tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41554247815394488122011-04-21T17:24:17.013-07:00Yu-Ting Tsenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13353266756139421878noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155424781539448812.post-72251257508718160302008-05-28T06:28:00.000-07:002008-05-28T06:36:49.492-07:00Now you can read all comments of your Picasa web album in your favorite RSS reader. There is no need to go back to the website to check new comments.<br />Just subscribe to <span style="font-weight: bold;">feed://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/USERNAME?kind=comment&amp;alt=rss&amp;access=pub</span><br />(replace USERNAME by your Picasa username) You will receive all comments of all photos in all albums through the feed.<br /><br />It seems that Google does not provide this link explicitly. There is an RSS link of all albums. I looked at the link and wondered what will happen if the link parameter "kind=album" is replaced by "kind=comment". Then I found this useful comment feed link.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4155424781539448812-7225125750871816030?l=ytcs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Yu-Ting Tsenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13353266756139421878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4155424781539448812.post-90223406829369478742008-05-01T12:03:00.000-07:002008-05-01T12:09:52.724-07:00<div><div>Here are some of my experiences in preparing a video for a CG paper.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Narration - Audacity</span></div><div>Audacity is an audio recording software. It's free, and runs both in Linux and Windows. Remember to use the noise removal filter to reduce background noise. The volume of the recorded narration might be very small. You can use a amplifier filter</div><div>to increase the volume.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Screen Capturing - Camtasia</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Video Editor - Adobe Premiere Pro CS3</span></div><div>It's a professional video editor. It can do almost anything I need, and is very easy to use. Its help pages are very useful. Most of the time I can find answers in the help pages.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Video Editing</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Fonts</span>: Vadana</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Opening a New Project in Adobe Premiere</span></div><div>Format: custom</div><div>Width: 640</div><div>Height: 480</div><div>Pixel ratio: square pixel (1.0)</div><div>Importing Video Files into Adobe Premiere</div><div><br /></div></div><div>If your video comes in a sequence of image files. use file->import, choose the first image file, for example "video0001.tga". And also select "Numbered Sequence" option. The entire sequence video0001.tga, video0002.tga, ... will be imported as a single video file.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Exporting</span></div><div>The following settings are for QuickTime MPEG4 codec. It produces a 18MB for a 3-minute video.</div><div><div><ul><li>File -> Export -> Adobe Encoder<br /></li><li>Format: QuickTime<br /></li><li>video:<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>codec: Apple MPEG4 compressor<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>quality: 70<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>width: 640<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>height: 480<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>uncheck Bitrate</li><li>audio:<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>codec: Apple lossless<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>channels: mono<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>frequency: 16 kHz</li></ul></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4155424781539448812-9022340682936947874?l=ytcs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Yu-Ting Tsenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13353266756139421878noreply@blogger.com0