Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
Perian is a swiss-army knife QuickTime plugin (hence their friendly little icon) that allows playback of many non-native codecs in QuickTime. The latest update touts the following fixes / additions: Major performance improvements TrueAudio, MP1, and DTS audio support Slice-based multithreaded decoding for MPEG-1/2/H.264 Apple H.264 now handles AVCHD/interlaced vide Compatibility fixes for QuickTime 7.4 [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
I found this great tip from David over at MacSparky.com: Hitting the built in volume buttons on your Mac is great for quickly raising or lowering your volume but what about when you want to lower or raise the volume just a little bit. Once again Apple has a solution that they don’t tell anyone [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
I was going to blog about this, but Don McAllister beat me to it: Some breaking news!! One of my favourite Mac podcasts has been off line since October last year, and that’s the Mac Roundtable. Joseph, Adam, Steve and Tim did a great job in bring mac news and opinions to the community, but [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
[From Reference Movies | Weekly Tip | Final Cut Help] Need to save some space? Reference movies allow you to work with your video clips or sequence files in other applications. Think of a reference movie as a pointer back to the original media, a lot like a link on a web page Learn More [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
[From Studio Daily Blog » 16GB P2 card now included with HVX200] Panasonic is now generously including a 16GB P2 card with every HVX200 purchase, a $900 value. Effective December 1, 2007, this offer requires no mail-ins or anything of the sort: all HVX200 cameras include the card in box, along with a copy of [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
We are not as divided as our politics would suggest.
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Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
I found a great article over at Genius DV about sequence settings in Final Cut Pro and how that affects export quality: Have you ever noticed that when working in Final Cut Pro with DV media, graphics and titles often have a poor quality look? There are two major reasons for this. #1 DV media [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
From the Editblog: I’m sure by now everyone has heard of the drama surrounding the Quicktime 7.4 update and the havoc it causes with After Effects renders. If you have upgraded and need to downgrade then here are a few direct links to standalone Quicktime installers that I leave booked marked as it is sometimes [...]
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Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
This is a great tip from friend of the Mac Mediacast Brian Gary over at the most awesome-est website, KenStone.net: QuickTime is the engine that runs most (if not all) media related applications on the Mac, with Final Cut Studio being a prime example. You tend to hear often, “If QuickTime can open the file [...]
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Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Joseph Nilo
I am a huge fan of the Boris products and I don’t think I could live without my Continuum Complete 4 for Final Cut Pro. Here is a great review / overview of the new version of Boris’s suite of filters & effects. Yes, the review is centered around Avid and After Effects, but the [...]
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