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 ...
Bourdain in Beirut
Chef and author Anthony Bourdain got caught in Beirut when Israel attacked, which he writes about at Salon: “Watching Beirut die.” From where I’m sitting, poolside, I can see the airport burning — the last of the jet fuel cooking off like a dying can of sterno. There’s a large, black plume of smoke coming ...
AVCHD Format Explained
Richard Baguley at Macworld provides a good overview of AVCHD, the high-definition video format introduced by Sony and Panasonic and available in a set of new camcorders from Sony that I mentioned earlier this week. This all sounds good so far: We’ve got high-def video and high-quality sound in a format that doesn’t take up ...
Minor/Major Redesign Here
As you can see, I’ve gotten off my duff and did a bit of a redesign here. I didn’t like that all the good links were found after scrolling a lot on one sidebar (part of the reason those links are there is that I come here when I need to get to those pages, ...
Patron Saints of Graphic Design
Designer W. Lynn Garrett has identified the six Patron Saints of Graphic Design, with beautiful accompanying artwork (which you can purchase). No surprise, Saint Anxieté (“Martyr, Patron of Impossible Deadlines & Foamy Coffee”) is one of my favorites: This thirteenth-century domestic servant worked for two generations of the wealthy Asap family, who were often annoyed ...
Morning Shooting Roundup
Before I dig into the day’s work, a few items revolving around shooting video have caught my eye: Jan Ozer wrote an article for EventDV that provides a lot of valuable information on shooting with multiple cameras, in this case capturing a jazz concert. Working with multiple cameras is much more difficult in iMovie than ...
iPhoto Tip: Grey Balance
Christopher Breen discovered a hidden feature in iPhoto 6: when editing a photo, Command-click anywhere. The Temperature and Tint values change based on the color of the pixel you clicked.
Updated Discussions Links
I’ve updated the links at the sidebar for Apple’s discussion groups for iMovie and iDVD. I mention this mostly as a mini-rant, because this is the third or fourth time I’ve had to do this since starting this blog. I don’t understand why Apple can’t just set up a URL like http://discussions.apple.com/imovie/ and redirect it ...
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