Last night, I added some new code to the ‘tuhopuu’ experimental Blender version to allow cutting strips in the Video Sequence Editor. It cuts any strips you have selected on the current frame, though there are a couple of minor limitations that perhaps someone more experienced in programming than I may be able to help with. Nevertheless, I’m quite proud to be capable of more ‘functional’ additions as well as the UI stuff I’ve been doing too (though I must also credit Alexander Ewering for sharing some similar code of his, for help and reference). Hopefully this will improve Blender’s NLE capabilities somewhat, which might be nice for Linux users, who don’t have much choice in video editing software on their OS.

How it works (MPEG4 video)

Well, both (!) the proposals I submitted for the Blender Conference 2004 were accepted. Yay! Looks like I’ve got a fair bit of work to do now before October, though. Check out the Conference Program.

Well, last week I finally booked and paid the deposit for my plane ticket to Amsterdam. I’ve never been to Europe before, and what better opportunity to spend all the funds I’ve saved over the last few months than to attend the Blender Conference 2004. I’ve submitted a proposal for a talk, so we shall see how that pans out.

After the conference, while I’m still in Europe, I plan to head off with the bare essentials and a backpack for some exploration through Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Russia, so if you’re in any of those countries, I’d love some advice (and hey, we could even meet up for a coffee or beer or both! :)

I recently completed some work, freelancing with LKS Design in North Sydney. The finished product is open and live now, so hopefully I won’t get in trouble for posting this here :) The project was done for Fuji Xerox, who are opening four showrooms/exhibition spaces (called ‘epicenter‘) in Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney to promote and demonstrate their high-end printing equipment. The Tokyo site opened yesterday.

My main job consisted of creating an interactive kiosk display in Flash (microsite) for display on a huge 80″ plasma screen inside. Additionally, the epicenter contains around a hundred posters exhibited throughout the space, illustrating various ideals that they want to promote (eg. innovation, sustainable development, consistency of colour) that serve a dual purpose of showing off the print quality of their top hardware. I worked on two groups of these, business results and creativity, which was quite interesting.

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