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Videospec

Something to add to your toolbox. Videospec allows you to analyze a QT file via a drag and drop analysis. (You could probably also do this via QT Pro)

VideoSpec is an AppleScript studio App making use of MPlayer, FFmpeg and MediaInfo CLI binaries to display informations on video files. The lastest version (v. 0.6.0) has been tested on Mac OS X Tiger (untested in Leopard) and is compatible with PowerPC and Intel Mac (Universal Binary).

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O'Reilly -- Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X

How to export QuickTime video directly to a VCR or DVD recorder without going through iMovie or Final Cut

[From O'Reilly -- Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X]

List of QuickTime downloads - Digital Rebellion

Jon Chappell of Digital Rebellion has all of your quicktime versions (old ones too) lying around just in case you need to downgrade. They're also on Final Cut User

Mac Pro/NVidia 8800 GT: poor performance, graphics glitches - MacFixIt

Curious behavior from this card. It's around $300 and has 512 MB ram.

Poor performance As noted in a posting by Bare Feats, the Mac Pro's stock Radeon HD 2600 XT beats the GeForce 8800 GT in a number of pro appliction benchmarks. The publishers say: "We're puzzled by this when you consider it has twice the VRAM and a faster core. Could the Radeon's architecture be more optimized for Core Image effects?"

[From Mac Pro/NVidia 8800 GT: poor performance, graphics glitches - MacFixIt]

Mac Hints & Tips

The always excellent mac hints and tips is out for Jan/Feb

[From Mac Hints & Tips]

Some new QT features

I was poking around the new Quicktime and found a couple of features worth mentioning. (I don't know how many of these are QT 7.4)

1) Use high quality video setting when available. Do you know how many calls I get from people who export DV out of FCP and ask "Why does it look bad?"

2) Show timecodes when available - wow, I can see mucho use for this. I don't know if it's possible to embed that from an FCP timeline, but boy, it'd be nice not to have to render that (feel free to chime in.)

3) Show content guide automatically. Ever start up QT and have it stall as it pulls down that damn content guide you've never used? Yeah, turn that crap off here.

4) Enable Final Cut Color Compatibility. I can see that I'm going to have to eventually write up a guide about this. But yeah, that's why your colors shift.

When does Boot Camp Beta expire? - When Leopard comes out

When does Boot Camp Beta expire?:
As indicated in the license agreement for Boot Camp Beta, the Boot Camp Beta program expires when Mac OS 10.5 Leopard becomes available publicly in October, 2007.

Faking It : Making 4:3 footage work in 16:9 projects.

Faking It : Making 4:3 footage work in 16:9 projects. This tutorial is designed to give you a basic understanding of the differences between the two formats, and a couple of ideas about ways to be able to mix them, so that they are kept correct, look good, and fulfill your program specifications."

(Via http://www.kenstone.net .)

Here are some Podcasts you might want to listen to.

http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/podcast http://Podcastingforacause.com/psvideo.xml http://gruntmedia.com/videogrunt_directory.html