Just kidding. IANAL
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It's time to switch when the apple interface allows you to resize your document windows from all four sides and corners. Currently you can only resize from that lower right hand corner.
I need to reposition my programs all the time because the interface puts them wherever the hell it wants, mostly hidding the bottom of the windows beneath the screen.
So you can't resize it without much hassle. Not very user friendly to me. I hear a lot of things about mac that are good, but honestly this is extremely lame.
Falun Gong practitioners not only don't have freedom of religion, they are murdered in huge numbers, taken into rehab hospitals, drugged until their brains are so toxic they forget who they are. I don't support China's government, so anything you can do while you live there for the good of humanity, I say do it, spread democracy the peaceful way.
There is no way in hell I'm going to use a Mac until they allow in the interface to resize windows from all directions. The interface is pretty, I'm sure it's strong, but I've never seen something so lame as to constrict a user from only resizing a window from the small stainless steel right side corner.
Even if final cut pro is the best software for it. It's not even a money issue, it's only this windowing problem.
All my personal information is licensed under the gpl 2.0
Look at pmwiki.org. it's the most customizeable wiki I've seen yet. PHP running on anything will do it. It's so easy. and about 250k. drop the pmwiki comment "includes" into your html, save it as the template file. add your CSS file too. the whole site will run off of a completely configurable single template file. want to change the site? change the single template file and the CSS file and you have a new look. my site uses it now, and you can create new articles just by using wiki words. You can create your own menu, and link to the stories that way, I really think the story writers will like it the most as they can log back on and fix any changes immediately. just password protect it, it's all in the instructions.
I think support for SVG is good, and Support for SVG animation, even better.
AND an extension that allows for creating svg graphics and animation.
I've tested and use GanttProject extremely thoroughly. It's a great desktop app. It does have 2 routes you can go when you create a new project. 1 is a software project, with all the default job titles, the other is standard, and you customize your own project. The best thing about it is you can see your timeline, and see if it looks reasonable. Then move tasks around rearrange and make it so things flow in the right order. It doesn't offer bug tracking from what Ive seen. It does work well if you have a boss who wants to see your project, you can even upload it to a wevdav server and share the project.
I'd recommend it to a business project manager, one who might use microsoft project, but not really will it assist in solving problems. it's more like time / week / month management. And helps you flesh out your project in visual form.
If your goal is to create good software with no deadline, it's useless. If you have a deadline, on your project it might help.
If you are making calls to the same place, I think onesuite is the most convenient way to do it. I pay 5 cents a minute to japan. I dial my onesuite 800 number, punch in my speed dial number for my in-laws which is (55) and I'm connected. It's actually faster than having to remember country codes and their phone number.
It's because the onesuite website let's you setup several numbers to be recognized when you call in, so no annoying calling card number. After that you can setup about 7 numbers to be accessed from a 2 digit speed dial. Their site was so easy. When I run out of minutes, log on, deposit another 10 bucks and I'm set.
There is no setup fee. You just need to either use the minutes or purchase more minutes once every six months, or they consider you a dead account.
I guess if you had 3 bucks left in your account and were inactive for 6 months, they would cancel your account and keep your money. Not a big deal. Just make a call to somebody and keep the account active.
10 dollars goes a long way, it's a much better deal than a long distance monthly fee that you pay wheter you use it or not. If you read the company info, they are really cool and up front about everything too.
I think I walk the middle of the road when it comes to this subject. You need the technology available as a resource, which everyone who has commented positively has stated how they were successful with it. On the other side, it can hinder things and you could quickly waste your money. Make the technology an extra. Not a requirement. Don't demand using course software, just make the media files and testing etc available for those savvy enough to access it on your server.
Invest in a japanese DVD collection, let it grow over time. DVD will give you the subtitle on / off option. Having 50- 100 Japanese DVD's to choose from in various genre's is a great resource.
Here's something you should try. I know it would work awesome. Get a ton of markers and sticky labels. Label everything in the school with it's Japanes name, hiragana, katakana, kanji. Label a door, pencil, drinking fountain, ceiling, blackboard. you get the idea. Label EVERYTHING! New students will be exposed to it, and can associate the object with the words. a few months in, they will have it memorized. That's how those CD roms work, they show you objects and you pick from labels. Do it in real life.
You gotta get Japanese TV. And Guess what? NHK, is Free. If you know what PBS is in America, it's the Japanese Equivalent. but it's way better. NHK can be recieved if you know how to get it.
Buy one of these, and beam it into the school.
http://www.gavilan.net/nhk.htm
300 bucks, no monthly fees, all the worlds free TV, legal.
You'll be recording shows, make them available in your library. Access to NHK is huge for students. And you'll save not having the cable bills.
Start emailing some Japanese teachers at all universities you can think of, find the teachers emails on the schools' websitesite. Email the teacher about what book(s) they use for efficient language learning, Find the best ones. The best schools use the best books right?
