I simply can't believe the HYSTERIA of many chinese about
their Yugoslavia embassy being hit, NOT on purpose, during the
conflict that currently runs there. On the other side, IF I remember
some of the politics of the chinese regime, such as the way births
are controlled, or the way some [politically inconvenient] manifestations
are repressed, I find a way of understanding that extreme behavior!
Chinese seem very short on memory.
China is the most populous country in the world: 1/5 of Earth's
population lives there.
By the end of the week, under the computer
projects section, I will debut a NEW video section, from where many
interesting videos will be made available, including the long promised
Internet documentary that the ARTE channel broadcasted from ASTRA and EUTELSAT
arrays, for Europe, last April. Just one thing: I will try to lower the
image quality of my original MPEGs, but you should still expect BIG files
(10 MB or more). So, when those files are on-line, be sure to use some
http resumer, such as getright or godzilla. My website supports
both http and ftp resuming!
If you don't want to spend [may be] hours downloading
that stuff, I have some mpeg video CDs already available for exchange
/ order, from the trade center
section. Pay it a visit. Remember that all videos are spoken on their
original language, but some have [european] portuguese sub-titles. I am very
much interested in any Buffy, the Vampire Slayer material,
be it DVD, LD, VCD or home made MPEGs.
Good question. I believe that digital video editing
is still not as trivial as software packages try to sell you. Video editing
is not easy. If you use very high level packages, such as ULead's video
editor, you won't have the tools for nothing really interesting; if you
have the money for Adobe Premiere, you will have a very hard time
trying to do MPEGs, which is the file format that you are really looking
for. Xing has
MPEG encoder / exporter plug-in for Premiere 5.x, but it doesn't work
100% ok for sound. So you are stuck, unless you have faced these problems
so many times, using so many different tools, that you do manage to edit
MPEG in a reasonable time window. I will post tutorials on certain
software packages.
The tutorials will also cover the advantages / disadvantages
of some codecs [compression / decompression algorithms], which many newbies
to digital video don't understand. For example, people tend to confuse AVI
with a codec... file formats are not codecs. Later then.
The german MTV, broadcasting from the ASTRA array of satellites,
which are very easy to tune in Europe, even with modest antennas, featured
Bill Gates in its regular sunday's "Celebrity Deatmatch".
Bill faced Michael Flatley, a music scene dude. The fight was the one
of the funniest ever! There were some memorable moments, such as women
going hysterical on the vision of Bill's body, Bill training against
a Microsoft robot, and the way Gates won!
Gates' victory was not a complete triumph, as you are probably
thinking... It was the robot that kicked Michael out of the ring, but
then the robot had this Microsoft bug :-) and it just would
not stop fighting against every moving thing...
I've edited a small
[900 KB] mpeg video, that you can play with any mpeg video player,
and that shows a very small fraction of the combat's introductory
scene. Try it.
My AUDIO website, for the portuguese magazine "AUDIO",
will debut this week. The site will regularly offer articles, music mpegs
and music mp3s. Un-missable. Soon.
