I've run into a rather simple problem. When taking short movies with a digital camera, it is sometimes nice to film in a portrait orientation. However, digital cameras always assume movies are in a landscape orientation.
It turns out that there are a number of available tools to rotate movies. I'm sure that most top-end movie editors can do this, but iMovie doesn't. QuickTime Pro can, but I don't want to shell out for the pro tools just for a simple edit.
The solution I found is to use BitPlayer, a simple video player with the abilities to apply some transformations and re-encodings. All we have to do is rotate the video in the playback display and export it with the current settings applied. All very simple!
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Calgary 33 - Toronto 10
Yahoo! The Stamps stomped down the Argos with a solid victory. After the last two games, I was worried about our favourite CFL team, but today's game was a nice reasurance. It was especially nice to have Burris turn in such a well-tuned peformance. He seemed to have the team hitting all the right plays. In the end, a very good game.
Go Stamps!
Go Stamps!
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Solar Insect
Now this is an interesting little thing. Somehow this cool little photo of a nifty tiny robot shot up to be the most viewed photo on my Flickr stream. I have no idea how that happened. I never promoted this photo, sent it to any groups. It's yet to be favourited or showcased anywhere. But somehow, it is my most viewed photo.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
A Weekend With Friends
It's always good to spend a weekend with an old friend. I spent this passed weekend with my old friend, Mark J. Matthews. I'll post photos and movies of the weekend in some posts to follow.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
What's your CFL 2007 outlook?
The new CFL season is underway.
The Stamps took a nice 37-9 victory over the Ti-Cats yesterday. Looks like Calgary is off to a fine start and Hamilton still has to work out their issues from last year. Meanwhile, BC squeaked past Toronto, the Pegs tied Deadmonton and Sask beat Montreal. All in all, an interesting first set of matches.
So, what's your outlook on this season?
The Stamps took a nice 37-9 victory over the Ti-Cats yesterday. Looks like Calgary is off to a fine start and Hamilton still has to work out their issues from last year. Meanwhile, BC squeaked past Toronto, the Pegs tied Deadmonton and Sask beat Montreal. All in all, an interesting first set of matches.
So, what's your outlook on this season?
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Thank you Lombardi!
Woohoo!
Lombardi just made the Flames-Wings game 1-0, and now the our boys are playing better than they have in far too long.
Go Flames!
Lombardi just made the Flames-Wings game 1-0, and now the our boys are playing better than they have in far too long.
Go Flames!
Saturday, March 03, 2007
A Mac Desktop Picture Changer Using Flickr
My recent switch to Mac has so far been nothing but awesome. Generally, Macs are just better at everything. But, there is one application that I miss from the Windows world: a wallpaper changer that uses photos from Flickr. John's Background Switcher did exactly what I wanted, but that only exists on windows.
There is photocast trick over on Mac OS X Hints, but that has the limitation of only using recent photos out of a Flickr stream. I would really like to pull random photos out of my Flickr photostream, just like John's Background Switcher does. I'd also like to have some specific Flickr interaction, like jumping to the displayed photo, or showing the most interesting photos.
Unfortunately, I just can't find a good application on the Mac to do this. Thus, my only solution is to write one! I think that this should be a relatively simple application when it's done; however, discovering the most elegant way to put this together will be a small adventure. It should be fun and a good way to explore some of the principles of Mac development.
We'll all just have to see how this develops.
To keep the information about this project separate from the miscellaneous clutter of this blog, I've started a new blog specifically to journal my progress. You can visit this project journal at http://flickrdesktop.blogspot.com.
There is photocast trick over on Mac OS X Hints, but that has the limitation of only using recent photos out of a Flickr stream. I would really like to pull random photos out of my Flickr photostream, just like John's Background Switcher does. I'd also like to have some specific Flickr interaction, like jumping to the displayed photo, or showing the most interesting photos.
Unfortunately, I just can't find a good application on the Mac to do this. Thus, my only solution is to write one! I think that this should be a relatively simple application when it's done; however, discovering the most elegant way to put this together will be a small adventure. It should be fun and a good way to explore some of the principles of Mac development.
We'll all just have to see how this develops.
To keep the information about this project separate from the miscellaneous clutter of this blog, I've started a new blog specifically to journal my progress. You can visit this project journal at http://flickrdesktop.blogspot.com.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Off to California Soon
It's set. I'll be moving to California soon for a short contract at UC Davis to do a bit of research on the hydrocarbon distribution in peach trees. I'll be there March through July. Davis is right next to Sacramento, or about an hour from San Francisco (aside from certain bars, it's a fun town), or a bit less time from the Napa Valley (no, i won't refuse the merlot). It's unfortunately a bit too far from San Jose (I would have loved to go see the Sharks-Flames game on April 5th at the Shark Tank), and it's definitely too far from San Diego (I love the zoo there). It's also not far enough from Los Angeles; but, nothing is really far enough from Los Angeles. It should be fun!
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