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Adobe Encore : Author a Standard DVD to auto play & loop playback

Peter Moore — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:15:53 +0000

Using Adobe Encore to Author a DVD

1] Open a new project and add a new timeline: Timeline -> New Timeline

2] Import your video: File -> Import As -> asset…

3] Drag your imported video asset(s) to the timeline (you can find your asset in the ‘project’ tab of the top-left positioned main 4 panels)

4] In the menu tab, create a new menu, set the ‘title remote’ to ‘chapter 1′, set the ’title button’ to chapter 1.

4] To make your DVD repeat on a loop, in the ‘properties’ tab, set the end action to play chapter 1.

5] In the ‘Build’ tab, use the ‘Check Project’ button to check your project for errors. Correct any errors before building.

Import Video Settings for Samsung VP-MX20 Camcorder

Peter Moore — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:07:16 +0000

Found this camcorder that I got for my 30th birthday in a draw upstairs and thought I’d post the import video settings on here in case anybody had the same trouble as me when I first got the camcorder.

The main problem with the VP-MX20 is that Samsung seem to have fudged the meta data in their codec, the 16:9 video this camera records should play at 720 x 480, but instead plays at 720 x 405. I had hours of fun trying to work out why my video’s aspect ratio was wrong even when I’d set the correct pixel aspect ratio for the source footage (1.0940) in my sequence settings in Premier.

After a bit of digging, I found the following Adobe Premier settings to be correct for the video that the camera shoots…

Choose a HDV sequence preset: 720p25, then in the general tab, switch the editing mode to ‘desktop’ to give you full control over your program’s settings.

Integrate Facebook with Moodle

Peter Moore — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:25:06 +0000

This module uses Facebook Connect to allow the following features…

Users to add associate their Facebook account with their Moodle account
Users to use their Facebook account to log into Moodle
Teachers to add a Facebook Live Stream Box as an activity in a course

Maintained by Aaron Fulton, this module works with Moodle 1.9 or later.

The Foodle theme for Moodle found here makes moodle look like Facebook.

Send HTML emails using GMail

Peter Moore — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:17:37 +0000

An excellent script for testing HTML emails, shame that GMail flags the message as a phishing email – good enough for testing though.

(1) make a copy of this Google Docs sheet. (2) Then Authorise the script by clicking ‘GMail’ > ‘HTML Mail’ which should appear next to ‘Help’ in the menu bar a few seconds after you’ve loaded the doc.

(3) Then create your HTML email, and after authorising the script (in Google docs), click ‘GMail’ > ‘HTML Mail’ again and send your message from there. Original article found here… http://www.labnol.org/internet/send-html-email/19672/

London Taxi Parts Brand & eBay shop

Peter Moore — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:17 +0000

A brand design and ebay shop for a specialist auto spares company based in Wolverhampton.

The brand mark Uses Jonathan Patterson’s London Tube and Gill Sans typefaces and Christina Garfalo’s Seemless Patterns, made in Illustrator.
Visit the London Taxi Parts ebay shop by clicking this link.

Use a USB pen to install Windows 7 on a Netbook or Laptop without a CD / DVD drive

Peter Moore — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:28:37 +0000

Handy for when you replace you hard disk in your netbook or Laptop and rather than cloning your old driveyou simply want a fresh install of windows. You’ll obviously need to get yourself a copy of Windows 7, either on a DVD or an ISO of the setup files and a 4GB or 8GB USB pen drive. We’re going to wipe the pen drive (or at least flag the data for deletion), create a primary partition, format the drive, mount the pen drive before copying across our windows 7 set-up files from a DVD.

1// open start > type ‘diskpart‘ > execute diskpart.exe > click ‘yes’ to the User account control window prompt

2// When diskpart is running in cmd window, type ‘list disk‘ >

3// Identify the your USB drive by the size of the disk – in this case it’s a 4GB (3700MB) drive – and type ‘select disk #‘ (where # is the number of your disk – in my case it was disk 6). Type ‘clean’ and press enter.

4// Type ‘create partition primary‘ and press enter. Type ‘active‘ and press enter. Type ‘format fs=fat32 quick’ or if the USB key is over 4GB type ‘format fs=ntfs quick‘

5// Type ‘assign‘ and windows will map a drive letter to the drive. Click ‘Open folder to view files and copy your windows set-up files across from your DVD to your USB drive. Use your USB pen to install your copy of windows to your netbook.

Adobe Story : Scriptwriting software

Peter Moore — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:17:37 +0000

Just downloaded the offline version of Adobe Story: Adobe’s scriptwriting software to contend with the likes of FinalDraft and Celtex.
My first impressions of the software are that it is a little over the top and seems unnecessary (why not just use Word and Excel for production docs?) but I may be able to use this for a video project I’m working on so I’ll update this post with any features and benefits I can see with the software.

We ♥ Lawns Project

Peter Moore — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:09:20 +0000

The We Love Lawns Project is off the ground and beginning to take flight.

Van livery, leaflet draft 1 and a holding page for the website are all done. Can’t wait to get cracking on the site design and build which is next on the list. I’ve recently been learning more about programming with JavaScript and I hope I can put what I’ve learned to good use the next time I mess with jQuery scripts. I plan to use quite a lot of JavaScript in this project as there will be an opportunity to add lots of before and after photos into a gallery and slideshow.