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Inspired by Adam Curry, I recorded this video while looking at my computer screen.

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Thanks to New England podcasters Chris and John for tips on how to do this.

SnapZPro doesn't work on Intel yet, so I had to use a screengrab instead of capturing activity on the screen.

I dropped the screen cap into FCP, reduced the opacity of it to 47%, and added a mirror filter.

Then I captured the video off the iSight with QuickTime and imported that into FCP.

How do you capture live video with FCP? Can it be done?

July4Us: Bennington Flag

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For July 4th I decided to try to shoot a movie with my still camera.

I used my Digital Rebel and set it to BURST mode. Then I took ninteen photos in a row and imported them into iPhoto. In iPhoto, I configured the settings to take these nineteen photos and make them into a movie with each photo displaying for one second.

Then I exported this movie to my desktop, and imported it into iMovie. In iMovie, I added the title and credits,.

Next I added the Aged Film effect. Then under Audio, I grabbed the Foley sound effect of an Antique Clock. I split this effect at each beat, and then dragged each beat to the point where the visual changed.

Next I exported as a QuickTime for iPod which automatically chose H.264 compression, 320x240, 30 fps.

After that was done, a quick upload to Hipcast and posting to the blog.

The Bennington Flag: Used in the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, by Vermont militia. This flag is the first to lead American armed forces on land. The original is preserved in the museum at Bennington, Vermont.

via [ US Flag.org ]

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I just posted the July4Us: Bennington Flag video to blip.tv too, and revver and YouTube.

Where citizen video should go?

Paul Grabowitz tells us.


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This video was taken with my Canon S400 and uploaded to Hipcast where it was transcoded to Flash and Quicktime from AVI.

Bill Densmore

Interview with Bill Densmore at Media Giraffe Summit at UMass.


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This one was done with the onboard iSight camera on my MacBook Pro.