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Sneakers are officially infringing on summer domination by sandals. The wedge-heeled lace-ups that have been making the rounds on fashion girls must have served as a gateway drug, sartorially speaking, taking the well-heeled down a few inches at a time until they were ready for the full on flat effect. And the results are surprisingly sportif chic. In kicks by Superga — a buzzy Italian brand recently launched stateside that hails Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as creative directors — we have the twins in the label's classic black and white style, the Man Repeller herself, Leandra Medine, rocking a metallic version and Sienna Miller in a forest green pair. Mixing things up and making the look more feminine is Dree Hemingway, pairing her Marc Jacobs dress with white lace-ups, while Gwen Stefani is sleek in black Converse and a fedora.
Housing Works knows that people like a little sparkle around the holidays. In the glittering spirit of things, the charitable organization partnered with Swarovski Elements to unveil The Goddess Adorned, an auction of limited-edition Gaia & Gino vases designed by Harry Allen and accessorized by an array of designers and celebs. The one-of-a-kind creations by the likes of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen for Elizabeth & James, Kenneth Jay Lane, Waris Ahluwalia, Isaac Manevitz for Ben-Amun, Gemma Kahng and more will be going up on the block beginning Tuesday, December 6 on shophousingworks.com and can be previewed at Swarovski Crystallized Concept Store at 499 Broadway between Spring and Broome Street. Get a pretty preview above, happy holiday bidding!
Kanye West lent CFDA International Award honoree, Phoebe Philo, some street cred when he gave the Céline designer a shout out in his song "Dark Fantasy" last year not that he think she needs it. The singer, who caused a stir when he performed in a blouse from her Spring 2011 collection at Coachella this year, was on hand last night to give the British designer her trophy and some might wonder just how serendipitous his "costume" actually was. "We didn't plan it," said West of his choice to don Philo's designs, then present her with such a huge award. "It was funny cause I said her name in the first song as I came up over the crowds wearing her shirt." The super star wore a white blazer, Balmain jeans and custom Giuseppe Zanotti loafers for the Lincoln Center ceremony.
The Olsens, who were nominated for Swarovski's Emerging Talent award, packed the biggest fashion credit punch, collectively wearing Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Manolo Blahnik, Cartier, and of course The Row. (Ashley donned a dress from their nominated label and both the girls carried the line's debut handbags.)
Alexander Wang, who was the most-nominated designer of the evening, didn't let the day's pressure get to him. "Honestly I tried to do the least amount possible today, to keep my brain free and my thoughts clear and relaxed," Wang said. The designer walked away with the award for best accessory design and planned to celebrate accordingly. "I am going to Marc's dinner and then something else but I'm not sure I'm allowed to talk about it!"
Best Accessory Design nominee Reed Krakoff brought his wife to the ceremony. "I'm wearing my husband," Delphine said of her glimmering languid gown. "Oh, actually that sounds weird. I'm wearing a dress by my husband."
Director Sofia Coppola was tapped to present her good friend Marc Jacobs with a lifetime achievement award and was slightly nervous for her duties. "I am so not comfortable speaking on stage. I came to the rehearsal this morning to practice," she said, wearing a white shift from the designer's resort collection. "Marc is the only person I would have agreed to do this for. I am so happy for everyone in his company!"
The mood at the Lincoln Center was optimistic, and the color choice of the evening reflective. "I don't think you can get any brighter than this!" said Bergdorf Goodman's Linda Fargo, who by far took the award for loudest ensemble in a neon pink Jil Sander pant suit. "I've been fascinated with this look and am glad I chose it over a dress I feel way cooler." Chris Benz showed his enthusiasm on his hair. "It's Manic Panic Cotton Candy," the designer said of his super-hued locks. "It's low commitment, it will be pale pink by Friday."
But it's Lady Gaga who unsurprisingly stole the show, sneaking through the back door to the auditorium in a studded thong, corset and teal bob, where she was honored with the Fashion Icon Award. And her acceptance speech was just as memorable. "My rat's name is Black Jesus," she said on stage. "And he asked me to tell everyone he said, 'Amen fashion.'" Amen.
See all the style from fashion's most distinguished evening.
-Derek Lam has launched a diffusion line called 10 Crosby (named after the address of his HQ). [Fashionista]
-Julianne Moore has been named a "global ambassador" for Kiehl's. [WWD]
-The normally reserved Yohji Yamamoto finally talks in his new documentary. [HintMag]
-Yoshiyuki Miyamae has been named the new designer at Issey Miyake. [WWD]
-Inside Jen Brill's covetable closet. [The Coveteur]
-Scarf-wearing inspiration from Kate Bosworth, Mary-Kate Olsen…and Jay-Z? [KeepItChic]
The Union christened the first night of the Tribeca Film Festival at the World Financial Plaza last night. The Cameron Crowe documentary narrates the personal life of Elton John and his creative collaboration with Leon Russell. For Tribeca's 10th anniversary, glittering cineastes—from Lauren Hutton to Martin Scorsese to the Olsen twins—were toasting the city that started it all. Here are some highlights from the red carpet:
"It's obviously one of the best film festivals in the world in a city which is probably the most exciting city in the world." -Elton John
"This is some old, fine '40s trench coat. Feel this gabardine—they don't make gabardine like this anymore." -Lauren Hutton
"I will go anywhere that is kicking off with Elton John. I went to see Elton play at Madison Square Garden. That night, in the middle of the concert, he introduced John Lenon." -RJ Cutler
"[Paul Dano and I] are big film buffs and usually it's just the two of us in our pajamas watching movies, so it's cool to be out here and get to see some emerging talent. I've always had a big crush on the Tribeca Film Festival." -Zoe Kazan
See all the stars on the red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The Olsens have taken their quest for the perfect T-shirt a desire that inspired their successful parlay into the luxury market with The Row to the masses, launching StyleMint.com, a members-only e-commerce site that uses predictive algorithms to recommend shoppers monthly items based on their personal style. And the T-shirt is the focus of the first collection. Powered by BeachMint, the company responsible for Kate Bosworth and Cher Coulter's jewelry-of-the-month club JewelMint.com, the line of exclusive tees including classic crewnecks, V-necks and henleys in a variety of colors will retail for $29.99, a far cry from The Row's high price tags. And like almost everything digital these days, the site will be wholly social, so your Twitter and Facebook friends can weigh in on your purchases. Not that you'll need them. Mary-Kate and Ashley will star in regular videos for the site, walking shoppers through the collection, speaking to their favorites and offering advice on how to turn a simple T-shirt into a major style statement a market they've got cornered.
