20 posts from February 2007

Jan Timiniau used my song Moonscape in a fashion show/catwalk. How amazingly awsum!

Technorati Tags: podsafe, music, 37hz, fashion, catwalk, designguide, timiniau

Creating a video podcast is so much fun! Next episode of Sounds Good will once again be of the video kind. I found a workaround for a little annoyance I had, so I’ll post it here so someone else might benefit from it. If you create a still (w/ or w/o Ken Burns effect), from time to time a beautiful preview will render as a jagged “jpeggy” series of still frames, even if your original is an uncompressed TIFF from iPhoto. If however you convert your still to a lossless JPEG2000 (using Preview) before you drag it into your iPhoto library, this doesn’t happen. And nice to see someone used my rendition of J.S.Bach’s Badinerie in a podcast. Great!

Technorati Tags: kenburns, imovie, video, podcast, bach, jpeg2000, iphoto

Some Podcasts I Have Sampled - Four Sounds Good podcast “The podcast that makes you sound better”- Audio engineering podcast and how to get is sounding good. It’s an enhanced iTunes podcast. The images of enhancement explain how to achieve certain effects, there’s advice, tips and tricks with visuals that make tricky things easier to understand. The host Hens Zimmerman has an intriguing (is it Belgian?) accent. Clearly he’s an audio professional, very authoritative and the advice is detailed and fairly easy to follow if you take it bit by bit. He seems to be working on a Mac - this is an exciting podcast that I have to listen to more of. Lots of listener interaction too - which is fab. More… Technorati Tags: podcast, mac, duck, blog powered by performancing firefox

Mediapark Hilversum Originally uploaded by PeterForret. Yes! Starting in March this year, I will be mixing and editing sound for Dutch television in the media center of The Netherlands: Hilversum. Wow, this is the best job I’ve ever had! Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Technorati Tags: hilversum, protools, television, media, job

I read this discussion about iPod resolutions. For my own podcast, I was pondering whether or not I would opt for the 320 x 240 resolution or go a little higher. Hence this test with 640 x 480 H.264 encoding. It was recorded as PAL DV with my JVC camcorder and then converted to 640 x 480 H.264 with VisualHub, a very handy program I love to use.
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Keep your computer turned off on March 24, 2007. Here’s the details!

Last night was amazing. Chugabug Goodnight from Podcast Island took us all on an adventure that lasted several hours. My avatar has morphed into one of the clones from the Seventh Son… hmmm. We’ve also briefly met with P Dilly from the Podcast Pickle, who mentioned his excellent podcasting directory will be updated any time soon. If you subscribe to my podcast, you may have already heard I edited one of the Podcast Pickle bumpers. At any rate, you can listen to it with the Flash player in this blog posting. A huge thankyou to Chugabug, Friday and Placebo for the great time and free T-shirts!

Technorati Tags: podcasting, secondlife

Macrovision, the original DRM company, replies in open letter to Jobs - Engadget Posted Feb 16th 2007 9:03AM by Ryan Block Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video Thanking Steve Jobs for his Thoughts on Music isn’t exactly how we’d expected a letter to start by Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision, the original DRM company whose fair use crippling technology dates back all the way to 1984 (no joke). The latest in a litany of responses to Jobs’s recent open letter, with pleasantries dispensed Amoroso cuts to the chase in a pro-DRM rant at times rank enough to turn a few Engadget editors’ stomachs, with crowd pleasing points such as DRM is an “enabler” (certainly not for customer satisfaction), that it “increases not decreases consumer value” (huh?), and that by having no DRM on our digital media, we “will unnecessarily doom all consumers to a ‘one size fits all’ situation”. (Are you laughing yet?) Despite a very pointed and well written argument in favor of “transparent, interoperable and reasonable DRM”, Amoroso’s restrictions-laden vision cites no facts or figures to support his conclusions — not even shaky and questionable numbers like Steve cited in his Thoughts. Luckily for Jobs, Amoroso is even magnanimous enough to take the burden of FairPlay off his hands: “We offer to assist Apple in the issues and problems with DRM that you state in your letter. Should you desire [Steve], we would also assume responsibility for FairPlay as a part of our evolving DRM offering and enable it to interoperate across other DRMs, thus increasing consumer choice and driving commonality across devices.” Sorry, we were too busy laughing at your pomposity, what was that you said, Fred? Macrovision’s Response to Steve Jobs’ Open Letter Technorati Tags: drm, apple, macrovision, jobs, fairplay powered by performancing firefox

Have you already created your own Yahoo pipe? I’ve bundled most of my personal feeds into a masterfeed and you can subscribe to it too. Anyway, lots of fun, this new free service from Yahoo. Here’s how it looks for my masterfeed:

Technorati Tags: yahoo, pipes, rss, blog, feeds, feedburner, aggregator

More SL

Originally uploaded by 37Hz.

I put two pictures in our place in SL, one by Colien Langerwerf and the other by Eduard Bezembinder.

You can find all of this here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ratin/237/28/40/