November 2009
6 posts
Mac20Q Podcast 71 Paul McGovern - Education...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (30.4MB) Great guy from Enniskillin in Northern Ireland. He is Lecturer In Media Applications & Computer Science, Specialising in Video Game Development. I used to go there to Enniskillin, quite often either for shopping or to go to the Theatre. I did even once go kayaking on the river, with a bunch of kids. A good day out. In the ramble I mention my new...
Interview with ScreenFlow makers Telestream
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (18.3MB) In this podcast I am talking to two people from Telestream, the company that make ScreenFlow. ScreenFlow is a super product that I use often to make screencasts. Barbara deHart and Christine Porter tell me all about ScreenFlow and also mention other products from Telestream. I was able to give them direct a feature I would like to see in the...
Joke and Biagio Producers and Directors of Scream...
These guy have been using Final Cut for a lot of years now and also use Final Draft AV while giving a recommendation to Celtx. When they are organising a project, one of their reality TV Shows like Scream Queens or Beauty and the geek they will use Bento. Joke tells me that she rescued Biago from PC sufferance 13 years ago and he has not looked back since. They are also making a documentary...
Interview with David Hewson Author of Nic Costa...
Writers 20 Questions is where the Podcast is situated Since the first Nic Costa title, A Season for the Dead, appeared in 2003 the series has grown a book a year, and spread to some twenty different languages around the world including Japanese, Thai, French, Spanish and Italian. It has won multiple plaudits including, most recently the American Library Association award for Best Mystery of 2008...
Mac20Q Podcast 68 Andy McCaskey of Slashdot Review
Andy has been podcasting for some time and so we had a great chat about the Mac and Podcasting. Andy is responsible for SDR News which is SlashDot Review. SDR News is a Daily Monday to Friday Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit. It is a 12 to 14 minute podcast. Here are a couple of examples of the news from SDRNews DVR is TV’s New BFF | Electronic...
Mac20Q 67 Podcast featuring Filmutopia
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (38.8MB) Clive is an avid Mac user and we talk quite a bit about how he uses his Mac with his film making business. He is taking footage from a Red Camera (huge data files) to do rough edits in FinalCutPro. He talks about Final Draft and Celtx. The Filmutopia company website, where people can see clips from my movies and Clive has a Filmutopia blog, The...
October 2009
26 posts
Podcast 66 talking to MacCreate David Schloss
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (29.0MB) Another of my passions is photography and I am lucky to have David Schloss from MacCreate as a guest who is a photographer too. He tells us about his equipment and how he uses it for his sport photos and also his macro photography. We chat about the new SLR cameras that do video as well as stills. Stock photography gets a mention – I do some micro...
Mac20Q Podcast 65 Ray Ortega
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (36.0MB)Ray Ortega otherwise known as the Produce Picker or @Podcasthelper, works as a professional podcaster and I we had an excellent chat about podcasting, using the Mac and making video. Ray searches twitter to find people asking questions about how to podcast then helps them become a better podcaster. Good Man Ray !So naturally we talked about the...
Mac20Q Podcast 63 Peter Wobster & Krystal Gault
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:18 — 41.4MB)Krystal and Peter are film makers in the North West of England and they also run Cinematopia a small film festival. Here is what they say about Cinematopia.They organise CINEMATOPIA which is Preston’s only regular MOVIE NIGHT hosted by the Mad Ferret and Kitsch Monkey Productions Krystal is the Kitsch Monkey.GotoMeeting Hold your...
Full-length Channel 4 shows coming to YouTube →
gilesthurston:
Interesting move by Channel 4 today, who have announced that they have agreed a deal with Youtube to publish full length shows like Peep Show & Skins soon after they have been broadcast in the UK.
You have to assume that Channel 4 have agreed a deal with Google for a share of any advertising revenue. Questions will also be asked about the future of Channel 4’s equivalent of...
Video20Q Podcast 6 LivingProofFilm
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadLivingProofFilmAlways good to talk to the next generation of filmmaker, musician, writer, artist and see some good things on the horizon. Very pleased to get talking a a guy with bucket loads of enthusiasm for making statement in film and video. Dale O’Keefee is just out of University and is keen to get using his talents with LivingProofFilms.He got himself a...
GreenScreen - Chromakey with iMovie
Weekend looking after kids – and GreenScreen iMovieThere was a national holiday here in Spain and my sister in law left her kids with us for the weekend and the youngest is into everything, every moment he is awake. Non stop el teremoto, the earthquake. Nice boys though. But I am pleased my kids are all grown up and doing their own thing. Enough if the personal news and on to the Mac, even though...
Weekend looking after kids – and GreenScreen in...
Weekend looking after kids – and GreenScreen iMovieThere was a national holiday here in Spain and my sister in law left her kids with us for the weekend and the youngest is into everything, every moment he is awake. Non stop el teremoto, the earthquake. Nice boys though. But I am pleased my kids are all grown up and doing their own thing.Enough if the personal news and on to the Mac, even though I...
Heliumfoot software to win at Mac20Q
Heliumfoot GiveawayAnswer the following question to win a copy of Mercury moverWhen you hold down the shift key and hit an arrow key how many pixels does the window move?Answer the following question to win HighBrow the browser chooserWhich key combination do you use to tell HighBrow to ask you which browser you should use for that link?Find the answer to the Mercury mover question in the recent...