StyleMint.com will launch this July.
Clockwise from left: Victoria Traina, Simon Doonan, Vanessa Traina, Lazaro Hernandez, Jen Brill, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Harley Viera-Newton, Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarra, Laure Heriard Dubrueil, Alexandra Fritz
Last night at Barneys, the store's fashion director Amanda Brooks was holding up a lace-edged camisole and black hot pants from Vanessa Traina's new Maje capsule collection to her slim frame, prodding guests, "What do you think?" and asking a salesman for more pieces. (Talk about living above the store!) Brooks wasn't the only one drawn to the collection: the evening also lured Traina's sis Victoria and pals Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Jen Brill, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Joseph Altuzarra and Alexander Wang. After the party, the group braved the hailstorm for a dinner at Le Caprice.
Get a peek at Vanessa Traina's NYC apartment in our A Fashionable Life feature.
And we're back! With the fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan, and Paris wrapped, the fashion industry has all gone home to lick its wounds and recharge. (There was more than one cough heard around the Bazaar offices this week!) That means Mr. Blasberg's Best Dressed List, wherein editor at large Derek Blasberg rounds up 10 of the chicest sartorial contributions, is back with an international gaze. London was a hot spot this week, drawing out Kate Moss for a costume party, Thandie Newton for a Louis Vuitton fete, and Elle Macpherson on a somewhat S&M school run. Paris gives us Emma Watson on the set of her newest venture as the face of Lancôme. And there were quite a few looks in New York, with the Olsens turning up to collect their first Council of Fashion Designers of America nomination and two chic Italian women showing up at the Save Venice masked ball at the Plaza Hotel. We also found Georgia May Jagger in L.A. and Yasmin and Amber Le Bon way of in New Delhi. But that's the thing about style: It doesn't know country codes or zip codes.
The CFDA nomination gala is like fashion's version of Christmas, with both young and established designers gathering to celebrate. The organization's chair, Diane von Furstenberg, kicked off the nominations last night in a celebratory mood. But amid the merriment, the fashion world also remembered to give back: DVF announced that the CFDA is planning an online charity auction to benefit Japan. The award ceremony will take place on June 6. See the full list of nominees below.
Womenswear Designer of the Year Award: Alexander Wang, Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler, and Marc Jacobs
Menswear Designer of the Year: Michael Bastian, Patrik Ervell, and Simon Spurr.
Accessory Designer of the Year Award: Alexander Wang, Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez for Proenza Schouler, and Reed Krakoff.
Swarovski Award for Womenswear: Joseph Altuzarra, Ashley Olsen & Mary-Kate Olsen, and Prabal Gurung.
Swarovski Award for Menswear: Alexander Wang, Phillip Lim, and Robert Geller.
Swarovski Award for Accessory Design: Alejandro Ingelmo, Eddie Borgo, Jason Wu, and Pamela Love.
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Marc Jacobs
Special Tribute: Arthur Elgort
Fashion Icon Award: Lady Gaga
Eugenia Sheppard Media Award: Hilary Alexander
Founders Award: Hal Rubenstein
International Award: Phoebe Philo
If you ever doubted the Olsens were shoe lovers, just check out the mint Balenciaga heels Ashley Olsen wore with her fox sweater, or Mary-Kate's equally fab shoe wardrobe. For fall, the two are collaborating with Blake Mycoskie, founder of Toms shoes, on their very own footwear. Toms + The Row, as the line is called, will offer a dressier take on the typical Toms espadrille, in patterns like herringbone. Best of all, the shoes, retailing from $98 to $150, will further Mycoskie's charity mission: for each pair of shoes bought, a child in need will receive a new pair of shoes.
- The Olsens were spotted at uber-exclusive spin gym, Soul Cycle, sweating it out in cashmere workout clothes. Let's just hope they weren't The Row. [Hollywood Life]
- Genius at work: Terry Richardson and Matthew Gray Gubler don candy corn fangs in "TheHaunted Hot Dog." [Terry's Diary]
- To file under awesome costumes, Snooki is dressing up as pickle for Halloween. Check out a preview for yourself. [WWD]
- On the heels of a makeover of his Paris salon, Andrew Gn debuts a brand new website. [AndrewGn.com]
- Shopbop's mid-season sale has begun! Snag 70% off hot fall essentials like lace-up booties and chunky knits. [Shopbop.com]
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen showed off a mini collection full of ready-to-wear that hits the season's trendsstreamlined separates and tons of white.
- While You Were Sleeping: Gisele Bündchen for BLK DNM, Another Theft at Cannes, Plus More!
- Bazaar Boards: You Cannes Wear White
- Comme des Garçons and Converse Converge on Cool Kicks
- Book Corner: Frank Espinosa's Salvatore Ferragamo Graphic Novel
- Parsons Honors Proenza Schouler, Names the Next Generation
- While You Were Sleeping: The Beyoncé Boutique Launches at Rent the Runway, Carine Roitfeld Styles the Fall Givenchy Campaign, Plus More!


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The funny thing about quality is everyone has a different opinion of what determines a quality product. Quality is kind of like beauty — where one's opinion of beauty can greatly differ from the next person, so can opinions widely differ on quality. Additionally, quality can often be sacrificed to make a delivery timeline or meet production deadlines, meaning quality can also be a moving target. This can make developing a quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) plan for a finishing process more art than science.
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I consider myself a bit of a trekkie. I grew up watching and loving The Next Generation, dabbled in reruns of the original series, quite liked DS9, religiously watched Voyager and tried my best to like Enterprise. But one thing has always eluded me: the movies. To date, I have only seen some of the original movies, all the Next Generation ones and the JJ Abrams "Star Wars" years.
To finally rectify this, I decided to watch every single Star Trek film in the run up to Into Darkness. My mission, if you will, was to explore strange, old movies, to seek out dated special effects and receding hairlines, to boldly go where millions of geeky men have gone before.
