Category Archives: Video

The State of Video Playback for Mac OSX Users

By Eric Peacock | Published: December 17, 2009
This is a quick little post inspired mostly by the comments to this news item regarding the open source VLC project. I’m sure I’ll want to refine and update it later, but right now I felt the need to jot this down. I won’t get into ripping, transcoding or conversion, this is all about playback. [...]
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Upgrade Season 2009

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 23, 2009
While I was at work today I noticed a tweet that ever so casually mentioned that Apple announced, nay, was shipping both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio upgrades. So I’m like “woot” and spent part of my lunch scanning what’s new. There are a lot of joyous tweets and surprised blog posts, all fo [...]
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Fluffy Larynx – A long forgotten music video

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 13, 2009
This little piece of work is built around a track that will appear on my upcoming HooKHeaD Project album, The Gleenix. Many of these long dusty tracks have videos to accompany them. I’ve held off on releasing most of these publicly for too many reasons to mention – but as always I just don’t have [...]
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Star Trek The Next Generation – Rare Parody from 1993 (updated)

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 2, 2008
Some background before you watch this NSFW Quicktime clip: This was found on a public temp directory on a UNIX server waaaay back before the world wide web in 1993 (was it the Hyperarchive? I can’t remember…). I was an undergraduate at the time and spent all night downloading what was then a really huge [...]
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Final Cut Studio 2: Quicktime Dependancy Compressor Bug

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 6, 2008
If you ever use Quicktime clips that use linked dependancy files that are missing you will hang Compressor 3.0.2 when adding these clips to a batch queue. I’ve not tested this with any other version and I’m running 10.5.1 Leopard. Compressor droplets also suffer the same problem and will hang as well. The easiest solution [...]
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Audio Production Guidlines

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 3, 2007
Good reading for managers and production folks who deal with film, video or any multimedia: An Open Letter From Your Sound Department The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 1 The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 2
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After Effects CS3 Ships

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 3, 2007
Hey – I just realized that After Effects CS3 is shipping! Nifty. Looks like I’ll have my copy on Friday. 
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Hi-Def Disc Producers Fail to Learn From Standard DVD

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 30, 2007
High Def Digest has a list of the most annoying traits on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs. Other than the newer format-specific quibbles most of the annoyances are problems that have existed with standard DVDs. When DVDs first came out they were pretty much bare-bones, then discs starting getting excessive with the menus and transitions. [...]
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