EPISODE #23 (November 21st, 2005)

Thanks to the folks at MuchMoreMusic (Richard and Jen) for joining us on this shoot for their podcasting feature (and for letting us shine under their lights!).  Also, Mr. Excel was a champ to rush in from the airport to talk candidly about what's in store for Microsoft Excel 12.  Enjoy the show!

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Comments

[Elvis Ripley]

The correct iPod video size is 320x240. You have it as 320x213 so it is squished. If you are exporting it in QuickTime change your input video size to 640x480 before you start to export it. The 720x480 confuses the encoder because DV uses rectangular pixels and all the other codeqs use square pixels.

[Hasan]

Nice show guyz with lights and everything, so I can see ur luvly faces.
I heard that u (Amber) liked chicken curry at Indian restaurant. awesome. I haven't been to toron'o but Im sure there r some Indian and Pakistani shops, or atleast where my aunt lives, missisuagga(sorry for spelling, but I hope u know where the place is)

Just FYI:
Decents from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh refer each other as "DESI" (pronuonce as "they-see")If u guyz watch mtv there is a site called www.mtvdesi.com

Once again, nice show but u guyz need a little bit more lights on the fore and background, if u gonna shoot at nite or dark/low light situation. I think try shooting in daylight and save money on lights any way.

[Brian McKechnie]

Elvis,

I am using the export for iPod setting in Quicktime (which is set to 320 x 240). I will check into it though.

-Brian

[Robert_]

Woohoo an XviD Version.

[Amber Mac]

Yes, thanks to Brian for rendering an XVID version!

We're shooting at night these days, so it's hard to get good light...maybe one week soon we'll shoot at dawn before we go to our day jobs (Jeff, Mikey, Brian - what do you think about a 6am shoot? LOL!).

-Amber

[jake]

Yay! Hooray for xvid!

[Randy]

Great episode. You guys should have Mr. Excel on more often. I was his Mr. Excel podcast every day and it would be cool to incorporate some of his tips on Excel and Office into Command N, maybe every 4 or 5 episodes or so.

[MTigerV]

as far as i can tell, the MPEG4 feed has not updated to include #23. i use this feed because all the videos play on the video ipod. anyone else not get #23?

[Pei Zuan]

Great episode! I can see improvements over the pass few weeks, e.g. the umms and errs are almost gone, and it's a quick improvement I've got to say.

I notice in this episode that there are some sound echoes due to the enclosed environment you did the shooting, and it's understandable because it was impossible to create a studio-quality recording at random places like the restaurant. I don't know if there are any good tools to remove those extra effects, but it would be nice if you can make use of one to create a cleaner voice. It should come in handy as you will be shooting the coming episodes in many other exciting places and I for one love it that way :-)

Keep it up!

[Brian McKechnie]

Pei Zuan,

We had some issues with our mic's picking up interference and we were in a restaurant where music was being played and a lot of other factors were involved.

As we get better equipment more of these issues will be worked out.

-Brian

[Amber Mac]

Thanks for all your feedback! And yes, Mr. Excel is great ;-).

As for the MPEG-4 issue, we'll look into it...

-Amber

[Arian]

I agree with MTigerV--my iTunes hasn't picked up episode 23 (even with a manual update right now) and it's subscribed to the MPEG-4 feed

-Adrian

[Paulie [eatl/ga]]

I added the download of the MPEG4 feed because (my) iTunes never saw episode #22 in the h264 feed. Now, the h264 feed has episode #23 but the MPEG feed does not.

I love the content, I am just bringing this up so that I can stay current (hopefully using only ony format).

Thanks for all of the hard work.

[FooTh]

It's great watching your show on the train with my ipod video ... keep up the good work and nice quality !

[Amber Mac]

Thx all! We've had some issues with iTunes, that we're trying to sort out - so thx for your patience!

-Amber

[haniff from malaysia]

the only reason guys watch commandN is amber. right guys?

[Aaron]

Great show guys! I also want to say that I'm sadly experiencing the iTunes issue as well. I want to easily stay up to date, and it seems that the h264 feed is not compatible with the video iPod, according to the error I get in iTunes. So I subscribed to the MPEG feed, but then just today checked the site and realized I missed the latest episode so I had to subscribe to the h264 feed to watch that, on my PC. I really wish we would have ONE format (preferably h264?) on iTunes, that actually would be able to sync with the video iPod! /endrant ;)

[Brandon]

Well, I hate to tell "Mr. Excel", but Access is a totally different market than Excel, and Excel is not going to kill it. Being able to have more rows is not going to allow Excel, a spreadsheet app, to kill Access, a database app.

[Steve]

Thanks for bringing back xvid :)

[Amber Mac]

Thank Brian for the XVID!
-Amber