The Technology Transfer Initiative, UCC, & Computer Science Department, UCC, are launching the Multimedia Innovation Network at UCC on Thursday, July 5th at 5pm.
The network is free to join and has as its aims to promote Cork as a centre of excellence in multimedia, to promote research between UCC and the Multimedia Industry, and also to establish connections in the Multimedia sector.
The keynote speaker at the launch event is Dr. Anil Kokaram, Senior Lecturer & Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Anil is a prominent researcher, and renowned in the film industry, as illustrated by his recent award of a Technical Oscar for his work.
It ounds really interesting, I must try to make it along.
In the last few days I have noticed a marked slow-down in the rate in which YouTube videos are downloading.
As far as I can see there are three possible explanations:
- YouTube is suddenly being swamped by traffic and can’t serve up videos as fast
- YouTube video file sizes have increased (if a new codec was deployed, for example) - unlikely as older videos are also coming down slowly
- My ISP (Eircom - no link on purpose!) has suddenly started throttling YouTube content -Â this is quite a strong possibility, I imagine.
I can certainly imagine Eircom wanting to slow down video consumption on their network so have any other Eircom users noticed this too, or is it just me.
On the other hand, if you are not an Eircom user and have also noticed a slow-down of video from YouTube in the last few days, leave a comment here too - it may be one of my first two guesses.
Or a fourth or fifth which I haven’t even thought about!
I have just published my second video podcast - an interview with Jan Blanchard of touristr.
I got loads of great feedback on my first vidcast and I tried to take as much of it on board, as possible.
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As always, please feel free to leave feedback in the comments.
Startup 2.0 concluded last night with the awards followed by good food, great conversations and a drink or two (ahem!).
If you haven’t already heard, the results were:
1st Sclipo
2nd 5min
3rd Properazzi
and joint 4th placed were Trivop and 11870.com.
All the finalists had fantastic offerings and choosing amongst them would have given Solomon a headache! I went out with the guys from 5min.com afterwards (amongst others) and had great fun with them. I love their application and think they are going to do really well with it.
One interesting observation was that four of the five finalists were either entirely video based or had a strong video element to their product.
All credit to Jose Antonio del Moral for running a superb event.
I bought a new video camera recently with the intention of doing some video casting. It is a fine camera. Carl Zeiss lenses, shoots in full HD and all. But in my zeal to buy it, I forgot to ask one important question - will it work on the Mac?
Unfortunately, in this case, the answer is no which is a shame as I was hoping to do my editing in iMovie 
Even worse though, the camera saves in a special HD format called AVCHD and while it a lovely format I’m sure, there are very few (if any) commercial video editing applications which support it!
The first one I have found - Nero 7 (no link on purpose) had great claims around AVCHD - it could play it, edit it and export to .mpg. Idiot that I am, I bought it and have since been plagued by messages telling me it is demo software and needs to be bought - aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! If that weren’t bad enough, the edited files it exports aren’t usable by any other application. They crash Adobe Premiere Elements and Quicktime (probably sensibly) doesn’t even try to open them.
I’m currently downloading a trial of Sony’s Vegas 7 software but it is a tad pricey. And I’m also going to try Ulead’s Video Studio which seems more reasonably priced but has had a couple of poor reports on the web.
Has anyone else had these kind of issues and/or any suggestions for a resolution?
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