Category: Editing
Adobe Premiere Coming Back to Mac
After making its video editor Windows-only in 2003, Adobe is giving Premiere an encore on the Mac for the next version, according to an article at Macworld.com: “Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac.” The new version will work only on Intel-based Macs, and it will be part of the upcoming Adobe Production Studio suite ...
Breen fixes Macworld vid in post
Macworld’s Christopher Breen could probably use any video editor he wants, but he puts together the Macworld podcast using iMovie HD. That can prove challenging when, for example, editor Jason Snell hands off some less-than-ideal raw footage with the comment, “Oh, in the interview the camera is off a little bit, leaving too much space ...
Take notes on movies with QT Movie NoteTaker
DVcreators.net has released a 0.5 version of a handy utility: QT Movie NoteTaker, a free utility that enables you to watch a QuickTime movie and keep notes about the footage with timestamps. This looks like a great collaborative editing tool if you deal with dailies or you just want to provide some helpful tips to ...
Create Time-Lapse Movie
Macworld has published online an article I wrote: Create a Time-Lapse Movie. Although you can’t fast-forward life (caffeine notwithstanding), you can speed up time in your movies with time-lapse photography. This video technique compresses hours of action into mere seconds—clouds roll overhead, the sun races toward the horizon, and flowers bloom before your eyes. Best ...
Kirsner’s Ebook on Web Video
Last month I posted a link to Scott Kirsner’s (who runs the CinemaTech blog) list of Web sites that enable you to Make Money from Your Videos. Now, Scott has published a $15 electronic book on the topic: The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers. The 90-page book, ...
Apple Insomnia Film Festival
Cool: Apple is sponsoring a movie contest for students with the amusing subhead, “Write, cast, shoot, edit, score, sleep. In that order.” On Friday, November 10 at 5 p.m. Eastern (2 p.m. Pacific), we will post a list of three elements that you will need to incorporate into your story. From that time, you will ...
Adobe Releases Soundbooth Beta
Adobe’s been burning the development oil lately. Today it released a public beta of Adobe Soundbooth, an apparent competitor to Apple’s Soundtrack Pro that is “focused on creative professionals without audio expertise, or those who prefer an application focused on making short work of the most common tasks they handle every day. The tools in ...
Aperture Libraries in iLife Apps
I’m writing up this week’s TidBITS coverage on Aperture 1.5, and thought I’d check out how iMovie HD is interacting with the pro photo app. As I expected, your Aperture library and vault shows up in the Media pane, just like iPhoto. I haven’t had a chance to do much more with it, but thought ...
GarageBand for Previewing Movie Scores
Screenwriter John August (whose credits include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Go) recently wrote and directed a feature film (currently untitled). On his blog, August has detailed miscellaneous aspects of The Movie, as he calls it, including how he’s using GarageBand to preview Alex Wurman’s score as it’s being written. ...
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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