Comments on: Episode 051

By: David Paksy

David Paksy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:25:24 +0000

Thanks!
Very amazing work!

By: Jelle

Jelle — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:36:31 +0000

It think that looks pretty good.

No seriously, great great tutorials. Never was ‘into’ vectorbased drawing, but now I totally love it and want to learn more about it. Supercool effects.

Thanks for these videos. Keep ‘m coming, they’re awesome.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:45:55 +0000

Oh, I understand now.

I use KDE and a nice thing about it is that I can change the default startup application size to anything that I want. However, I cannot go smaller than the application allows. When in Windows I do this with a small tool called “Sizer”. It sits in my titlebar (just like KDE) and allows me to right-click and change the dimensions of any dialog or application window.

I’m curious what differences there will be, if any, in KDE4. I’m in the process of downloading release 4.0.1 so that I can install it in VirtualBox.

By: Serge Gielkens

Serge Gielkens — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:20:23 +0000

I just tried MediaInfo. It shows indeed a lot of information in a practical way. Up till now I used the properties dialog of the Nautilus file manager for basic information or MPlayer for more detailed information.

By the way, with “Inkscape window” I was actually referring to its own window size on the video not to the video dimensions. Around the Inkscape window there is a border which fills up to 800×600. I was just thinking that the Inkscape window might accidentally have been scaled down by the screen recording software or something like that.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:27:19 +0000

@Serge

Hmm. Have you ever used MediaInfo? I use it in Linux and Windows. After sticking it in your /usr/bin dir just “MediaInfo ep051.avi” in a terminal and it returns the media information on that file.

By: Serge Gielkens

Serge Gielkens — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:28:07 +0000

As Patrick says, awesome. You have done a great job with that bezel. It looks like one piece instead of a composite.

As for the quality, I noticed that the Inkscape window was not 800×600 anymore, but something like 792×590. Could that be the cause of the deterioration?

Edit. Probably not. I just saw that in some of the previous shows the Inkscape window was not 800×600 either. I hope you did not mix scripts due to the MP4 discussion thread

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:01:40 +0000

That was awesome! I am going to watch this at least ten more times.I particularly liked the gloss added to some of the edges, the gradients that were used to illustrate the bevels and the subtle black outline between the wood like exterior and the darker CRT inside. It gives it the impression that the inner CRT area protrudes just slightly. These are the kinds of details I cannot see by myself. I really appreciate your guidance.

Okay here I go for the second time around…..

Thanks, You and Richard are amazing!!!