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Perian: Awesome FLV QuickTime plugin.

// February 12th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Technology

I just realized, while downloading the update for Perian 1.1, that I had never recommended it before: It calls itself the “swiss-army knife for QuickTime” and it has all the reasons to do so! Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types like FLV (used by YouTube) or HuffYUV, FFVHuff and other codecs you will never ever use in your entire life. But still, it opens Flash video in QuickTime and that is nowadays getting more and more important. So grab the newly updated Perian 1.1 here. Mac only, harrr.

Old Shanghai in Ang Lee’s new movie.

// July 31st, 2007 // No Comments » // People's Republic of China, Videography, Videography - Movie Trailers

Lust, Caution is the new movie from Ang Lee. Most of the story seems to take place in ‘occupied Shanghai’, so I am guessing in the late 1930’s? The story is about a ‘ordinary’ girl who has to make a dude fall in love with her, then kill him. That bitch! Just kidding, the story seems way more deep than my words could ever describe it… But that’s what you would expect from a director who can turn cowboys gay, isn’t it? Anyways, there are only very few shots of old Shanghai in the movie, it must be more difficult with each day and every new skyscraper to ‘turn back time’. Most of the shots are pretty dark, which is clever, so the removing of the skyscraper-lights gets kinda easy… I know video editing, just believe me. Still, there are some day shots like in the image above. So check out the trailer if you’re into Shanghai’s history look. The trailer is, of course, available at apple.com in 25 different HD resolutions. Check it out.

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