Techspansion developer Tyler Loch, maker of the incredibly useful multimedia manipulation tools VisualHub, iSquint and AudialHub, has announced he is discontinuing all further development.
“…After much soul-searching (it’s not you, it’s me), for personal reasons, Techspansion is closing its virtual doors. The Support Forum and Support E-mail will be available for a while longer to [...]
Have you ever taken some video clips with your point-and-shoot digital camera, downloaded them to iPhoto, and found them playing sideways? This is a common occurrence in our house. We’ll get some great footage of our kids doing something cute or funny, only to find that it was shot in a portrait orientation [...]
Closed captioning is a technology that’s been around for a few decades, but it’s changed very little since then. The techniques and processes behind the scenes are even still roughly the same as they were in the beginning. Some Canadians have been complaining that the quality of their captions are even worse than those in [...]
Today Apple announced the release of the much anticipated Final Cut Server, “a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation”.
Final Cut Server is meant to be used in conjunction with Apple’s Final Cut Studio as a seamless way to manage all the assets that might go in to video production.
One of Final [...]
Chimoosoft created this fantastic little donationware app called TubeTv. With this app, you can save video files from YouTube and other sites and make them playable on your Mac, iPod, or Apple TV. There are of course other ways to do the same thing, but a standalone app that grabs your URL from your default [...]
When it comes to harnessing your Mac’s power for video encoding, you’re left with two choices: digital or physical.
Digital
Handbrake is the go to source for creating digital copies of your video. With Handbrake you can pop in a DVD and select the appropriate preset. You can encode straight to iPod, iPhone or Apple TV. Handbrake [...]
Here’s a simple little app which works a treat if you need to view and/or import video from a firewire DV device onto your Mac without firing-up a fully fledged FinalCut style application…it’s called Vidi.
Vidi has a number of extra facilities, all relating to owners of the Formac Studio range of DV devices, which [...]
Today Apple announced the release of Final Cut Express 4.
New features include:
iMovie ‘08 Importing
Over 50 new FxPlug effects and filters
Mixing of hi-def and standard video on the same timeline
Support for AVCHD cameras
What’s even more interesting with this release is that Apple has now knocked the price of FCE down to $199 (from the $299 it [...]
Macs having the reputation they do for creative endeavors, there are as many (or more) video and audio encoding tools for OS X as their are file formats in which to encode your media. Some of the tools available are free and open-source, but many of it are shareware, donationware, or fully commercial products. How [...]
