Archive for July, 2009

Apple: The Underdog Monopoly

July 27th, 2009

As many of you probably know, I am an OS X programmer. I write programs for OS X and every now and then I’ll write something for the iPhone. Usually these are just to fill my own needs and never get released, but nevertheless I have to deal with Apple to get my apps running.

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MeGUI Tutorial

July 23rd, 2009

MeGUI is my preferred encoder on Windows, something I still haven’t found an equivalent for in OS X (though Handbrake is pretty close). It’s incredibly powerful, but unfortunately it can be a bit difficult and confusing to get it setup at first. So I give you the first in a series of videos about encoding video covering everything from encoding to deinterlacing to fixing levels on both Windows and OS X.

Links:
MeGUI – http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui/
ffdshow tryouts – http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
AviSynth – http://avisynth.org

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History of Recording – Bonus Material

July 14th, 2009

When I originally went to interview Cas for my History of Recording documentary I actually spent the entire morning there and ended up with almost two hours of interview material of which I only got to use about 3 minutes worth in the documentary itself. So I picked out some other interesting portions of the interview that didn’t make it into the documentary for everyone to listen to.

This first clip is the full introduction segment:

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Next is the story of how the term Hi-Fi for High Fidelity came to be:

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This is the story of his favorite recording and how he came to do personal recordings of Rosa Ponselle singing after she retired in Baltimore:

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A short clip on the original mechanical Victrolas as well as the first of two records in their entirety:

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A clip on the quality of recordings and records during WWII, and the full recording of Enrico Caruso from 1919:

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A clip on the origin of stereo and how stereo records work as well as the introduction of LPs:

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And finally, the full conductors introduction to the first LP edition of Handel’s Messiah.

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History of Recording

July 13th, 2009

Here’s another project I did in Spring ’09 for Audio Production class. This was my audio documentary project on the history of recording. It won 1st place in the Audio Doc category at the Media Arts Festival at my school.

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by: Kevin Vinck

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Death by Scrabble

July 11th, 2009

While I’m working on a fully functional project page I figured I would post some of the projects I’ve been working on here.

This first one is from my Audio Production class last semester. The assignment was to take a short story and create and audio drama out of it. We chose Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish. Enjoy!

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by: Kevin Vinck, Brian Debbie, Rachel Stump.

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Northern Central Rail Trail

July 10th, 2009
NCR Trail

NCR Trail

Yesterday I decided to get out my bike and head to the Northern Central Rail Trail up in Northern Baltimore. I had actually tried to get there twice before but was thwarted by unforeseen circumstances (I couldn’t figure out how to attach the bike rack to my car.)

The Northern Central Railroad Trail runs along what used to be a a railroad track, running 21 miles from Baltimore, Maryland to Sunbury, Pennsylvania. I rode the portion from Monkton to White Hill. Since it used to be a railroad track the trail is very smooth and even so I went a good 10-12mph the whole way.

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