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Archive for May, 2009

Right – so I’ve discovered the wonderful world of panning (for gold) with the Beta Version of CamStudio 2.5 and now I wanna grab more all kinds of everything than you can shake the schtik of Dana at. I think I’ll limit future captures to a maximum of 8 minutes as this lengthier piece exceeded [...]

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After several….hmm – make that “many” ….er “too many”….After too many hours spent (squandered/wasted (I wasn’t ; I don’t drink) trying to find a way to get Adobe Premiere Pro to accept files generated with CamStudio 2.0, I had to admit defeat knowing that the film editor was never likely to be able to chug [...]

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Premiere Pro doesn’t really wanna know about letting me edit footage captured with CamStudio – so this silent, realtime film of me “painting out” an eyeball in Microsoft Photo Draw 2000 V2 is rawer than raw, unstripped of its redundant entry and exit points.

I used a Fixed Region (with enabled panning) [...]

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A screenshot showing the complete freedom afforded by Microsoft Photo Draw 2000 V2. Its “Desktop” is just like a real-world table, letting you plonk all of your assets wherever you please, duplicate, modify, group/ungroup and re-arrange them.
The in-yer-face interface  is NOT restrictive and cramping (with crap dials, hidden menus and buried filters) like Photoshop, doesn’t force [...]

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This is a visual illustrating (top right) how much screen real estate I have for compositing using Adobe Premiere Pro.

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I saw “Lake of Fire”,  Tony Kaye’s (18 years in-the-making) documentary about abortion, yesterday and have just reached the section of Simone de Beauvoir’s book “The Second Sex” in which she discusses the same topic.
Curiously, none of Tony’s interviewees (many of them religious extremists) mentioned the souls of the terminated foetuses (although the imagined eternally, infernally [...]

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