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iStabilize - software to stabilize shaky video 1.1.0

Apple - Downloads - Video - iStabilize 1.1.0

A video stabilizer for MacOS X. iStabilize removes unwanted shaky motion from movies with respect to translation, rotation, and zoom. It is a complete movie player with editing capabilities and can read and write many movie formats. iStabilize provides a preview mode, where stabilization parameters can be adjusted and their effects can be seen immediately without time consuming rendering. Stabilization can be applied to multiple temporal intervals of a movie.

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MPEG Streamclip 1.0.2

MPEG Streamclip 1.0.2
About MPEG StreamclipThis application converts MPEG-1/MPEG-2 files and transport streams into QuickTime movies and DV streams, with professional quality and synchronized audio. Video can be scaled, cropped, and even deinterlaced with a motion-adaptive deinterlacer. Using the included player, you can select the part of the MPEG file or transport stream to be converted. This application can also perform conversions to muxed MPEG and demuxed M2V, AIFF, MP2. Converted files are compatible with Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. This application requires the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component for MPEG-2 video decoding. It supports MPEG and PCM audio. [Mac OS X Downloads - Video]

The New iMacs are here! The New iMac are here!

Apple - iMac G5
What if you could fit your whole life — all your music, all your photos, all your movies, all your email — in a computer as fun and useful as an iPod? Now you can. Introducing the futuristic iMac G5 in 17- and 20-inch widescreen models. The entire computer, including a G5-based logic board, slot-loading optical drive, hard disk, speakers, and even the power supply — dwells inside the enchanting display. Modern living starts at $1299.

Go see. Boy is it cool looking

Apple Expo: EyeTV 1.5 exports to iMovie, iDVD, more

This is cool as an analog solution. Apple Expo: EyeTV 1.5 exports to iMovie, iDVD, more
On Tuesday, Elgato Systems announced at Apple Expo in Paris new versions of the software that runs its EyeTV and EyeHome hardware solutions, which provide the ability to record TV broadcasts on your Mac and stream video from your Mac to your TV, respectively. EyeTV 1.6 adds the ability to export digital video to iMovie, iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, Toast, the Web and e-mail as well as support for closed captioning in North America (only with the EyeTV 200), Dolby 5.1 surround sound on the Power Mac G5, more efficient use of the processor and more. Elgato has dropped the price of its EyeTV 200 solution to US$299; prices of the other EyeTV products remain the same. [MacCentral]

CGM DVE Complete 2.4.1

CGM is updated again CGM DVE Complete 2.4.1
About CGM DVE CompleteA set of 136 filters, transitions and generators for use in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. In addition to the professional plug-ins the package also includes a series of Final Cut Pro workshops and 68 softwipe patterns (heart, star, clouds,...). [Mac OS X Downloads - Video]

Feeling brave? Overclock your ATI video Card

Accelerate Your Macintosh! News Page - 8/30/04

Reader posts ATI Graphics card Dynamic Overclocking (on the fly) Utility - (from a reader post yesterday - here's a clip from his web page)

"ATIccelerator II
ATIccelerator II comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. If you destroy your costly 9800 Pro or your now worthless Rage 128 because of a bug in this program or your careless utilisation of it, you're on your own!

Conversion Format + so much more

Algolith: Software

Now Available!
Unleash the power of the Algolith algorithms inside Adobe After Effects 6.0 and 6.5 for Windows. Now including Format Converter and Timewarper

One of those questions I get (often) is how can I make NTSC become PAL (or a dozen other format changes).

Software vs. Hardware - well Algolith has a bunch of plugins available (for AE) to do this.

State of the Pro Nation.

On Sundays, I'm going to try to throw up some opinion here.

Not because I really want to write the content; but rather two things - first I want more people reading the site (if you like it, hate it, want to contribute - you're wanted)

Particularly, I'd like love other FCP UG posting information both about when their groups meet and items they find valuable.

One man, however can't do it all. So if you want to volunteer, go ahead and press the email Jeff link at the right - or click here.

Meanwhile, back to the state of Pro Apps.
Tomorrow, (or in about six or so hours) Apple will be taking the covers off the new iMac. Certainly it will be cool looking, we all love that icandy

But more important - it will be powerful (and hopefully not overpriced). The eMac will be dead. It fills a great market segment, but it's still the old iMac in a modified shell. Yes, I want cheap macs out there - I want it to be possible for some of our friends and family who just don't get it - to say, yeah, I see that a PC is a couple of hundred dollars (or your local currency here) cheaper, but look at all the stuff I get with a mac!

iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, iTunes, and Garageband, oh my! Right there, those apps for a PC user is literally the difference in price.

But it's Pro apps you're coming here for. Have no misconceptions - Apple has a brilliant strategy. They want to move hardware. They're going to keep making iNsanely cool software that helps push the hardware. It's smart business. And Golly! Motion is such cool software. It Is Software That You Will Want To Have.

Someone is really thinking in the ProApps group - they're listening to the community, coming out with software that hits the sweet spot just so, but is also killer. Believe me, Motion is one of those killer video apps.

So, take your pick. Buy a Mac because it's really cool or that it really solves a problem for you. The production suite is perfectly priced for this. Your software out of date? Upgrading DVDSP or FCP and you get the rest. Each of these apps are stellar. And you know, they're only going to get better

Well, those are my thoughts for a Sunday night

Motion, Video Cards, RAM, and Processor Speed

Motion, Video Cards, RAM, and Processor Speed