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Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #5: Speed Changes By Diana Weynand Whether or not you have used the Final Cut Pro speed functions, you're sure to love the new speed changes. Simple-yet elegant and powerful. You will be able to change speed in your clips easily and with a lot of flexibility. ...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #7 - Improved Markers By Diana Weynand You know those little post-it note pads that come in multiple colors? Ok, admit it now. Do you ever color-code your notes? Maybe yellow notes are financial, pink ones are hot to-do items. Well with Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use color to label your markers in a very similar way. There are several other marker improvements as well. ...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview By Diana Weynand In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time. ...Read More »
Get AVCHD M2TS and burn M2TS to DVD on the Mac By WIKI The .m2ts(AVCHD H.264,VC-1, MPEG-2 HD) file format is given to video/audio files created by certain Sony Camcorder models. How to Burn M2TS to dvd on Mac? ...Read More »
How to transfer iTunes library to another computer By WIKI Sometime you may have this problem: You have an old computer which holds all your iTunes library including music, video, movie, tv shows, etc. And now you get a new computer, you want to transfer iTunes library from the old computer to the new one. ...Read More »
Compress DVD9 Movies to DVD5 Discs on the Macintosh By WIKI Do you have trouble compressing DVD9 to DVD5 on Mac? Professional DVD Copy Pro can help you fast copy and compress D9 Movies to D5 without losing original quality. It can also provide 3 types of copying (Main Movie Copy, Customized Copy and Full Copy), which will satisfy your specific copying needs, especially for backup. ...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #9 - The Timecode Viewer By Diana Weynand Look at the image below. Something new has been added in FCP 7. It's the Timecode Viewer, a floating time code window, which will really come in handy as you share your screen or sequence with others. And taking notes by jotting down time code as you view your footage has never been easier. ...Read More »
C4D QuickTip : MoSpline 01 By Ko Maruyama MAXON's CINEMA 4D R11.5 is full of new features, including several new tools that you'll find in Mograph. In addition to the spline tools that were introduced earlier, MoSpline is a dynamic way of introducing creative spline data to your scene. For some projects, a little tweeking may be necessary. Here's how... ...Read More »
Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features: #10 - Color Coding Tabs By Diana Weynand The ability to utilize the operating system's color-coding capabilities for organizing and easily identifying bins, clips and sequences has been a standard feature in earlier versions of the software. However, Final Cut Pro 7 now raises the bar by implementing the color-coding of bins, clips and sequences to their respective tabs in the Timeline, Canvas and Browser windows. ...Read More »
Working with QuickTime X By Matthew David Snow Leopard, Apple's sixth release of OS X, includes a dramatic upgrade to QuickTime. In one swift move, Apple jumped from QuickTime 7 to X. In this article you will find out why Snow Leopard is worth the upgrade just for QuickTime X, what new features abound throughout QuickTime and how you can take advantage of them. ...Read More »
How to Convert QuickTime MOV Video to DVD on Mac OS X? By WIKI Professional Mac Video to DVD Burner can help you to burn QuickTime MOV Video to DVD on Mac ...Read More »
Basic Training for Mac OS X Leopard: Time Machine By Tom Wolsky In this clip, host Tom Wolsky discusses Time Machine, Mac OS X's backup utility that backs your data to an external hard drive. In this clip,discusses how to turn on Time Machine and choose the drive to back up to. He covers how Time Machine works and stores information, and how to restore the backed up material as well as how to find missing documents. ...Read More »
Complete Training for Episode and Episode Pro: QuickTime By Nate Caplin In this clip, host Nate Caplin talks about QuickTime and MPEG-4. The settings are under the H.264 folder, and he discusses the video codecs available. He adds source files and takes a detailed look at the video compression settings available for MPEG-4 files and details the difference between the older MPEG-4 and h.264. He also covers the audio settings as well as defines hint tracks, options under the h.264 codec, and the choices available. ...Read More »
Basic Training for Mac OS X Leopard: Spaces By Tom Wolsky In this clip, host Tom Wolsky showcases Spaces, the application that enables you to create room to create different tasks to work on different groups of applications. He takes a look at the basic four spaces and shows how to use them and set them up. ...Read More »
Complete Training for Sorenson Squeeze 4.5: Workflow automation By Nate Caplin In this clip, host Nate Caplin discusses workflow automation, that is, setting up and working with larger and more complex batches in the batch window, using watch folders, and using the feature to create optional tasks. ...Read More »
Complete Training for Episode and Episode Pro: Output Format Web By Nate Caplin In this clip, host Nate Caplin discusses output formats, what to offer based on the expectations of your audience. He details some websites that employ the various video formats supported by Episode; Flash, Windows Media, and QuickTime. He details the benefits of each format, and what user requirements would be. He also discusses video streaming versus progressive download videos versus real time streaming. He then focuses on Web delivery download formats. ...Read More »
Complete Training for Sorenson Squeeze 4.5: Filters By Nate Caplin In this clip, host Nate Caplin discusses filters, a way to improve the quality of your output video, independent of the format and compression settings that you select. He shows how to set up filters to address specific issues with your source videos and then use them in combination with any particular format or compression setting. ...Read More »
Complete Training for Episode and Episode Pro: Windows Media By Nate Caplin In this clip, host Nate Caplin discusses Windows Media. He details where the Windows media settings for Web are located in Episode Pro. He discusses constant versus variable bitrates, output formats, codecs, when to use what codecs and formats, and so on. He also covers Microsoft Silverlight and how it works, and how it allows custom interactivity and playback skins. You don't need to encode your video differently to play back video in Silverlight. ...Read More »
How to Play MTS on Mac for free or Convert MTS Videos to DVD on Mac for watching on TV By WIKI I. What is MTS File ? MTS format is a high-definition MPEG, AVC, H.264 transport stream video file format which commonly used by HD camcorders such as Sony, Canon, Panasonic. .MTS files are used primarily with Sony hardware. Camcorders make use of MTS in the form of AVCHD, a recording format made specifically for camcorders. Some camcorder models from Canon also use MTS files. These files are also present on Blu-ray disc compilations, therefore they are capable of storing quite a large amount of information and data tracks. ...Read More »
Basic Training for Final Cut Studio 2: Compressor By Tom Wolsky In this clip, host Tom Wolsky discusses the two things you should do before you export your projects out to tape. One is to render out your material and the other is to mix down your audio regardless of the number of tracks. He goes through the export function, and discusses the various export formats available in Final Cut Pro. He discusses the reference movie options as well as the Make Movie self contained option, and QuickTime conversion. He covers Compression in detail as well. ...Read More »

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