If you need a boatload of online resources, you can check out my bookmarks. I've been collecting the gems for a while now.
http://smick.net/bookmarks/xbel.xml
click on Japan and JAS links.
Moodle is pretty awesome, I couldn't install it on my server, config problem, but it is really easy once installed. Create courses, create teachers, create tests. Best I've seen. Blackboard should be concerned. Moodle's better and Open source!
email me at michaelbuddy 'A T' gmail.com if you want more suggestions, I'd love to know how things work out for you, and help if I can. I've got my own online japanese project I'm working on now.
By the way, Do you know who Jim Breen is? Trust me, you will.
signs in every classroom
"all your base are belong to us"
On the flip side of the glass, Doesn't that 45 degree angled cause sunlight to then be beamed directly into the camera lens? A crispyfried CCD, great. So we have a perfect monologue, with a nice lens flare halo blocking the shot. Hmm, I guess he won't need AfterEffects.
I think I'd spend the 800 on those mini lcd versions with the black case rather than build my own. Look at the size of that thing. He's got a jumboprompt. After doing 2 or 3 productions with that thing, odds are he'll get tired of carrying it and chuck it into a ravine.
Since many people programming open source software have a sense of altruism (giving their work away) to whom ever can benefit, I'm surprised they would mind that users of the most used OS by the common people benefit from their software too. If you want to reach a ton of people, and get your product out there, it seems to be Windows is the way to go.
The other side is, if you don't want to spend time on it, it's your choice. If your business is based on OSS programming and service, you might reconsider that, since you can get more business.
I use Win, Mac and Lin and I started getting interested in Linux after finding some really cool tools for Windows that were free. People are slow to change, and certainly aren't going to risk losing their OS, or erasing it because there is one cool software out there, they dont' have on Windows.
If anything, they need to be filled up with free OSS programs on Windows, then after they are using all of them, they would see going to Linux as a cinch.
Should we be worried about web based apps or Java apps, that work everywhere, and thus people aren't going to leave windows? I think Multi OS apps, and easy file portability will switch users. Leverage to Linux after that is simply looking at buying the upgrade. "well, I can get all my win apps on linux and I don't need to pay 160 bucks for the longhorn upgrade."
Simple fact is, people will exert more effort if their is a risk of losing something, than the would if it's just moving towards a benefit.
example: I could use this rad new app if I install linux, but I don't think I will because my wireless network is going to have to be reconfigured and might not even work after I do that. People avoid things out of pain, or potential pain.
It'd be great for PDF or any word processor to use a tool like this. Scratch out, proof reader mark up red right on the docs. Open Source would be killer. The utility would save the scratches as vectors in the PDF, and you could email back the writers.
My first reaction to this was, why don't they open source it? It doesn't really give competitive advantages to them, it's just a way to communicate better between teams.
It will become the next overpriced franklin covey tool.
Some of us have time to look at all the sites, open directory, gnu win, sourceforge, and some of us don't have the time, or we like bundles of the good stuff. Personally I wish the openCD included a few more utilities, like Rename-it, extra python stuff for gimp, and as much simple documentation as possible.
But it's pretty awesome that they have put it together for people, offering it for free and promoting. As far as marketing goes, I don't see making postcards, and infomercials would ever work, since the return won't be high enough, but allowing all people who love open source to burn a CD quick, and show friends, keep in our tech kit, whatever is a good thing.
Yes it's for windows, 90% of people have that. It's great because it's kind of an official build that you could give to a school, or library.
the OPENCD is like an introduction. Then when you need to look deeper for tools and projects, you can start here.
Blackboard got into the game early with the online course stuff, so I guess it's a standard, but I don't know why people aren't dropping it for moodle. http://moodle.org/
It's got more functionality, open source, and less than a 20 meg setup using mysql and php. You can do content, testing, flash, and it's all easy, with template options, and flexible as far as you want to customize to your ability with CSS graphics etc.
blackboard is in the neighborhood of 100,000 dollars right? I'm pretty sure they do a yearly maintenance, or support fee right, and you can't mess with their system too.
ouch. Schools can use that money elsewhere. Get moodle, and invest in flash, and a dozen canon xl2 cameras and some vegas video workstations.
Make available as many discounted art supplies and free ebooks as possible.
I have looked into an open source course management product called moodle. it's pretty awesome and apparently does more than blackboard too. perhaps your friend could get some ideas from it for his product.
I'm not sure what Scribus has to do with the parent's posting. Scribus is a page Layout application for Linux. It's pretty good, but isn't going to help you scan a slide or anything else for that matter.
My Thinkpad A31, gets closed and put in the laptop case every night, and goes home with me. I always think I'll open it at home and work a little, but I'm just not a company man I guess.
Then back to work, open it up, the same apps are open, reconnects fine.
Sometimes over a weekend or just randomly it won't come out of sleep, and I reboot it. so far 2.5 years it's been fine