behindthescenes|
of cutting edge art, media + technology
Video compression for the webSeptember 11th, 2009This is a brief guide to compressing video for today’s free video-hosting sites. Compressing video for the web is something that we deal with daily at Backstar. As a result, I have become familiar with many free video hosting websites, and with their respective best-practices for compression. Here’s a bit of what I’ve learned… Read the rest of this entry » Edit video on an existing DVDSeptember 1st, 2009This tutorial explains how to edit an audio/video track from an existing DVD without affecting its other elements. By following these steps you should be able to add to, trim, or replace an audio/video track without affecting the DVD menu or recompressing any of the files. This is done entirely with freeware running on Windows XP. Read the rest of this entry » Repairing VHS Tapes – TransplantingApril 29th, 2009Today I received a faulty VHS tape from a client. Ultimately it was to be digitized, but before that was even an option, I had to get the tape to play. After testing on a variety of players, it seemed clear that this was a problem with the physical cassette, not the data on the tape. A routine transplant was in order. Read the rest of this entry » Streaming Media Solutions ExpertsApril 13th, 2009A rather large FWIW…backstar is focused on large audience, often international webcasting. We have been working with digital media since forever collectively and webcasting LIVE events since 2002. Our independence of any marriage to platform, system or network enables us to use customized arrays of tools and systems for optimal content creation, editing, compression, webcasting and streaming media of all kinds. Read the rest of this entry » Datamoshing – the beauty of glitchApril 9th, 2009Datamoshing, as it has been coined by the Providence, RI artist collective Paper Rad (warning, site may induce seizures), refers to a technique of exploiting video compression to create intentional artifacting and distortion. If you’ve ever skipped ahead in a poorly compressed DVD rip and seen the moving outlines of actors ghosted behind the pixels of the scene you were just watching then you know what I’m talking about. Read the rest of this entry » |
|
