Wednesday, December 26, 2007

New train line open

On the 23rd of Dec, Transperth (Transport of Perth, WA) offered FREE rides for ALL public transport in Perth for a day, to mark the opening of new train line.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

AVCHD conundrum

Recently I have just bought a Sony HDR-SR7 handycam. It has 60GB Hard-Disk drive inside and that mean I do not need to carry multiple tapes, nor memory stick to shoot pictures. AVCHD is relatively a new format in video compression. Being a new format, that means:

  • Limited software support: Software supporting this format are: Sony Vegas, Pinnacle, Ulead, TMPGEnc, Elecard, PowerDVD version 7 Deluxe.
  • Limited video editor support: As above, according to forum posts Sony Vegas the best choice of editor for editing AVCHD content. In my test of the demo application, it failed to recognise .MTS or .M2TS file formats.. bastard! Edit: Formatted PC.. and it is working now! WooHoo!
  • High PC requirement: To encode / decode high compressed content :(

Despite above short-comings with AVCHD, it shoots high-definition video. Quality is amazing when playback on a HDTV!


New toy arrived! - unboxing

Sony HDR SR7

Sony HDR SR7

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Forgotten Blog

It's been more than 2 years since I created this blog site.. and I'd forgotten about it until the weekend when I logon using Google email! Wow! Some kind soul left comments in the Test blog.... hmmmm maybe I should thank them for 2 years missing in action here.

Blogger & Copyright image

This evening I was searching for "CoolYota" in Google's Blogger Search and found a link to my FlickR Image.. Someone has a link to my Gunam image without notification. Nice thing though, the blogger "kindly" put reference to the image...

You can find it here http://theanimelife.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-to-watch.html

Edit:
Found another one. Don't they know they need to send something (aka email)?
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:9NV7t58mClAJ:www.digg.highaltitudeimports.com/operating-system/+coolyota&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=75&gl=au
hmmmm