There have been many people trying to import various types of video files into Final Cut Pro- H.264, MPEG1, Sorenson, AVI etc. Sometimes the clips might sputter through… but often, they’ll redline and not play at all- or even crash the program, and possibly corrupt your project file. Download the free trial of DV Kitchen! [...]

The Library of Congress’s Copyright Office on Wednesday granted an exemption to film professors, allowing them to break the copy-protection codes on DVDs in order to create compilations of movie clips for their classes. Although such compilations are permitted under "fair use" interpretation of the copyright law, breaking the CSS security code is not. Studios [...]

Video editing systems will have problems. The process of pinpointing the problem is called “troubleshooting”. Troubleshooting is the art of changing one thing at a time until the problem is pinpointed. For example, you’re having a problem with a project. Try creating a brand new project. Does the problem persist? If the brand new project [...]

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Bare Feats is at it again, with speed tests of the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros: