• Archive for April, 2007

    Choosing the Right Video Format

    by  • Thursday 5 April 2007 • Video • 0 Comments

    The discussion about video standards for live processing has been summarised as: Codec: Motion JPEG (for interlaced footage) or Photo JPEG. Compression ratio/quality: Quality 80 is a decent baseline for JPEG, though you can crank as high as 97 to improve quality. Keyframes: Encode a keyframe on every frame so it’s ‘scratch-ready’. Alpha channels: For [...]

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    Oxford Dictionary in TextMate

    by  • Tuesday 3 April 2007 • Software • 3 Comments

    After working with TextMate for a couple of weeks, I have decided to stay there and leave TexShop behind for my LaTeX editing. Just found out that it even supports the ctrl-apple-d trick for getting definitions from the Oxford Dictionary in the text.

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