Hasta La Motion!

I wanted to carry about the Foundry Nuke videos with me on my ipad, for easy reference, especially when I’m at work. "But what about watching them on the Foundry website while at work?", you might ask. Hey, I’m glad you asked that! It’s becoming more and more common to have the internet SHUT OFF at your machines at work. "But what about using your laptop, or even ipad and use the company WIFI?". Hey, another good question. And again, more places seem to not want to offer wifi to their artists. Thanks Pirates. You’re making our lives a lot more difficult. And sometimes, just sometimes, I want want to review a video at a coffee shop. So there.

Back to the subject. I tried a test video on the VLC app on my iPad, and it couldn’t handle it. It was slow and choppy, and scrubbing was impossible. CineXplayer can only do divex movies, and the default Movie app (which is connected to itunes) can only do movies that are "compatible" with the iPad specs. Just for the hell of it, I dragged and dropped a foundry quicktime into itunes, but it won’t sync onto my ipad.

It’s looking like handbrake is becoming my only option. The only problem is I hate handbrake with a passion. I hate converting video. I hate how long it takes. I hate how my conversions always end up bigger than the original. I hate how I suck at it. I just hate it.

Then, I remembered the app Goodreader can also handle videos. I’ve thrown a couple clips onto that, but never considered using it as a full on video player. It served me mostly as a PDF reader. The main reason I never considered using it for media was because there is no thumbnail capability. So I throw on a few foundry videos, and BOOM. They play. Beautifully. And I can scrub.

So there you have it. You got an iPad? You want to carry Foundry tutorial videos along with you. Goodreader is your man. Just drag and drop. No conversion needed.