Month: August 2006
All about Repairing Permissions
Dan Frakes at Macworld does some heavy lifting this week with “Repairing Permissions: What you need to know.” Required reading: The procedure has taken its (rightful) place in the Pantheon of Overused Procedures, next to “zapping the PRAM,” “rebuilding the Desktop,” and “performing a clean install,” with some users acting as if it’s a cure-all ...
More Macworld Camcorder Goodness
Richard Baguley is on a tear at Macworld.com this week. Yesterday brought “Picking the perfect camcorder“, with lots of information on current models and formats. Today, he offers up 10 guidelines for shooting video in “The filmmaker’s rule book“. Here’s my favorite, which I often forget to do when I’m shooting: Rule 10: Keep shooting ...
I’m interviewed on iLifeZone podcast
Scott Bourne of the iLifeZone podcast interviewed me last week about iMovie HD 6, iDVD 6, and my new book iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide. You can download the podcast (it’s Episode #5) at the iTunes Music Store.
Canon iVIS HV10 Introduced
I mentioned the other day that Canon has finally jumped into the HDV space, but maybe the XL H1 and XH G1 were just the hop and the skip, because today the company introduced the iVIS HV10, an HDV camcorder geared for consumers. Engadget has the details: Recording onto standard miniDV cassettes using the HDV ...
Embed Time/Date in Time-Lapse Movies
Rob Griffiths at Macworld stumbled upon a very intriguing quirk with iMovie HD 6’s Time-Lapse capture feature. Basically, the options are minimal the first time you do a time-lapse capture. But when you do it again, you have the option of embedding the date and time into the video as text. I then thought I’d ...
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