Oct 2005
Polaroid Style pictures
If you want Polaroid style pictures for your website or video production upload the photo to your webspace then head to:

http://polaroidonizer.b3ta.org/

to apply the effect.
polaroid
View the classic Amiga Animations in a web browser
Eric Schwartz was a legend in the days of the Amiga. The Amiga was well ahead of its time for graphics and animation. Eric Schwartz was the best known and most creative of the animators of the time.

Until recently the only way to watch the animations was to run them on Amiga hardware or an emulated system. There is now a collection of animations, including most, if not all of those by Eric Schwartz.
schwartz
Take a look at:
http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/index.html
The animation techniques and comical elements to the story lines will be an inspiration to animators starting out today.
www.isighted.com
This site gives details of video conferencing ideas and resources.

Pasted Graphic
http://www.isighted.com/
Meeting for DV Project members
Friday 7th October 2005, the members of the TLF DV Project are meeting at Sussex Road School from 4:00pm until 5:30pm.

Bring any video work on CD, DVD or your Mac mini.
You do not need to bring keyboard, mouse etc. as you can use ours.
Rapidweaver 3.2 public beta is due out on Friday
The next version of Rapid Weaver adds even more helpful features and allows you to make variations within the themes that are installed.

Check out www.realmacsoftware.com for details and download.

If you are in the TLF DV Project, I have a discount code for you to use if you are interested.
Free opensource FTP program
If you are looking for a good free FTP program for Mac OS X, then take a look at Cyberduck. It comes highly recommended by MacWorld. If you find it fits your needs you can make a donation to show your appreciation.
http://cyberduck.ch/
cyberduck.icon
This would be particularly useful if you are having problems publishing with the inbuilt FTP feature of Rapid Weaver.
Clips from the Creative Archive are now available online
The first batch of clips from the Creative Archive are now available online for download in QuickTime, Windows Media and MPEG-1 format.
Individual and education users can incorporate these in their own non-commercial video materials under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence. Nearly 100 BBC clips are now available.

http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/index.html
Encoding to H264 - Tutorial
The new H264 Codec allows high quality video to be compressed to much lower file sizes than ever before.

Check out the apple site for the tutorial:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/h264.html
Iomega Mini Maxi External Hard Drive
minimax_drive
Visit http://www.iomega-europe.com/eu/en/index_en.aspx to check out the new external hard drive made to match the Mac mini
Apple Expo Paris 2005 Photos
Apple Expo Paris 2005 was bursting with new ideas to take working with the Mac further ahead of the competition.
I was there.
Here we see four way video conferencing using the built in technology of Tiger OS X 10.4.


IMG_8447IMG_8444
IMG_8457IMG_8454