Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1895-98 (MoMA)
May 16th, 2006
Here’s another podcast from yesterday’s trip to MoMA — about Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples (1895-8). And like with the Malevich White on White, we ask what it is about Cezanne’s paintings that make them great — and that make his work such a critical linchpin between the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
I spent most of yesterday afternoon creating an enhanced podcast from one of our existing audiofiles — the one on Cezanne’s Still Life at MoMA. I had been looking at Pachyderm — and trying to create an example learning object to show the folks at the Museum at FIT what’s possible without a big technology budget. I realized that most of the Pachyderm templates allow for small movie files (2-3MB), but all of our screencasts are much larger. So, I thought that if I made an enhanced podcast with Camtasia, using only a few still images, perhaps the file size would be small enough to be plugged into Pachyderm.
So, I set out to make an enhanced podcast — it took a long time. As usual, a lot of time was spent gathering the right images and bringing them into Camtasia. Then I seemed to have problems with matching the still images with where I wanted them to go with the audio. When I would shift over the image, it seemed like other parts of the movie would shift in other places, and so I had to go back several times to fix things. When I first produced it as a quicktime movie, the transitions, which looked so lovely in Camtasia looked bad, and in addition, a couple of times the images changed sizes — when I hadn’t done that. And I think that later when I opened the Camtasia files, the alignment of the audio and visual tracks had shifted again.
Anyway, I got rid of the transitions and re-produced it. It is still too large (13MB) to put into Pachyderm I think, since the instructions there say 3-4 MB because of download time. Still, it might be useful to try it. We’ll see what it looks like on the video ipod…
Here it is.
Manet’s Olympia: a New Vod-cast
May 16th, 2006
Watch our first official “screencast” that appeared in iTunes…
Manet, Boating, 1874 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
May 16th, 2006
From our old blog:
Here is our podcast of the beautiful painting by Manet of a couple boating on the Seine in the suburban town of Argenteuil.
