Show Notes: Episode 103

  • Painting Video in Photoshop
    Alex Lindsay
    Founder, Pixel Corps

    You don’t often think of Photoshop as a video tool but CS3 has added tools once the realm of high-end film tools called “Rotoscoping”. Rotoscoping is like painting and image, instead, you are painting a video. You can clone, for instance over a series of frames. While this seems obscure, 80% of all visual effects shots include some of it.

    RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
    www.pixelcorps.com
    www.adobe.com

    PRODUCTS SHOWN
    Adobe Photoshop CS3
    $999

  • Using Aperture FlickrExport, including Geotagging with Google Earth
    Randal L. Schwartz
    General Manager of Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

    I’ll take pictures from my Aperture Library and export them directly to my Flickr account, showing how FlickrExport can add keywords, create the set directly, and also geotag them using Google Earth.

    RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
    FlickExport: www.connectedflow.com/flickrexport
    GoogleEarth: http://earth.google.com

  • Hack your remote control
    Frank Linhares
    Co-Host/Producer: www.DigitalUnderground.tv

    Have you even been sitting on your couch and had to stretch your arm out until your tendons creaked? Ever lean forward in your armchair and fallen off because you were trying to get your remote control to work? Ever have to arm the remote at the TV and wave it around like an aerosol paint can? This quick and painles

    Here What your going to need:

    Remote Control (Obviously)
    Electrical Tape
    Aluminum Foil
    Screwdriver

    First you are going to take the batteries out of the remote control and unscrew the screw that is holding everything together

    Next you want to gently pry the remote case apart exposing the internals.

    Locate the IR (InfaRed) sensor, this looks like a tiny LED light and is usually located up top.

    With some electrical tape you are going to cover up the leads of the IR sensor. Be careful not to cover the actual IR here, you just want to make sure that the leads and any solder point are covered up so that the tin foil doesn’t short anything out.

    Then once all that is done cut a small piece of tin foil and shape it like a bowl to fit around the IR. The idea here is to create a reflective dish around the IR to strengthen its signal.

    Once it’s all in place put your remote control back together and enjoy some serious remote control power.

    RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
    http://tech.nocr.at/hacking-security/hack-your-remote-control