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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Graphics and Video

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Itunes/Quicktime comes native with MacOS, and Windows Media Player for Windows. The other realm of stuff that I know some about is video. In term of viewing, on the proprietary side are the players that come with the proprietary operating systems.

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10NTC: Don't Be Afraid of Low-Tech Communication

Tech Soup

A colleague of mine was a programmer on Apple's original QuickTime team in the 1990s. He told me that one of the QuickTime programmers didn't use email or even voicemail — just an old-fashioned answering service. Divisions in the team will form based not on expertise, but on what sharing tools each member of the team uses.

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Live Blogging Podcamp: Steve Garfield's Thunderstorm of Podcasting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He said the free and cheap programs for video making are imovie (mac) or moviemaker (pc) or quicktime pro. I saw how to do podcasts with a cell phone at NCDD, but I didn't know that Hipcast will translate your avi or other video format into a more friendly format and post on your blog as a flash video with a link to the Quicktime format.

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Vlogging Learning Journal: Editing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, it doesn't export into quicktime and I really like the quality and look of quicktime versus WMV. So, I discovered that you can edit in Windows MovieMaker and export wit this format so you can import into QuickTime Pro and compress. Import into QuickTime Pro 9. Adding Titles 6. Adding Transitions 7.

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Compression Confessions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Steve Garfield's Learn Video About VideoBlogging Secrets of Videoblogging Book by Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi FreeVlog Videoblogging by Jay Dedman and Joshua Paul I am working on a Windows XP platform - so I decided to use QuickTime pro to compress the AVI file. So, I improvised and used these settings. I tried the H.264

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I'm Video Blogging from NetSquared Year 3!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Well, off to double check my compression settings for QuickTime. The projects I've been assigned to interview are: Anti-Genocide Action Tracker Janessa Goldbeck. Greener One Zoli Piroska. MetaVid Michael Dale. MoveSmart Justin Massa. Ushahidi David Kobia.

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Excellent Use of Video in A Personal Fundraising Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He documented it on film several versions are available, including a higher quality quicktime - The Water Buffalo Movie. Robert Thompson, an American musician who lives in China, went out and bought a water buffalo and presented it to a poor family in China.