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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Hollywood Calculator 1.0.1
I’ve wanted something like this for a long time: Hollywood Calculator 1.0.1, a simple Mac OS X application that easily calculates timecode. Need to quickly figure out the total length of your movie if you add a 3:43:19 (that’s 3 minutes, 43 seconds, 19 frames) to it? Plug it into the calculator; it works with ...
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NYT Reviews Sony HDR-FX1
Ahh, to be the New York Times. I tried unsuccessfully to get a review unit of Sony’s new HDR-FX1 HD camcorder to write an upcoming iMovie HD review, but didn’t get anywhere. Not surprisingly, David Pogue at the Times has reviewed it: Technology > Circuits > State of the Art: Home Video Made to Watch ...
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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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iDVD 5 erases RW media
This is probably one of those no-brainers, but until now I wasn’t certain whether one needed to manually erase a DVD-RW or DVD+RW rewritable disc that already contains content. In iDVD 4, you could write to rewritable media by inserting a DVD-R after you click iDVD’s Burn button, then sneakily ejecting it and inserting a ...
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Slick Fixes for iMovie HD
As I noted shortly after Macworld Expo, people who had some of GeeThree’s Slick plug-ins for iMovie installed ran into problems in iMovie HD (Apple didn’t make the software available to third-party developers, so the folks at GeeThree and other plug-in vendors have been working hard to get caught up). Now, GeeThree has released the ...
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First Look: iPhoto 5
The last of my iLife ’05 First Looks is now online: First Look: iPhoto 5. Yes, the middle picture is a photo looking down into a coffee cup. I was running out of time and needed to import some new pictures, fast!
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First Look: iDVD 5
Continuing my series of first-looks at iLife ’05, MacCentral.com has posted First Look: iDVD 5. Not only does it feature info on iDVD’s new burning capabilities, you can see the espresso machine at Diva Espresso where I pay homage nearly every day, as well as (gasp!) watch me make a sports analogy!
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iMovie HD 5.0.1 Released
Apple today released iMovie HD 5.0.1 as a 2.4 MB download via Software Update. The update fixes unspecified audio and video synchronization issues. According to Apple, you should apply the patch if your iMovie HD projects include “DV Widescreen assets [16:9 footage], titles, transitions, or video effects” …which entails pretty much any iMovie project. Update: ...
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First Look: iMovie HD at MacCentral
My second iLife ’05 First Look article, on iMovie HD, is now up at MacCentral.com: First Look: iMovie HD. Here’s the kicker: The addition of HD import and editing is a very cool thing, if you’re wealthy enough to afford an HD camera or if you’re looking to the future (HD prices are bound to ...
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Slick Conflicts with iMovie HD
If you’re having troubles with iMovie HD (and you’ve already repaired permissions on your Mac), check to see if you have any third-party iMovie plug-ins installed. GeeThree has run into a few conflicts, and posted a page detailing current problems and workarounds. Unfortunately, this is one byproduct of Apple’s product secrecy; as far as I ...
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