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QuickTime

2006-10-26T17:11:00.002-07:00

QuickTime player is not only one of the video players but also a great video authoring tools in the world. Although we can easily find the reference from Apple’s website, there are couple things that I would like to emphasize. They are VR in motion, Media Skin and Text Track.

LiveStage Pro is one of the best tools that I have used. It works very well if you want to build the interactive video with QuickTime format and don’t like hand coding with the QScript. You can probably get most of things done by using this cool authoring tool.

[ QuickTime ]

References:
QuickTime Fundamentals
Interactive Movies
Resources Page
Developer Page
Authouring Tools list
Another List

Software:
Live Stage Pro - QuickTime Interactive Authoring Tool
Blue Abuse (not available)
BackStage - Live Stage references

QTVR

2006-10-26T17:11:00.001-07:00

As most of people have known, there are at last three different kinds of VR. One is Panorama VR another one is Object VR the other is Cubic VR.

The fallowing links that I show are different experience for using VR. For example, we can combine QTVR with SMILE or other language to build a virtual shopping mall. The other example is showing the Cubic VR underwater.

[ QTVR ]

Example:
Shopping Example
reFocus

Tutorals:
Goal
Learn QTVR in 10 mints

Software:
VR Worx
Stitcher

VR in Motion

2006-10-26T17:10:00.001-07:00

Motion VR, another world is built the panorama VR with video clips. It’s a very interesting way to look the world. For the hardware part, basically you can make it by stitch a bunch of cheap web cams.

I provide two ways to rich the goal. One is home brew way, show in “Tutorials” links, another way is spend money to buy the special hardware like “FlyCam”.

[ Motion VR ]

Example:
Immersivsions
Denis Gliksman
World in Motion VR
Dynamic Surround Video

Tutorials:
Inertia, LLC
Cheep way to do Panaramic Video

Hardware:
FlyCam
Full View
Point Grey

Add Subtitle into a movie

2006-10-26T16:57:00.000-07:00

QuickTime contains many “Track” ideas itself. The Text track is one of the useful tracks. I’ll show an easy way to make a subtitle for a movie.

After attach the Text Track, we can do search with our movies. The same idea can be apply to build a HREF Track and Chapter Track.

[ Subtitle ]

Reference:
Text Descriptors

Tutorial:
Text Tracks

Software:
Textation - QuickTime Text Track Editor for Mac OS X

Media Skin

2006-10-26T16:56:00.000-07:00

The last one I want to show is Media Skin for QuickTime. We can personalize QuickTime interface by creating the Media Skin. If we combine the Skin Track with Flash and Stream Video, it would be one of the coolest ways to show your video to the world.

P.S. It’s too bad that BMW Films has pull down the excellent online example.

[ Media Skin ]

Example:
Media Skin from Apple
BMW Films (no longer available)

Software:
Tattoo

Tutorials:
Tutorial - 1
Tutorial - 2

Flash Video

2006-10-26T16:55:00.000-07:00

[ Extra ]

Flash Video FAQ

[ Video installation ]

2006-10-24T16:32:00.000-07:00

The History

The origin of ‘Video Art’ is from the message of Nam June Paik, “Free
the people from the despotism of television.” In 1963, Paik and Wolf
Vostell hold an exhibition in Smolin Gallery, NY using black and white
television and camera, which was a trial version of video art. Soon in
1965, the first portable video camera came out from Sony, on the same
evening, Paik introduced his video works to the public in Café au gogo,
a night club in 152 Bleecker street. This event was the beggining of the
video art.

Nam June Paik’s Official Website [Paikstudio.com] Also, you can meet his works at the MoMA.

Video Art Formation

1.Video Contents
2.Sculpture
3.Shape of screen

Current Video installation Artist

Matthew Barney
Trailer
Guggenheim Museum

My Personal Video Installation works

http://itp.nyu.edu/~sh1319/

Future of the Video Installation:

Interactivity in Video Installation

Potent Objects

Camille Utterback, 2003

My Personal Project

The Interactive Screen

Vimeo

Fabrica

Flash Information

2006-10-23T12:06:00.000-07:00

[ Basic Flash Info: ]
Since its introduction in 1996, Flash technology has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash. Flash is commonly used to: create animation, advertisements, various web-page components, integrate video into web pages, and more recently, develop rich Internet applications such as portals.Adobe claims Flash reaches 97.3% of desktop internet users.

One of my favorite designer who is truly innovative in using flash to push the boundaries of the user experience is Yugo Nakamura

[ Info About Yugo Nakamura ]
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/yugo-nakamura

Yogo's personal site.
http://www.yugop.com/

Some examples of his award winning work
http://www.uniqlo.com/us/
https://www.ecotonoha.com/ecotonoha.html
http://www.intentionallies.co.jp/content_normal.html

[Info About Amit Pitaru]
http://www.pitaru.com

[Info About Jashua Davis]
http://www.joshuadavis.com

[ Alternatives To Flash ]
Swish:
http://www.swishzone.com/index.php

[ Ajax ]
Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability. Some of best examples of AJaX is Google Maps, Google Suggest and GMail.

Comparison between Flash and Ajax

http://www.pasz.com/articles/FlashVsAjax.html

Comparison of Flash/ Quicktime/ Real Media player (pros and cons)

http://www.rocketboom.com/extra/video_tools/

Web Video Future

2006-10-21T13:54:00.000-07:00

The ethos of New TV can be captured in a single sweeping mantra: anything you want to see, any time, on any device. All devices with a screen will be able to network and sync up with one another.

Current Internet video trends are moving towards a more searchable/browsable experience within both QuickTime & Flash video.

Innovations in Internet Video -

MotionBox A step towards a more searchable video experience - Motion Box

Video Comments - Wordpress plug-in - Video Comments

Browsable Interactive Video System - The Onyx Project

Google Earth Video - Turn Here

Web Video Technologies/Utilities -

Video RSS, Podcasts - Podcast Example

SMIL - SMIL Example

Democracy Player - www.getdemocracy.com/

FFMPEG - Conversion Tool - mpegx.com/download.html