Another Manic Monday post over at Aff the Fang. 
UPDATE: Is anyone else disturbed that all my character voices sound suspiciously like Lady Elaine Fairchilde from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood?
Manic Monday: The Creepy Pumpkin
Posted in General Thoughts
Yay! Cannibal pumpkins!
I wasn’t going to say anything about the similarity, but during the latter half of the Ubuntu Family Theatre video I was checking the room for King Friday. All you need to do is Daniel the Cat and I think you’ll have it wrapped up. “Meow meow meow, King Friday. I hairball-gakked on your royal carpet meow meow.”
I think your pumpkin isn’t creepy – just, well, delusionally optimistic.
And yes, I could close my eyes and visualize Mr. R’s neighborhood.
Yeah, total flashback to Mr. Rogers (I LOVED that show as a kid). Beyond that though… you are a freak.
Just sayin’
Holy crap on a cracker (to borrow a phrase from yourself) you do sound like Lady Elaine.
I approve of cannibalistic anything. Just sayin…
Pumpkin pies NOT made from pumpkins? That would be like girl guide cookies not being made from real girl guides! ( I have always loved that line!)
Nice Shawn, and yes, I so could hear Lady Elaine!
Technical question. Some of your video has really nice quality – and it has to be the compression choice. Your Flip review in particular turned out nicely. What do you choose?
My Flip video seems to be medium quality at 640×480 when I’m working with it – but when I compress to 240×320 QT for streaming or web at either 10 or 12 FPS the end result is horribly pixelated, haloed and blurred and not something I’m particularly proud of.
Jeri: I convert it to h264 mpeg4 at 640×480. Youtube now accepts that size and doesn’t cram it down to 320×240. I also leave it at the standard 25 or 30 FPS. I let the streaming sites do what they will with it, and usually it turns out fairly well.
The Flip has an annoying 3ivx codec, which isn’t terribly standard. I usually convert it to straight up h264.
I tend to go nuts with video encoding, it’s a huge hobby of mine. I really really REALLY try to get the best quality for the least file size. I usually use ffmpeg or VLC to do the actual converting.