Create HDR, Panoramas and add annotation texts in Lightroom

by | Dec 4, 2008 | Foto

Heard Martin Bailey talk about LR2Mogrify today and downloaded it to try it out and at the same time discovered LR/Enfuse:

  • LR2/Mogrify for adding borders and notations to your exported photos from LightRoom.
  • LR/Enfuse with which one can make panoramas and HDR photos from within LightRoom.

I installed both and seems to work though need to test more. Nice that it existed a 64-bit version of ImageMagick that worked nicely with LR2/Mogrify and for LR/Enfuse I noticed Timothy Armes tip where to download Enfuse and align_image_stack was not correct. Though just go to the Hugin project website and download and install the latest release and it works!

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Seperate Quick Launch from the taskbar in Vista

by | Nov 26, 2008 | PC

I just bought components and built a new PC at home. And I decided to go for Vista because it felt a bit more future-safe… Anyway most worked without a problem but I got really frustrated when I realized I could not create a toolbar with My Computer and put it at the top of the screen. But just found out through some googling that its possible but some what not obvious…

Vista: Move Quick Launch to Side of Screen

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Recover and rip a damaged dvd from a videocamera

by | Nov 9, 2008 | Snowboard

In March when we went to Val Thorens with UCPA the guide filmed us a lot and then we got the DVD but it was damaged and it wasn’t finalized. So I did an attempt to save some parts of the video and here is what I did and used.

First it was not easy to get a good ISO or extract the vob-files from the disc. I tried several tools:

  • dvdisaster could extract an iso from the dvd but I did not find a good tool to extract the vob-files since the iso was damaged it was not possible to open or mount as a normal ISO. Though it seems that if you have a registered version of ISOBuster it should be possible because I saw it could find the files from the damaged ISO.
  • CDRoller manages both to read the disc and extract damaged vob-files though you need to register to actual be able to save the files.

But now I had either an ISO or a couple of damaged VOB files. I noticed VLC was the best player to use to play the damaged VOB file and it showed quickly that it was not so much damaged.

Another great tool to quickly check all that could be able to recover was to use VobEdit and the preview function in there, but I was not able to use VobEdit to extract any mpgs or so from the VOB file. It showed much more video than VLC and it was basically all that I could later extract.

DGIndex which is part of DGMPGDec generates both a d2v or m2v and ac3 file.  So need to use ac3tool to make it into wav file and then TMPGEnc to make it into a mpg file.

Another tools that could extract a corrected VOB-file from the corrupted VOB-file was Vobrator.

Either if you go via an mpg file or a corrected VOB file you can then use Auto Gordian Knot to convert it into a DivX avi-file.

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