http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/index.htmlSokar's Blogensokarth@gmail.comCopyright 2006 Michael Smith2006-06-29T13:39:43+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:02:24 +0100sokarth@gmail.comPersonal2006-06-29T13:39:43+01:00http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/66e6aaf0be0a41ab533b66fa79786d6a-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/66e6aaf0be0a41ab533b66fa79786d6a-7.html#unique-entry-id-7
I've been back from Holiday for a few weeks now, and have been busy with production on the various bits of video i shot while there... best part of 5 and half hours of video, which I've posted on my Sokar's Studio site.

Now that I've got that done, I'm going to try, at least, and update this more regularly.

Well.. that's the plan.

As you many have noticed, from the navigation, I've removed the Gallery section, this is a temporary thing.

Well that's all for now.
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But if truth be known, I've not really have much to post about.

Well at the end of this month, I"m off on holiday for a week, and will be attending a convention while out there. I"ll be taking my camera with me as well.

When I get back, I'll start posting on my blog again.]]>sokarth@gmail.comSokar's Studio2006-04-05T12:03:51+01:00http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/4d668906f74361e0910f928f38aab03d-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/4d668906f74361e0910f928f38aab03d-5.html#unique-entry-id-5IMac... and all I can say is WOW!!! and that' just the screen size.

This new Mac replaces my old windows machine, which had crashed one time to many...

When I have a chance I"ll take a picture of my setup, but to give you a rough idea, the iMac is on left side of the desk, with the first of two 17" inch monitors on in the middle, which is hooked up to the iMac, which. and next to that, is the Mac Mini, which has my other 17" monitor sat on top of it.

I"ve been using for 6 days now, along side the Mac MIni, and for most stuff, the re really hasn't been that much speed wise, some thing are a little quicker to load.

The most impressive difference I've noticed, is the time it takes to do video compression.

In my spare time, I edit and compress video of various thing I've filmed, or someone has filmed, and they've asked me to edit it for them.

Last Fiday i had a 30 minute clip, and I thought this would be the perfect footage to do a comparison on.

The program I use for the compression is called MPEG Streamclip, and it's a freeware program for both Windowa and Apple Mac computers, and by coincience, they had just released a universal binary version of the program on that day, so I could get a proper feeling for the speed difference with it running natively on the Intel iMac.

I should problaby say the spec of the two Macs.

The Mac minin is the 1.42 Ghz PowerPC G4 modle with 1 GB of SDRAM and a 80 GB hdd drive.
The iMac the standard 20" iMac with the exception of 1 GB of ram.

So after installng the latest version of MPEG Streamclip on both Macs, I configured the it comrpess the vidoe using the same settings.

Granted I didn't start the test at the same time, but I had two seperate timers, so that I could indivisually time htem.

I started the Mac Mini first, and then the iMac about an hour or so later, due to finishing up some other compression.

The Mac Mini clocked in at around 12-13 hours... approxmately, it was well into the night when it finished when i went to bed at 1.30 it had anohter 2 hours to go, figured from half way mark which was aroudn 6 hours, that double that that it would be 12-13.

The iMac... 4 hour 21 mins.

Buy the time the iMac had finished compressing the Mac Mini wasn't even half way through, so I think ti's quiet obvious which computer I'll now be using for encoding video projects.

Yesterday installed Fincal Cut Express onto the, iMac, I'll post about that in the the next couple of about that.]]>sokarth@gmail.comPersonal2006-03-28T18:31:29+01:00http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/18299da25fceda465ba9a9fcd9c42cec-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/18299da25fceda465ba9a9fcd9c42cec-4.html#unique-entry-id-4
Last Tuesday, I ordered a 20" intel iMac. Nothing to fancy, 1 gig of ram, plus the wireless keyboard/mouse, and a mini DVI-VGA adapter.

And the reason for the Award if I could give one that is... is because I'm trying to track when the iMac will be delivered.

It says that the Estimated Delivery is 04 Apr 2006 (Subject to change)

Current Delivery Status: In Transit to Customer shipment n schedule dated 28 March.

As for Carrier tracking number: In transit to final destination - carrier details to be updated shortly.

Is that really helpful or what ~sarcasm~

I wish they would switch back to what they were using when I ordered my Mac Mini. The order status for tracking that, went into a lot of details, it listed every time the parcel was received at a depot.. Granted some of the place names.. I was like... where the heck is that...

I just hope that whoever the carrier is, doesn't decide to deliver it early tomorrow morning, because I have to go out and see to some things, which have to be done then.

I'll post an update on this as more happens
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And the long and short of it is, that all but one test was normal, so basically, we're still no closer to knowing what's causing the problem with my hip, but at least we now know it's not arthritis.]]>sokarth@gmail.comSokar's Studio2006-02-04T23:40:10+00:00http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/ed1f82d3f076935bc7ea34de9eef19d7-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/ed1f82d3f076935bc7ea34de9eef19d7-1.html#unique-entry-id-1Sokar's Studio, and I'm slowly redesigning it, using hte same program I do this page in.

I'm not doing anything to fancy, just updating it, and bringing some some stuff from other sections.

Oh yeah, I've also made my blog into an RSS feed, so if anyone wants to keep track of when I update my blog, you can now add my RSS feed to your RSS reader.

Well that's all for the moment.]]>sokarth@gmail.comPersonal2006-02-03T17:29:21+00:00http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/1607ca6d00c3f630cf92165e7d1fa4a5-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://homepage.mac.com/sokar2/Sokars%20Domain/page21/files/1607ca6d00c3f630cf92165e7d1fa4a5-0.html#unique-entry-id-0
I know it's not my first blog, but unlike previous ones where I was using a free blogging service, this utility comes in Rapid Weaver, which I use to maintain the website in.

I'll try to post a little more regularly than before... Well... that's the plan at least.


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