Mac MediaCast 006 REPOST

This is a repost – there seems to have been some issues with the first post. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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Macworld Magazine Presents FirmTek “Best Storage Product of the Year”

(London, England-July 12, 2007) FirmTek, LLC, a pioneer and leader in Serial ATA (SATA) storage solutions for Windows and Macintosh platforms, today announced that Macworld Magazine’s United Kingdom edition selected the SeriTek/2eEN4 as the best storage solution among all evaluated during the year 2006.
Macworld Magazine’s awards have become the primary recognition event in the Macintosh [...]

New Product for Video Camcorders Reduces Hand-held Movement

Baughan Productions is proud to announce its simple video stabilizer, “Levelcam”. Designed and manufactured in the USA, “Levelcam” is a valuable asset for amateur and professional videographers who use palm-sized camcorders.Small camcorders are perfect for grabbing quick shots, but they’re hard to keep steady. Abrupt movements like jerks, shakes and twitches spoil otherwise great video. [...]

The Auto Save Vault in Final Cut Pro: How To Restore and 4 Lifesaving Tips

From GeniusDV:

Restoring an Autosaved Project in Final Cut Pro
When you begin work on a Final Cut Pro Project, the first thing you should do is give your project a name and save it so that the autosave function can work. Autosave will not work until you have named and saved your project first. If your [...]

Quicktime Pro, Components, and the iPhone

Quicktime Pro, Components, and the iPhone … at Podcast Academy
Paul Figgiani has written a great article at the Podcast Academy blog about some of the technical details regarding QuickTime video on the iPhone. As always from Paul, it is thorough, informative, and well-written.
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Tags: iphone, quicktime, video, apple, mac, macintoch

Panasonic HVX-200 in-field Advice

HD For Indies has an article on in-field advice on using the Panasonic HVX-200 HD camera. This is the camera we use at the Mac Mediacast and recommend most to people asking about a great prosumer digital video camera. A great read!

SimpleMovieX, the light-weight Video Editor

Aero Quartet has released version 3.1.1 of SimpleMovieX, the Mac OS X
movie editor. With a feature set roughly similar to QuickTime Pro,
SimpleMovieX extends editing capabilities to other popular video
formats AVI, Google Video, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The main
advantage of native editing is speed and quality, since no re-encoding
is required to save edited movies.
This new version [...]

Understanding Digital Video Architecture

Understanding Digital Video Architecture from Videomaker Magazine
MPEG-2, DivX, AVCHD: These are just a few of the confusing acronyms of digital video. Let’s clear the air a bit
To understand Digital Video Architecture, you need to start at the beginning. The beginning in this case is known as Video Compression. That is the start of this article; [...]

Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for FxPlug Now Shipping

Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for FxPlug (BCC 5.0 for FxPlug) is now shipping.
Developed specifically for Apple’s new FxPlug plug-in architecture, BCC 5.0 for FxPlug is a brand new member of the Boris Continuum Complete product family. BCC 5.0 for FxPlug [...]

Nice Collection of After Effects Tutorials

Here at the Mac MediaCast we spend a lot of time talking about Final Cut Pro and Apple’s ProApps, but we’ve got to occasionally give some love to the industry-standard motion graphics powerhouse After Effects. I’ve compiled a couple of tutorials I’ve found lately into this post. For more great After Effects information and tutorials, [...]