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I needed DivX

QuickTime told me that I didn't have the right compressor to play the Video Blog: Geek Jihadi, so when I played it, all I got was audio.

Very funny audio, but no video. ( Jay at Bloggercon!)

I needed DivX.

First I had to figure out what DivX was:

DivX® is the brand name of the world's most popular video compression technology. At its core, DivX is a codec (short for compression/decompression) - a piece of software that compresses video from virtually any source down to a size that is transportable over the Internet without reducing the original video's visual quality.

Then I had to go to the DivX site to download it

I quit QuickTime and then double clicked the video and it worked.

Butterfly in Motion

Butterfly in Motion Movie [ QuickTime 396 KB ]
I went to Apple today for a preview class on Motion.

Motion, as it's name implies, let's you create motion graphics for film, video and DVD.

Damian Allen taught the class. He's writing a book on Motion for Peachpit Press.

Damian brought along a butterfly to class for us to play with. We made it fly, and applied gravity to it to make it fall. That's the video you can see here.

After that we went on to apply behaviors and particles to the butterfly to do all kinds of amazing things like multiply the number of butterflies, make them reproduce, and add flashes and colors to them.

It was a great class.