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Another HD video! Just got the Samsung WB500 for review at Tech65, so I decided to do a test HD video with it. So far, the camera has proven itself to be very powerful, more than I actually know how to take advantage of! Will be testing it out for the next two weeks, so email me at daniel at tech65 dot org if you want me to find out something regarding the camera.
Watch out for it to appear on Gear65!
Got this really awesome card from Hei Man today at Tech65‘s 100th episode event at Geek Terminal. She actually made it all by herself! According to her, she learnt how to do from this website. Thanks Hei Man, I really liked it.
I had an awesome time yesterday at our event and everything went better than I expected it to be (apart from the small technical hiccup at the start of the recording).
That wasn’t the only gift I got today though…
Our new name cards are finally here! And I’m gonna take this opportunity to show them off to you, and as a reader of my blog, share with you a secret feature of our name cards too!
So don’t forget to collect them all! Get the whole crew’s cards and frame them up!! 
P.S.: Thanks to Claudia, Rinaz and Ryu for recommending TommyPrint to us!
So Intel sent me their Core i7 rig to play with, and I decided to share with you guys my unpacking experience!
The specs for the rig:
UPDATE: Just found out that it’s not using a 80GB HDD but an 80GB Intel SSD!!!
I know Intel said they’ll send me a machine, but I wasn’t expecting this…
I mean, look at the size of that box! And a 22″ Wide Screen display?? Woah… My desk is once again full of gear…
Anyway, Intel sent me this gear for me to test out the new Intel Core i7 chip, and I will be using it to render videos with Adobe CS4 to really put this machine to the test, which, frankly, I have no doubt it will perform. Stay tuned for more on Tech65.org!
In the meantime, I’m gonna crash in bed before Interesthink3 tonight, and after 5 days of awesome serving at the I Dare You and Encounter Jesus camp for DARE.
Taking the opportunity to test out some photo tools: Mbedr, an embedded flickr service, and Phlook.com, a local start-up for photo hosting etc. So I took a picture of all the gear I’m using now (they’re not all mine, most of them are review units, office laptop etc…)
Photo hosted on Phlook.com
Ok, I’m totally on a roll now. Getting quite annoyed (thank God not agitated or pissed, just annoyed…) after discovering a big truth regarding HD video and Final Cut Express.
So as most of you know, I bought a new HD camera to film videos for Tech65. Today, I decided to give a hand at editting my first HD (720p) movie, so I imported the files from the camera into a folder on my iMac before importing it into a new Final Cut Express project after discovering before hand that “Log and Transfer” (quicktime link) doesn’t work with this camera. I was happy that I could just edit as usual with the HD files in the project, before discovering the following:
It looks quite normal doesn’t it? Just to explain what you’re looking at, the left window is the clip I would like to add into my sequence, while the right window is a preview of my sequence now. I edit by setting a start point and an end point (called in and out points) in the left window and drag it into the right so that it drops into my sequence.
I wanted to do this ages ago when DK first showed off his geek bag, but I didn’t have a camera. Now that I have my own camera, I’ve decided to test it out by responding to DK’s post, except, in video form!
Presenting Daniel’s Geek bag!
Oh, by the way, I just filmed the video in the TV-SHQ mode, transferred it to my iMac and just uploaded it to YouTube immediately. I thought youtube had that High Quality mode, but nope. So this video doesn’t do the quality justice. It’s really clear on my computer!
I finally made up my mind to get the Sanyo Xacti HD1000 instead of the HD1010 camera, and after several days, I finally got the package. Strangely it took Warehouse123.com 4 days to verify the credit card. Apparently that’s a rare case, because most people seem to be getting theirs a lot faster than me. Once it was verified, the whole package arrived in less than a day from the moment I got my invoice.
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Hey guys, just in case you guys stumble upon my blog, or if I wanna show off some cool theme, please note that this blog isn’t active yet. I’m still considering if I should fork out anout US$7 to activate a feature (fsock open) on my host that will let me finally be able to activate the spam filter as well as import my previous blog over to this new one.
In the mean time, my old blog is found here.
Daniel Tsou