Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Adding a remote folder to DV Kitchen

This movie shows how to add a folder on your remote server to DV Kitchen, as well as showing some tips and shortcuts along the way.

For more info on DV Kitchen, click here.



DV Kitchen gets stellar review in MacUser UK

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A few quotes:
“DV Kitchen, from DV Creators, costs little more than a budget video encoder, yet offers a host of professional features.”

“SampleLab allows bitrate data size/quality trade-offs to be gauged quickly and accurately. It’s simple to use but incredibly useful, and therein lies its genius.”

“The Bitrate Calculator is a useful, foolproof way to calculate the applicable bitrate for encodes.”

“Timefreezer… is another simple, effective and welcome tool.”

“While other encoding tools have attempted FTP upload functionality, none has got it quite right until DV Kitchen.”
“Our overall impression of DV Kitchen is …



LaCie 2big Quadra


LaCie 2Big Quadra
2-Bay RAID I eSATA 3Gb/s |Hi-Speed USB 2.0 I FireWire 400 & 800

  • Ideal for backup and creative pros
  • Four RAID modes to customize speed and protection
  • Two hot-swappable disks for non-stop data access*
  • Aluminum heat sink design for greater reliability
  • Genie and Intego Backup Manager Pro incl.
  • Time Machine Compatible

So, now you can have a single enclosure, two-drive system that works with two partitions to create both a Fast and Safe drive to work from. The two drives mount to your desktop and one is 200MB/sec Fast and the other Safe volume is capable of …



Matrox CompressHD Accelerator Card

Want faster HD encodes? from Guy Cochran on Vimeo.

If you’re a professional content creator delivering H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices, you need a fast, flexible, high quality encoding workhorse. Matrox CompressHD is the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an amazingly affordable H.264 accelerator card. It works with DV Kitchen to let you create H.264 files, for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD, faster than real …



AJA Ki Pro

Everyone from broadcasters to indie filmmakers can probably agree on one
thing: the possible choices for image acquisition are daunting. Different
cameras, different formats, different recording media and different compression
schemes. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to simplify acquisition so
that virtually any camera, digital or analog, could record the same format and
resolution? Enter the AJA Ki Pro.
The AJA Ki Pro is a tapeless video recording device that records high-quality
Apple ProRes 422 QuickTime files onto computer-friendly media. Because it
features SD/HD-SDI, HDMI, and analog inputs, you can interface with virtually
any type …



Happy 10th birthday, Final Cut Pro and DVcreators.net!

In 1998, I remember hearing about a new editing program called “Key Grip”, written by Randy Ubillos, the creator of Adobe Premiere. It looked like a nice blend of Avid/Premiere-style non-linear editing and After Effects-style keyframing, two programs I had picked up in their 1.0 versions and used for tons of projects.

At NAB 1998, I was ushered to an underground room at NAB, where Randy was demoing the program on Mac and Windows, since renamed “Final Cut”. I met Randy and some of the development team.

In February of 1999, my …



Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro $199!

Want to view your project out to an HD monitor? Add the incredible quality of HDMI to your computer. Intensity features the latest HDMI technology for the highest quality capture and playback on Windows or Mac OS X computers. Now you can edit using big-screen HDMI televisions and video projectors, or capture uncompressed quality from HDV cameras. Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality

Intensity Pro is the first card to combine the high quality …



RODE Podcaster

Podcaster
Broadcast quality USB Microphone.

Ever need to do high quality voice over? Do you need smooth broadcast quality sound? Now you can record directly via USB. Many editing applications allow you to record direct to the timeline. The problem has been, how do you get pristine audio into the computer. You used to need some kind of $200 A/D converter and another $100-1000 for the mic. New solution:



Edirol V-440HD

Edirol V-440HD 8 channel Video Mixer/ Live Switcher + Chroma keyer!

The V-440HD is the first affordable HD mixer offering 4 HD inputs and 4 SD inputs and this product is simply stunning. Imagine being able to take a 1280×1024 VGA output from a computer and have a person in front of a green screen shot with an HD camera come walking right into the computer display. Simply amazing! Now imagine being able to size down the person with PiP and move them anywhere in the screen with a joystick. Now …



Where can I find free fonts?

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html

http://www.grsites.com/fonts/

1001freefonts

http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts

fontfreak

downloadfreefonts

katsfunfonts

absolute fonts archive

reflectdesign

nicksfonts

fonthead

macfonts

fuelfonts

bvfonts

aenigmafonts

chank

a-t-i

This article lists others

WARNING: Do not go crazy and download every free font, then spend days organizing them and printing sample sheets. You will become obsessed with your font collection rather than getting work done. Instead just grab a font when you need it for a project!

Search for fonts here: typeindex