Archive for video

Esophageal cancer videos

Posted in Surgery, Videos with tags , , , , , , on October 27, 2008 by Øystein
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)

Today, three videos I’ve made of diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer were published on www.oncolex.no. Read more »

FCP markers to FLV cue points

Posted in Videography with tags , , , , on September 25, 2008 by Øystein

I just want to share this excellent little application, that lets you convert markers in Final Cut Pro to cue points in a Flash Video file. Saves a lot of time and makes placing cue points a much more accurate business.

The app is made by John Skidgel, and you can download it for free from his website. Read this post on how to use it. It’s an AIR app, so you’ll need to download Adobe AIR (also free) to make it work.

Inventory

Posted in Surgery with tags , , , on February 21, 2008 by Øystein

Medical records

The last three years I’ve been working on a large project to document cancer diagnostics and treatment. With only one year left of the project I wanted to make a list of all the procedures I’ve filmed so far.

Probably not interesting to anyone but myself, but it’s my blog and I’ll list if I want to. Read more »

Different shades of red revisited

Posted in Videography with tags , , , on January 29, 2008 by Øystein

Bloodless operative field

A while back I wrote this post about the problems video cameras have with reproducing the insides of our bodies. The blood running through our bodies cause most tissues to be some shade of red.

This week I got an excellent opportunity to visualize this. Read more »

Darkness on the edge of wound

Posted in Videography with tags , , , , , on January 7, 2008 by Øystein

If you’ve watched any videos of open surgery you’ve probably noticed the apparent darkness of the OR. The lights seem to be turned off, except for the surgical light which keeps the surgical field brightly lit.

Laparotomy

And yet, surgeons don’t perform open operations shrouded in darkness, do they? Read more »