Preparing movie of Bryce's talk (was Re: Smalltalk party and Exupery)

Lord ZealoN lordzealon at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 09:38:58 UTC 2006


Send a BitTorrent link for share it when done please ;)

2006/3/16, goran at krampe.se <goran at krampe.se>:
>
> Hi fellas!
>
> Bryce Kampjes <bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Michael Haupt writes:
> >  >
> >  > > Last night on IRC, I think I heard Goran mention he was doing a
> >  > > write-up and converting Bryce's slides, so I'd say that there's a
> >  > > decent chance of that happening.
> >  >
> >  > Oh, great; something to look forward to! :-)
> >
> > But it'll have to be after Smalltalk Solutions because I'm giving my
> > talk there so I don't want it published until after that.
>
> Yes, I have a writeup about to be published, not super long, but at
> least a writeup. Will try to get it up today.
>
> No, I haven't been converting any slides (Bryce just mentioned he
> decided to make all new slides for StS).
>
> But one thing is fun:
>
> I have 60 minutes of Bryce's presentation in Brussels on my Linux laptop
> in miniDV format (14Gb). I took great care in filming each slide and
> switching back and forth to Bryce and the slides are definitely readable
> because I zoomed max. The tape ended before Bryce was finished - but I
> only lost the last minutes and IIRC that was mostly "smalltalk" :).
>
> Bryce and I have agreed that I can throw up this movie together with
> some kind of handouts possibly (from Bryce) at the *exact moment* that
> Bryce speaks at StS! :) So all of us not being able to be there can at
> least enjoy the rehearsal presentation from Brussels and perhaps join up
> at IRC to talk about it.
>
> I played last night with encoding the movie in DivX or XviD using
> mencoder - if anyone has a perfect oneliner that goes well with miniDV
> (dv2 format) I gladly am all ears. I toyed around and read lots of
> webpages and learned a lot - but it is really a jungle.
>
> My pre-conclusion is to use the XviD codec (2 passes) with mp3 (mp3lame,
> variable bitrate) for sound since it apparently is one of the best
> around.
>
> regards, Göran
>
> PS. For next party we should bring more tapes and a power adaptor (so
> that the battery in the camera doesn't run out) and take turns filming.
> We could turn these parties into net events that people can "attend"
> virtually and discuss together on IRC.
>
>
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