Oh, also I decided to rank them from good to bad in a classic inverted pyramid style, so… ya. As always, lists are dangerous, so for fear of the wrath of die-hard Trek fans, this list is entirely my own opinion and I do not wish to be embroiled in any arguments about whether Kirk or Picard is better, because Picard is.
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We are thrilled to announce that Vid.ly now offers a comprehensive suite of video monetization tools powered by FreeWheel, the leader in video ad serving and management. Users can now leverage Vid.ly to maximize their audience reach by ensuring that targeted advertising content including banners and pre, mid and post roll video is delivered universally across all browsers, mobile devices and set-top-boxes.
If you are not yet familiar with our popular Vid.ly solution, it's a highly scalable, cloud-based service that seamlessly combines storage, transcoding, video player technology, consumer device detection, streaming, analytics and now monetization to deliver an optimized end-user experience all via a single URL.
FreeWheel customers who utilize Vid.ly can configure campaigns via the Enoding.com web UI (available starting 5/28) or API. Users can setup campaigns to run only for specific videos or across all their videos. When viewers activate a Vid.ly URL with FreeWheel enabled, Vid.ly will instantly pass their information to the FreeWheel ad server and they will receive a targeted advertisement based on FreeWheel's MRM logic.
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The Ecncoding.com team is excited to announce our new Dynamic Text Overlay feature as the latest addition to our suite of automated editing features. We believe that this new feature will be a catalyst to power an important new trend in producing high volume, personalized video experiences based on stored user data.
Dynamic Text Overlay enables publishers to programmatically (via an API workflow) integrate custom text into different queue points and frame positions within a source video. Utilizing granular controls such as live fonts, colors, rotations, positions, size, start and duration points, the custom text appears to be integrated directly within the video.
To give this feature a proper test run, we partnered with Google to power a high volume custom workflow to promote Google Hangouts presented by Wallace and Gromit. The custom Google Hangouts invitation process was open to the public and promoted globally on the google.com home page, CNN, ESPN and other high-traffic sites. Speed and massive scalability were critical requirements for their desired customer experience. Total video job upload, transcoding, text overlay, and delivery needed to be accomplished in less than 30 seconds with peak volume reaching 50 new videos per second.
Google gathered data from users and passed the custom text along with style and placement instructions via a single API call to Enocding.com.
During the encoding process, the custom invitation text was placed at a specific start point and followed specific duration and style instructions to create the illusion that the text appeared as if integrated during the original editing process.
The possibilities to use Dynamic Text Overlays programmatically are virtually endless. Imagine pulling data from user profiles to create on-the-fly, personalized commercials or integrating user data or images into the storyline of a short film to create a unique viewing experience. Encoding.com provides massive cloud computing scale and an API based workflow with Dynamic Text Overlays to automate what used to be unreachable – unique, personalized video experiences.
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Baseline encoding speed is now 4X faster!
Encoding.com offers three processing speed levels (baseline,turbo, twin turbo) allowing maximum flexibility on a per output task basis to use speed only when you need it. We have now upgraded our baseline encoding profile to utilize more threads and encode on average 4 times faster!
Optimized S3 transit
We have implemented a new multithreaded transfer protocol that greatly accelerates transmit time out of Amazon S3's storage location. On average we are seeing a 4-5X speed improvement with peak up to 10x faster than our legacy protocol. If your source media is stored on Amazon S3, you can activate multithread download by adding ?multithread parameter to your source URLs. If you are utilizing the ?nocopy function already then you can use both together by appending ?nocopy&multithread to your source URLs
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To further bolster our advanced editing services we have now added the ability create video slideshows from multiple images and an audio tracks. We can support source images in .jpeg and .png and we support audio source in mpeg audio, mpeg-4, or wav formats. To create your own video slideshow simply specify <slideshow>1</slideshow> within the Main Fields of your API request. As default each slide has a duration of 3 seconds however you can customize duration by appending ?duration= to the source image path. See oue Slideshow API docs for details:
1. <?xml version="1.0"?> 2. <query> 3. <action>AddMedia</action> 4. <userid>*</userid> 5. <userkey>*</userkey> 6. <source>http://www.example.com/Chrysanthemum.jpg</source> 7. <source>http://www.example.com/Desert.jpg?duration=5</source> 8. <source>http://www.example.com/Hydrangeas.jpg</source> 9. <source>http://www.example.com/Jellyfish.jpg</source> 10. <source>http://www.example.com/Koala.jpg</source> 11. <source>http://www.example.com/Lighthouse.jpg</source> 12. <source>http://www.example.com/Penguins.jpg</source> 13. <source>http://www.example.com/Tulips.jpg</source> 14. <source>http://www.example.com/music.wav</source> 15. <slideshow>1</slideshow> 16. <region>us-east-1</region> 17. <split_screen/> 18. <format> 19. <output>mp4</output> 20. <bitrate>2000k</bitrate> 21. </format> 22. </query>
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As Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol gains adoption in OTT devices like the Roku, Apple TV, Boxee, Google TV, and Samsung Smart TVs as well as desktop HLS implemetnations like JWPLayer it is important to deliver a wider set of resolutions (beyond iOS resolutions) in your HLS stream. We have updated our default settings to allow multiple resolutions within a single HLS stream, and also updated our default settings to include 7 resolutions with recommended bitrates, frame rates, and keyframes from the HLS specs:
<sizes>0x720,0x576,0x480,0x432,0x360,0x288,0x240</sizes> <bitrates>3000k,2000k,1600k,1200k,800k,360K,120k</bitrates> <framerates>29.97,29.97,29.97,29.97,29.97,24,15</framerates> <keyframes>90,90,90,90,90,72,45</keyframes>
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Encoding.com remains commited to providing our community with powerful, user firendly, cloud encoding solutions. Our new Desktop Uploader makes it easy for anyone to batch upload large source files and process them in parallel at a massive scale. Simply drag source files into the Encoding.com icon in your toolbar and your done!
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Since launching our Universal Closed Captioning solution for delivery
to all devices, we have received many great questions from the
Encoding.com community. Here are answers to three frequent
questions. Thanks for all the interest and Keep asking questions!
What's the difference between closed captions and subtitles?
