Monthly Archives: July 2011

A Bunch Of Stabilizers!

Jonathan | July 25, 2011 - 10:56 pm

Test­ing con­di­tions for Video Sta­bil­i­sa­tion software!

My last post, a gen­eral medi­a­tion on the Apple Mac­book Air, Final Cut Pro X, and edit­ing video while you are wait­ing attracted a rea­son­able num­ber of com­ments. Sta­bil­i­sa­tion seems to be a hot topic at the moment, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing that it is one of the planks that Adobe’s new After Effects CS 5.5 is stand­ing on. The piece of video I used to illus­trate my recent post was a chal­leng­ing piece for any sta­bil­i­sa­tion tech­nol­ogy, con­sid­er­ing that I was hand hold­ing an iPhone 4, on a windy day, walk­ing back­wards on a beach!

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Glorious Winters Morning

Jonathan | July 18, 2011 - 7:29 am
Photo of sunrise over Manly beach on a glorious winters morning

Sun­rise over Manly beach on a glo­ri­ous win­ters morning

I am not nor­mally a fan of the HDR func­tion of the iPhone 4; my sub­jects are usu­ally a lit­tle too dynamic for HDR to work well.

I think it works ok for this shot of sun­rise over the beach in Manly this morn­ing as I set off for the day.

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On Video Editing on a Macbook Air, Hacks, FCPX, and Waiting…

Jonathan | July 7, 2011 - 12:44 am

The Beach

My day job is IT; a nec­es­sary part of that role is waiting. Wait for a process to fin­ish, wait for some­body to com­plete a task, wait for equip­ment to boot up.

I dread to think how much of the last 15 years have been spent waiting.

So while imple­ment­ing a major pro­duc­tion change this week (and encoun­ter­ing some frus­tra­tions) I put my “wait­ing” time to good use by test­ing out Adobe After Effects CS5.5 and Pre­miere Pro CS5.5 on my Mac­book Air to put together this lit­tle video. Shot on an iPhone 4, Warp Sta­bi­lizer in After Effects (more on that in another post), and fin­ished up in Pre­miere Pro. I don’t think it turned out too bad, and the “Air” behaved very well, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing it is the low­est, 2Gb RAM, 64Gb HD model.
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