Category: Third-Party
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 ...
VisualHub for Video Conversion
Dan Frakes at Macworld looks at VisualHub, a $28 utility for converting video into oodles of formats in “All you need is Hub“: As an example of VisualHub’s performance, I had a 5.8GB, 1 hour 49 minute, AVI version of a movie that I wanted to convert for iPod viewing. QuickTime Player (the Pro version) ...
Pogue on Digitizing Old Home Movies
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue writes in his weekly email about transferring old home movies (you know, the ones on “film”) to digital formats: “Saving Home Movies From Disappearing Formats“. Old reels of film, however, seemed like a tougher nut to crack. My plan was to demonstrate, on the show, the old “mirror ...
Church Sign Generator
Via CamcorderInfo.com, I learned about the Church Sign Generator. Choose one of three church signs, type your own text, and the site creates an image for you. Handy for inserting a custom establishing shot for your movie’s church scene. Or, you know, because it’s really neat to go make your own custom church sign!
New Themes for iMovie HD 6
Sidicom is the first company to release themes for iMovie HD 6: Eye Candy Themes. Four themes are available: Science Lab ($28), Folding Cards ($35), World Cup ($26), and Drop-In ($34); for $10 more, each set can be licensed to up to five users. All of them are available in SD and HD resolutions.
iMovie HD 6.0.1 Restores cf/x Compatibility
Christian Franz of cf/x reports that iMovie HD 6.0.1 restores compatibility to cf/x plug-ins. I’m happy to report that iMovie 6.0.1 appears to have fixed the incompatibility problems that made iMovie 6 incompatible with our plug-ins (you needed to disable the preview before you could configure our plug-ins). Our tests now show that iMovie 6.0.1 ...
Slick 1.0.3 Update
GeeThree has released an updater that fixes some title issues and other glitches in their Slick iMovie plug-in packages. The updater is a 6 MB download.
KeynotePro Creates iDVD Themes
iDVD 5 offers 73 built-in themes, but is that enough? No! KeynotePro is now offering their first iDVD theme: MetroBlue for iDVD. MetroBlue ties into similar themes the company has made for Keynote and Pages, and costs $20.
Testing Slick Stabilizer
My wife and I went eagle-watching over the weekend, where we spotted 26 eagles over the course of about eight hours (this was near Concrete, Marblemount, and Rockport, WA). I don’t have a great zoom on my camera, so I improvised by placing a pair of binoculars in front of the lens. Although the camcorder ...
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