January 2010

For the Dutch – well funny. :)

A funny aids prevention movie on YouTube.

<video sadly deleted>

How to successfully import a movie recorded using Fraps into iMovie;

1. Get Fraps, record whatever you want
2. Get XviD4PSP (freeware) & install
3. Import your avi files recorded using Fraps into XviD4PSP (drag & drop)
4. Pick the encoding you want on the left. x264 q21 DXVA-SD-Insane seemed to be an acceptable quality.
5. Click enqueue (and repeat 3->5 for multiple files)
6. Click encode
7. ... wait ...
8. This will create .mp4 files; transfer those to your Mac
9. Open iMovie, File -> Import -> Movies -> select the mp4 files
10. ... wait ... A couple of hours
11. Your movie should now be in iMovie, and you should be able to edit it
12. Edit whatever you want to edit, share and export and have fun.

A little hint, if your video is cropped (parts cut off), click your movie sequence -> on the left corner of your sequence a little "gear" will appear -> Cropping & Rotation -> in your right display window click "fit" to make it full size.

Took me quite some time before I managed to do it, but hey, now I know… ;)

And the smart playlist syncing issue.

Syncing smart playlists, with “live updating” checked, bugged the playlists on the iPhone (there were songs in the playlist that didn’t belong there). Hoping this bug would be fixed ASAP I tried to ignore it as long as possible… However, it so far hasn’t been fixed.

As I was pretty fed up with unchecking “live updating” for 6 playlists eachtime I synced my iPhone, I tried to play around and find a fix.

Stumbled upon it by accident.

But really love the song. Old though. :)

All I can say: “Not impressed”.

Too big to be mobile, missing too many key features to be useful.

Actually, I guess Gizmodo said it all.

And besides that, no iPhone OS 4? No working iTunes? Anything truly useful?

Happy 2nd anniversary, blog (yes, I’m a couple of days late ;)).

Just updated the old, somewhat boring theme, to this new white, clear and simple theme.

Let’s see how long it takes me this time before I grow tired of it. ;)

Also Yourls is now fully functional (see page sources for the short URL) on this blog. It’s now also using the yeri.be domain instead of tuinslak.be… Made more sense (length-wise). ;)