FW: [thelist] philosophising (designers and propeller-heads)

[Eric Miller]

crap, every time I think I'm just emailing Amanda...

for those web video types out there--
<tip>
encoding tips for Quicktime (but good advice to follow with almost any
codec)
source material:  keep it clean, keep it first-generation, keep it digital,
and (if possible) have it shot so that you have little or no camera
movement.  Also, lots of light--production people might complain that it's
overlit, but once it gets to the codec it usually helps tremendously.
if you're working from tape source, remember: VHS = Satan.  Ask for better
source, or give a quality disclaimer up front.
Use an encoder that can do 2-pass VBR encoding.  Media Cleaner is great for
this.
watch your frame rate and your aspect ratio.  stick with standard sizes,
there are scattered reports of non-4:3 clips crashing some players/machines.
for Sorensen: Often used is the ' play back doubled feature, since Sorenson
doubles up
so nicely.
A little contrast, balnced with a little brightness usually helps
compression.  Also, a slight blur filter will often help reduce noise and
consequently reduce the amount of data that the codec has to handle.
(some of this is paraphrased from a post by Vince Dunham on the Media
Cleaner list)
</tip>

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Erickson [mailto:amanda at gawow.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:27 AM
To: Eric Miller
Subject: RE: [thelist] philosophising (designers and propeller-heads)


I think you owe a tip for that!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Eric Miller
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:08 AM
> To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
> Subject: RE: [thelist] philosophising (designers and propeller-heads)
>
>
> me monkey!  me like code!
>
> monkey hate clean.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. Erickson [mailto:amanda at gawow.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:14 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] philosophising (designers and propeller-heads)
>
>
> I think that there needs to be delineations between coder and designer.
> However, there needs to be crossover knowledge there. The coder should do
> his/her damndest to try and learn some principles of useability and
> interface design and the designer should know how to build, at least in a
> rudimentary fashion, a site and be versed in technology.
>
> Companies seem to fall heavily on one side or the other. Either the
> designers* are also doing the coding (or the coders* are doing the
> designing) or you seem to have a complete separation where the designers
> know shit-all about coding (and may come from a print world which I won't
> get into right now) or the coders just end up as head-down monkeys who
> produce a site and may have nothing invested in it.
>
> In the end, it needs to be a collaborative process but you should also let
> people do what they do best and what they have a passion for. In the ideal
> world....
>
> - amanda
>
>
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