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Totally awesome presentation! I've never seen anyone describe this stuff this cleanly (even though I studied it in college). Plus, I love the audio work on tha

Totally awesome presentation! I've never seen anyone describe this stuff this cleanly (even though I studied it in college). Plus, I love the audio work on that video. The positioning of his voice to tell you what he is doing while you don't see him is pure genius. Also, note how you can hear he is facing away from the microphone even if you can't see him. Great stuff. I wish more videos would use effects like these.

cjbprime 14y ago
> The positioning of his voice to tell you what he is doing while you don't see him is pure genius. I'm told that this is pure accident based on using a stereo mic and having the input-side equipment be on the left and the output on the right, but I thought it was a nice touch too. :)
- xiphmont 14y ago
  It was not exactly an accident, though the image was a bit 'wider' than I'd have preferred. Tradeoffs. I don't like wearing lavalier mics for this sort of thing (an extra layer of complexity, and they have to be headsets to avoid vocal amplitude changing) and the stereo image reduces the apparent echoeyness of the space. The main goal was to sound better than last vid :-)
  - sneak 14y ago
    Could you perhaps make a quick write-up about the making of the video? I was more impressed with the fact that it was produced using all F/OSS software than anything. Other than the type on the title cards looking goofy, the production value is higher than anything I've ever seen come out of a non-fruity unix box. FCP is one of the very last reasons I still have a mac...
    - xiphmont 14y ago
      There's a fairly detailed writeup about the making of the previous video: http://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks/making http://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks... Only a few things have changed since then. I've done some more work within Cinelerra (I wrote a new resampler and a new color grading filter for it this time around). I'm also using a pair of matched suspension microphones (AT853a Unipoints) instead of the Crown boundary piezeos, which I've decided just aren't suited to anything I do. Cinelerra is not for the faint of heart, and I don't casually recommend it. It is very powerful, rather unfriendly, and picky about the formats it uses. However, it will do things none of the other FOSS editors can.
    - xiphmont 14y ago
      Oh, and the 'goofy' font is just Adobe Garamond, which we use in most Xiph stuff.

cjbprime 14y ago

> The positioning of his voice to tell you what he is doing while you don't see him is pure genius. I'm told that this is pure accident based on using a stereo mic and having the input-side equipment be on the left and the output on the right, but I thought it was a nice touch too. :)

xiphmont 14y ago
It was not exactly an accident, though the image was a bit 'wider' than I'd have preferred. Tradeoffs. I don't like wearing lavalier mics for this sort of thing (an extra layer of complexity, and they have to be headsets to avoid vocal amplitude changing) and the stereo image reduces the apparent echoeyness of the space. The main goal was to sound better than last vid :-)
- sneak 14y ago
  Could you perhaps make a quick write-up about the making of the video? I was more impressed with the fact that it was produced using all F/OSS software than anything. Other than the type on the title cards looking goofy, the production value is higher than anything I've ever seen come out of a non-fruity unix box. FCP is one of the very last reasons I still have a mac...
  - xiphmont 14y ago
    There's a fairly detailed writeup about the making of the previous video: http://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks/making http://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks... Only a few things have changed since then. I've done some more work within Cinelerra (I wrote a new resampler and a new color grading filter for it this time around). I'm also using a pair of matched suspension microphones (AT853a Unipoints) instead of the Crown boundary piezeos, which I've decided just aren't suited to anything I do. Cinelerra is not for the faint of heart, and I don't casually recommend it. It is very powerful, rather unfriendly, and picky about the formats it uses. However, it will do things none of the other FOSS editors can.
  - xiphmont 14y ago
    Oh, and the 'goofy' font is just Adobe Garamond, which we use in most Xiph stuff.