Show Notes: Episode 114
Founder, Pixel Corps
See how the pro’s add Monitor graphics for Films
When you are watching films, you may wonder how the actors work with those on-screen graphics and still remember their lines. The answer is…they often don’t. Instead, we often us screen replacement software like Imagineering Systems’ Monet. We can have an actor work with the screen knowing that we’ll handle it later. We then simply identify the corners of the screen and Monet tracks the screen and adds the reflections and highlights back into to the shot.
In addition to screens, as you saw on the show, you can replace billboards from even moving clips. This is used more often than you can imagine…but, if you noticed…it didn’t work. With applications like Monet, that doesn’t happen too often.
RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
www.imagineersystems.comPRODUCTS SHOWN
Monet
Imagineering Systems
Editor, blognation Canada
Blogs are an expression of yourself so make it your own. It’s very easy to put wdigets and gizmos on your blog to make it look cool and be useful at the same time. We’ll use a WordPress blog as an example, but the techniques can be applied to all blogging platforms.
1) Giving your blog a personal touch is fun and easy
2) Have to know a little HTML, but it won’t hurt
3) If you can copy and paste…you’re halfway there!
4) Don’t go crazy, your readers will hate you
5) Add buttons, features, and useful information in a snap!www.Feedburner.com
www.MyBlogLog.com
www.AideRSS.comAutomatic button maker: www.toprankresults.com/tools/button-maker.php
Electronics Engineer, Color Scientist, Teacher, Speaker
1.Thermal vs. Piezoelectric?
2.Most Inkjets use stochastic screening.
3.What is stochastic screening?
4.Why do they use light Cyan and Magenta?
5.How good are the printers today?
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Air Date: November 29, 2007
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Terry, Trenton, ON
- Michael, Ottawa, ON
- Lyle, Thornhill, ON
Yewell's Jewels
- XnViewwindows
XnView is a fast multi-format graphics browser, viewer, and converter. It can read more than 400 file formats, e.g. gif, bmp, jpeg, png, targa, multipage tiff, camera RAW, jpeg 2000, mpeg, Avi, Quicktime. EXIF & IPTC metadata are also supported. The image viewer has an Explorer-like browser that allows quick and simple browsing of directory contents. XnView supports red eye correction, crops and transforms JPG images losslessly, generates HTML pages and contact sheets, and provides batch conversion and batch renaming. Slide shows with transitions effects, screen capturing, WIA & TWAIN support (scanner & digital cameras), image comparison, file operations.
Sean's Shinies
- OtterBox (various)
$50
OtterBox products are designed to protect gear against water, pure and simple. While the company’s first products were non-descript boxes that held any gear you can fit inside them, they soon branched out into gadget-specific devices for PDAs and iPods…now there are OtterBox products for a ton of different gadgets. The important thing to note is that not all of them are waterPROOF — while many are designed to protect gadgets at depths up to 3 feet, some of them are just designed to add a bit of water protection without actually waterproofing them. Case in point: the OtterBox for the Blackberry 8800, which covers the screen and keyboard but leaves the roller-ball free and unprotected (there’s no way around it).Shiny
- protection against water
- available for variety of gadgets
Dull
- not all gadgets waterPROOF
- bulks up your gadgets
Kate’s Tips
- fark.com
As the site says, it’s not news, it’s Fark.com. For the absolute best online oddities, strange news reports, and random links to the Internet’s most absurd sites, Fark has you covered, to the tune of some 100 links a day, each with its own discussion board. All links are user submitted, and moderators filter through the chaff, posting only the best on the front page. If that’s not enough for you, spend the five bucks a month for a TotalFark.com subscription, which gives you complete access to every single submission the site gets, roughly 2000 links a day.