Like a lot of SysAdmins, I work in a cave. No windows except for the odd Dell system, of course. No natural light whatsoever. It can get depressing. So I was pretty intrigued when I saw this Winscape virtual window. I’ve actually had this idea for some time. Get a large, bright screen and show [...]
It’s just come to my attention that it’s now fairly trivial to split a drive into two differently formatted partitions, one of which could be used for the Mac while the other could be used for Windows. This is not necessarily new, but there are a number of things that make it of particular interest [...]
Apple has just released the latest version of the Final Cut Studio, for which, technically, there is no version number. But it’s the third one, so for clarity (remember clarity?) we’re calling it “Final Cut Studio 3.” In this latest version, LiveType has disappeared and appears to now be completely integrated into Motion. Compressor now [...]
John Gruber today opines that there is no GUI interface for the command-line tool for converting Quicktime movies into the OGG Theora format — a very handy thing to be able to do if you want to serve video to Firefox-type browsers using HTML 5′s <video> and <audio> tags. Since this is something I do [...]
As promised at the announcement of iLife ’09, I’ve been poking at the new iMovie. It’s an interesting beast, like nothing I’ve ever seen. And I agree with many of the comments floating around about it. One thing that’s been noted is that, because iMovie 8 is completely unlike traditional professional NLEs, the learning curve [...]
Why is it there’s still no video capture application for the iPhone? Unless, of course, you hack the poor beast. That’s right, if you’ve jailbroken your iPhone you can get a video capture application for it. In fact you’ll have your choice of two, one of which is actually free (and reportedly of higher quality). [...]
I’ve been following the running commentary on Apple’s decision to remove firewire from the MacBook. The latest article comes from Ars Technica, who responds to the “Steve Jobs” quote: “Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2.” The Ars writer chimes in, chastising people who want firewire by, [...]
It’s too bad. The new MacBook looks beautiful. But, though they’re still hawking Final Cut Express as a bundle option with the machine, the MacBook’s lack of firewire makes it pretty much useless for video. Not only can you not use it to digitize DV material, but you can’t even use an external firewire drive [...]
Recently, one of our producers needed to cut a 20+ minute planetarium show down to a 3 minute trailer. So he needed a way to edit an image sequence comprised of extremely large, non-standard frames. We decided to use Final Cut Pro for the editing software, but Final Cut is decidedly not built for working [...]
I recently wrote some criticism of a couple very promising new applications: ScreenFlow and Opacity. Both these apps came out at roughly the same time, and each was of particular interest to me. Each also had some pretty glaring bugs. One of the great things about being a member of the Mac Community is that [...]