Closed captions as a concept is unique to the States; Europeans refer to them as "subtitles for the hard of hearing" and deliver them as such. There are some technical differences. The practical difference in North America (or Region 1 for all you DVD watchers) is viewers use their TV remote to turn on closed captions and use the remote for their DVD player to switch on subtitles. Most digital TVs make it dead simple to turn on the closed caption decoders. You will need to use the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad to turn on closed captions (ex: this is great for watching Breaking Bad on a noisy train). Your Android device probably depends on subtitles instead of closed captions.
How does player and authoring software create, store and read closed captions?
With two competitive mechanisms. Closed captions may be:
1. Stored in a video file: closed captions are either CEA-608 (analog) or CEA-708 (digital) tracks in a video file. 3GPP Timed Text is the standard for subtitles stored in MP4 and 3GP files. These formats are either stored as a data track or encoded in a video stream itself. Most DVDs distributed in America contain analog closed captions. Broadcasters use digital closed captions for all their programming. The HTTP Live Streaming format supports analog and digital closed captions. The most recent FCC regulations require closed captions stored in a video file.
2. Stored in a text file: SCC, SRT, DFXP, and SAMI files may contain closed captions. These formats provide timed textual information outside the video file. SCC is frequently used in authoring environments (ex: Avid, Premiere, Final Cut Pro). Browser-based video players (ex: Flash, Silverlight, HTML5) generally rely on sidecars to deliver closed captions. Video players native to Android generally require sidecars. (We've encountered no Android device that has a closed caption decoder.) Apple's mobile devices can decode both analog and digital captions. Subtitles for the hard of hearing (and other users) are stored in a text file.
How do closed captions impact the bottom line directly?
Adding closed captions increases the value of a given video file by vastly increasing its addressable audience. Let's review 4 ways that closed captions can expand your reach:
1. They are commonly used by the over 38 million Americans who are hard of hearing
2. They are commonly used in workplaces, in public or wherever it gets loud
3. As the Boomers age, more Americans will need closed captions
4. They are a popular learning tool for people studying to achieve advanced proficiency in American English
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Encoding.com is the first and only encoding service to offer universal closed captioning support for delivery to all devices. Our powerful, reliable, scalable feature set for closed caption workflows enables digital video distributors to achieve critical business objectives such as:
Assure compliance with impending Video Accessibility Act deadlines
Expand the size and demographic of their audience
Reduce time-to-market
Deliver support for popular learning tools
Eliminate the hassle of implementing complex or limited closed captioning workflows. Encoding.com's full-featured closed captioning solution makes it simple to:
Utilize all formats including cea-608/708, DFXP, SAMI, SCC, SRT, TTML and 3GPP Time Text
Seamlessly integrate with any existing digital video authoring and distribution workflow
Extract, inject, copy and mux closed captions tracks into sidecar (text) files or digital video
Extract standard closed caption tracks from source files and convert them into sidecar files
Copy closed caption or timed text tracks from source videos to output videos
Mux a sidecar file with a source video to encode closed caption tracks into output videos.
Flexible and Scalable Workflow
By offering a complete suite of closed captioning features, Encoding.com enables customers to ingest and output closed captions in useful ways. For example:
Input Formats |
Output Formats |
MP4 with caption track in CEA-608 format |
MP4 with a SCC sidecar file |
MP4 with caption track in CEA-708 format |
MP4 with a SRT sidecar file |
MP4 with caption track in MPEG-4 Part 17 format |
MP4 with CEA-608 caption track |
3GP with caption track in 3GPP Timed Text format |
MP4 with MPEG-4 TT subtitle track |
MPEG-2 with caption track in CEA-608 format |
3GP with 3GPP TT subtitle track |
ASF with caption track in CEA-608 format |
HLS with CEA-608 caption track |
MOV with a sidecar file in SCC format |
MPEG-2 with CEA-608 caption track |
FLV with a caption track in SRT MP4 with a sidecar file in DFXP format |
MOV with a SCC sidecar file |
MP4 with a sidecar file in DFXP format |
MP4 with a sidecar file in SAMI format |
MP4 with a sidecar file in SCC format |
We want to integrate our captioning feature set with your existing workflow seamlessly. That is why our closed caption feature set is turned off by default. You can fully specify your closed caption workflow in the instructions you send to our system, so you have complete flexibility.. Other software packages and services make assumptions about closed caption workflows. The problem with this approach is you run the risk of making inaccurate assumptions. For example, one cloud-based service currently on the market will automatically copy analog captions (if present in the source video) into an MP4 output file. This output is useless in the real world for several reasons:
Most mobile devices (laptops, tablets and phones) don't have the decoder all flat screens use to display closed caption tracks.
MPEG-4 standard specifies subtitles instead of closed captions. That's why iOS devices expect the standard MPEG-4 Part 17 subtitles in an MP4 file.
Video players in Android devices require sidecars (SRT files, mostly).
Browser-based players generally require sidecar files to display closed captions for the same reason. It is possible to add analog closed captions to an MP4, but it is also pointless.
Automating such an irregular workflow wastes resources, confuses customers, slows things down and can upset project managers. That's why we decided to enable customers to specify how to process their closed captions workflow with our API.
Processing Closed Captions with Encoding.com's API
The Closed Caption feature set is available within our API to rapidly upgrade our customers' digital video authoring and distribution workflows. The new feature set permits customers to extract closed captions from source files stored somewhere on the Internet and convert them into sidecar files. Customers can also copy a closed caption or timed text track from a source video into an output video. And we allow customers to mux a sidecar file (in SRT or SCC format) with a source video to encode a valid closed caption track into their output videos. The idea is to use the cloud to empower customers to easily increase their addressable audience while saving money and obeying the law.
Here is a complete summary of the XML required to process closed captions in a valid HTTP POST with parameter (xml) submitted to the Encoding.com API:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <query> <action>AddMedia</action> <userid>[UserID]</userid> <userkey>[UserKey]</userkey> <source>[SourceURL]</source> <format> <output>[preset_profile_name]</output> <closed_captions> <source>[closed_caption_source_file_url]</source> <copy>[yes|no]</copy> <extract>[srt|scc]</extract> <mux_type>[cea-608|timed-text]</mux_type> <language>[LanguageCode]</language> </closed_captions> <destination>[OutputURL]</destination> <format> </query>
Let's review the three new features in a little more detail: extract, mux and copy:
Extraction of a closed caption sidecar file is often necessary. Browser-based video players can't read closed caption tracks in digital videos. Android video players mostly require sidecar files as well. Editing and authoring suites depend on sidecar files to make it easier for video editors to do their jobs.
