On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 11:02 PM, Sean A Corfield wrote: > These are multi-megabyte movies...?!?!? >
Yeah, I know. But, bandwidth is getting wider and disk drives are getting bigger -- La Cie has a 450 Gig firewire for about $850. I have a La Cie 160 gig and a 200 gig -- both about half the size of a bible (CFWACK). These fit easily in the carrying case for my TiBook. Both are faster than the drive in the Ti Book -- zero problems. The point is that storage is cheap, a commodity! My son-in-law has a $99/year .mac account that gives him the storage (100 meg) programs, themes, music, etc necessary to create these. He doesn't buy film, hassle with developing, etc. He can send this to all the family at near to $0 cost or have it printed in a professional-quality book for $35. He can burn a picture CD for about $.09 or a DVD album for about $1.50. He has 3 kids, 2,4 and 6 years old -- they were spending hundreds of $ each year sending pictures of birthdays, graduations (yes, in California, you graduate from Pre-School and kindergarten), etc. As a grandparent, I get more pictures sooner -- and it costs zilch! This is what Steve Jobs is touting as the digital life style. Jason, my son-in-law takes the pics with his $300 digital camera (or cam-corder, if he had one). He plugs the camera into his Mac -- this automatically launches iPhoto which sucks in all the pics and displays a screen full of thumbnails with all the metadata from the camera. He launches iMovie and drags/drops the images into a movie, selects a theme, some background music and saves (publishes) it to his .mac site, then emails an announcement to his mailing list. You can also make a Ken Burns style movie out of 1 or more photos. There is a pan/zoom feature/program that allows you to traverse still photos as if you were shooting the scene with a videocam. This technique was was used by Ken Burns in his 13-part series on the Civil war. 13 hours of still photos and narration that seemed alive because of the effect. I am working on a DVD of old family photos -- for example, I can take photos of my (recently departed) Mom, animate them into a movie and add her favorite music, burn DVDs and send them to all her friends. What better way to honor her! So, these become priceless -- the fact that they are multi-megabyte is a non-issue! I read somewhere that some commercial movies and TV shows are being shot and edited digitally -- no film is used at all. It is better/faster/cheaper. Now, If I could only think of a way to use CF to exploit this! Dick P.S. Awe... I was just lookin' for an excuse to brag on my family > On Thursday, Jan 9, 2003, at 21:00 US/Pacific, Dick Applebaum wrote: >> http://homepage.mac.com/jasongile/ >> >> >> I am the old Fart in the background of the last picture >> >> this is my family! >> >> I am really proud! >> >> Thanks for toleratin' >> >> Dick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
