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I picked up an atc-2k from oregonscientific recently. This thing has very bad sound quality. The video is OK, but not fabulous. think webcam, instead of camcorder.

I am playing around with image stabilization, and found this tutorial on using deshake:
Deshake, Rattle, and Roll! Make your shaky video look much better.

Deshaker is a “filter” that works with a freeware editing utility called VirtualDub. “Filters” are the same as fX plug-ins in Vegas.

Download Deshaker here:
http://home.bip.net/gunnart/video/Deshaker.zip

The author’s own guide for the program is found here:
http://biphome.spray.se/gunnart/video/

In order to use this program, you need to download and “install” VirtualDub. Here’s the link to that program:
http://www.VirtualDub.org/download

Nice little example of using ffmpeg to convert a flash movie.

Convert .flv (Google Videos) to .mpg using ffmpeg -- Ubuntu Geek


convert .flv to .mpg using ffmpeg

-s size: set frame size. The format is WxH (default 160ﾗ128 )

I use this all the time, save time on showing someone how to do something.
CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)


ffmpeg -i my_flash_video.flv the_avi_file.mpg
ffmpeg -i my_flash_video.flv the_avi_file.mpeg
ffmpeg -i my_flash_video.flv the_avi_file.avi


win32 ffmpeg builds
AVI does not work for me but mpg did!

I t sort of irks me that Nikon will do exposure bracketing, but my canon won't...

Contrast Blending with the Gimp

A simpler method is available in contrast blending in which image data from multiple exposures are linearly combined to recover shadows and highlights. Popular methods for contrast blending include manually (see this article), using special Photoshop actions, or using the PhotoMatix program.

I wanted an easy to use but flexible tool which works with the GIMP, a free and powerful image manipulation program -- hence exposure-blend. A powerful method for blending three bracketed exposures using contrast blending and the Gimp is given by Daniel Schwen. exposure-blend is a Gimp script-fu plug-in which expands this technique, automates many parts of it, and provides several additional useful features.

This is a very advanced suite for making automatic repairs to large format 3D meshes you may have from scanning an object.

MeshLab

MeshLab is an open source portable and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes.

Whoa! Have you seen the stories about how many different versions of Vista there will be? I think I read seven! This is a just a little silly. I thought it was barely palatable to have XP and the Home edition... I just can't see myself running out to buy this as an upgrade. Gartner has already recommended that Microsoft ship point release modules in the future instead of waiting SOOOOO LOOONG to put out an OS. Anyone remember when it was called Longhorn?

Wired News: Install Vista, Buy Graphics Card

"Even with a (high-powered graphics processor), Vista extracts performance and more battery life, so it is pretty yet costly in terms of machine resources," said Nathan Brookwood of Insight64. "With a notebook environment when you are not plugged into the wall, you may very well want to turn off the extra graphics because your battery is going to get sucked up."

WTF!:

clearification/

ok so I watched the first episode... go on you know you want to...

Scientists Unveil Piece of HIV Protein that May Be Key to AIDS Vaccine Development

3-D X-ray crystallographic image showing the broadly neutralizing antibody b12 (green ribbon) in contact with a critical target (yellow) for vaccine developers on HIV-1 gp120 (red). Credit: NIAID

Scientists Unveil Piece of HIV Protein that May Be Key to AIDS Vaccine Development