Category: Editing
How Video Works Excerpt
You can read an excerpt from this guide by Marcus Weise and Diana Weynand: Chapter 15 Everything You’ve Wanted to know About Video Compression. It explains JPEG and MPEG, and answers the question, “Just what the heck is GOP?”
Slick Plug-ins Go Universal
GeeThree has released universal binaries of its Slick iMovie plug-ins, making them all work on Intel Macs now. In talking with Bruce Gee at Macworld Expo in January, I learned that Apple’s switch to Intel caused GeeThree to put more work into updating the plug-ins than anticipated, and that iMovie HD 6 changed in some ...
Edit Well, Final Cut Studio Newsletter
Although this blog is mostly focused on iMovie HD and iDVD, I always have one eye out for the next steps up: Final Cut Express and Final Cut Studio. I suspect you may also be curious about the pro tools, too. I received email from Peachpit (my longtime publisher) about a new newsletter called Edit ...
Tip: Resize Media Pane
(One aspect of book production is that there’s a finite amount of space to work with. As a result, some tips didn’t make it into the print edition of the latest edition. Here’s one; more are on the way.) Both iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 leave little room in their respective Media panes to ...
14 Hours of Student Flms
Want to learn about what makes good filmmaking? Be a screener for a festival: Self-Reliant Filmmaking » 14 hours of student films. The students making the selections want to be filmmakers themselves, and I think they probably learned as much about filmmaking from those 14 hours as they did from any single course they’ve taken. ...
Final Cut Express HD 3.5 Goes Universal
[Cross-posted at TidBITS.] Apple today released Final Cut Express HD 3.5, an update that brings Intel compatibility and a few welcome improvements to the company’s intermediate video editor. Until recently, the Final Cut family wouldn’t run at all on Intel-based Macs; Apple released Final Cut Studio 5.1 in April, which includes universal versions of Final ...
17-inch MacBook Pro Announced
I’ve had my head buried in work lately, so I almost missed Apple’s announcement of the 17-inch MacBook Pro yesterday. Although not a surprise that it would be coming, I’m happy to see a few features that make this laptop a great portable video studio: FireWire 800, a 4x double-layer SuperDrive, three USB ports, and ...
Combining iMovie HD Projects
Graham from Sydney, Australia asks: iMovieHD/iDVD5 VQS Pge 221 sidebar. I work in PAL HDV 1080i and tried dragging one of my 5 10 minute movies to a new imovieHD project and got message ‘the file could not be imported. QuickTime couldn’t parse it”. My workaround to get a combo movie was to first convert ...
Add Titles to the Middle of Clips
iMovie HD 6 has a great new—but subtle—feature. In earlier versions, if you wanted to add a title to the middle of a clip, you needed to first position your playhead, choose Split Clip at Playhead from the Edit menu, and then drag a title to that location. In the new version, simply position the ...
No CD Import in iMovie HD 6
I just realized that iMovie HD 6 no longer lets you import music directly from a compact disc. It’s not that surprising, since Apple wants everyone to use iTunes for everything. And it’s not surprising that I just ran across this, considering that I hardly ever buy CDs, much less pull music from them directly ...
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