When you’re finished with your edit, how should you export? Well, it depends. METHOD #1. Reference movie If you want to export a temporary file as quickly as possible, export a reference movie. File > Export > Quicktime Movie UNcheck “Make Self-Contained” Pros: If you’ve rendered your sequence, this is the fastest way to export [...]

We’ve always had good luck with Apple brand blanks. The charts below, from http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm, rate blank DVDs: 1ST CLASS MEDIA – EXCELLENT DISCS: Almost flawless burns with 95-100% reliable results. These discs are suited for pretty much anything. They will usually serve as excellent archival quality media, as well as video masters. These discs are [...]

When you’re EDITING, you can make good decisions just watching the Canvas Window on your laptop. But for color grading, it’s critically important to watch your show on a monitor that’s displaying an accurate image. Monitoring is important because all your color grading work is going to be off if the monitor you’re watching while [...]

When Flash first incorporated video in version 6, they chose the “Spark” Sorenson 3 codec. A good choice, that was the best encoding quality at that time. In the following years, several companies developed encoding algorithms that were clearly higher quality. Flash 8 then added the On2 VP6 codec, which again delivered higher quality at [...]

This answer from Frank Datzer at Allied Vaughn: DVD duplication is done by using towers of burners to duplicate large amounts of DVDs at a time. This produces exact copies or DVD-Rs of your original. Replication actually uses a glass master to “stamp” new DVDs. This method dramatically lowers the price per unit at high [...]

After Effects 7 PowerStart is the world’s best learning experience for mastering After Effect’s unique and sophisticated motion graphics creation environment, whether you are a professional graphics artist, video or film editor, or new to digital media. Written by After Effects guru Stephen Schleicher and Josh Mellicker of DVcreators.net.

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If your projects are going to be delivered on DVD or broadcast, it’s important to have an accurate studio monitor on your desk so you can see your project as your viewers will see it while you’re editing. Why? First, many editing programs show you a low quality “proxy” of your timeline, so you can’t [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 4, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the next version of Adobe® Production Studio, the integrated video and audio post-production tool set that is part of the Creative Suite family, will be available for both the Macintosh and Windows® platforms. Film, video and web professionals currently using [...]

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 [...]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The first HD-DVD titles are slated to go on sale Tuesday and, contrary to speculation, Toshiba players have arrived at Best Buy and should be on sale in at least some of the chain’s locations. Sources say players were shipped out beginning Sunday and are scheduled to go on sale [...]

There have been a lot of questions from people who are unhappy with how their DVD video discs are working when played on computers and/or DVD players. Here is a short list of differences: Buttons rollovers do not work the same depending on what WinXP DVD player application is being used, or in Apple DVD [...]

What is a DVD? A DVD is an optical disc, the same size as a CD, but holds 7 to 25 times more information. A DVD can also potentially transfer data 8 times faster than a CD. A DVD can be recorded on one side, or both sides. The sides can be either be single [...]

FFmpeg is a cross-platform, open source audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/ ffmpegX is the OS X version.

It seems more and more common that editors are being asked to use content from a DVD- perhaps the client has provided you with last years annual report DVD… and wants you to redit it. (Remember, ripping off copyrighted content is a Federal offense with imprisonment and large fines possible!) You can use MacTheRipper to [...]

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