Category Archives: video
iphone and external mic sennheiser mke 400 can rule the galaxy!
a very small galaxy
natively compiling ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder on MacOS Lion (with x264!)
OK, I’ve revamped my script to compile these tools: ffmpeg ffrobe qt-faststart mplayer mencoder on MacOS Lion, using the heads of the trees, with direct encoding support for: x264 vpx / WebM http://www.archive.org/~tracey/downloads/macff.sh.txt A nice recent update to ffmpeg is … Continue reading
camaro 0 to 60 test
2012 Camaro V6 Transformers Edition “Bumblebee” Hunter and I had some fun out in the east east Bay and gorgeous farmland countryside seeing how my little ‘Bee can buzz! Not super sophisticated Ms. Driver — but still lotsa fun and … Continue reading
more books for Internet Archive!
My boss had the great idea for me to time-lapse record 48 hours of a book donation, cataloging, and moving event. It was held in one of the longest buildings at Fort Mason, San Francisco and wound up giving the … Continue reading
drifting lotus elise on playstation
OK, this was harder than it looks to pull off, but after a lot of practicing, I finally got the hang of drifting corners with this car and managed to score big points on all four of the drifting zones. … Continue reading
natively compiling ffmpeg, x264, mplayer on mac (with builtin x264 and webm encoding)
i’m very pleased that after years of hacks here and there, all three heads of the current codebases pretty well build natively on mac (snow leopard) for x264 ffmpeg mplayer here, i’m making sure that i compile in static version … Continue reading
star wars 1977 reedit night
We had a blast watching our favorite film Monday night at our new “work theatre” (as opposed to “home”) and my new accurate prop replica pieces came in for the event!
internet archive holiday party time-lapse
This was our 2010 work holiday party where I used iTimeLapse w/ my iFone to make my longest time-lapse ever — over 8 hours (sped up to play in about 2min 30sec!) This features great music from Hunter!
The Train from Spain rides Mainly on the Plane
Kinda fun HD 720p video of my tiny camera taped onto my 3-year-old nephew’s matchbox-sized train. The camera weight and size meant it couldn’t go up train hills or tight spaces, so it was a flat track with “elbow room”. … Continue reading
fun with ford GT in GT5
more silly fun with the playstation. a very hopped up yellow 2006 ford GT with custom wheels and tons of engine mods. the rear wheel drive and crazy power makes sliding around the track a lot of fun…
it’s fun to drink and drive!
I’ve been having fun racing the boyfriend on the PS3 game “Gran Turismo 5″. Turns out the quite recent and relatively new Nissan GT-R is a totally insane car — 4WD and one of the largest engines Japan has made … Continue reading
Amazing Summer trip to Bali!
Two week vacation to the glorious island of Bali, summer 2010. Bali is culturally fascinating — full of very happy and cooperative people unlike any place I’ve seen. Here are some interesting tidbits/observances: Bali is an amazing isolated place whose … Continue reading
Sony P-Series running 10.10 Meerkat Ubuntu
Sony P-Series (specifically: win7 era P788K, 8″ 1600×768 display, 2B RAM, GMA 500 graphics, 64GB SSD) I got this supercute mini-laptop last year I had been using Ubuntu linux Lucid (10.4) and just upped to Meerkat (10.10). (Both were Netbook … Continue reading
Another great indie film
Hunter and I really really liked this film shown on PBS this week. It nicely wanders in its storytelling and is really thoughtfullly done. John Adams (I think) said his best piece of lawyer-ing was defending the British in Boston … Continue reading
Great Frontline program — The Wounded Platoon
I just listened to this as a podcast and then watched the video online after that. It’s a really interesting slice and view into the Iraq war — where they just focus on one specific platoon. ”Wounded” refers more to … Continue reading
Star Wars re-remastered to high quality 1977 version!
So I wanted to sit down in my updated home theatre and watch one of my favorite films, “Star Wars”. Problem is, I have two versions on DVD, and neither are ideal. The 2004 DVD version has remastered audio and … Continue reading
ffmpeg for time-lapse, sets of images, and even *archiving*!
I now use the FFMPEG package compiled locally on my Mac Leopard laptop. If you want to take a bunch of JPEG images, you can turn them into a “motion JPEG” AVI video file (which is ideal for time-lapse). What’s … Continue reading
THANK YOU DONORS!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU donors to my AIDS LifeCycle8 bikeride! I took about 500 photos myself during the seven days of riding. Hunter also took about that many photos, too. I will make a combined album soon and … Continue reading
It’s OK to be a TRL (video)
Hunter and Tracey finish up their season of being Training Ride Leaders and share a little of what they’ve learned It’s OK to be a TRL
ffmpeg building on mac intel/x386
ffmpeg v0.5 just came out. it’s the bomb. it’s got tons of fixes and massive amounts of new codecs that it can read. for example, it can now decode my professional filmmaker brother’s “DVC ProHD” highly proprietary (and massive bitrate!) … Continue reading