overcast #048
Phil and Ricky talk this week about video encoding, voiceover recording tips, the mind-blowing film “Escape from City 17,” and more. Then Ricky closes the show with some impromptu beat-boxing.
Thank you for listening! How much do we love your comments? We bark them over the phone during our weekly prank calls to our local bowling alley. So bring ‘em on!
This Week’s Itinerary:
Music Credits for this show:
- Opening music is by Nine Inch Nails, from the album The Slip, the track title is “Demon Seed.”
- This musical selection is used under the Creative Commons license graciously chosen by the artist. Please consider supporting them with a music purchase if you enjoy what you hear.
- Standalone encoding programs: Autodesk Cleaner, Adobe Premiere Pro’s “Media Encoder”
- VirtualDub
- Quicktime Pro
- DivX Pro
- Windows Media Encoder
- Topic: Voiceover Recording Techniques
- Picture of Ricky’s New Studio
- M-Audio MicroTrack II portable recording device
- Sisch’s “Saving Grace”
- RODE NT1-A
- FILM: Escape from City 17, Part One
- Purchase Brothers (makers of that film)
- Valve article on “games as entertainment services”
- Gabe Newell (Valve): Entertainment is a Service
- Chantal Harvey’s “MaMachinima Festival” in Amsterdam / Second Life
- Chantal Harvey on Vimeo
- Blog: The Art of the Title Sequence
- Machiniplex3: “Saving Grace: An Excellent Premiere”
- The Emily Project
- Image Metrics
- Renderosity.com
