VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a free and highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (FLV, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Our recommendation is narrate into your camcorder onto a DV tape, using a studio quality balanced condensor mic. The advantages of recording onto a DV tape are: 1. After your project is finished, your narration is still on a tape and if you re-edit the project in the future, you won’t have to record and [...]

If you don’t hear any audio, you probably have your output set to FireWire, but don’t have any speakers plugged into your DV camcorder or deck. When you’re sending video through FireWire to view on an external monitor, Final Cut Pro is also sending the audio through FireWire. Plug some headphones or speakers into your [...]

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I don’t know, but maybe this will help: Navigate to Library -> Receipts on your main drive (not from your personal folder). Remove all files of the form QuickTime*.pkg, where "*" is a version number. E.g. QuickTime600.pkg, QuickTime650.pkg, Quicktime700.pkg and QuickTime701.pkg. This simply tells your system that those packages are not installed. Go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/downloads [...]

There are several formats of video people call “24p”: true 24p To capture this, you’ll have to create special capture and sequence presets. But it’s a very rare format. 23.976 This is more a much more common frame rate. Use the appropriate capture and sequence preset. (Note: FCP calls 23.976 “23.98″ for some odd reason). [...]

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