Auteur : roulive

Roulive's family at the Zoo

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Ok, ok, this won’t sound interesting for all my dear readers. But, anyway, you’ll find hereunder a short edited movie about our day at the Toulouse Zoo (Plaisance de Touch to be more specific). It’s the first time I use my new editing workflow: Canon HV30 + Mac Pro + Final Cut Pro.

I’m quite happy about the tools I have now, even I have some pro’s & con’s.

Pro’s:
– Canon HV30’s HDV rushes looks incredible.
– HDV Acquisition was quick & easy to set up.
– HDV editing is fast & easy on the Mac Pro
– Final Cut Pro looks a lot like Adobe Premiere. I still have a lot to learn (98% at least)

Con’s:
– Canon HV30 tends to over-expose (probably some fine tuning to do)
– Movie export for the Web (or else) is still not so user-friendly. I had a lot of trouble with the resizing of the HDV resolution, the compression ratio and I still have problem with some coded (audio or video) compatibility when sending the files to different computers.

You can either watch the video in (very) low quality on YouTube, but you’d better watch the Quicktime movie here.

Musical Quizz #2

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Le premier Quizz est ici. Pour info, le 2ème titre c’était Alan braxe and Fred Falke.

Donc un nouveau petit quizz de 4 chansons. J’aurais tendance à dire que c’est plus compliqué que le premier.

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2 photos et j'ai déjà envie de voir le film

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Burn After Reading
de: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
avec: Bradd Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand
liens: IMDB
sorties: Décembre 2008

Deux premières photos du prochain Coen, et je l’attends encore plus.

Picasa's Hello sounds more like Goodbye

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On Read/Write Web.

Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped noticed today that Google announced that it will be shuttering its Hello photo sharing and chat application next week. Hello was an instant messenger-like desktop photo sharing application that made it easy to send photos to friends via an encrypted connection. The Hello.com web page has been replaced by a shut down notice and the service will cease to work on May 15th.

It’s probably the first time since I’m using webtools that I’m disappointed by a service shutdown. I’ve been using Picasa’s Hello to share pictures with my family for the last three years now. It works like a charm. My parents and in-laws were using it as well. Picasa & Hello were extra-user-friendly and smoothly integrated. It was a sort of one-click image sharing.

Of course, there are other ways to share images: Web galleries (including PicasaWeb), Instant Messaging. But the real deal with Hello was that the pictures sent to you were automatically added to your own Pictures Database. Not even a 1-click, … a 0-click.

R.I.P. Hello.

Street Kings, un film qu'il est pas mal du tout

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Street Kings
de David Ayer
avec Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Naomie Harris
Liens: IMDB

La critique américaine n’était pas magnifique, alors j’ai hésité à voir le film. Pourtant, une adaptation d’Ellroy, le second film de David Ayer qui avait signé le très réussi Harsh Times (avec Christian Bale toujours parfait) … ca donne envie. Et finalement c’est plus que bien.