Video
Pano2Movie 2.1 beta available for testing
Submitted by Ian Wood on Tue, 2008-04-15 12:01.There is now a beta for Pano2Movie 2.1 available, with full bezier curve path editing.
http://www.pano2movie.com/beta-versions
"Seam Carving" for content-aware image resizing (amazing video)
Submitted by cheathamlane on Wed, 2007-08-22 17:23.This may be my first ever link to / post about a YouTube-hosted video...
Pano2Movie - new beta released
Submitted by Ian Wood on Fri, 2007-07-27 14:14.The crash-on-launch problems appear to be fixed. Please let me know if you find any bugs, as this may be the release candidate...
http://www.ianjameswood.co.uk/pano2movie/betas/p2m_b50_win.zip
http://www.ianjameswood.co.uk/pano2movie/betas/p2m_b50_osx.zip
Please send feedback via the beta testing list at or directly to me.
Ian
QTVR2MOV becomes Pano2Movie - public beta
Submitted by Ian Wood on Wed, 2007-05-30 15:08.It's been a long time coming, but a totally revised version of QTVR2MOV is on the way, with advanced controls for QTVR-to-video conversions...
Name Change:
QTVR2MOV is now known as Pano2Movie, which is a bit more pronounceable. ;-)
The Good News (New Features):
- Recordable paths which can be saved and/or applied to other panoramas.
- Keyframe editing of paths in timeline.
- Built-in conversion to any QuickTime codec on both Windows and OS X, with the ability to save presets.
- Off-screen rendering, so that you can carry on using other applications while it renders.
If it doesn't work...we're screwed
Submitted by Michael Quan on Sat, 2007-03-24 03:40.I attended a workshop put on the NPPA, the National Press Photographers Association,
(nppa.org) last month. It was great to see many of my old friends. It was through
one of these NPPA seminars, that I first learned about VR photography.
Sadly, it's a pretty grim situation for the newspaper and magazine photographers these days.
Newspaper circulations are in free-fall, ad revenues are getting hit hard,
and the poor photographers are trying to re-invent themselves as videographers,
essentially competing with television, but on shoe-string budgets.
WBUR: Real Estate videos on YouTube
Submitted by Michael Quan on Mon, 2007-03-12 15:40.http://www.wbur.org/news/2007/65258_20070312.asp
Story talks about company charging $500 for video tour of home for sale. It dumps on
"fuzzy" virtual tours....
At least, I'm not trying to sell a house NO ONE WANTS :-)
The Challenge to Virtual Imaging
Submitted by Doug Aurand on Wed, 2007-02-28 18:32.Video is the Competition
In recent conversations and e-mails, some feel that Video on the Web will replace Virtual Imaging. One of the conversations was even with an IVRPA member.
The reason Video has made huge inroads into the Internet is more bandwidth. Video display size has grown from postage-stamp size 160x120 pixels to 320x240 in most cases. The compression algorithms have gotten better, producing sharper images too.
Then came all the hype about YouTube. Google and Yahoo got on board with their Video Search capabilities.
QuickTime video player for pro music/audio tutorials
Submitted by cheathamlane on Thu, 2006-10-12 01:33.OK, so QuickTime isn't just for QTVR, right? :-)
After a minor delay, replacing a couple Flash tracks with Sprite and Text ones (due to the QT 7.1.3 update), the QuickTime-based video players for my client Groovebox have gone live!
I worked with Groovebox to create a new delivery mechanism for their Web-based tutorials (Pro Tools, GarageBand, Cubase, etc).
