A “trailer” has been posted for the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (January 8-10, 2009), which is quite cool. I’ve never attended, but knowing the sponsors, I’d say the quality will be quite high.
As a graphic designer at a television network, one of my frustrations is the quality of graphics that are pulled from video. Not only are they small in pixel dimensions, but they also suffer from interlacing.
This is where JES Deinterlacer comes in. This Mac-only application takes a video (NTSC, PAL, and other formats), and processes it to remove the interlacing. The result is a cleaner image.
This is a well-known story, but someone has done a masterful job of converting it into a video short. Check it out. It brought tears to my eyes.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=13a4a045cd290bc2ae2d
This news goes back a couple weeks, but I thought I ought to bring everyone up to speed on the happenings here.
First, my hopeful prediction on February 3 that we might be nearing the end of winter weather turned out to be grimly mistaken. In the several days leading up to 2/11, we had warnings that a severe winter storm was afoot. Nevertheless, the morning of that day wasn’t too bad. I started to see snow and a bit of sleet coming down on the way home for lunch. Still, I was somewhat surprised to be caught at home after lunch, when I learned that 3ABN was closing due to badly deteriorating road conditions.
Just before GYC, I was with my good ol’ buddy from LifeStyleTV, Claus Nybo. On the way home that December 14, we stopped in West Frankfort to look at Candy Cane Lane. Candy Cane Lane is a series of streets that are decorated for the Christmas holiday, and is an annual tradition for the people of West Frankfort. At the time we drove through, most of the houses were not decorated very well, but the final street was incredible. It was like a cross between midwest lawn decorations and the Las Vegas main drag. (See the video below.)
A section of one of the streets:
