NASA camera porn.

120ish cameras document every Space Shuttle launch. This is an incredible look at just some of the angles with footage you’ve likely never seen before.

A pale blue dot.

Of the “pale blue dot,” astronomer Carl Sagan said:
 “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

Astonishing real-time translation.

This seems fake but, hey, I saw it on the internet so it must be true. Real-time visual translation thru your video camera on your iPhone. WOW! So far, its English to Spanish and Spanish to English.

Tutorial - Paste/Remove Attributes

“Test Bench” Tony Salgado (@tonysalgado) emailed me tonight with a question about how to apply one affect to many clips… and then make a slight change to the effect and reapply it to the same clips. Here’s how you use “Paste Attributes”, “Remove Attributes” and “Paste Attributes” again.

Tutorial - Low Audio Levels in FCP