Encoding.com is the only cloud transcoding provider to support extraction of closed caption "sidecar" files from the most common closed caption tracks in HD television (CEA-708) and SD television (CEA-608) programming. We also extract the closed captions from 3GPP TT or MPEG-4 Part 17 tracks in a video file. You can produce output video in any format while extracting a caption track as a SCC or SRT sidecar.
Muxing a sidecar with a video file is a common requirement. Editors often use SCC sidecars to exchange timed text information among authoring tools, files and/or colleagues. DVD publishers convert SCC files into analog closed captions to encode into their MPEG-2 creations. Digital captions have to become analog captions before they can be inserted into HTTP Live Streaming files for delivery to iOS apps. There are other common workflows. It makes sense to do this work using a SaaS like the Encoding.com platform
Do you have analog captions in a library of ASF, MOV, MXF, MPEG-2, or some other kind of files? Do you need HTTP Live Streaming output but don't want to waste time extracting and muxing pesky sidecar files? Do you have 3GPP Timed Text captions in 3GP files and need them in MP4 files instead? Customers have both these problems. <copy> solves them. It rocks.
Create Closed Caption Output From Source File and Sidecar File
Example: NBC might need to mux subtitles into video files for a new iPhone app.
<format> <output>iPhone_stream</output> <closed_captions> <source>ftp://files.nbc.com/Grimm/episode_1.srt</source> <mux_type>cea-608</mux_type> </closed_captions> </format>
Extract Sidecar Files from Source Files for Browsers
Amazon Instant Video might need to extract sidecars for browser-based players.
<format> <output>mp4</output> <closed_captions> <extract>srt</extract> </closed_captions> </format>
Create Video for iOS with Closed Captions from the Edit Bay
Example: NBA might need SCC files muxed with ASF files to play in iOS apps.
<format> <output>iPad_stream</output> <closed_captions> <source>ftp://files.nba.com/publish/game_upc.scc</source> <mux_type>cea-608</mux_type> </closed_captions> </format> <format> <output>mp4</output> <closed_captions> <source>ftp://files.nba.com/publish/game_upc.scc</source> <mux_type>timed text</mux_type> </closed_captions> </format>
Create iPhone and HTML5 closed captions from Legacy Video Library
Example: MTV might need to extract captions from MPEG-2s for iPad and a Flash player.
<format> <output>iPad_stream</output> <closed_captions> <copy>yes</copy> </closed_captions> </format> <format> <output>mp4</output> <closed_captions> <extract>scc</extract> </closed_captions> </format>
Closed Captions Q&A
The Encoding.com API makes it really simple to extract, inject, mux or copy closed captions of any kind for distribution to most mobile digital video platforms. As we work together, please feel free to reach out to us through our helpdesk or via live chat to get answers to questions. You can also get direct access to these features for free on our introductory developer accounts. Just sign up for a free 1GB account
API Documentation for Closed Captions
Allowed values: closed captions in [SCC|SRT|DFXP|SAMI] format ---> NOTE: For DFXP and SAMI, all stylization would be removed.
Allowed values: yes, no
Default value: no
Supported source tracks: [CEA-608|CEA-708|3GPP TT|MPEG-4 TT]
Supported output tracks: [CEA-608|3GPP TT|MPEG-4 TT]
NOTE: If <mux_type></mux_type> is not referenced, <copy>yes</copy> will literally copy the source track in the source format to the output video file. It is important to determine whether closed captions in your source format can be read successfully in your output video format.
Allowed values: timed-text, cea-608
Default value: none
Required values: URL for subtitle file & URL for source video
Captions may be muxed into video files as either:
3GPP Timed Text track (MPEG-4 Part 17 track): <mux_type>timed-text</mux_type>
CEA-608 (A/53) track: <mux_type>cea-608</mux_type>
NOTE: The CEA-608 mux type may only be used with output profiles that use the x264 video codec. This feature cannot support any other video codec in output with this caption track format selected.
Allowed values: srt, scc
Default value: none
Captions may be extracted from 3GPP TT or CEA-608/708 tracks into either:
Scenarist Closed Caption
Sidecar will be named source_file_name.scc
Sidecar will be delivered to the same destination location as output file.
Sidecar will be named source_file_name.srt
Sidecar will be delivered to the same destination location as output file.
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Maintaining our promise and dedication to our community of API power users
To date, the most common use case for cloud video encoding is high volume SD or HD video content. This represents a large segment of the overall video encoding marketplace and Encoding.com has worked hard for over 5 years to serve it well (We are now encoding several million videos a month!). News organizations, broadcasters, UGV sites, online video platforms, video training tools, and premium brands who publish high volumes of video content daily have integrated the Encoding.com API into their content management systems or applications. Offloading transcoding and delivery of their content at scale allows them to focus on their video production and customer experience instead of managing encoding engines and maintaining encoding farms. The encoding speed, scale and features available in the Encoding.com API remains unrivaled anywhere the industry. Moreover the Encoding.com API offers over a dozen open source and commercial encoding/decoding/editing/packaging engines within a single API framework and is backed both by the massive computing power of the Amazon, and Rackspace public clouds and now the Encoding.com Private Cloud.
Welcoming a new segment of Encoding.com power user
We have talked with countless customers who have much more unique and diverse video encoding needs than a high volume API based workflow. We believe there is a large segment of the video encoding market that wants the power of the cloud and does not want the hassle or complexity of desktop software or on premise encoding appliances. The reason cloud video encoding services have failed to serve any other market segment is that no service to-date has invested the time and resources to bringing professional quality video encoding features and usability from the API to the browser. That is until now.
Encoding.com has changed the video encoding landscape yet again by bringing all of the power and functionality of our API to the browser and launching a web interface that rivals any desktop video encoding experience. It is easy to throw a lot of features into a browser but much more difficult to make those features intuitive without sacrificing flexibility or power. Login, tour the new UI. and let us know what you think of this project that has been nine months in the making.
