Dual Screening & Linux Cubing

I return once more with a new attempt at breaking the Trilogy cycle. Yes, I break the cycle the same way Staind did in 2001. I bring forth for your eyes to see my new dual screen madness, which serves a great purpose when editing videos, whether it is in Windows or Linux, as shown in the following picture:


My new dual-screen set up, including my new NZXT Lexa S case.

As you can see, not only have I acquired myself a new ASUS screen with a 1920x1080 resolution, but I have also acquired my new case, which is the NZXT Lexa S model. Unfrotunately, my new LCD monitor has one stuck pixel towards the bottom-right of the screen, though it is barely noticeable. On the other hand, I'm glad there isn't more of them because I don't feel like filling an RMA and get a replacement for it. So far though, I am quite satisfied with ASUS in terms of image quality and speed. Here is the monitor in more textual details:

ASUS 24" LCD monitor VW246S
Resolution: 1920x1080 Full HD 1080p
Contrast Ration: ASCR 20000:1
Response Time: 2ms
Horizontal Refresh Time: 30~80 KHz
Vertical Refresh Time: 55~75 Hz
Connectors: D-Sub, DVI, HDMI

So far so good, it has everything I need. As you can see, coffee is required when editing videos, which was my main reason for purchasing a new monitor. Outputting the preview video to an external (secondary) monitor was a must for me as it makes it easier to see what the final result will look like, hence I can avoid making a mistake, rendering which takes half an hour, only to then realize the mistake and thus needing to do it again.

As far as the case goes, it has three 12mm fans (front, side and back) as well as one 140mm fan on top, all controllable, although I usually leave them at full speed. There is an additional space for a 140mm top fan which I might end up using eventually. Inside I've got my old components, but I've changed to a Corsair 650w power supply since I am changing everything and will, over the course of the week, receive my new motherboard, processor, ram and graphic card. I've also changed my DVD burner and my card reader since I'm giving all the old stuff to my parents so my mom can stop complaining about her computer. Here's a small picture taken in the dark of my new NZXT, more pictures will probably come once I finish building up this new computer:


NZXT Lexa S case in the dark.. it has some kind of "mean" look, don't you think?

So far I'm loving it, especially with the smoked clear window on the side. Reason I'm not showing much is because the wires are a mess currently in there. The case does have a tray behind the motherboard to hide the wires, but knowing that I'll have to remove everything once I get my new stuff, I decided not to try and get a good wire placement in there for now.

On to other things, I was talking with David the other night and I got around showing him the Cube in Linux when using Compiz (compiz is a visual effect manger.. or something). He seemed to have enjoyed it. As we were speaking, I was also resizing and cropping my old wallpapers to fit my new resolution, which then David told me I should record my desktop once I was done. I sure did it. Unfrotunately, David, all 4 desktops uses the same wallpaper. A Touhou wallpaper, and to be even more specific, Patchouli Knowledge from TH6. I did, however, worked around quite a few effects and decided to make a video out of it. I included plenty of Cube.

As you will see in the following video, doing the Exposition (4 desktops at once) and the Cube makes the video flicker. For some reason, although this did not occur during the recording (it only occurs in the video), screen capture softwares had quite the difficulty at recording such effects when many windows and effects are on screen at the same time. Take it as if you're doing the same thing in Windows with that many stuff happening, you'd get a major loss of frame rate.. but instead of lower frame rates, I get flickering windows. The colors suddenly changing is entirely intentional though. All of it was recorded with XVidCap and edited/rendered with Kdenlive, both of which are free, opensource softwares found in Ubuntu's repositories. Enjoy David :]


Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx - Compiz Desktop