Old article, but conceptually nothing has changed: use a transparent png as a cutaway to lay an image (words/title/etc.) on top of a clip.

Instagram’s Hyperlapse can produce astonishing video, using the iPhone’s gyroscopes to perform auto-stabilization. It can do this in time-lapse mode, and, surprisingly (for an app called “Hyperlapse”), 1X straight-up video.

Austin Mann has a new page with some great tips and examples of how to use it. Tip #1 explains how to use 4-finger-tap to access 1080p and much more.

Interesting analysis of how the new slow motion algorithm works on iPhone 6/6+.

FStoppers has a major article on the viral skiing video “One Of Those Days Part 2.” They wondered the same thing we did: how did they do the “putting on the googles in the mirror” shot? It’s discussed in the article (short answer: After Effects, and in the comments, in much more detail.

Interesting subtext about the “studied casualness” of the video.

Might be a fun project – shooting a convincing forced perspective scene using a miniature. Would work well even with a fixed-focus camera, since it’s focused from 1 or 2 feet to infinity.

Red 3: Tuesday, 1/20: 11:30 am, Room 107, with mp4, flashdrive-able

Blue 2: Friday, 1/23: 9:37 am, Room 107, with mp4, flashdrive-able

The plug-in “ClickToFlash” tells Safari NOT to load Flash files. When a website sees this refusal, it often will substitute a straight HTML5 file. If you need to download it, right-click on the file – once it starts playing – and choose one of the download options. Files almost always come down in mp4 format.

The developer also has another plug-in, “ClickToPlugin,” that tries to block a much wider range of video plug-in formats. It is harder to use.

But not with Macs (PC only).