Category: Exporting

Fresh HDV points to a valuable tutorial on compressing QuickTime movies with high quality at low bit rates (Quicktime Wiki). Very very useful.

Apple posted a new tech note of interest to those who are editing in HDV: Sharing Full Quality HDV from iMovie HD does not export correct aspect ratio (1920 x 1080, 16:9). (Link via Mike at HD for Indies). Here’s an excerpt, but be sure to read the whole page if you’re working with HDV. ...

The National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB) starts this week, so expect a flood of news coming from Las Vegas. I had hoped to be there this year, but didn’t get my act in gear early enough, and couldn’t honestly justify paying $300 per night at the hotel rooms that were left. Lots of rumors ...

Mike Curtis at HD for Indies has been soliciting feedback on how long it takes iMovie HD or Final Cut Express HD to render HDV video back to the Sony HDR-FX1 HD camera. Unlike standard-def DV, it’s not a real-time process; the Mac has to encode its AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) footage, which is what ...

Apple has released a Knowledge Base article that details the default iMovie export option defaults.

Thanks to “pmiles” on Apple’s iDVD discussion boards, who posted the following steps to install iDVD 3 on a non-SuperDrive Mac from the iLife installer disc: 1. Insert the iLife DVD 2. Highlight the iLife Installer 3. Select Show Original from the File menu 4. Open the Packages folder 5. Double-click the iDVD.pkg 6. This ...

When Apple released its iDVD 3.0.1 Update recently, they quietly added a potentially very cool feature: any G4 or G5-based Mac can use iDVD 3! (Of course, you can’t burn a DVD, but you can at least work on a project, then copy the project to a Mac with a Superdrive.) Previously, you had to ...

Apple has released iDVD 3.0.1, which it says “provides improved performance and stability for encoding, burning, and managing your DVD projects.”

MacFixIt reports that Final Cut Express cannot import iMovie 3.0.3 files, saying that the project file isn’t an iMovie 3 file. No doubt this will be fixed in a future update. But if you’re creating movies in iMovie 3.0.3 and then handing them off to someone using FCE (or switching between the two programs yourself), ...