Take Control of iPhone Photography, 2nd Edition
The big 2nd edition of my book on how to take great photos with your iPhone is now available!
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Apple Production Value of HD Session
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 ...
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10.4.1 “Fixes” iDVD 5 Crashing Bug
In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, hiding the iDVD application while burning a disc or saving a disc image would crash the program. Mac OS X 10.4.1 fixes the problem, sort of: it removes the capability to hide the program while burning.
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I Heart Dealmac.com
Last week I had the opportunity to test out a Power Mac G5 system that included two (yes, two) Apple 30-inch Cinema HD displays. You can see a picture of them flanking my PowerBook here. It was an astounding array of over 8 million pixels, which I wrote about in my Seattle Times column. Since ...
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Sony HDR-HC1 consumer HDV camcorder
Sony introduced a new, smaller, consumer version HDV camcorder last week, the HDR-HC1: Sony shrinks HD camcorder’s size and price. For $1,700, this camera is smaller and cheaper than the HDR-FX1, though it’s not clear how the image quality will be, since it uses a single CMOS image sensor instead of three CCD sensors. Expect ...
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Apple Intermediate Codec 1.0.1 Improves Performance
[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 ...
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iMovie HD VQS to Peachpit!
The sprint from Macworld Expo to now is finally over, now that iMovie HD and iDVD 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide has been sent to Peachpit, and by now is on the hallowed servers of the book’s printer. Looking at Amazon, the book is currently priced 32% off, or $13.59. You can ...
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Tiger, Articles, and Sleep
Last week was a mix of all-out working and some rare relaxation, which is why I’m a week late in posting this: Glenn Fleishman and I reviewed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for The Seattle Times, which includes a goofy picture of me (and, again, has only Glenn’s name on the byline for the online ...
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This Tiger Purrs
Last week was a mix of all-out working and some rare relaxation, which is why I’m a week late in posting this: Glenn Fleishman and I reviewed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for The Seattle Times, which includes a goofy picture of me (and, again, has only Glenn’s name on the byline for the online ...
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QuickTime 7 HD Gallery
So, you’ve installed Tiger or QuickTime 7, and want to sample some juicy HD video content? Apple has posted a QuickTime 7 HD Gallery, with movies, music videos, and trailers in H.264 format.
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New Power Mac G5s with Dual-Layer SuperDrives
Apple announced new Power Mac G5 models today, speed bumping the processors and lowering prices. In addition to more power, all models except the low-end single 1.8 GHz configuration include dual-layer SuperDrives, which can burn up to 8.5 GB of data (or three hours of MPEG-2 video). According to Apple’s Power Mac G5 page, iDVD ...
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