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How to Record a Google+ Hangout on Mac OS X For Free With Free Software

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 7:28 PM on September 1, 2011 in Commentary. 15 Comments Tags: , , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/JS

I’ve seen a lot of tutorials and suggestions for recording a Google+ Hangout. All the ones I’ve seen run into one or more of these problems:

  • They require you to buy software or monkey around with a shitty trial version
  • They require Windows
  • They produce low quality video and/or audio
  • They don’t let you capture the sound of you talking and everybody else

So, here’s a method that solves all of those issues, as long as you’re running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or later.
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    “Hitler Reacts to the Hitler Parodies Being Removed From YouTube” Is Now Public Domain

    Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 10:11 AM on June 19, 2010 in Filmmakery. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/2r

    If you go watch my Hitler video on YouTube, you will now see an annotation stating that I have waived all copyright to it, with the help of Creative Commons‘ CC0 language. It is now in the public domain.

    That doesn’t mean anyone can just go around claiming ownership of it though. It means that nobody owns it. It belongs to everybody now. Go do whatever you want with it. I’d appreciate it if you give me credit for it, but that’s by no means required.

    Anyway, to make this absolutely, positively clear:

    CC0
    To the extent possible under law, Zacqary Adam Green has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Hitler reacts to the Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube. This work is published from the United States.

    There. Enjoy your gift, world. Merry Kwanzaa or whatever.

      Apparently When Your YouTube Video Gets Over 400,000 Hits, Marketers Try To Get You To Sell Their Spam

      Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 8:25 PM on May 14, 2010 in Miscellany. 3 Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/2K

        Subtitling on YouTube — Now Deaf People Can Giggle At My Videos Too

        Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 2:07 AM on March 10, 2010 in Filmmakery. 0 Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/vJ

        YouTube still doesn’t have nearly the audiovisual quality and presentation of Vimeo, but I gotta hand it to them for providing some fairly awesome features.

        I know they’ve had closed-captioning and subtitling features for a while, but I never bothered to try it out until now. I suppose if I don’t do the subtitling now, it’ll soon be done for me by Google’s speech recognition robots, and done very badly.

        So here’s “Let’s Meet the Lerners” with full closed-captioning. Click the arrow in the control-bar-thingy, then the “CC” button to turn it on. And if anyone reading this is fluent in another language and wants to translate it, download this .srt file, open it in Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac OS X (if you’re savvy enough to use Linux, I probably don’t need to tell you what your text editor is called), and rewrite all of the texty things while leaving the numbers intact. Then send it to me, of course.

          In Which The Geeky Political Drama Regarding HTML5 Video is Explained By a Kindergarten Crayon Drawing

          Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 3:44 AM on February 6, 2010 in Commentary. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/EN

          Okay, you see, there are some major advances to watching videos on the web that everyone would be able to experience right now, except all of the browser makers are fighting over what type of video standard to use. It may be confusing to you, so I drew you a picture to explain it in the distinctive art style of Zacqary Adam Green at age five:

          You see, Theora and H.264 are shooting guns at each other and Theora is shouting about freedom and H.264 is talking about money and Firefox is a fox and he likes Theora and Opera is a singing fat lady and she likes Theora too and Apple is an apple with leaves and a bite out of it and it likes H.264 and Google is a rainbow and it likes both of them and Dirac is hiding in his room and crying because nobody pays attention to him.

          There. Now you know.