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Size Matters: Video Storage Calculators

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:26:34 +0000

I often wonder how much storage I’m gonna need for a video project and have found two tools to date that seem to make sense.

The first is a widget (or web page) called VideoSpace for Mac put out by Digital Heaven.

The second I discovered this morning (and am already falling in love) helping a student see if his video assignment would fit on his USB flash drive. It’s a web page optomized for iPhone called Footage Calc and it seems to have more options yet is simpler to use. I set a bookmark on a page on my iPhone so I have one click access to it anywhere as long as I have cell coverage or wifi.

FLV Good, Better, Best Aspect Ratio Sizes (Adobe)

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:11:00 +0000

Thanks to Adobe I found a great chart for encoding video to FLV at a variety so different standard (and not so standard) sizes which their gurus had tested to determine which were the best, better, and good settings. Problem is I cannot for the life of me find it online again and I have almost lost my hard copy several times. So when I found it the most recent time (today) I thought it was lost I decided to somehow perserve it for posterity in a manner other than a hard copy printout in a pile on my desk.

(If someone ever finds it only, please tell me where and I’ll give more precise credit where credit is due)

Adobe Standard Aspect Ratio Sizes (PDF)

NewBluefx offers FREE Cartoonr plug-in

craigkendall — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:48:08 +0000

If you haven’t seen the Charles Schwab commercials which popularized the cartoon look in video most recently I have no idea what hole you’ve been hiding in. Now, NewBluefx is offering this capability for most of the popular editing softwares as a FREE downloadable plug-in called Cartoonr.