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Spotlight on 2009 TED Prize: Protect Our Oceans by Sylvia Earle
Posted on August 25th, 2009 No comments
The inspiring 2009 TED Prize has honored three outstanding researchers for their fruits that can cast mortal impact on the world of the day and even change the future of mankind. Sylvia Earle is one of them. Let’s get in touch with the thought of the great mind.
As an ocean researcher, Sylvia Earle has long been assiduous in her work to find the unseen facts of the ocean. And they turn into the stimulating images she shared with us on TED stage. That is a marine world far beyond our life but life there is flourishing.
These are the good facet of the ocean. Sylvia also mentioned the opposite. That is, our ocean is in danger. However, it is not caused by the ocean itself, but by us.
As Sylvia Earle mentioned, in the past 100 years, we kept ravaging the ocean by dumping and pouring large amount of waste and pollution into it, but we rather falsely think that the ocean is so immense that it could tolerate whatever we do to it. This false point of view has resulted in the facts Sylvia uncovered: we have eaten 90% of the big fish in the ocean and destroyed half of the coral reefs. The oxygen in large areas of the Pacific is depleted mysteriously. More facts continue on the list. Sylvia Earle’s research does remind us of overwhelming fishing activities, merciless wildlife killing and reckless forest logging. We can feel the weight in her words.
In her speech, Sylvia Earle compared our earth to the life support system on a sub boat or on a spaceship. When living in a lifeless space, people will treasure life support system or they will die without it. And the earth is our life support system in the universe. There is no reason we should harm our life support system and ask for the punishment. Though it is illogical, the wrong path has been taken. It is now or never to turn on the right way. Environmental conservation and campaigns are on the way to thrive, but they are still too weak and scattered to counteract the damage. What we need is a global mobilization. And this is the aspiring wish of the respected lady at the end of her talk.
I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films, expeditions, the web, new submarines — a campaign to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet. – Sylvia Earle
Nothing will match the convergent strength of the entire mankind, if we decide to do something great together.
Invite your family and your friends to learn about the leading ideas from TED. If you would like to help further deliver this talk show to more people with all kinds of platforms, Leawo Video Converter is your right-hand assistant. It can convert TED videos (MP4) to any other popular formats, say AVI, WMV, MOV, 3GP, RMVB, etc. If you just want to burn it with other TED videos to DVD, we wonder if you know how to Burn Your Favorite TED Videos to DVD.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Posted on August 20th, 2009 No comments–Another Hollywood Highlighted Movie Rivals Harry Potter
Science fiction has long been the popular theme which ranks high in people’s favorite movies. After Harry Potter and The Load of the Rings have shook the globe, you may be infused with the vision of the magical school life and the grand scene of epic war. They are no doubt at the throne of sci-fi movies of the day. Recently, Hollywood Movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, has kicked off the start and is going to rival Harry Potter on visual effect with state-of-the-art technology.This is a sci-fi movie about another world through a wardrobe. Four kids walked unintentionally in a magical wardrobe and into a land of another world. Unfortunately, the peaceful land had been spelled by the White Witch and become a freeze world. The justice upholder, Aslan the lion fought with the devil White Witch with the help of the kids. Eventually the witch was defeated and the land regained life and hope. The upcoming movie The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the third episode of the series. It is the story about the voyage adventure of Prince Caspian, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace to the sea east of Narnia. Many stimulating plots will come about in this episode. The visual effect is said to be a lot over the previous two episode. Now the shoot has started on July 27th, and it is due on screen on Dec. 10th, 2010. Feel a long time waiting? Let’s have a look of its trailers in no time:
The Voyage of the Dawn Teader Trailer 1:
The Voyage of the Dawn Teader Trailer 2: Castle Set at The Spit
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Burn Your Favorite TED Videos to DVD
Posted on August 18th, 2009 No comments
Being a global renowned conference, TED has attracted leading thinkers and doers around the world to gather on the stage to share their ideas and find inspiration. Once you go on www.ted.com and take a look on the talk shows that are soaked with the ideas of the great minds, wouldn’t you be stirred to make a collection of them? The simplest and popular way is to download the talk show videos and burn them to a DVD disc. Let’s do it together!
Turn to a talk show page, and you will find the download link below the video box.
Click the upper link to download the MPEG-4 video to desktop in a zip file. It can be played on your PC with any video player programs. However, it requires several steps before the videos go into a DVD disc and are smoothly played by a DVD player.
Although DVD disc supports all formats of data, most consumer DVD players accept only MPEG-2 video as a standard format. The resolution is at 720*480 (NTSC) or 720*576 (PAL). As a video standard, PAL is widely used in Western Europe, while NTSC in North America. They are not compatible with each other, so you should check the color-encoding system used in your country at http://www.videouniversity.com/articles/world-wide-tv-standards/
Burn TED Video to DVD
After you have picked up some necessary knowledge of DVD video formats, we should be on the way to turn the MPEG-4 video into a DVD MPEG-2 video. Now we need a video converter like Leawo Video Converter which provides output for DVD video format. We should input the TED video to the video converter and set the output format to *.vob, which is the standard video format for DVD. Then change the video standard (NTSC/PAL) in the conversion settings to match your regional standard. Since TED talk shows are usually short movie clips that last no longer than 20 minutes, so you can stuff the DVD disc with more than ten TED clips. In this case, you can use bunch conversion function to save your effort. When the conversion is done, the video files generated are ready for burning. Simply assisted by a DVD burner like Nero, you have completely transferred your favorite TED videos to a DVD disc. With Nero, you can even create DVD chapters which will show on the start of the play and help you navigate among the videos.
