From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #12 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Saturday, January 17 1998 Volume 03 : Number 012 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Compilaton [FleischMan@webtv.net (Michael Meyers)] First Clip: "Astrud" from Carson [combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee)] videos, news, & PW ["Diane F. Fisli" ] Re: First Clip: "Astrud" from Carson [Beverly Martin Signatures are the bumper stickers of the information superhighway. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:43:36 -0800 From: "Diane F. Fisli" Subject: videos, news, & PW Ben, thanks for all this work! :) I vote for the CD... Would also love to have it on VHS but hey - I think the CD would be much better - cheaper too - and certainly something that will last much longer than a videotape. I rarely sit in front of my TV anyhow - the most use my VHS machine gets is when I tote it to someone else's house to dupe tapes... I've been lurking here lately because I've been pretty busy. HOWEVER I do have some news (or redundancy, if you will) - Basia and Danny *are* working on writing songs for the new album... So it's still in the works. It hasn't been given up... That's all the news I have, but at least it doesn't say, "she retired" or "he retired" or whatever... :) That said, here's a list of the upcoming Peter White shows for those interested: Those indicated as G&S&M are Guitars Saxes and More shows, featuring Peter White, Rick Braun, Craig Chaquico, and Richard Elliot: - --------------------------------------------- PETER WHITE HEADLINER (two shows, 4PM & 630PM) SUNDAY JANUARY 18TH Redlands, CALIFORNIA University of Redlands Wallichs Theatre - --------------------------------------------- THURSDAY MARCH 12TH Visalia, CALIFORNIA L. J. Williams Theater G&S&M - --------------------------------------------- FRIDAY MARCH 13TH Kelseyville, CALIFORNIA Konocti Harbor Resort G&S&M - --------------------------------------------- SATURDAY MARCH 14TH Incline Village, NEVADA Hyatt Ballroom - A JazzTrax event - G&S&M - --------------------------------------------- SUNDAY MARCH 22ND Reading, PENNSYLVANIA Berks Jazz Fest ALL STARS: Rick Braun, Brian Culbertson, Boney James, & Peter White - ---------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY APRIL 18TH Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA Wadsworth Theater WITH: Marc Antoine, Craig Chaquico, and Peter White - --------------------------------------------- SUNDAY APRIL 19TH Temecula, CALIFORNIA Thornton Winery WITH: Marc Antoine, Craig Chaquico, and Peter White - --------------------------------------------- SUNDAY MAY 24TH Maui, HAWAII Maui Jazz Fest 213-254-4249 ALL STARS: Rick Braun, Brian Culbertson, Boney James, & Peter White ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am planning to be at the Redlands show on Sunday - if anyone else from this list is planning to be there, email me! :) And if anyone is planning to go to Maui and has an extra free airline ticket, let me know!!! ;D BTW, thanks very much to everyone who took the time to peek in on Peter White's site and report back to me whether you were able to access it - I haven't heard yet back from my webspace provider as to what the trouble was (if indeed it was on their server), but I think the techie guy was coming back from holiday today... We'll see... :) TTFN! - --Di. Department of Redundancy Department ;) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:54:39 -0600 From: Beverly Martin Subject: Re: First Clip: "Astrud" from Carson Ben Combee wrote: > I captured at 320x240 with 12:1 compression and 44KHz 16-bit stereo > sound. Before doing the capture, I discovered that my sound card had > been misconfigured before to only record the left channel, so I fixed > that. The initial capture file was 397M -- not too bad. I brought > that into the video editor, chopped off noise at each end, and > rendered a MPEG-1 file at 320x200 -- I cut off the top and bottom of > the image, as those parts of the screen were very noisy and usually > aren't visible on a TV screen anyway. The final MPEG (after 4 and a > half hours) was a much smaller 35M. There were visible digital > artifacts, but the sound was quite good, and the picture less noisy. > The full screen playback on my ATI 3D Xpresssion+ card did a good job > of scaling it up to a reasonable size. > Sounds great... of course you realize that 90% of what you explained is (to me) computer Greek! > So, one down and sixteen more to go (not counting the Matt Bianco > videos). If this is typical, the whole collection will just barely > fit on one CD-ROM. There might even be room for a MP3 file of the > 1994 Atlanta concert bootleg. > Welllllllllllll.............. maybe it should be 2 CD Roms then, one of Basia and one of Matt Bianco... and if you need to fill in extra space, maybe something like video stills of the albums and liner notes... I've seen stills like that in some of my laserdiscs. > I'm going to try to get a 2M except from the clip posted on the web > site, so people can get a feel for how these will look and sound. I > might even be able to put the whole thing up as a RealVideo clip -- I > need to check out the encoder software for that. > Wow... that is one hell of a lot of work you're pouring into this Ben.... and believe me, I appreciate it!!! -- Beej - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -=> Visit The all New *LEGENDS* APA site!!! <=- http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/9049/Legends.html FEATURING THE ONE AND ONLY SUGAR AND SPIKE WEBSITE ON THE WHOLE BLASTED INTERNET THINGIE!!! http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/S&SMain.html AND MY OLD "STAND-BYS" AT: http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/index.html http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/graphics.html http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/9049/twice1.html (12/29/97) - -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Now the internet has all these people who are sitting around typing one-handed, and they're illiterates! I mean: 'Fick me! Fick me!', 'Fondle my tots!'" --Bette Midler, "Diva Las Vegas" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:43:55 -0600 From: Beverly Martin Subject: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Diane F. Fisli wrote: > I've been lurking here lately because I've been pretty busy. HOWEVER I do > have some news (or redundancy, if you will) - Basia and Danny *are* working > on writing songs for the new album... So it's still in the works. It > hasn't been given up... That's all the news I have, but at least it > doesn't say, "she retired" or "he retired" or whatever... > > :) > This ain't "redundant" news to me -- this is fantastic news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for doing the digging Diane!! -- Beej PS: When the PW site was acting odd (not on my end), I couldn't EVEN email ya! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -=> Visit The all New *LEGENDS* APA site!!! <=- http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/9049/Legends.html FEATURING THE ONE AND ONLY SUGAR AND SPIKE WEBSITE ON THE WHOLE BLASTED INTERNET THINGIE!!! http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/S&SMain.html AND MY OLD "STAND-BYS" AT: http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/index.html http://home.earthlink.net/~beej_martin/graphics.html http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/9049/twice1.html (12/29/97) - -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Now the internet has all these people who are sitting around typing one-handed, and they're illiterates! I mean: 'Fick me! Fick me!', 'Fondle my tots!'" --Bette Midler, "Diva Las Vegas" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:57:39 GMT From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Subject: "Astrud" samples online Well, if you go to http://basia.techwood.org/video.html and look at the status for today (15 Jan), you'll see three links to samples of the "Astrud" video. The MPEG is 20 seconds and 3.7 M long, so only DL it if you want a sneak peak at the output quality of my setup. The two RealVideo clips are each around 600K, although the player will playback in realtime if you have at least a 28.8K modem and a good net connection. They both are the same video, but they were compressed using different methods and look a little different. Let me know what you think... I'm not going to RealVideo all of the clips (it takes time to convert them), but I'll try to put a few more online as I get them processed. - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) Signatures are the bumper stickers of the information superhighway. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #12 **************************