Intuitive features that combine power & simplicity
New user interface for Vid.ly, the universal video URL service: Previously vid.ly was an API only based service, now user can create, manage and track vid.ly's within the Encoding.com web interface. More specifically you can now:
- Update a vid.ly poster image or upload a custom one
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Browser based upload tool: Dynamically return detailed source video parameters and thumbnails during upload, not after upload is complete. During upload configure an unlimited number of output renditions each with one or more delivery points.
New source or destination builder: Construct source or destination paths for all popular locations including FTP/SFTP server, HTTP locations, Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 buckets, Rackspace Cloud Files, Dropbox, or Aspera Enterprise servers
Configure multiple delivery points: FTP/SFTP/CDN/S3/Azure/CloudFiles/Dropbox for each renditions including syndication to Youtube with full meta data
Optional Data Center Selection: Process your video content in the datacenter closes to your source video content by selecting from 8 global processing regions, including the Encoding.com Private Cloud
Over 46 new presets: Specifically engineered and tested for maximum compatibility with all HTML5, Flash, mobile, tablet, and lean back (OTT) devices. Presets include all 3 adaptive packaging technologies: Apple HTTP Live Streaming, Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming and Microsoft Smooth Streaming.
Customizable encoding renditions: Easily access over 70 encoding parameters by categories including Dolby audio settings, resolution, aspect ratio, advanced editing features, and all 34 of the advanced x264 encoding parameters
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Localized timestamps: Select your time zone to display localized timestamps within the encoding queue and API notifications
Simplified Watch Folder setup: Quickly and easily setup a Watch Folder to check your FTP/SFTP, Cloud Storage, or CDN for new video files at any time frequency. All videos added to the source location after the last check time stamp will automatically be encoded into your Watch Folder's pre configured output renditions. The Watch Folder is a great integration method for quickly encoding a hosted library.
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Football season has officially kicked-off and that means Fantasy Football players around the globe are readying their game faces! When Wieden + Kennedy and ESPN asked us to help them push the online transcoding envelope for a cool new video project, it was game on!
Here is the concept: Each Fantasy Football league commissioner would receive an online toolkit with simple instructions for participating in a simulated interview with Sport Center host Robert Flores. A pre-recorded video of Robert would ask the participating commissioner a series of pre-recorded questions and provide a fixed amount of time for the commissioner to record his/her answer via their web camera. Once the interview was completed, the recorded footage would be sent to the Encoding.com API for transcoding and other finishing touches via a series of API calls.
To accomplish this challenge, Encoding.com built a set of advanced editing features that are now available to all Encoding.com customers. These features include: PIP Picture in Picture, Split Screen, Overlays, and Youtube as a destination with full meta data. Here is an example of their workflow:
ESPN sends two source videos with the interviewer and Commissioner in addition to an overlay background that matches the Sports Center television experience.
A notification is sent using the GetStatus API call that Step 1 has completed processing. Next a request is sent to concatenate all source videos (intro, interview questions, split screens, closing) in a timed sequence and into one output that includes the ESPN ticker and name labels as an overlay.
Encoding.com sends a final compiled output to the YouTube ESPN Fantasy Football Channel complete with meta data.
As avid football fans, we were excited to participate in this ground breaking project and offer even more cool new features to the Encoding.com community.
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If DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is enabled for all programs Har-Bal does not run on Vista. This is due to Armadillo / Software Passport (the software used to control licensing of Har-Bal) and not Har-Bal itself. To resolve this problem, log in as administrator and manually configure DEP to allow Har-Bal to run without DEP protection.
The following procedure describes how to manually configure DEP on the computer:
1. Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
2. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
3. On the Data Execution Prevention tab, use one of the following procedures:
• Click Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only to select the OptIn policy.
• Click Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select to select the OptOut policy, and then click Add to add the programs that you do not want to use the DEP feature.
4. Click OK two times.
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The Card Beat: Sports Collectibles News for May 21, 2013
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We've traveled to the far corners of the World Wide Web to track down the top sports card and memorabilia stories for today, May 21, 2013. Here are the headlines, as reported by The Cardboard Connection and other leading news publications and blogs:
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- Art of Cards: 2013 Topps Museum Collection Canvas Collection Guide - Here's all you need to know about the 2013 Topps Museum Collection Canvas Collection inserts. Includes a full gallery, comprehensive checklist, artist list and more.
- Law of Cards: Upper Deck Files For Impel Trademark - Upper Deck is reviving a brand that's likely known by early-90s Star Trek and comic card collectors — Impel. It's the subject of a new Upper Deck trademark. Paul Lesko has the details and legal analysis.
- 2013 Panini Rookies & Stars Football Cards - Celebrating its 15th year, 2013 Panini Rookies & Stars Football features several familiar elements from the brand's pigskin launch. Hobby boxes promise 2 autographs and 2 additional hits.
- 1996 Fleer/SkyBox Marvel Masterpieces Trading Cards - With its perfect storm of high quality and low quantity, 1996 Fleer/SkyBox Marvel Masterpieces is one of the most popular and valuable comic card sets of all-time. Get a full checklist, set info, buying guide and more.
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Magic Theatre: Terminus
Mark O'Rowe (Howie the Rookie) returns to Magic with his epic tour de force Terminus
May 22nd through Jun 9th
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Friends of Calligraphy: Square Capitals
Explore historical examples of these characters resembling formal Roman incised letters & in use for centuries -- then create a modern, yet classic, writing style
Apr 20th through Jun 1st
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Museo ItaloAmericano -- Contemporaneity: Signs of Modern Times | The Sedna Group
The Museo kicks off Italy's Year of Italian Culture in the United States (Anno Della Cultura Italiana Negli Stati Uniti) by presenting an exhibit by the Sedna group of five contemporary Italian artists
Apr 18th through Jul 21st
Museo ItaloAmericano, Bldg C
San Francisco Childrens Art Center: Spring 2013
Art classes for children ages 22 months to 10 years old
Mar 18th through Jun 2nd
Children's Art Center, Bldg C
The Mexican Museum
The Mexican Museum voices the complexity & richness of Latino art throughout the Americas, encouraging dialogue among the broadest public
Feb 23rd through Dec 31st
The Mexican Museum, Bldg D
BATS Improv Students: Sunday Cave Match Series
BATS Improv School graduates & students mix it up in lively competition formats on Sundays. Winning teams from previous matches take on new challengers each week
Jun 2nd through Jun 30th
Bayfront Theater, Bldg B
The Decameron
The Decameron: 10 days. Dozens of artists & performers. 100 unique stories. The Decameron transforms the Fort Mason Center Firehouse into The Oekolos, a post-disaster enclave where artists, actors, dancers & aerialists take refuge from the chaos outside
May 29th through Jun 9th
Blue Bear School of Music: Spring 2013
Private & group instruction in rock, jazz, blues, reggae & other popular music styles. Instrument & voice, all ages & levels, day & evening programs
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BATS Improv: BATS vs Stanford Improvisors
BATS Improv takes on the SIMPS (Stanford) in the infamous Rubber Chicken Match!
