Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Video Games on YouTube

Our favorite legacy games have come to life thru these YouTube videos. A friend of mine suggested to watch some of these videos. It's nice that people all over the world still pay tribute to these games particulary Japan whose influence in games are as much as that of their influence on animation these days.

Stupid Tetris


Human Bowling


Stupid Crane Game


Human Pacman


Human Tetris


Live Action Mario Brothers


Mario, Pikachu, Princess Peach, Walker Texas Ranger

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Video Editing in Adobe Experience

A very busy weekend last week I should say has prevented me from posting numerous blogs as I enter the world of video editing once again. We were assigned to create a presentation with only photos as inputs for it. We had a difficulty doing so because it won't be that interesting if photo animation along with the text effects have to capture the interest of the audience.

I have already graduated from using these following tools before delving in deeper to the world of Adobe:

Microsoft Photo Story
Sony Vegas
Windows Movie Maker
Microsoft Office Powerpoint
Cyberlink Power Director Pro

While brainstorming, my teammate has suggested doing the animation in Adobe After Effects. Frankly, I never knew anything about it and have only seen Adobe Premiere Pro as a video editing tool of interest but had no actual experience in it. With the help of YouTube and googling about quick tips on how to make videos, we finished the project at hand using the following tools:

Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
ZapGrab
SwishMax

A huge help in pushing thru with After Effects was this site: http://www.videocopilot.net/

Although we never got that far with the app, we really had our eyes fixed on how experience in After Effects would open up tons of ideas and possibilities using it.

Here is a sample animation we've done in After Effects which we've followed thru YouTube:


Sunday, August 3, 2008

How to download streaming files via BitComet on your browser

Oftentimes, you'd like to download streaming videos which are a great help for you though you end up bookmarking the actual site to revisit it again. However, it still requires you to go online and stream the video again.

Even if the code for downloading the video is not seen unlike YouTube, you'll still be able to download it with the help of BitComet. Just enable the feature in which BitComet is an option to consider when you perform the right click functions on your browser during installation.

To download, just right click on any portion of the webpage except inside the streaming video. Then choose Download Media Files and then choose the title of the video you'd like to download. Afterwards, a pop-up dialog box will then ask you on where you'd like to save the file.

And that's it. You can view the file which is quite often a flash video in VLC player or any other players allowing the option to view files with FLV as an extension name.






Saturday, August 2, 2008

Phidias in DS Lite Download

I would like to share the Phidias application I've downloaded a few months ago which is a heck of an application in DS Lite. I hope the developer continues to pursue this because it is a lot of fun to use and it is very much the alternate of a Wacom tablet.

If you want to, just leave your email in the comments and then I will send you the NDS rom of the homebrew app Phidias.

Have fun drawing! Here's a sample of how to draw via Phidias on YouTube:


Friday, July 25, 2008

Spore E3 Evolution Gameplay

Around 5 years in the making and the Spore will hit the market on September this year! That's right Will Wright's masterpiece will definitely be a giant leap not just for the gaming industry but for the programming/ web development as well.



I sure hope the reviews coming from gaming sites like GameSpot be fair enough for open-ended games such as this.

How to download YouTube videos

In this article, you will find a quick and relatively easy method of downloading YouTube videos.

While you can watch YouTube videos thru streaming, you can also download these videos and save it as either FLV (Flash video which is the format of YouTube videos) or the MP4 format (a much clearer, bigger version for iPod and other portable media players).
  1. First go to the YouTube site, then key in your desired video of download.
  2. Click the video thumbnail for the video.
  3. Copy the URL on your browser's address bar with a format like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBCa2j-Lo60
  4. Open a new browser window or tab. (I'm currently using Mozilla Firefox)
  5. Key in http://keepvid.com then press Enter.
  6. Once the KeepVid site has finished loading, paste the URL of the YouTube video you want to download at the URL textbox of KeepVid then click the Download button beside it.
  7. The Download links portion will be appearing and voila you're ready to download your desired YouTube video. It' s that simple.
Playing YouTube FLV files:
You can download VLC player at http://videolan.org to view the FLV videos.

Alternately, these YouTube files, once streamed at your PC will automatically be saved on your PC's Temporary Internet Files folder. Although it may depend whether if you have fully streamed or just browsed through it, the videos may be incompletely downloaded.

That's it! To wrap it up, this is just the simplest solution to download YouTube videos. You may opt to choose other options which may be installing plug-ins for your browser and other third-party applications.