Re: [webartery] convert ASF to a format that Premiere can read?

Hi Millie
I use an small MP4 recorder on occasion (I don't know
whether you remember my *my funny valentine* piece -
the piano sections were shot with it) which records to
this deeply irritating format -why can't an mpeg4
recorder record to mp4?? - I use River Past Cleaner

http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/videocleaner/compare.php

to convert.
I have the full version but it looks as though the
lite version will do what you want.
When I first got the camera I googled feverishly to
see if there was a free converter -I couldn't find one
but things could've moved on.
There's also another converter I've seen, called total
video converter,

http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/

which seems to do much the same stuff. Looks as though
you can download a trial of that, not sure how the
trial is limited though…
Looking forward to seeing the piece!
best
michael



— Millie Niss <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a weird off-brand media player, the Cowon A2
> (an MP3 player that can
> also play & record video), and I recorded some stuff
> from TV using it. It
> plays back beautifully on the player and on my
> computer using Windows Media
> Player, but I can't for the life of me get ot ontpo
> Premiere, and I made the
> recording to get source material for my work, not to
> watch as-is…
>
> It's an ASF file. Premiere claims to be able to
> import ASF but it can't
> import this. I tried many many methods to convert,
> and the only thing that
> worked at all was importing into Windows Movie Maker
> and exporting the movie
> as AVI, but this degraded the quality horribly (the
> input ASF file is a
> weird small size and WMM only exports a few standard
> sizes) and it also took
> forever (several hours for an hour of video).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> By the way I am not ripping off network TV shows
> etc. – my recording is
> mostly of televangelists and commercials, and I am
> planning a mashup that
> will process the images and sounds beyond
> recognition.
>
> Millie Niss
> [email protected]
> http://www.sporkworld.org
>
> P.S. If you are replying from Rhizome RAW, please
> email me a copy because I
> read only Rare and the reply might not make it
> there…
>
> —– Original Message —–
> From: "Joel Weishaus" <[email protected]>
> To: "Webartery" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:12 AM
> Subject: [webartery] Fw: "introduction" posted for
> feedback and suggestions
>
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Richard Smyth wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've written the following as an intro to "the
> selected works of ulmer,"
> a book i'm making in Second Life to introduce
> researchers and students to
> these concepts. Please feel free to
> critique/criticize/suggest
> revision/etc. I invite your collaboration.
>
> Thanks.
> Richard
>
> INTRODUCTION TO THE SELECTED WORKS OF ULMER
>
>
> "What Aristotle is to rhetoric and poetics,
> Ulmer is to hyperrhetoric
> and poetics."
>
> –Victor
> Vitanza
>
>
> Vitanza's statement is no exaggeration. Since
> the publication of his
> first book, Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy
> from Jacques Derrida to
> Joseph Beuys, the career of Gregory Ulmer has
> consistently aimed at learning
> from past practices of information storage and
> retrieval with the purpose of
> inventing new practices for emerging media at a time
> of major cultural and
> social transformation.
>
> As a "grammatologist"-that is, as one who
> studies the "history and
> theory of writing"-Ulmer puts the practices of
> orality and literacy into a
> broader historical context such that the underlying
> dynamics of these
> "apparatuses" become apparent. For him the
> apparatus is a triad of
> variables which includes the available communication
> technology (thought of
> as a prosthesis augmenting functions of the human
> mindbrain like memory,
> reason, emotion, and social networking); the
> institutional practices that
> result from social, economic, and political-power
> relations; and the
> experience of self made possible by these
> technologies and practices.
>
> Working by means of "grammatological analogy,"
> (that is, looking to past
> moments of transition in apparatus), Ulmer applies
> this anthropological
> calculus to our current historical moment with the
> purpose of inventing
> institutional practices for the emerging apparatus,
> which he calls
> "electracy." This neologism is a more appropriate
> term to use because the
> host of "literacies" that have cropped up (such as
> critical literacy,
> digital literacy, multimedia literacy, participatory
> media literacy,
> teleliteracy and the like) all retain an
> etymological connection to the
> apparatus of literacy, which comes from the Latin
> for letter, "littera."
> Electracy, on the other hand, invokes the electronic
> underpinnings of
> digital devices and is shorthand for the larger
> constellation of cultural
> and social phenomena that constitute our postmodern
> paradigm shift. As
> Barbara Maria Stafford writes in Artful Science,
> "Pixels are the movable
> type of the future." And the future is now.
>
> Ulmer's work provides the most comprehensive
> explanation for the
> technological, institutional, and cultural changes
> that humanity has faced
> in past transitions in apparatus and is facing in
> the 21st century, and it
> offers the most effective insights for how to
> understand the phenomena of
> Second Life and other forms of existing and emerging
> participatory media.
> By looking to the past, Ulmer provides a way to go
> forward into the future,
> allowing the arts and humanities to contribute
> consciously to the invention
> of new genres and institutional practices, rather
> than letting them emerge
> as a result of and under the influence of other
> social and economic forces.
>
> For this reason, I present the "selected works"
> of Gregory L. Ulmer, a
> collection of key quotes and passages from his
> published work, to help raise
> awareness of these important ideas and to bring them
> to a broader Second
> Life public.
>
> Abaris Brautigan
> Techno-Grammatologist Collaborative
> 29 October 2006
>
>
>
> ____________________________
> Richard Smyth
> 2 South New Street
> Bradford, MA 01835
> 978-469-7085
> [email protected]
> http://www.anabiosispress.org/rsmyth
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