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BATS Improv Special Guests: 3 For All
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May 31st through Jun 1st
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The Nissan Terra SUV concept debuting at this week's Paris auto show will apparently give clues as to what we can expect the next production Murano crossover will look like. That's according to Nissan global design chief Shiro Nakamura, who told Automotive News that he wants to make the next Murano (due in 2014) to standout. "When we did the first Murano [in 2002], we shocked people," Nakamura says. And it looks like the next Maxima sedan will get a similar treatment. Due to arrive around the same time as the Murano, the Nissan design chief says the new Maxima sedan "will be very aggressive" in its looks.
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A real desktop-friendly device, the Lexmark E260dn is compact, easy to use, ultra-quiet and can zip through your print runs as fast as 33 ppm.
Comes network-ready and with built-in duplexing, plus it's compact, easy to use, ultra-quiet and can zip through your print runs as fast as 33 ppm. Big workload? Grow your input capacity with an optional paper drawer.
An exceptionally simple solution for hassle-free printing. It lets you spend less time on documents and more time adding value to your business.
Benefit from professional documents with sharp laser text. Supports most major operating systems and printer languages, ensuring your documents—even large files—print quickly and reliably.
Designed with eco-conscious features like Eco-Mode and an instant warm-up fuser to help you save paper and energy. Recycle your empty cartridges free of charge through the Lexmark Cartridge Collection Program. Printing responsibly means everyone wins—your business, your budget and the environment!
Lexmark's 1-Year Return-to-Base guarantee on the Lexmark E Series provides sound peace of mind. Enhanced service offerings are also available. Optimise your printer's performance and investment value by using genuine Lexmark supplies, service and parts.
Size (mm - H x W x D) | 260 x 406 x 370 mm |
Packaged Size (mm - H x W x D) | 355 x 460 x 420 mm |
Weight (kg) | 13.53 kg |
Product Warranty | 1-Year Exchange, Return-To-Base |
Packaged Weight (kg) | 15.7 kg |
UNSPSC Code | 43212105 |
Product Certifications | Blue Angel (RAL-UZ-122), FCC Class B, UL 60950-1 3rd Edition, U.S. FDA, IEC 320-1, CSA, ICES Class B, Energy Star, CE Class B, CB IEC 60950-1, IEC 60825-1, GS (TÜV), SEMKO, UL AR, CS, TÜV Rh, N Mark, ACA C-tick Class B, CCC Class B, BSMI Class B, MIC, EK Mark, PSB |
Pallet Weight (kg) | 298 kg |
Specified Operating Environment | Temperature:16 to 32°C (60 to 90°F) Altitude: 0 - 2500 Meters (8,200 Feet) Humidity: 8 to 80% Relative Humidity for Temperatures less than 25.5°C (78°F) |
Country of Origin | China (PR) Mexico |
Average Power (Printing) | 470 watts |
Average Power while Printing Duplex | 290 watts |
ENERGY STAR Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC) | 2.79 kilowatt-hours per week |
Ethernet Network | Yes |
Workgroup Size | Desktop Small Workgroup |
Print Technology | Monochrome Laser |
Print Resolution, Black | 1200 Image Quality 1200 x 1200 dpi 2400 Image Quality 600 x 600 dpi |
Print Speed (A4, Black): Up to | 33 ppm |
Print Speed (A4, Black) Duplex: Up to | 17 spm |
Time to First Page (Black) As fast as | 6.5 seconds |
Processor | 400 MHz |
Memory, Standard | 32 MB |
Memory, Maximum | 160 MB |
Printable Area (metric) | 4 mm of the top, bottom, right and left edges (within) |
Noise Level, Idle | inaudible dBA |
Print Noise Level, Operating | 53 dBA |
Duplex Print Noise Level, Operating | 52 dBA |
Maximum Monthly Duty Cycle: Up to | 50000 pages per month |
Recommended Monthly Page Volume | 250 - 2500 pages |
Duty Cycle Notes | "Recommended Monthly Page Volume" is a range of pages that helps customers evaluate
Lexmark's product offerings based on the average number of pages customers plan to
print on the device each month. Lexmark recommends that the number of pages per month
be within the stated range for optimum device performance, based on factors including:
supplies replacement intervals, paper loading intervals, speed, and typical customer
usage. "Maximum Monthly Duty Cycle" is defined as the maximum number of pages a device could deliver in a month using a multishift operation. This metric provides a comparison of robustness in relation to other Lexmark printers and MFPs. |
Quiet Mode | 48 dBA |
Paper Handling Standard | 150-Sheet Output Bin Integrated Duplex Single Sheet Exit Single Sheet Manual Feed 250-Sheet Input Tray |
Paper Handling Optional | 550-Sheet Drawer Only one drawer may be installed at a time 250-Sheet Drawer |
Paper Input Capacity, Standard: Up to | 250+1 pages 75 gsm bond |
Paper Input Capacity, Maximum: Up to | 800+1 pages 75 gsm bond |
Paper Output Capacity, Standard: Up to | 150 pages 75 gsm bond |
Paper Output Capacity, Maximum: Up to | 150 pages 75 gsm bond |
Finishing Option | No |
Media Sizes Supported | 10 Envelope 7 3/4 Envelope 9 Envelope A4 A5 B5 Envelope C5 Envelope DL Envelope A6 Card Executive Folio JIS-B5 Legal Letter Statement Universal Oficio |
Media Types Supported | Card Stock Envelopes Paper Labels Plain Paper Transparencies Refer to the Card Stock & Label Guide |
Paper Weight Range Supported - Standard Tray (gsm) | 60 - 90 gsm |
Number of Paper Inputs, Standard | 2 |
Number of Paper Inputs, Maximum | 3 |
Duplex (2-sided) Printing | Integrated Duplex |
Supplies Yield | *Average standard page yield value declared in accordance with ISO/IEC 19752. 3,500*-page Toner Cartridge |
Supplies: Functions only with replacement cartridges designed for use in the Asia Pacific Region | . |
Cartridge(s) Shipping with Product | 1,000*-page Starter Return Program Toner Cartridge |
Photoconductor Notes | Actual Yield may vary based on other factors such as device speed, paper size and feed orientation, toner coverage, tray source, percentage of black-only printing and average print job complexity. |
Photoconductor Estimated Yield: Up to | 30,000 pages, based on 3 average letter/A4-size pages per print job |
