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ChirreD
Feb 21, 2007
Dutch, baby!
I'm really digging some of these projects here, I can't even begin to understand how to build a ray traced shader, very cool.


Last months I've been working on the frontend of a CMS we use in our company. The CMS is called Benzine, made in Adobe Air (Flash&Flex). I'm responsible for the usability (interface) and the development.

Here are two screens (using my own host), one shows a newsitem, and the other shows the overview of videos.





This CMS is used by M-1 Global for example.

It is a desktop app, to manage your sites with (amongst other things). The reason we chose Air, is to make it easier for clients to update sites in terms of usability. For example: Simply dragging a video from your desktop to the application will prompt the user to upload the video to his website.

We put in a lot of effort into making it very user friendly, also we did our best to make it look pretty and not very technical as opposed to most CMS systems. So our designer made a nice user interface and there are lots of subtle animations and transitions in there to show the user what's going on. (For example: Menu sliding open gently, instead of a hard transition)

It contains nifty features, such as when you upload a video, it automatically creates a still image from it (to be used for the thumbnail but maybe also on a website). Or you can press the snapshot button (right side, underneath the videoplayer on 2nd screenshot) to create a new still real easy.
Or it can take out the album art of a mp3 file and use that for the thumbnail.
Things like that, make managing your content a little bit easier.

(don't mind the play button on the top left, that's just a debugging tool :))

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ChirreD
Feb 21, 2007
Dutch, baby!

J. Elliot Razorledgeball posted:

Wow that's pretty amazing looking, any plans on releasing that?

Thank you :)
We finished it last friday actually. So it is available now to our clients.

By releasing, do you mean a public download? That would be hard to do since this baby runs on a backend with a webservice we created. Which is excellent for the websites we create. However this also means that you can't just simply download and install it like Drupal or Joomla.

If you're interested, you can mail me at
tjeerd [at] vurigmedia [dot] nl
I'll happily tell you more :)

ChirreD
Feb 21, 2007
Dutch, baby!

Fruit Smoothies posted:

How can you "slap this together" over a weekend?!

I'm wondering the same thing myself.


Here's a fun little augmented reality project I've been working on for a magazine.
http://vimeo.com/12729274
Made in Flash

ChirreD
Feb 21, 2007
Dutch, baby!

Pfhreak posted:

Awesome. I love AR so much. I really need to get with the program and start putting together some AR demos. Got any good resources to get me started?

Thanks :)
I have more AR stuff I made if you like to see.

You can fly a RC chopper here:
http://www.vurigmedia.nl/experimental/ar
Or see a project where you control a camera with a marker:
http://www.vimeo.com/12670660



For resources, you can use FLARToolkit to get started
http://www.libspark.org/wiki/saqoosha/FLARToolKit/en

But on top of that there's FLARManager (only flash 10 I believe), with a very nice tutorial here (recommended)
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play.php?id=114

Good luck!

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