Posts Tagged ‘TV’

Final Cut Pro plugins

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Coremelt – plugins for FCP, including a highly recommended stabiliser:-

http://www.coremelt.com/

TV and Video Training

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Tv and Video training – some of the best in the world:-

http://www.bbctraining.com/television.asp

Nuke tutorials

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

A handy list of tutorials for the Nuke compositing package:-

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/pkg_examples.aspx?ui=CBC2593A-2C9F-4EF9-84BE-C198B0171453

Record video direct to disk

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Big Mug Software make the fine Capture Magic H, a multiple camera, direct-to-disk recording and monitoring system for standard definition consumer DV, DVCPro, and high definition DVCProHD and HDV.

Using FFmpeg to make Video thumbnails

Friday, January 1st, 2010

In OSX, open terminal, and type:-

ffmpeg -i VideoFile.flv -ss 00:00:01.00 -vcodec mjpeg -vframes 1 -f image2 VideoFile.jpg

ffmpeg opens the application

VideoFile.flv – the path to and name of your video file

-vcodec mjpeg is the codec to transcode to

-vframes is the number of frames

VideoFile.jpg is the name of the output file, which will appear in the home directory unless you set a path

Other useful links:-

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Plugins/10331/Extracting-poster-frame

http://www.math.ias.edu/~tarzadon/pages/posts/script-to-create-jpg-thumbnails-from-flv-files-using-ffmpeg-48.php

http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2006/4/25/ffmpegthumbs