http://www.skidgel.com/blog design, filmmaking, food, and random thoughts by John Skidgel Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:01:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en IMG_0649.JPG, originally uploaded by skidgel. Here were are with Bea and Ava's cousins on Tybee Island off the coast of Georgia. Share This http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2008/07/23/summer-trip-to-atlanta/ Engaging User Experiences with App Engine, the talk Lindsey Simon and I gave at Google I/O has been posted on YouTube. Enjoy! Share This http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2008/06/12/my-google-io-talk-is-on-youtube/ I finally got around to updating the AIR utility for converting Flash Video Cue Points. It works with AIR 1.0. To get the new version, download: http://www.skidgel.com/flv/markerstocuepoints102.zip To learn how to use it, see this post.Share This http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2008/06/11/updated-version-of-convert-final-cut-pro-markers-to-flash-video-cue-points/ Pumpkin Pirate and Bea, originally uploaded by skidgel. Allison, Ava, and Beatriz came to the Googleplex on Halloween. We listened to a concert by Asheba, decorated this pumpkin and a trick or treat bag, and Bea managed to go away with a pretty decent haul of Halloween treats. Bea was a ... http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2007/11/25/pumpkin-pirate-and-bea/ UPDATE: I've updated this to work with AIR 1.0. One of the things that I've found difficult is using the markers I've set in Final Cut Pro as cue points in a Flash Video file. I also find using the controls in Adobe's Flash CS3 Video Encoder to be cumbersome. A ... http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2007/10/26/free-air-application-convert-final-cut-pro-markers-to-flash-video-cue-points/ This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. Adding Closed Captions to Flash Video First, download the example file: captions-player.zip. Unzip this archive, open the folder captions-player and then open ... http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2007/10/01/closed-captions-and-flash-video/ This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. To create a very small swf that plays Flash Video without hiccuping on cue points, follow these steps. First download the ... http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2007/10/01/tiny-flash-video-player/ This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. To create a video player with the FLV playback components, follow these steps Download the example file custom-player.zip. Unarchive it, open the ... http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2007/10/01/customizing-flvplayback-components/ This is from my talk, How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video, at MAX 2007. For more step-by-step tutorials purchase my book, Producing Flash CS3 Video. Importing video into Flash Professional CS3 is eezee peezee. First, download the example file: video_wizard.zip. Unzip this archive and then open wizard-example.fla in Flash Professional CS3. Select ... http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2007/10/01/inserting-video-in-flash/ The First Day of Pre-School, originally uploaded by skidgel. It's hard to imagine that Bea started pre-school today. Since I'm on vacation, I went with Allison and Bea to her first day. She had no trouble saying "kthanxbai" to mommy and daddy once she saw the big blob of ... http://www.skidgel.com/blog/2007/09/06/the-first-day-of-pre-school-for-bea-2/