Multimedia

Massive 18-foot touch video wall turned on at Hard Rock Vegas

From Sixteen:Nine - The Digital Signage Blog. Very cool. According to the article, up to 6 users can simultaneously interact with it.


http://bit.ly/16ZJCV

Digieffects Launches Camera Mapper Plugin for Adobe After Effects

Digieffects,® a developer of popular visual effects software plugins, today announced that Camera Mapper is available for purchase. Camera Mapper, a plugin for Adobe After Effects, allows you to simulate a 3D scene from 2D footage.

It allows you to isolate one or several objects in your footage, project these objects on a separate layer and pull that layer out of the background, creating the visual illusion of the object floating in front of the original footage.


http://digieffects.com/product/camera_mapper

Adobe Flash in a race against Silverlight for the most DRM

Largely by virtue of its support from YouTube, which some say supplies four-fifths of the Web's streaming video, Adobe Flash is the de facto delivery standard for video through Web pages.

While content creators have been urging Google and other video hosts to implement better controls over how unauthorized content can become so freely distributed, Adobe is now working on a way to enable those creators to post or host their own Flash video, in a way that they and only they are in control of the distribution process -- including, who gets to see those videos and for how much.

http://tinyurl.com/lryd8h

Apple Fixes Adobe Flash Player Issue in Snow Leopard Upgrade

Apple has fixed an issue in Snow Leopard that was silently downgrading users to a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash Player.


http://tinyurl.com/nap2z9