Shakinda Vj Tutorial Podcast

Wordpress 2.9 and Itunes podcast simple tutorial

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:46:01 BST

After this bugging me for a while and podpress not working for me i eventually got it going:-

1. Add podcast files to Wordpress

Create a new post in the feed you want to become your podcast and uplaod and attach a test episode. then find and copy your wordpress rss:- www.mysite.com/feed

2. Burn wordpress rss with feedburner

Feedburner does some magic to make Itunes understand your wordpress feed so head over there sign in or up and paste in your wordpress feed. You will then be taken few a through steps to add the right info to make itunes love your feed. Make sure you add a pretty pic and your author info When you are all done you will end up with a feed like:- http://feeds.feedburner.com/mysite

3. Test your feed

Itunes is a pickly little bitch, if you have the slightest problem with your feed it will not show up and it could take you weeks to sort it out. So to avoid all that heartache test your feedburner feed, first in a browser window, just paste it in and check you can see you audio file and download it. Then in Itunes on your machine. Select "Advanced>Subscribe to a podcast..." paste in the feedburner feed and it *should* jump to podcasts and start downlaoding. Then once done check you can listen to it and you are all good to go to next step. If try to fix it, make sure you mp3 is in the post right on your site etc.

4. Submit feed to Itunes

On your machine's itunes go to "Itunes Store>Podcasts" then in the quick nav click on "Submit a podcast" paste in your feedburner feed and your are done!... almost

5. Wait...

Apple will take about 24hours to review your podcast and make sure its all good and not too explict or whatever. If all goes well you will get an email saying so. Then yo u can go to itunes and search in the store to find your podcast YEEEEHA!

6. Make Wordpress speak feedburner (optional but recommended)

Although you now have a itunes podcast, your wordpress will still has its own feed, which means you could end up with some subscribers to it and some through itunes to the feedburner. This makes stats more tricky etc so if you follow this page explains how to download and install a wee plugion for wordpress to make it put all your posts in just your feedburner feed. There we go all done neat and tidy.

Just for anyone who might care here is a link to the podcast i made for Coracle
Itunes link

Resources:-

Apple Podcast help page

Testing ecommerce

Tue, 04 May 2010 15:02:42 BST

Ok so we are almost ready to go live with the exciting new quartz composer sales site to be invovled in the public beta try this file here:-

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Getting EXIF data and shutter actuations (count) on mac osx snow leopard

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:31:39 GMT

Considering selling my Nikon D200 to upgrade to a D300s and in prep was trying to work out how many time the shutter has been fired. After searching around a bit and downloading a few unnecessary apps I discovered that all you need is preview! If you open any .NEF raw file in preview and then hit apple +i click on the more info tab and then the Nikon tab within that and there you go! simple!

the dangers of disabling spotlight

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:17:35 BST

In the hunt for a leaner meaner faster booting mac i decided to disable spotlight last week. I use quicksilver for launching apps so it seemed like a good idea...

However I have now discovered that both time machine and finders search rely on it, so not really sure if its worth it... might just do it before each gig...

here's how to do it on leopard but to edit those files open them with a text editor not the default browsery thing... but be careful! This is not like free online bingo where things are straight forward and simple.

more ae notes

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:12:33 GMT

When precomping a bit of animation for a larger comp, eg creating a logo rotation etc, when you bring it in and want it to loop:

rick-click Time>enable Time remapping

then alt/opt click the stop watch to enter the expression
loopOut("cycle");

slide the coloured layer handle as long as you want it to loop and bob's yer da.

after effects expressions

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:01:49 GMT

have been melting my head on ae expressions all night trying to get something that will "move to the beat"

Math.sin(time*7);

is about right it seems, and then you mulitply that by what ever you need the unilt to be, ie if you want a solid to flash to the beat, stick that expresion on its opacity with an extra times 100 on the end:

Math.sin(time*7)*100;

Thanks to Mr Gifford and Mr Ebbert for their helpful sites...

Installing and setting up Quartz Composer of Leopard Mac OSX 10.5

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:50:18 GMT

If you cant view it above try vimeo or

you tube

Lesson 3 :: LFO and Interpolation :: The Irishman's Guide to Quartz

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:32:56 GMT

More building blocks for making you a quartz genius with no technical knowledge, this lesson covers controller objects of get your 3d stuff groovin to that music. Check it.

Lesson 3 from shakinda and Vimeo.

Itunes Soundflower and VDMX audio routing tutorial

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:56:51 GMT

Just a quickie for anyone wishing to use audio from itunes to drive their VDMX audio effects whilst practicing.

You can of course just play the audio out your speakers and use the internal mic (assuming you have one) to pick it up, but this gives a pretty ugly wave form...

So using sound flower (free from cyling 74) and the sound pref pane on your mac and VDMX's audio analyser plugin this is how i sorted it:

with audio running in itunes coming out your speakers as normal:

1. in system preferances, sound pane, output tab, select soundflower 2ch

>>itunes goes quiet, ie the sound is no longer coming out the speakers

2. in vdmx set, click options on audio analyser, input drop down: soundflower 2ch

>>audio analyser displays music waveform but still no sound coming from speakers

3. still in audio analyser check "play thru" is to build in output (its like this by default)

>> still no sound from speakers

4. launch soundflower bed(the wee app that comes with sound flower and select bulit in output on the 2 channel options (default is none)

>> sound now comes through speakers :)

Lesson 2 :: Publishing inputs to VDMX :: The Irishman's Guide to Quartz

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:19:55 GMT

Quartz compositions can be combined with any vj software or even used on their own, but VDMX offers the opportunity to manipulate the parameters of your quartz files live during you set. here's how...

>Lesson 2 from shakinda and Vimeo.

Lesson 1 :: The Cube and basics :: The Irishman's Guide to Quartz

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:15:34 GMT

Ok so you wanna learn how to rock the world with quartz, lets kick off with some basic and the cube

Lesson 1 from shakinda and Vimeo.

Lauching the Irishman's Guide to Quartz

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:07:58 GMT

Quartz composer is one of the best and most underused vj tools. So here to try and make it a bit more accessible is the first in my series of tutorials: Lesson 0 why quartz.

The first set of tutorials will be on quartz on tiger moving on to leopard when the basics have been covered. Hopefully these will spark some discussion so if you have better way of doing anything Im covering please comment.

Lesson 0 from shakinda and Vimeo.

The fastest projector rig ever

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:12:31 BST

This is Steve the electrician, in about 8mins before the doors opened at the Forfey festival last thurs he made a projector cradle from a seatbelt ad flight case lid, a screw and some ducktape. Genius!

pc and mac file issues

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:00:42 BST

as i use resolume on a pc and vdmx on a mac, and have my premier and after effects running under bootcamp on my mac, file format / codec headaches are all too familiar.

Quick fixes include, rendering projects out to tiff in bootcamp and then using the import image sequence feature in quicktime pro to encode and compress mac side.

Using vlc's stream/save wizard to convert the avi's it can play that quicktime / vdmx cant on the mac.

Open video converter on the pc...

development blog...

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:41:40 GMT

im going to keep the news page for events and general info, this will be the bit where i post technical stuff im doing, probably mostly in quartz composer.

to kick things off this is a 3D model of the beacon hotel on south beach miami in prepartation for a gig i had out there, you can grab the file here i dont know if anyone has a better method of building models from primitives in quartz, but the javascript just makes a neater way of controlling the size etc, so that the object can be zoomed by adjusting the starter value. stil need to add audio interactivity.