Friday July 19th, 1996
Jet Log: the technical side.
Many of you send me mail asking technical questions
about the Jet Log project.
This summer I use a PowerBook 5300c 24/500
but in 1995 I did it with a 180c 14/70.
Most images are taken with my old QuickTake 100.
I looked at other digital cameras like the new Casio (I love their watches)
but I decided to stick to my QuickTake 100
until some really small water resistant gear
with sound capabilities is available.
The animations are made with a Connectix Quickcam
and edited with very basic programs that came with the Quickcam.
Sound is transfered from the musicians' computers to mine
either by using a diskette or by mounting my laptop
as an external disk on the SCSI chain.
What else?
Oh yes, I got a 28,800 modem (PCMCIA card)
and my local ISP in Monaco is Gale Force.
The service at Gale Force is very poor
but the connection is pretty steady.
Creating the pages takes between 20 minutes to 2 hours
but I carry my camera most of the time
during the day and at night.
Last but not least I ask technical questions over the Net
to other friends traveller such as Greg Elin.
Take a look at the bottom of this page
and see how efficient this can be.
Thanks Greg for the flattening .MooV file trick.
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:47:45 -0400
To: fly@flyvision.org
From: Greg Elin (elin@interport.net)
Subject: Re: qt movies on the Web (question)
At 10:24 PM 7/17/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>
>We met a while ago at a presentation you gave at NYU. I am running a
>project entitled Jet Log (www.flyvision.org/Barbarella/JetLog/) in which
>I create a page a day. I made some .qt movies that I uploaded but when
>I download them back they cannot be read by any of my .qt players. Do
>you have any suggestion to fix this problem.
>
>Thanks in advance for your time and have a good summer.
>
>f(P).
Ah, the joy at being able to help a fellow traveler!
I know EXACTLY what your problem is. Before you upload the file, you must
first FLATTEN it. The process of flattening, as I understand it, moves all
of the data information into a single resource fork. I had the same problem
myself.
There are a couple of shareware programs you can get. Try shareware.com or
apple's site.
At the beginning of the year I moved from a Mac to Windows 95 b/c of work.
(I miss my Mac.) So I don't have any program to send you.
You may also consider looking for a program that converts quicktime to MPEG
movies. A lot of people using Windows systems won't be able to play your movies.
Best of luck!
- Greg
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Greg Elin
Dir of Online Services
Individual Investor
gelin@individualinvestor.com