The official website for Converita 2007 - National Level Technical Symposium conducted by Association of Information Technologists (AIT), SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai - 603110 - www.converita.com Designed & maintained by Johnson Samuel (Js). Visit this awesome site, and prepare to participate this NLT Symposium on 20th September, 2007. My contribution in Flash for my website development is quite small, just a butterfly.
The Mac/tech web has been all about the iPhone over the last few days. First it was the hype and exuberance of the new device, then people started to think about the limited information Jobs presented and speculate about the reality of the iPhone — what it is, what it isn’t. For some, this resulted in a pretty dramatic reversal of their opinion on the iPhone; others simply listed some concerns about the device that really were requests for more information rather than some sort of judgment.
We won’t know until June what the iPhone really is. We might see some real-world reviews beforehand, and from there we can start getting a feel for how good (or immature) this device really is.
Phil Schiller demos the iPhone for CBS’ John Blackstone, and it is impressive, especially when you see how well Apple nailed the user interface goals. The GUI and navigation aspects are simply amazing, and the phone seems quite responsive despite all the eye-candy. There’s cross-fading, real-time zooming, and incredibly smooth scrolling. As the iPhone line matures and diversifies, Apple is going to sell millions of these things
If you were in a avid audince who wonders how in Converita 2K6 presentation - matrix effect of streaming text was displayed, do follow the link for an interesting article prepared by a guy called Phil, for a flash intro for matrix effect on Converita Here or paste this url in your browser - http://www.shortText.com/r1rql.
Its quite interesting to note you need to specify the co-ordinates, intensity, gravity, glow, texture, randomness, point/position each time you get to start the matrix effect. A nice piece of scripting that has caught good background work.
Such a fuss was made on the sympo presentation jogs.It was attempted to check the power point opening in the TV using AMD but it causes flickering at 50 HZ visible. Also only video out is connectable, no audio is possible. When we use a camera handy cam(sony) to record the PPT output directly from the PC monitor , the same flickering is seen. Also it was attempted to record directly the TV out signal of the PC (AMD), but since the signal was bit very weak, poor result was perceived.The DVD recorder records the video signal from a handy cam directly.
Getting a microphone preferably cordless is better, but how to record. The AMD PC has very little memory and though 512 MB many programs are loaded. So ULEAD studio could not open a capture device like sony handy cam.
The recoding first in a handycam is better as it helps editing but the hell a lot disadvantages faced soon are
1. Time waste
2. The battery gets drained faster.
3. The same tape has to be repeatedly are used, as a result it wears out faster and we may not know which portions would not have recorded correctly.
It is very essential to keep the cds carefully, if scratch happens on the tracks, the CD becomes a junky waste esp. the read write ones that tend to be costlier and we cant know if we really got results correctly when we use with a DVD recorder. DVD recorder can record both TV and handy cam signals. We should keep log of all our daily activities for future reference. It will avoid us dong the same old things again and again.ADOBE Premiere was also loaded in the AMD PC but damn it was not working.
One thing we have to learn is how to put power point presentation on a TV display without flicker. In video it is always better to get presentation by a speaker but it do take lot of time to be wasted because writing on a board is taking hell my time.
The ULEAD & Visual studio was not working with the old Philips monitor, as it needs more resolution, however Windows Movie maker is working. The direct recording from a handy cam through ULEAD video studio takes more bytes than through the DVD recorder. If it is a SONY handy cam, it takes only DV format and we cant adjust.
The DVD recorder records the signal in a different unusual format. Though we can play in any DVD player, we cant edit in the ULEAD studio.That is one disadvantage.The ULEAD studio actually captures in AVI format initially just as a TV Tuner card. Later we are able to change to DVD or mpg or VCCD or DV Format. But it takes a long time to edit this as we has to save the file damn slowly. Here we are able to add background music etc! A 52 MB 20 sec clip after editing with adding one mp3 music file became 54 MB in mpg format saving but the same thing in DVD format became 85 MB. So it does not reduce in DVD saving? But a windows moviemaker saves in wmv format which I don`t know whether we can play in a DVD player checked this later and found it is unsupported type. A 2 min AVI raw video takes 432 MB space. Whereas a 4 GB DVD in the DVD recorder take 2 hrs therefore 1 hr — 2 GB so, 2 min will occupy 66 MB that means 7 times more The same was converted by editing to VCD format. We got 19MB only got reduced from 432 MB
Ultimate Goals :
We have to find a way out to reduce space.
When u record in DVD recorder ensure that it is in AV4 (front panel of DVD recorder shall read A4. If it is others it will not record. So select using the second change button in the remote control after going to AV1.Again tried with windows movie maker 25 sec clip takes 91 MB in DV-AVI mode but in best quality mode , it is 1.& MB only for 25 sec ext: wmv but converting from wmv to mpg using ulead tales very long time. So we have to find some other solution. The VOB extension of the DVD Recorder format is not accepted by both windows movie maker as well as ULEAD Studio. So we cant edit the DVD record format. But okay in case of inter video from Nero express. A 714 KB wmv file was converted to 17 MB file when using ULEAD studio converted. A 17 MB wmv file was recorded in MM2 for 3 min in high quality video. Then it was converted in ULEAD… And wow so awesome was the presentation!
Flash MX and other utilities really had been a creditable stuff Macromedia had left for Adobe.Things are going swimmingly right now at college sympos, doing bit in flashy stuff does not quite really matter your ideals, rather a satisfaction being delivered for the cause. Really its streaming ones skills over the dias does makeover a credit. Some jack whose name I cannot well remember just posed a question I wanted to ponder over as on What Streaming flash movies in a Linux mode. Sounds navaric though as in, I wish to play multiple Flash videos for my buddies in multiple Firefox browser tabs with na a crash nor a thread hang. In fact, I’m feeling so confident about the stability that I’m actually composing this entry while a YouTube music video plays in another tab. Nervously, but still.
Really none does comment the Linux multimedia stuff. I know this may sound simple, but there are problems that can crop up, which we have been dealing with one by one. This afternoon, I wanted to build one and tried it across several Linux installations we have handy around the labs.
Here is the success report:
Gentoo- naturally, since that’s the build machine
Ubuntu
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
SuSE Linux 10.1
But these distros did not work in this impromptu test for fear of starting rumors that we don’t plan to support those distros. The task now is to make those distros work just as well.
