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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Free Video Editors

After the last post I started to explore a little to find a free video editing software (NLE) and found the following. Am sure there are more...if you happen to know of any such software do let me know.

Friday, July 19, 2013

VideoPad on Windows...

Have you used the video editing software VideoPad? (I am in no way related to VideoPad.) My friend claims that VideoPad is better for use on Windows (they have a free version for non-commercial use)... he has been using it and here is his latest footage. He is a mountain biker and seems to be pretty good one too. Check out: http://www.pinkbike.com/video/321305/

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Free Stock Footage and Green Screen Resources

I wanted some smoke in one of my test footage so I googled and found this article.
http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/14-free-stock-footage-and-green-screen-plate-resources/
Really nice collection of free footage.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Canon EOS-M Mirrorless Digital Camera with EF-M 22mm f/2 STM Lens

One of my friends forwarded to me this - seems impressive.
http://www.canonrumors.com/2013/07/crazy-deal-canon-eos-m-w22mm-f2-299-at-bh

It seems that this camera can do video at 1080p/24 too! But of course I see folks complaining about the rolling shutter and moire issues. http://www.eoshd.com/content/8597/eos-m-official


Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Design patterns and software architecture

Here is a very nice article on solution architecture: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc168624.aspx

This is a very nice article and having worked in for large companies in similar capabilities I can relate to many aspects the author has highlighted. Here is his conclusion:

Based on the lessons that I learned, this is the advice that I would give to an architect who might be faced with the same situation:
· Understand that many problems have been solved in the past. When defining a software solution, ... look for patterns that solve similar problems, and leverage those patterns into frameworks to solve your particular problem.
· Consider creating frameworks as part of an initial release. ... defining frameworks early in a development effort ... can be highly beneficial in terms of productivity gains... .
· Convince management that future refactoring will have to be accounted for. No matter how good are the initial architecture and design, changes will be required as the product matures. ...
· Make sure that you can map all functionality back to system requirements, either implicit or explicit. In most cases, the job of an architect is to deliver a solution. Most business sponsors will not care how eloquent a solution is, if it does not deliver the functionality that is required by the business.


Monday, May 13, 2013

Get inspired!

Today I was searching for story ideas and landed on this site. One Sentence seems to be a good site to get inspired!

Here are a few one-liners that are still lingering...

“Today you shaved your hair into a mohawk to make my mom laugh over losing hers to chemo and today I realized that you are my hero.”
“I loved everything about her, so I introduced her to all my friends, and they loved her too, so she slept with all of them. “
“My wedding cost $6700 and my divorce cost $16425, both were worth it.”
“Today I washed my mother’s hair for the first time.”
“I don’t really want to be an engineer but I REALLY don’t want to be a failure to my parents.”
“We had a lovely day, my oldest son and I, wine tasting and driving through the foothills to celebrate his birthday, only because I did not tell him that just the previous day I was diagnosed with cancer.”
“All the skills I acquired as a violent boy have made me a helpless man.”
“It’s easy to make fun of the 26-year-old girl who is afraid of fireworks until you find out that it’s not the fireworks themselves but the sounds that remind her of gunshots.”
“In almost three years of not seeing her, I’ve swallowed oceans of booze, smoked cartons of cigarettes, slept with a dozen different women, been arrested twice, found God, fired God, and nearly died at the hands of five angry men; and I still can’t get over her.”
“In just those four words written on a brightly glowing computer screen, I realized that I’d lost the ability to trust anybody ever again.”

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Lighting!


Have you ever wondered if you could have a cheat sheet of various lighting setup that shows the subject would show up?
Someone has attempted to do just that here: http://www.wimp.com/facechanges/
Hmmm the only problem seems to be the fact that they have not called out where they had positioned the lights. So here is what photographer Pat David had done using an open source 3D modeling software called Blender 3D: http://blog.patdavid.net/2012/03/visualize-photography-lighting-setups.html
Neat!