Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Digital Video Editing

- What is the defenition of Digital Video Editing?
The capturing and manipulation of video in a digital format.

- Where are the different TV systems used? There are three different types:
NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. NTSC stands for National Television System Committee, it is used in the United States. PAL stands for Phase Alternating Line, it is used in Spain. SECAM stands for Sequential Color with Memory and it is used in France.

- What are the main differences between them?
NTSC delivers 525 lines of resolution at 60 half-frames per second. PAL delivers 625 lines of resolution at 50 half-frames per second. SECAM uses the same resolution as PAL.

- What is the most common video format?
The most common video format is AVI, producers use this format because it allows them to sell their products to the largest base of users.

- What is the video format you use and why?
The one I most use is AVI, the one used for windows. I use this one mostly because most movie and audio files com in this format.

- What can I do if I want to convert one video format into another?
If you want to convert a video format into a different video format you need to download a video converter. There are many video converters, I myself use Videora Ipod Converter which lets me convert videos in AVI into other formats so that I can put my videos in my Ipod or PSP.

- What is the best quality video format?
Best quality of video format is MPEG-4, based on MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and Apple QuickTime technology.

- Which is the fastest data transfer connection?
The fastest data transfer connectio is Firewire. It can transfer data at rates of 400Mbps (in 1394a) and 800Mbps (in 1394b)

- What is the meaning of fps?
fps stands for frames per second, the speed at which a reproductor generates fotograms or frames.

- What is the meaning of footage?
Footage is the material produced by the camera, before it has been edited to create a movie or video clip. Footage can also refer to all sequences used in film and video editing. Footage in spanish is Metraje.

- What is the difference between script and storyboard?
Scrip is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. The storyboard is a large section of the film produced beforehead to help film directors.

- What is the advantage of video streaming over video downloading?
In streaming you don't need to dowload the file which it would make you lose a lot of time and most people don't have fast enough acces to download large multimedia files.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Class Trip NY '09

This year after school ended we went on a class trip to New York. We had to fly for a lot of hours but we were all very excited about it. We got there late in the afternoon so the fist day we didn't do much apart from being in the YMCA Hotel and checking the surroundings. The stay at the YMCA wasn't bad, we had enough space in our rooms and it had swimming pool. The only thing that I didn't like of it was the bathrooms that were common and were always dirty. During the week we stayed in New York we did a lot of group activities such as visiting museums and we also had a lot of free time so that we could go shopping. one of the days we went to see the Statue of Liberty and we had a great time taking each other pictures, we also went to the Guggenheim Museun and the Moma. From my point of view I liked much more the Moma than the Guggenheim, I expected it with more paintings and interesting things. To get from one place to another, instead of going by metro, except in some ocasions we went walking. It was good because we could see the different parts of the city and what it was like, not only the places were the tourists went. The thing that most impressed me of all New York was Central Park, it was huege. I found it amazing that in the middle of a city like New York that has a lot of traffic and is a very busy city a place like that one were people could relax and do what they wanted. Another day we went to the Empire State Building, it wasn't bad, but I thought it was going to be a bit more fun. The day was a little cloudy but we got the chance to see everything. This trip to New York was a great experience and I recomend everyone to go and visit the city alone or with a group of friends.


Here are some links to some of the many and interesting places we went:

- Empire State Building:
http://www.esbnyc.com/index2.cfm?noflash=1

- Statue of Liberty:
http://www.statueofliberty.org/

- Moma Museum NY:
http://www.moma.org/

- Central Park:
http://www.centralpark.com/

Friday, March 13, 2009

Elements in Web 2.0

-Facebook: is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. http://www.facebook.com/
-Wikis: is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. http://www.wikipedia.com/
-Blogs:is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. http://www.blogger.com/
-Flickr: is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. http://www.flickr.com/
-Twitter:is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates, tweets, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends. http://www.twitter.com/
-Moodle: is a free and open source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System. Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that people can develop additional functionality. www.asob.eu/moodle/

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Result to the Elections of the Basque Parliament

This are the results of the elections to the Basque Parliament:











Thursday, February 26, 2009

Basque Country Parlamental Elections 2009

The next Sunday 1st of March the elections of the Basque Country's parlament will take place.
The parties and the candidates of each party are:


PNV-EAJ

Es un partido político de ideología nacionalista vasca activo en la comunidad autónoma del País Vasco y Comunidad Foral de Navarra y el País Vasco francés. Cuenta también con delegaciones en otros países, fundamentalmente aquellos con presencia de inmigración vasca. Está representado con grupo parlamentario propio en el Congreso y en el Senado españoles. Cuenta también con un representante en el Parlament Europeo. Se define a sí mismo como partido vasco, democrático, aconfesional y humanista, abierto al progreso y a todos los movimientos de avance de la civilización que redunden en beneficio del ser humano. El PNV tiene una estructura que funciona a tres niveles: municipal, regional o territorial y nacional, separando su representación publica de sus organismos internos. Ha estado presente en el Gobierno Vasco y ha ostentado su presidencia (lehendakaritza) ininterrumpidamente desde 1980 hasta la actualidad que preside dicho gobierno Juan José Ibarretxe.


