Tag Archives: video

Apple releases Final Cut Pro X

Finally, after whetting our appetites for long enough, Apple releases Final Cut Pro X, a revolutionary software tool that will change the face of video editing, but only on Macs. There was much speculation about when it’d be released, knowing that Apple normally runs press releases on Tuesdays, and since they promised it to be in June, it was highly likely to be today, or next week. For long enough, Apple has lagged behind Grass Valley’s Edius offering, or even … Continue reading

Take time to breathe, really breathe!

In the fast pace of life, we oftentimes get caught up racing for the next deadline, the next event, the next promotion, the next million… is it really worth it? What is life to you? Are you really living life to its full? This amazing road safety video puts a spin on living life and how we should enjoy life. Love the concept, and hope you do too.

Working at Facebook: A day with their team

Chanced upon this video illustrating how the Facebook Profile Team works and it’s interesting to have an insight into how their office is laid out, how meetings are conducted and who some of their engineers are. After all, they are the team supporting the “third largest country in the world”, with 600 million users! * Video from time.com

Technology ruins romance

While randomly surfing YouTube today, I chanced upon a gem of a short video that speaks to most of us techies. Sad, yet hilarious at the same time. Want romance in this day and age? You’ve gotta move with the times! Love the cinematography!

Video promos for Christmas: MadWorld

Rather timidly, I whispered to Grace (my wife) one day, “I’d like to learn videography – can you teach me?“. She’s been in the film and television scene for years, has edited full-length movies and countless TV series episodes. Me? I have been heading a group of companies dealing with servers and web campaigns. Nothing in common with video, whatsoever. “Sure, let’s bring the video camera to the park“. Thus, I started my journey of exploration into the world of … Continue reading

Shooting video with the HTC HD7 mobile phone

Up until Maxis passed me a unit of the HTC HD7 for review as part of their Maxis10 initiative, I’ve never had the opportunity to experiment with HD video capabilities of a mobile phone. Naturally, I was most pleased to be given the chance to use a phone with a LARGE (believe me, it is SO VERY LARGE) screen and 720p HD video. One of our Integricity companies was headed to Kuantan for a server deployment and 2011 planning retreat, so … Continue reading

iPad Talk

We are on the brink of the iPad launch in Malaysia, as reported by many. In line with that, I thought it appropriate to share a video that was shot at the cozy beanbag corner of our Integricity office. We had several early-adopters of the iPad join in for a discussion on how they use their toy for work and play. We heard from Ben Israel (then Digital Strategy Director at Integricity Interactive), Niki Cheong (avid blogger & The Star journalist), Toh … Continue reading

Video compression for iPads & iPhones

I’ve been working with video for more than a year now and have learnt so much over that period. I really want to thank my wife Grace who runs her video/photography company called Stories for teaching me so much. Now, I teach her stuff too! With all these awesome videos, I want to show them off on our iPhones and iPad. Digging around for the best and optimum video settings to compress to is just a pain. I’ve summarized my … Continue reading

TheBackpackr featured in Maxis videos

Maxis Communications is one of the leading mobile communications service providers in Malaysia and is the provider that pioneered 3G services in the country. They have kept their competitive edge through the years, despite more competition from new service providers entering the market by knowing their target market and customers’ individual preferences well. As technology becomes more readily available and the population of Internet users increases, the user group gets more diversified. Different users use the Internet for different reasons, … Continue reading

Helping the homeless via social media

On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; “Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?” For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly: “I certainly did something about it. I made you.” For many months, I have been silently following a website that is interestingly called InvisiblePeople.tv. It is an … Continue reading