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Vimeo and CitySearch have partnered for the Love at First Bite contest. Do know where the best food in town is? Then make a movie that is thirty seconds or less, upload on Vimeo and tell them why? Winners receive a $1000 American Express card.

Vimeo is my favorite video sharing service. The quality is superior to YouTube and the site design is easier on the eyes. Of course they don’t have nearly the web traffic, but if you just want to share high quality videos with friends, who needs a bunch of looky-loos?

Visit Love at First Bite for more details.

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The possibilities are endless. Make it happen.

Remember to share your movies with us.

Upload to a video sharing site like Vimeo or YouTube and send us a link.

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Here is the link to their web page, but the programs are also available on itunes. Just search for Radio Lab.

WNYC New York Public Radio - Radio Lab

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In “The Five Obstructions,” Lars von Trier subjects his predecessor Jordan Leth to a series of five filmmaking trials, each based on the remaking of Leth’s 1967 short film “The Perfect Human” according to different “obstructions.”

The regulations include, among others, that every shot should be 12 frames in length, that one version had to be filmed in the most miserable place in the world, and one version had to be animated.

I saw this film when it was released a few year sago and was mesmerized. Fortunately the following excerpts are also available on YouTube.

Enjoy!

Perfect Human Intro:

Obstruction #1

Obstruction #2

Obstruction #3

Obstruction #4

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PowerPoint can compile a series of slides into a movie file with help from the slide transition palette. Of course you can only work with 1 second units of time, but that might be all you need for some movies.

Here’s how you do it:
1. Calculate how many seconds you want each slide to be on the screen.

2. In the Slide Sorter view, right click on each slide to bring up the slide transition palette.

3. Add the seconds to the dialog and choose “Advance slide automatically.”

4. From the file menu choose “Make Movie.”

5. Choose “Movie Options” from the bottom of the dialog box before saving.

6.Choose 640 x 480 (or a custom size) and check “show movie player controls”

7. Then choose “apply these settings to the current presentation.”

8. Select “OK” and save your file.

Your movie will be compiled. You can use this file in any movie editing application to add sound or continue editing.

Note: These instructions are for Apple Macintosh computers.

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Apple has always had a solid editing program bundled with its computers. iMovie can get you up and crafting movies in no time. But this year Apple released a new version of iMovie that completely overhauled the interface and significantly changed the way movies are made. They eliminated the traditional timeline based approach and developed a drag and drop system that is fine for general home movies (once you learn how to use it) but not the best approach for making movies where you need more precise control and synchonization between sound and image.

Fortunately enough people cried foul, that Apple posted iMovieHD06 as a free download for users of iMovie ‘08.
It is available here.

iMovie ‘08 is still a pretty slick little program and Apple has a series of very good tutorials on their site to get you up to speed.

For seasoned users of iMovie and other professional editing tools it can be a shock at first, but after awhile you’ll get the hang of it.

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Here’s how to do it:

1. Make sure that your images are numbered in the order that you want them to appear in your movie and place all of them in a folder.

2. Launch QuickTime and select “Open Image Sequence” from the file menu.

3. Navigate to your folder of images and select the first image in the folder.

4. Click on the “Open” Button.

5. QuickTime will prompt you to select a frame rate.

6. After selecting the appropriate frame rate, Quicktime imports the entire sequence of images as a movie.

Movies can be saved and edited for use in other programs, or use as-is.

Here is a simple video walk-through of the process:

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