PSOE-PSE
Es un partido político de España de ideología socialdemócrata fundado en 1879. Es uno de los dos partidos políticos mayoritarios de España, junto con el Partido Popular. Desde las elecciones generales celebradas el 14 de marzo de 2004 es el partido en el gobierno. Su organización juvenil son las Juventudes Socialistas de España. A día de hoy, ostenta el récord en número de votos obtenidos en unas elecciones generales: 11.288.698 votos obtenidos en las elecciones generales de 2008, celebradas el 9 de marzo. Se fundó con el propósito de representar y defender los intereses de la clase trabajadora nacida de la revolución industrial con el objetivo declarado de la toma del poder. El representante del PSOE en el Pais Vasco es Patxi Lopez.


Partido Popular - PP
es un partido político conservador de España fundado en 1989, definido en sus estatutos como de «centro reformista». Según sus propias estimaciones,[ cuenta con 707.000 afiliados, siendo el partido político con más afiliados de España. Tiene delegaciones regionales en cada comunidad autónoma, aunque en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra, donde tenía un acuerdo con Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), no lo tenía hasta octubre de 2008. A su vez hay grupos en varios países, integrados en la comunidad española de estos, que proporcionan su apoyo en las cuestiones políticas españolas e internas . Forma parte del Partido Popular Europeo (PPE), de la Internacional Demócrata de Centro (IDC), y de la Unión Internacional Demócrata (IDU). Su organización juvenil son las Nuevas Generaciones del Partido Popular (NNGG). El candidato del PP en el Parlamento Vasco es Antonio Basagoiti.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Discurso Inagural de Obama




Discurso Inagural de Obama


Queridos ciudadanos,

Me encuentro aqui hoy humildemente consciente de la tarea que tenemos ante nosotros, agradecido por la confianza que me habeis depositado, consciente de los sacrificios de nuestros antepasados. Doy gracias al presidente Bush por el servicio a nuestra nacion y tambien por la generosidad y cooperacion que a demostrado en esta transicion. Cuarenta y cuatro estadounidenses han prestado juramento como presidentes, las palabras se an dicho en momentos de prosperidad y en agus pacificas y tranquilas. De vez en cuando, el juramento se produce en medio de nubes y tormentas. En estos momentos Estados Unidos no solamente ha seguido adelante por la vision de los encargados de liderazgo sino porque nosotros, el pueblo, hemos permanecido fieles a los ideales de nuestros antepasados y la fe a nuestros documentos fundacionales. Asi que tiene que ser con esta generacion de estadounidenses. Se sabe que estamos en medio de una crisis, nuestro pais esta en guerra contra una red de violencia y odio. Nuestra economia esta muy debilitada debido a la codicia y la irresponsabilidad de algunos, pero tambien porque no tomamos decisiones firmes para preparar a la nacion para una nueva era. se han perdido hogares, se han eliminado empleos; se han cerrado empresas. Nuestra sanidad es muy cara, nuestras escuelas tienen demasiados fallos y cada día trae nuevas pruebas de que nuestros usos de la energía fortalecen a nuestros adversarios y ponen en peligro el planeta. Estos son los indicadores de la crisis, sujetos a datos y estadísticas. Menos medible pero no menos profunda es la destrucción de la confianza en todo nuestro territorio, un temor persistente de que el declive de Estados Unidos es inevitable y la próxima generación tiene que rebajar sus miras. Hoy os digo que los problemas que nos aguardan son reales. Son graves y son numerosos. No será fácil resolverlos, ni podrá hacerse en poco tiempo, América, los vamos ha resolver. Hoy nos reunimos aqui porque hemos decidido optar por la esperanza por encima del miedo, el propósito común por encima del conflicto y la discordia. En este dia venimos a proclamar el fin de las disputas mezquinas y las falsas promesas, las recriminaciones y los dogmas gastados que durante tanto tiempo han sofocado nuestra política. Seguimos siendo una nación joven, pero, como dicen las Escrituras, ha llegado la hora de dejar a un lado las cosas infantiles. Ha llegado la hora de reafirmar nuestro espíritu de resistencia, de escoger lo mejor que tiene nuestra historia, de llevar adelante ese precioso don, esa noble idea, transmitida de generación en generación, la promesa hecha por Dios de que todos somos iguales, todos somos libres, y todos merecemos una oportunidad de buscar toda la felicidad. Al reafirmar la grandeza de nuestra nación sabemos que esa grandeza no es un regalo. Hay que ganársela. Nuestro viaje nunca ha estado hecho de atajos ni se ha conformado con lo más fácil. No ha sido nunca un camino para los debiles, para los que prefieren el placer al trabajo o que buscan solo los placeres de la riqueza o la fama, han sido los ambiciosos aquellos que hacen cosas, los que corren riesgos. Algunos conocidos pero en su mayoria gente desconocida que han avanzado por esta dificil senda hacia la prosperidad y libertad, para nosotros ellos reunieron sus pocas posesiones y cruzaron oceanos buscando una nueva vida, por nosotros ellos trabajaron en fabricas y conquistaron el oeste.... (primeros 5 minutos)

Thursday, January 8, 2009

New Year's Resolutions



N ew Year's Resolutions:

Happy New Year to everyone!!!! I hope you've had a great time during your vacation. I have a few resolutions for this comming year. One of them is to learn euskera so that I can pass the ega exam. I will pay more attention at school and study more for my tests. Another thing I would like is to have more free time to surf and start competing. I would like to be a better son and help my parents in everything I can. I want to study and pass the red cross first aid diplome. Thats all I can remember for now but I´m sure that I will add a few more as the year passes. I desire you a very happy 2009 and try to achieve your own resolutions.