Apple Macintosh Operating Systems Supported | Apple Mac OS X (10.2 or later) Apple Mac OS 9.2 |
Microsoft Windows Operating Systems Supported | Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows XP x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 running Terminal Services Microsoft Windows 2000 Server running Terminal Services Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 running Terminal Services Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 running Terminal Services Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 running Terminal Services Microsoft Windows 7 |
Novell Operating Systems Supported | Novell® Open Enterprise Server for Netware with NDS, iPrint or Novell Distributed
Print Services (NDPS) Novell NetWare 5.x, 6.x with iPrint or Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS) |
Linux Operating Systems Supported | Linpus Linux Desktop 9.2, 9.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.0, 9.0, 10, 11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 Linspire Linux 6.0 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Red Flag Linux Desktop 5.0, 6.0 Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 |
UNIX Operating Systems Supported | Sun Solaris SPARC 8, 9, 10 Sun Solaris x86 10 HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31 IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 |
Other Operating Systems Supported | IBM iSeries or IBM AS/400® Systems with TCP/IP with OS/400® V3R1 or later using OS/400
Host Print Transform Virtually any platform supporting TCP/IP |
Citrix MetaFrame | Microsoft Windows 2000 Server running Terminal Services with Citrix Presentation Server
3.0, 4.0 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 running Terminal Services with Citrix Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0, 4.5 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 running Terminal Services with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 x64, 4.5 x64 |
Standard Ports | Centronics IEEE 1284 Bidirectional Parallel Ethernet 10/100BaseTX (RJ-45) USB 2.0 Specification Hi-Speed Certified (Type B) |
Optional Network Ports | Lexmark N4050e 802.11g Wireless Print Server (Print Only) External MarkNet™ N7020e Gigabit Ethernet |
Printer Languages (Standard) | PCL 5e Emulation PCL 6 Emulation Personal Printer Data Stream (PPDS) PostScript 3 Emulation |
Fonts and Symbol Sets | 3 of 9 scalable PCL 5e fonts in Narrow, Regular and Wide 2 PCL bitmap fonts 39 scalable PPDS fonts 5 PPDS bitmap fonts 84 scalable PCL fonts 89 scalable PostScript fonts OCR-A, OCR-B scalable PCL 5e fonts For more information, refer to the Technical Reference. |
Network Protocol Support | TCP/IP IPv4 TCP/IP IPv6 TCP UDP |
Network Printing Methods | LPR/LPD Direct IP (Port 9100) HTTP Enhanced IP (Port 9400) FTP, TFTP IPP 1.1 (Internet Printing Protocol) |
Network Management Protocols | HTTP WINS IGMP APIPA (AutoIP) DHCP ICMP DNS SNMPv2c Bonjour DDNS mDNS ARP NTP Telnet Finger |
Lexmark E260dn Laser Printer |
Up to 1,000 pages* Starter Return Program Cartridge |
Photoconductor Kit |
Software and documentation CD |
Setup Guide or sheet (network and local attachment) |
Power cord(s) |
Statement of limited warranty / guarantee |
Operator panel language overlay |
Safety sheet or booklet |
Cartridge Return Program Information |


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Quvenzhané Wallis is excited to be an Oscar nominee, primarily because it gives her the chance to meet some movie actors. Yet, when pressed, the 9-year-old star of "Beasts of the Southern Wild" says it's the stars of her favorite television shows "Jessie" and "Austin & Ally" that are most appealing to her.
"I want to meet everybody on Disney Channel and Disney XD that are alive," she said in a phone interview Friday.
Wallis and "Beasts" had been critical favorites since last year's Sundance Film Festival. But the film — which so far has grossed about $11 million at the box office — wasn't widely known in mainstream circles until the Oscar nominations were announced Thursday. "Beasts" racked up four nominations, including best picture and director, and a lead actress nod for Wallis, a resident of Houma, La., and the youngest actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.
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Wallis celebrated her historical recognition with Thursday evening's Critics' Choice Awards, where she won the best young actress prize. She said she especially enjoyed the party following the show, where she danced with her mom and her brothers, dressed in a sparkly purple gown.
Only 5 when she auditioned for the role of Hushpuppy in "Beasts," Wallis says that she wanted to act even before she made her first movie, because, "I get to meet different directors and different people."
Those directors include "Beasts" helmer Benh Zeitlin and Steve McQueen, who worked most recently with Wallis on his Southern-set drama "Twelve Years a Slave" starring Brad Pitt. Wallis has a small part in the film, playing the daughter of Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kelsey Scott. Cameron Zeigler plays her brother.
How did the two directors differ? According to Wallis, McQueen "has a different accent and he's bigger."
Wallis says she wants to continue acting but also plans to stay in her school. The fourth-grader said some of her friends back home have seen her PG-13 debut. "Two of my friends have seen it," she said. "They said I did good."
Wallis herself has watched the movie nine times. Her favorite parts: "I like it whenever I'm eating seafood and whenever Walrus falls off the trailer," she says, referring to one of the colorful residents of the Bathtub, a fictional town in Louisiana that's been cut off from the world after a storm causes a break in a levee.


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I'm not sure there would be a lot of times when I would want to use this approach over auto-filter or database lookups.
The big disadvantage I see is having to scroll through your data set to see all highlighted rows. A second point is the solution only provides a visual clue; it does not allow you to easily act upon those identified rows.