Category: Manuals

Projective HTML5 Video using Canvas API

Read original post on Narendra Sisodiya’s blog: TechFandu : Tips and Tricks in Computer “When I saw, Projective Texturing with Canvas by Steven Wittens http://acko.net/blog/projective-texturing-with-canvas, I was amazed.” “Yesterdaynight I was trying to same with Video using SVG. SVG has affine transformation but clipping part was difficult. So I modified the Original source code by [...]

Manuals, Problems and solutions

raw1394 module … encore

After installing Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch, I have had some bad flashbacks to the zillion times this problem occurred before in previous sytem installations. Capturing in Kino / dvgrab does not work because the /dev/raw1394 module is not loaded and I, as a user, have no write permissions. I found the following post helpful. It [...]

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Video tag with Cortado fallback

I used this extended video tag from Theora.org to display Ogg/Theora video’s on my work blog. Works great. <video src=”http://www.archive.org/download/Rooms_Rules_Roles/Rooms_Roles_Rules.ogv” width=”352″ height=”288″> <applet code=”com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class” archive=”http://theora.org/cortado.jar” width=”352″ height=”288″> <param name=”url” value=”http://www.archive.org/download/Rooms_Rules_Roles/Rooms_Roles_Rules.ogv”/> </applet> </video>

Manuals, Problems and solutions

TheoraCookbook

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software. FlossManuals.net now hosts great [...]

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Animated Route in Cinelerra

Have a look at this excellent explanation of how to achieve something so simple, yet complicated as visualising a line that moves from A to B, by our favorite Cinelerra hacker the Mule. The wackiest bit in this guide is a project in itself: how to the customise shadewipes in Cinelerra, which is well described [...]

Editing software, Manuals

Article: Blender, working in 3d

Sumit Sarkar, a visual artist whose character based artwork takes the form of digital and canvas paintings, digital sculpture, and aerosol art, was invited to write Blender: working in 3d for the Digital Artists Handbook. The article offers a helping hand to anybody who would like to start working with Blender. Written by an artist [...]

Editing software, Manuals, News

Article: Video editing with OS tools

“Video editing with open source tools”, a new article written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia, has been added to the Digital Artists Handbook. After a quick-step through the most common workflow (capture, edit, manipulate, export), the article ‘showcases’ quite a number of available FLOSS video softwares, mostly for time-line editing, which is quite useful [...]

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2008: Man with a movie camera

Image left: Vertov, image right uploaded by Jerome Ming, Hanoi Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video-work to which people around the world are invited to contribute by capturing videos that interpret the original shots of Vertov’s film Man With A Movie Camera and upload them to the website. The [...]

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Your Own Private Pirate TV Station

On thursday 20-11-08 members of media collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik gave a workshop demonstrating how to quickly build a short range Television station from readymade electronic parts that are easily available in your local electronics store. Building the broadcast station allows you to broadcast through the ether, the broadcast can be received on TV’s or VHS [...]

Collaborative Online Video workshop, Hardware, Manuals

Cinelerra is a she

When you follow the OSvideo blog and other sites on video, you will probably have noticed that video often is a predominantly male domain where guys like to revel in tech-talk about hardware, devices, or cunning code hacks. Thanks to Raffaella Traniello and the The Newbies’ front of Cinelerra we are reminded that our favorite [...]

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