Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts

Monday, 3 October 2016

Rhubarb, berries, pear tree, broad bean landrace and comfrey

I've made another video taking note of things that I've not recorded, or have visibly changed. This will be quite helpful in keeping track of things like having a visual record of which pear is which on the double-grafted one.  You can't trust the nurseries and orchards and should check these things yourself, I've had several instances where they've botched things.  And also noting the traits of individual varieties of broad bean in the landrace as they cross-pollinate from year to year.

It's another foggy Spring morning. The fog actually lifted earlier, and the sun was so low I almost had to close the blinds so I could work. The grass and dock have taken off in the past two weeks, as has the rhubarb.  I'm going to have to clear the grass before making movies, or taking photos, as it is quite hard to see some things that are growing amongst grass.

I increased the quality the phone camera was recording, and used a weight to try and stablise the camera from shaking.  In this case I basically sat the phone sideways on the rock and held it there, carrying it around.  It seemed to make a difference, but wasn't perfect.



Tuesday, 24 April 2012

An alternative lossless video codec

I've been wanting to install a lossless video codec so that I can record something or other.  The recommended codec to use is the Techsmith Camtasia screen recording codec.  However, this only decodes and lacks the support for encoding.  Trying to encode gives the following dialog:


Installing the trial of Camtasia Studio unfortunately doesn't magically open up the encoding functionality for the trial period.  Luckily there's a free alternative in the confusingly named CamStudio.  CamStudio provides its own lossless video codec based on both LZO and GZIP.

There are a few teething issues.  I use Windows 7 64 bit and rhe codec doesn't appear in the list offered within the application I want to capture video within.  But thankfully moisamva has provided instructions on how to manually correct the installation, and they work for me.