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
Comment by Ricky Grove — February 21, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Good one, Phil. The switch to just recording with headsets works just fine. And it’s much easier. This show had a lot of energy and fun. Like very much the focus on practical issues
for machinima creators. PS the Image Metrics site is wonderful. 3D World recently did a superb article on facial animation and mentions IM extensively.
PPSS the Purchase Brothers are getting hammered with interest since their film has gone viral. I hope they can work out a RvB type deal with Valve. Good for everyone.
Comment by BenZS — February 21, 2009 at 9:33 pm
The comment system ate my comment :-S
Comment by BenZS — February 22, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Something to checkout – and please do look @ their other offerings.. (Flash input yes, Flash output umm I don’t think so
The latest version actually uses CUDA!! (that’s tech speak for it uses your GPU for Rendering of the filters applied)
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Comment by sisch — February 23, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Great show – especially loved hearing Ricky’s thoughts on voiceacting – and thanks to him, I now have a new item on my “want to have that badly” list – the M Audio Mikro II Portable! *sigh*
Oh, and you guys made me blush – thanks for the kind words!
Comment by Curtis — February 25, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Great show – lots of practical comments. The info on microphones and sound recording was nice.
On the topic of video converters, I was looking everywhere for a free converter to move my video in mp4 format for toting around on my Iphone. I ran across a FreeWare product called Super from a group called eRightSoft that handles an amazing number of formats including mp4 output. And it includes a batch mode format which is great when converting a number of fraps captures from a Second Life event. The user interface is a bit awkward but manageable.
Not sure how it compares with all the tools you mentioned on the show.
Take Care
Curtis