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vacation/home movie, 1:10 min., opening credits and music from Harry Kümel's Le lèvres rouges:

• 10 MB mp4/h264
• 13 MB avi/XviD, lower quality

(Recorded with a cheap Aiptek HD camera, footage converted with

transcode -Z 720x576 -y mov -F yuv2,twos -i [infile] -o [outfile]

edited with Cinelerra, encoded with ffmpeg.)

Meet Lt. Murnau contributed to no longer forgotten music.

Completed video [1:26 min.] of the second Tape Treff at Extrapool, Nijmegen, according to Frans de Waard "an evening on cassettes [...] hi-jacked by not always stable noise makers who think its still shocking to run around naked and throwing up on microphones":

• high quality h264/mp4, 23MB
• DVD compatible mpeg-2, 35MB
• lower resolution Xvid avi, 21 MB

(Background information on methodology:

• ca. 60 min. material recorded with cheap Aiptek HD camera
• selected 60 scenes
• each of them trimmed to exactly 1 second
• original sound kept so that a sound edit results simultaneously
• slowed down the resulting video to twice the playback duration (2:00), equivalent to slowing down tape playback
• final cut to 1:26)

concept: digital video/film whose complete file length does not exceed 1.4 MB, the capacity of a floppy disk; distribute the films on floppy disks only. The video files must be standard MPEG1/2/4 files playable on standard player software such as VLC, no "demo" hacks. [h264/x264 allows to compress video streams down to 128 kbit/s, resulting in 90 sec. video on a standard 3.5 inch floppy disk.

first floppy film: nkdlunch.mp4, 2:44 min., 640x352, color, 1.3 MB

Odyssey of picking up A.L. (18MB) from his train in the midst of a technical breakdown of Rotterdam Centraal station.

Slumdog Millionaire / Frost/Nixon / The Wrestler / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Milk / The Reader