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Just came across this Stanford speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. At times full of insight, at others surprizingly personal.
(via Ouriel)
Just came across a one-page site by Jan E. Schotsman which offers a couple of video tools for the Mac, and at zero cost.
The JES Deinterlacer does a fine de-interlacing job, but despite its name, it does more. It lets you slow down the frame rate, interpolating the in-between frames. Click here for a comparison between iMovie and the JES Deinterlacer. Feature list:
- Deinterlace movies (half height/normal height/double frame rate/blend,adaptive/simple).
- Change field dominance (for PAL films with fake interlace).
- Reinterlace from one or two movies.
- Standards conversion (PAL<->NTSC or custom).
- Inverse telecine.
- Trim, shift, simple color correction, noise reduction.
- Change encoding (RGB gamma, video range/full range).
- Fix jagged edges.
- Pitch preserving sound track for half speed.
- Change movie speed, reverse movie.
- Interlaced in/out, progressive in/out.
- Includes utility to view and edit image description extensions and movie and track geometry
If you have noisy video, the JES Video Cleaner may be the quick tool for you. It also allows for removal of logos. I imagine this must be great for cleaning up consumer camcorder footage with a burned in date.
- General noise reduction (adaptive)
- Remove logo
- Average two movies
- Remove cross-luma
- Remove periodic brightness variation
If you still run OS9, he has a helper program that allows for transfers > 2GB.
And if you have an old Power Mac, he offers a program for uncompressed capture of SD video.
Finally, Jan has a little app to fix the blue cast on a monitor under Mac OS 10.4.
Does success have to lead to corruption?
Both Google and Apple, which I hold in high esteem, have recently moved in the wrong direction. Google is forcing bloggers to stop using non-Google advertisers, and Apple seems to collect information about iPhone and iPod Touch users.
Looks like 2008 will be an exciting year for many reasons. It will be the year where more than 50% of households will have a 16:9 screen. In Norway they will start switching off the analogue TV distribution. Laptop sales will overtake desktop systems. Apple will likely start selling films in their iTunes store. Red will pump out the de-bugged Red One cameras in numbers. On NAB they will announce a small form factor 4k camera, code-named Scarlet. And I would imagine that the traditional video camera producers will come with their alternatives to the Red. There are also rumors that Red might introduce a 4k projector, making beyond-HD resolution an affordable possibility for the advanced hometheatre enthusiast.
Apple is said to introduce a thin and small palm sized laptop in less than two weeks. Featuring no movable parts, it is rumored to have amazing long battery times, and virtually no boot-up time.
When DV arrived, it was an exciting time, as it enabled capable film makers to own production equipment that would produce broadcast quality output. The internet made it possible to distribute these programs for little cost.
Cameras such as the Scarlet, affordable high-speed disks and solid state memory are about to enable capable film makers to own their own production equipment than can produce a technical quality good enough for the big screen.
Technology, if used right, can be awesome. Happy MMIIX to all of you!
What are your educated guesses of what 2008 will bring?
The logical evolution of the iPhone will be a small form factor iPhone shuffle. Someone leaked the instruction video on youTube:
The ad has been leaked as well now:
Previously I wrote about the difference between Apple and Microsoft in One Sentence, but here I stumbled upon a little video showing the fundamental different philosophies between Apple and Microsoft, as shown in their packaging.
One tries to do everything — offer the customer anything that is technically possible, and ends up in a bloated mess-up. The other boils appliaces down to their essence, and makes them look like a gem.
Microsoft
Apple
Can anyone confirm the rumor that Vista™ Service Pack™ 1 will install Windows™ XP™?
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