Creating a Camera Archive Folder

A simple vector image of a camera
I kind of forgot about the idea of writing in my blog so that I can find the answers again via Google. Well here's a quick one: How to backup the entire contents of your webcam (I own a Sony HDR-XR150) to a "Camera Archive Folder" on OSX.

  1. Open up iMovie
  2. Go to "File > Import from Camera" or the click big camera button under the Project Library pane
  3. Click the "Archive All" button beside "Camera: Sony HDR-XR150"
  4. Choose a location to save the entire contents of your camera (I use portable hard drives)

After doing this, you'll have a "Camera Archive Folder" where you can import movies into iMovie for your editing pleasure.

Screenshot of iMovie and the Archive All button

Screenshot of iMovie and the Archive All button

§1037 · January 2, 2012 · Technology, Tips, Video · 1 comment ·

Binary Tools for JavaScript

I want to believe. SVG as an image format.As promised, I have a tiny thing to announce here. I recently split off and refactored the code that deals binary data in kthoom into a new open source project: https://github.com/codedread/bitjs, Binary Tools for JavaScript.

The faster and faster JavaScript engines in modern browsers and the rise of new technologies like Typed Arrays, Web Workers, and the File APIs mean that browsers can actually be used to read in binary formats completely on the client-side (as long as native performance isn't a requirement).

For now the library includes two main capabilities:

  • streams for reading in bits and bytes from a Typed Array
  • unarchiving zip, rar or tar files (that's right, you can unzip and unrar in JavaScript now)
§1026 · September 19, 2011 · JavaScript, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Binary Tools for JavaScript ·

One step closer to image editing on Wikipedia

I want to believe. SVG as an image format.Oh, I forgot to mention a cool thing that happened at the beginning of the year while I was so busy: Wikipedia inched a step closer to having an in-browser editing experience for its impressive collection of vector image files via an experimental MediaWiki Extension. The extension was put together by Brion Vibber of StatusNet and WikiMedia fame. Fingers crossed for this to one day appear in Wikipedia! 🙂

§1013 · February 24, 2011 · Software, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·

TypedArrays make me theoretically happy

I want to believe. SVG as an image format.I've been busy at my day job not launching code, but over the weekend I had some fun converting kthoom's unzip/inflate algorithm from using binary strings to using Typed Arrays. Typed Arrays mean native binary data that is accessible to JavaScript in the browser, making operations like unzip much much faster (like 4x). Read the rest of this entry ...

§1005 · February 23, 2011 · Firefox, Google, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on TypedArrays make me theoretically happy ·

Oh WordPress…

I want to believe. SVG as an image format.It appears that comments on my blog have been screwed up now for probably at least a month. When you try to post a comment it 404s. You can no longer see comments on a post. I simply don't have the time to look into this at the moment, so my apologies up front. I don't know if I've been hacked or if something in my theme broke in an automatic update of WP.

If you need to get ahold of me there's always email, Google Chat, Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz. Least those don't get hacked... much.

§1000 · January 21, 2011 · Life, Technology · 1 comment ·

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