Category: Editing

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been using a MacBook Pro on loan from Apple. My review of it appears in today’s Seattle Times: Mac’s first Intel-driven laptop: A taste of speed. Using the MacBook Pro normally doesn’t feel all that speedy; things feel a bit more peppy, but nothing mind-blowing. However, I did a few ...

Robert Hogan passes along some great editing advice as he works on his film Los Tres Cabrones: Make the hard sacrifices to keep it short. Just because a scene is pretty doesn’t mean you should spend five minutes on a scene that could achieve the same impact in two minutes. If your shot contains action ...

Chuck writes: I want to insert a photo into my video clip and maintain the original audio. Everything works fine until I add transitions at either end of the photo which results in the loss of synchronization between the audio and video. Is this possible to achieve in iMovie HD or am I barking up ...

iLounge looks at the options for encoding video for the new video iPod: “iPod-Ready Videos? Not So Fast, and Not So Clear.” QuickTime 7.0.3 adds an export option to QuickTime (and therefore, to applications such as iMovie) to encode video for iPod, but you don’t get to customize its settings. Jeremy Horowitz performed a bunch ...

Mike at HD For Indies takes a good look at the question: should I buy an iMac G5 for now as a lower-cost bridge before the new Intel-based Power Macs appear, or go with an existing Pwer Mac? He’s focusing on editing HD with Final Cut Pro, of course, but his points are still mostly ...

Making editing available to the masses has its humorous effects. Someone took scenes from Stanley Kubrick‘s scary thriller The Shining, and edited them into a trailer for what looks like a heartwarming comedy called Shining (9.5 MB QuickTime movie file). Update: The New York Times wrote an article about it here.

Christopher Breen once again proves that he doesn’t sleep and knows everything. I, on the other hand, have been actually catching up on some sleep and don’t know a whole lot yet about vodcasting (or the terrible “vlogging,” which sounds like “flogging” when you say it out loud, or just “video blogging”). Just as I ...

WeibeTech is sponsoring a video editing contest to win a G5Jam+, which lets you install up to 10 drives (six internal and four external) and a TrayDock eSATA, which is an external drive enclosure holding four drives that can be configured as a RAID. Entries are to be no longer than 5 minutes and be ...

I went into downtown Seattle today to attend a free “Production Value of HD” session put on by Apple and IrisInk. For the most part, if was a good overview of what Final Cut Studio can do, though it did include some material I’d seen before (such as this video of Walter Murch and Soundtrack ...

[Busy week, so I apologize if this is old news to some.] Last week, Apple posted an update to one of its core video-editing components, Apple Intermediate Codec 1.0.1. If you use iMovie HD or Final Cut Express HD, work with HDV-formatted footage, and are using QuickTime 7, this update is highy recommended. Both applications ...