I don’t want to bore everyone with the trials and tribulations I’ve been going through with the technical problems I’ve had with Adobe Premier CS4, Snow Leopard and the new QuickTime screen sharing feature, but I think I’ve got them solved. For some reason the .mov files generated with QT screen sharing work fine with Adobe Media Encoder CS4 (AME), but if I put the QT files into Premier and export them to AME, they cannot be processed. Who’s the culprit? I have no idea—Colonel Mustard in the Library with the candlestick, perhaps. Anyway, one of our readers, Patrick, suggested Camtasia, and since I’ve been lusting after that application for years, I thought I’d give it whirl. Apparently, they now have a reasonably priced version for the Mac, and it’s lived up to its billing. Still, though, I have to get used to it, and these first several videos may leave something to be desired. Reader feedback is always valuable for fine tuning these things.
A New Look
The Outraged Angel logo may have struck some as a bit whiney, and so I changed our OOP for Artists (OOPA) logo to something a bit more positive. When you see it, you’ll know it’s a new video covering a topic in the title.
Each video will remain short—about 5-7 minutes, and the zip files will contain both the F4V file that can be viewed in full screen in Adobe Media Player and the associated ActionScript files. These posts will be very short on this blog because all of the content will be in the video. If you’re thinking of a topic for this series, keep in mind that these are for beginning OOP developer/designers and will cover one topic only. Use the Comment section of the OOP for Artists posts for comments on what you’d like to see.
Finally, keep in mind that this blog is for design patterns and more advanced ActionScript 3.0 topics. The OOP for Artists series is to help artists and animators (or begining developers) get over the initial OOP hump. The longer more advanced design pattern topics will continue to dominate the space on the blog. We hope this introductory series will help readers to get to the level of these more advanced topics.
OOPA Button Mini-Contest
Here’s the winning button submitted by Thomas Gorence from Orlando, Florida:
Tom’s button added a point to the Golden Lunch Bucket World Cup series along with the appropriate recognition. You have until October 1, 2009 to get in your entry. Send it to wdsanders@comcast.net and we’ll use the one that best fits this series.
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