Here are quick tutorials connected to the creation of a DVD using Nero:
1. How to Burn DVD with Nero
http://www.ehow.com/how_4694422_burn-dvd-nero.html
2. How to Create DVD Chapters in Nero Vision
http://www.ehow.com/how_2121411_create-dvd-chapters-nero-vision.htmlIsn’t it quite a simple way to burn your favorite TED collection? In fact, you can put TED videos to any kind of video devices you want. Take iPod for example, see if this tutorial may help:
http://www.leawo.com/blog/2009/08/several-key-points-on-putting-video-to-ipod/
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Share Meteor Shower Video on YouTube!
Posted on August 13th, 2009 No comments
Annual Perseid Meteor Shower does really entrance us with its spectacular large scale of meteors streaking over the mid-night sky during these days. If you happened to be at the live scene of Perseid with your camera or video recorder shooting the event, you must also want to share the recorded videos on YouTube with everyone and fill them with ecstasy. Let’s start the journey of broadcasting your personal live report of Perseid on YouTube.
After you register the membership of YouTube, the course of video upload is as simple as one might think. You only need to enter the your experience of Perseid and input the video file. Click the upload button, and it’s Done! But somehow you may not be familiar with TWO facts of the video upload requirements of YouTube. They are the key to a better and trouble free result. Let’s get to know them once and for all.
Fact 1: If you were using a HD-video recorder, the generated file size may be enormously large. Luckily Youtube has recently loosened the rope and accepted a video file size up to 2GB. It is more than enough to preserve as many details of Perseid as possible. But be aware that the length of video is limited to 10 minutes. You have to trim your video into the appropriate length. Using a video converter like Leawo Video Converter or Leawo Mac Video Converter to trim your video is a solution for those who prefer precision. When trimming your video, it can show you the trimmed video in real time and allow you to set the duration time down to milliseconds. You can see exactly where the splendid moment occurs and then trim the before and the after.
However, there are still videos which are longer than 10 minutes, because it is the privilege only for those YouTubers who had registered before the limit was set.
Fact 2: YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats as listed below:
Meteor Shower Video on YouTube
Behind the scene, YouTube will automatically convert the uploaded video file to flv format. Loss of quality inevitably comes along each round of conversion. The more rounds the same video is converted, the less favorable quality you will get in the end. It is especially a letdown when the meteor is hardly visible in the video which is badly converted.
The original is on the left while the badly converted is on the right:
To avoid the unnecessary loss of video quality by the automatic conversion, a manual conversion prior to upload is recommended. The officially recommended file format is MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid, or SVQ3 rather than h.264) at 640×480 resolution with MP3 audio (64k mono). YouTube will happily accept videos of this format and the quality will be preserved as high as possible.
Maybe you have little knowledge of the file format. But don’t worry. Just leave it to the video converter developers. You just need to tell the converter about the recommended file format by YouTube, and the ideal video file is generated. In this case, using an easy-to-use video converter like Leawo Video Converter or Leawo Mac Video Converter is a good choice.
Now, you can share meteor shower video on YouTube free of trouble. More of that, you are capable of exhibiting your live view of Perseid as living as possible. So why still wait to have a try yourself?
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Knowledge about Meteor Shower
Posted on August 12th, 2009 No commentsWhat is a meteor?
A meteor shower, also known as “meteor storms” or “meteor outbursts“, is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speed on parallel trajectories. As most Meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all meteoroids disintegrate and never hit the Earth’s surface. Fragments which do contact Earth’s surface are called meteorites.The most visible meteor shower in most years are the Perseids, which peak on August 12 of each year at over 1 meteor a minute.
What causes a meteor shower?
There are tiny dust-sized particles in Earth’s path around the Sun. These particles are usually leftovers from asteroids or comets. When Earth passes through these particles during its orbit, they burn up in our atmosphere producing bright lines. This is called Meteor shower.What are meteors made of?
It depends on the type of meteors. Crrently, there are three types of meteors. Stony, Iron, and Stony-Iron. Stony are made of rocks and dust. This is the most common type of meteor. Iron meteors are made of iron. Stony-Iron are made of rocks and metals, and this is the least common type of meteor.Where do meteors come from? How are meteorites created?
Meteorites come from comet trails. When a comet soars across the galaxy and comes through earth’s atmosphere, molecules fall off of the trail. When they clump together, they form meteorites.When is the meteor going to hit earth?
When the speed of meteor is enough and the meteors who are able to drill through the aerosphere, then it will land on the earth and be called meteorite.why is it difficult for many people to see a meteor shower?
There are several reasons for us to have a difficulty to see them.
First is location. These are bright objects and will stand out against a dark background. If you are looking at a clear night sky, you’ll see them. However, if there are city lights around, it’ll be almost impossible. The bright lights will almost certainly drown them out.
Second is the Moon. If the light from the Moon is very bright. This would also cause us hard to enjoy the meteor shower.
Besides, the biggest factor is the weather of course. Cloudy skies and thunderstorms can make it almost impossible to see them.In fact, a meteor showers occurs frequently instead of only taking place on one evening. They usually happen over several days. Some days they will be more conspicuous. So we needn’t feel regret for one time miss.
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