Mac20Q Podcast 60 featuring Steve Sheridan
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:16 — 44.8MB)A burger is fine food ???I was looking to get to talk with Steve for quite a while. I had heard he would be an interesting fella to talk to and it was true. We had a great chat about about how he uses his Mac. It was also known to me that Steve is well into the video end of things, so I asked him about that. he undertook a...
Latest Video posts on Mac 20 Questions
Win Mercury Mover the Mac AppHad a great chat with the developer of Mercury Mover and I love using the software and you can use it too. I have a copy of it to give away and a copy of HighBrow also from heliumfoot software. If you want to see the higher quality version the click on the YouTube High Quality HQ button on the Youtube siteUsing AmadeusPro for some simple multi track editingYou know I...
Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of...
Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?Funny Article….Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?I admit it: I’m a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can’t control it. It’s Apple. I don’t like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I...
Leo Laporte is labelled a hypocrite
Leo Laporte gets a right lashing !Allison Sheridan of the Nosilla cast certainly didn’t mince here words in the latest Nosillacast, in which she gave Leo Laporte a verbal lashing for his hypocrisy over the Snow Leopard. She played a couple of clips from the Leo Laporte Twit show in which he said totally contradicting things. In the first one he was talking about how the $29 upgrade for Snow...
Podcasts I listen to at Mac20Q
Podcasts I listen to include Buzz out Loud. I listen because it is a tech podcast that covers not just Apple and sometimes there are Mac haters on there. Always good to hear what the opposition are saying, no point in living in a walled garden and not able to see outside. They do also have Mac users on there too. They have a fun style of presentation and for that it is great to listen to whatever...
Podcasts I listen to - Nosillacast
Lisened to the Nosillaccast yesterday morning and boy oh boy did Allison tear a strip off the venerable Leo Laporte. Seemed to have been desreved reall seeing as the Leo was at one point singing the praises of Apple and Snow Leopard then just a short while later he was slagging them off for the same thing he was just praising them for.I suppose it is possible or reasonable for a guy to change his...
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Have you got a tattoo you would like to talk about? Tell me the story behind the tattoo - about the design and the why and the how even via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
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Just interviewed the excellent chap that is @MacDavid that does the life streaming and video blogging for Mac20Q. Thanks David enjoyed it ! via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
Checking out Mac Info sites
Checking out Mac Info sitesThere are a lot of web sites which have the Apple Mac as the focus of their attention and the one I am telling you about today is very useful looking. It is called Switching to Mac. It has tutorials, reviews,news tips and also has a forum. The tutorials show you how to find the serial number on your Mac, how to use templates in Pages, how to set alarms and timers, how to...
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Signed up for a new Catalan course this morning, the last one the teacher was spitting image of Mr Bean - looks and mannerisms via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
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No internet this morning so I am pleased that I have the connection back again.At least is was only half a day. went to beach instead 2 swim via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
Podcast 60 Mac20Q Keith Alperin
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:12:26 — 49.7MB)In this episode I have the developer of the excellent Mercury mover and HighBrow applications Keith Alperin he is also working on an iPhone application too for the shoppers amongst us. I can’t stand shopping unless it is guerilla shopping. Know what I want, where to get it, how much it will cost. In the shop and out again with only...
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Mac20 Questions Podcast Sixty is comingMercury Mover & HighBrow software to winInterview with the developer from heliumfoot software Keith via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
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Podcast 60 of Mac20Q being exported out of AmadeusPro now. Will be available soon Have you subscribed in iTunes yet? http://bit.ly/SeomN via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
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Blasting Keith Alperin of Heliumfoot software through the levelator ready for the Mac 20 Questions Podcast via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
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Just finished editing the interview for the next Mac20Q Podcast talking to developer of Mercury Mover application for the Mac, Great Guy ! via Ping.fm Posted via web from Mac 20 Questions | Comment »
ScreenFlow 2 Coming soon
I am really pleased to report that ScreenFlow 2 is coming out soon and even better than that I have got myself onthe beta testing program for ScreenFlow so I get to try it out before the release date.So over the next while I will be making a pile of screencast to test out the new things in the software. There are transitions going to be available, and I am looking forward to trying those out for...
September 2009
9 posts
Listen to the new podcast from Video 20 Questions...
Video20Q Podcast 5 with David Blyth →
In this podcast I am talking to a film maker from New Zealand. I really enjoyed my chat with David and I learned a few things along the way. He is has made horror films such as Death Warmed Up and worked with some big names from the Film industry as you will find out in the interview. Presently he is taking trips around the world to visit film festivals to promote his movies. recently he was in...
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Talking to karen Sperling about her book...
Mac 20 Q Podcast Karen Sperling
What was so great about talking with Karen was that she is into so many things, like myself she can’t stop herself being interested in a variety of interests. She has published a book called Painting for Photographers which is available now as an eBook and will be going into print very shortly. It is not her first book either, as karen has written a number of manuals for the Application Painter...
July 2009
1 post
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I am loving doing this podcasting because I get to...
June 2009
1 post
Mac20Q Podcast 45 Donato Exposito
In this interview I am talking to Donato Expositio. A Brummie of Italian extraction. He arrived at school knowing only italian because he only spoke italian at home. Now Italian is the second language and he speaks pure Brummie, to the extent of using the word Brummie as his signature and brand name. He goes by the name of BostinBloke on Twitter and also iBostin. On his web site he has had...