Posts Tagged ‘Video’

Video: My Drunk Kitchen Makes Pizza

Posted on January 29th, 2012 • Filed under Taste • No Comments

From Slice

“Pizza, unlike old coca-cola, is best served flat.”

Hannah Hart of the always entertaining My Drunk Kitchen tackles pizza and proves once again that it’s really really hard to mess up a pizza. Or as she says, “even when it’s all f&*ked up, you still love it.”

How many of you use pizza as your go-to drunk food?

About the author: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is the Managing Editor of Serious Eats where he likes to explore the science of home cooking in his weekly column The Food Lab. You can follow him at @thefoodlab on Twitter, or at The Food Lab on Facebook.

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Web video framework company publishes State of HTML5 Video document

Posted on January 27th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

As Flash’s ubiquity begins to erode, standards-based Web technologies are going to become the path forward for developers who want to offer a user experience that works across all screens. The HTML5 video element is already widely supported in modern Web browsers, but the capabilities and codecs that are available differ between implementations.

A new State of HTML5 Video document offers some clarity by painting a clear picture of the current status of standards-based video across the spectrum of browsers and mobile environments. The document was authored by LongTail Video, the company behind JW Player, a very popular video playback framework that supports Flash and HTML5.

Based on statistics from various browser marketshare trackers, LongTail says that two thirds of Internet users are running browsers that support HTML5. Support for standard HTML video element attributes is relatively consistent, though there are gaps: Android and iOS both lack support for the preload and autoplay attributes, for example.

Fullscreen playback and support for adaptive streaming are still highly limited. The latter will likely be remedied in the future as MPEG’s DASH standard sees adoption. Codec compatibility is still a tricky issue–some browser vendors are standing behind H.264 while others favor Google’s WebM.

LongTail says it will keep the document updated as the status of Web video evolves.

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Why the video pros are moving away from Apple

Posted on January 15th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Six months after the launch of Final Cut Pro X (FCPX), Apple’s major overhaul to its professional video editing software Final Cut Pro, video pros find themselves increasingly looking at other software options. The new version of Final Cut Pro was controversial—there were significant changes to the Final Cut interface, a plethora of editing features were taken away, and worst of all, Final Cut Pro X was rendered unable to import projects from previous versions of the software. For video editors and producers with years of work using Final Cut Pro, the launch of Final Cut Pro X made it seem like Apple no longer cared for its market of creative professionals.

Is that still the case now, half a year later? TV production company Bunim/Murray recently brought the issue back into the public consciousness by announcing that it was switching from Final Cut Pro to Avid, noting that the company needed “a partner who would understand our long-term needs.”

As it turns out, the reaction to Bunim/Murray’s announcement from creative pros was, “took them long enough.” We spoke to a handful of professionals who work in the video production industry to see how they’re feeling now that the dust has settled, and the general consensus appears to be “not good.”

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Extreme Animals Pictureplane Remix and Video

Posted on January 13th, 2012 • Filed under Look • No Comments

Pictureplane “Body Mods” remix by Extreme Animals from Jacob Ciocci.

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