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ENLARGEBlue Chuxiong
ENLARGEI just adjusted levels a bit, an ounce of curves, unsharp mask for the tower, and crop.
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Chuxiong, China, facing North
9/17/06 7:29 pm local
See me taking the picture! (almost…)
3072×2048 orig
1.0s shutter
f/5.6 (max)
ISO 100
200 mm focal (max)
with, of course, the Italian Tripod
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VIEW GALLERYMoon Moves
These photos were take three minutes apart. I came across this as I was importing a sequence of moon pictures into iPhoto. I used the Italian tripod to try to get more detail of the moon’s surface, but it turns out it’s just my camera and lenses aren’t that great. Anyway, as the sequence of photos imported, I noticed that moon crawling up my monitor!
I never knew it moved this fast! It moved a whole “moon” in just 2-3 minutes.
-BOB-
YRGZ Pano
Capitalizin' Chuxiong
The new YizuBucks about a block away from our house. Instead of the mermaid, we have an Yizu tribe lady.
-BOB-
Paying the Power Bill in Chuxiong
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Try the SUPER DUPER CRUNCHED VERSION!
20 kpbs video
50 px wide enlarged to 640 px wide
0.1 mb
Okay, that’s a bit much, but I just ran a bunch of tests and found out that my current settings (1024 video kbps ,etc) is way overkill. Also, audio can be set at the very lowest (mono, 8bit, etc). I just did a test at 300 video kpbs, cut the dimensions by 75%, and it is almost the same as this 11 meg file in terms of video quality, but the file size is 1 meg (of course you have to resize the QT file back up, but for 90% off the file size, I’ll take it.)
-BOB-
Yizu New Year Celebration
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Compare, and let me know which you prefer in the future (basically the same export settings):
Flash Version | Quicktime Version
I’d be interested to see the difference in load times, picture quality, choppiness, etc. I’m on a slow connection, I can’t really test.
PS, I’m not really sure why the FLV is 18 mb and the QT is 40…
-BOB-
Weather
Currently, at 1:59 am, it’s 54°F outside.
The range is 45°-70ish°F. In direct sunlight, you experience “very hot” and in shade, your fingers are uncomfortably cold. I’m at 5500 feet, but closer to that equator, blah… It’s nice during the day. That’s why people in Beijing buy second homes in Yunnan — because of the good weather. Doesn’t rain that much.
-BOB-
Final Cut + Compression Notes
WATCH MOVIEJust a note: I edited this video with the intention of using all the new information I learned from Total Training: Final Cut 5. It’s not a very stimulating video, but I did make use of the ‘Viewer’ and ’3-point editing’ (as opposed to drag&drop, razor method, as described in my last tutorial.) Also I learned about how to effectively use the browser (or what I called the ‘library’ window).
| Title | Bob & Fam Visit Heijing, Yunnan |
| Video | 1024 kbps, 2-pass VBR |
| Audio | 80 AAC, mono |
| Dimensions | 640×480 |
| Format | Quicktime |
| File Size | 21.7 mb |
| Length | 2:42 min |
| Rated | All audiences |
I compressed this video twice, same settings, except for 2-pass.
1-pass = 21.8 megs / lots of crap on screen
2-pass = 21.7 megs / much less crap
But, the 2-pass very little of the artifacting that 1-pass does when you move the camera more that the speed of “slow”. What that means is, for a talking head, yes, 1-pass could be useful at saving you compression time, but really, I’m now convinced that 2-pass must always be used.
-BOB-