Ian Wood's blog

GPS2Aperture Lite version 1.0.15 is now available, and isn't a beta! There's been a few tweaks and several bugfixes.

http://aperture-assistant.com/gps2aperture

Work will now continue on the 'pro' version which will do geotagging from GPS log files. If you'd be interested in beta testing the pro version, please drop me an email.

Ian

I've not had much time to put together panoramas etc. from the Prague meeting, but here's a timelapse movie of one of the evenings eating at a local brewery.

Ian

GPS2Aperture has been updated to work properly with Aperture 2, allowing you to view and geotag your images via Google Earth.

It's free, and the beta is available at http://aperture-assistant.com/gps2aperture

Future plans include full geotagging from GPS log files.

Ian

There is now a beta for Pano2Movie 2.1 available, with full bezier curve path editing.

http://www.pano2movie.com/beta-versions

I've been pretty quiet on the blog recently, due to a combination of being away for much of February (I went to Australia for a wedding, and met up with Aaron Spence who turned out to live round the corner), re-doing my website (not finished yet) and a bunch of application programming.

Pano2Movie has been getting a bit of attention, with a new beta with bezier curve paths hopefully coming out in the next two weeks.

A nice, cryptic title... ;-)

Last week a colleague pointed me in the direction of an intriguing residency/installation at Plymouth Arts Centre (that's the 'original' Plymouth, not one of the thirty or so places named after it that are dotted around the globe).

Pano2Movie 2.1 Preview

This isn't really an alpha or a beta release, more a preview of what is on the way. Opening and saving of projects is not yet done, and neither is exporting of movies. However, the new curve-based timeline is nearly complete.

The keyframing in Pano2Movie has been rewritten to use bezier curves instead of the thumbnail system used in version 2.0.

http://ianjameswood.co.uk/p2m/files/downloads/p2m_21b62_osx.zip (4MB)
http://ianjameswood.co.uk/p2m/files/downloads/p2m_21b62_win.zip (3MB)

Not very busy so far, but the main film showing is tonight (the 250-person auditorium is sold out) and there'll be people coming to see the installation before and after the main showing.

Here's a rough-and-ready QTVR of the installation.

Ian

P.S. You wouldn't believe the size of the projector!

Yesterday I spent all day at the Phoenix centre doing a dry run for the installation, to check that it would definitely all work etc.

First up was testing different projection methods.
Front projection would have given a brighter image and allowed more space, but caused problems with people's shadows falling on the screen as I couldn't get the projector close enough and high enough.

Pano2Movie, the updated version of QTVR2MOV is now available, for generating QuickTime videos from your QTVR files.

http://www.pano2movie.com

Main new features:

Record paths through the panorama.
Edit and save paths.
Use the same path on multiple panoramas.
Export as a sequence of images.
Export to a QuickTime video file.
Use any installed QuickTime codec, or use losslessly-compressed PNG format.
Pick from a series of preset video sizes or use custom dimensions.