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What just happened to video on the web?

Aug 13, 2008 at 8:00 pm in digital video news, dvcTV, editing, web video by . · 5 Comments »

What just happened to video on the web?

We are extremely excited to announce that DV Kitchen, the ultimate solution for publishing professional quality video on the web, is available immediately!

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DV Kitchen’s primary focus is encoding and uploading broadcast quality, internet-friendly-bandwidth video to a website, blog, forum, or for a video podcast. You can import movies, encode them, and upload them in as  [read more →]

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DV Kitchen screencast: Bitrate Budget Calculator

May 22, 2008 at 4:30 am in broadcast, web video by · 1 Comment »

The DV Kitchen Bitrate Budget Calculator is a sophisticated modeling algorithm that takes five factors into account to help you determine what your movie’s bitrate limit should be based on your particular situation.

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Adobe adds H.264 video support to Flash

Aug 23, 2007 at 3:59 pm in digital video news, DVD, web video by · 3 Comments »

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 lower bandwidth.

Because of so many viewers had the Flash plugin, a couple years ago web video encoders found they could encode video into Flash rather than  [read more →]

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Final Cut Studio Warp Speed Workflow #4: Batch Rename Files

May 4, 2007 at 12:19 pm in digital video news, dvcTV, editing, post visuals by · 2 Comments »

Here is a Warp Speed Workflow showing how to change hundred of files names in one click.

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Apple announces Final Cut Studio 2 – Final Cut Pro 6 – Motion 3 – Soundtrack 2 – etc.

Apr 15, 2007 at 6:53 pm in digital video news, editing, post audio, post visuals by · 4 Comments »

Notable points:

  • Final Cut Studio 2 will be available in May for $1,299, or $499 for the upgrade
  • Final Cut Pro 6 has an Open Format Timeline that lets editors mix and match virtually any video format and frame-rate in a single Timeline without transcoding. Hope this works with nesting and media management!
  • ProRes 422 format for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes and support for mixed video formats and frame rates in a single Timeline- nice feature. ProRes 422 will run  [read more →]

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Batch convert video files to any editing format

Nov 27, 2006 at 5:22 am in editing by · 1 Comment »

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! to batch convert video files to DV or any other editing format.

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Core Duo versus Core 2 Duo speed tests

Nov 5, 2006 at 12:32 am in digital video news, editing, editing products, post audio gear by · 1 Comment »

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

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JES Deinterlacer

Dec 31, 2005 at 12:05 pm in editing, editing products, film products, post visuals, visual fx products by · Leave a Comment »

Features:

* Deinterlace movies (half height/normal height/double frame rate/blend,adaptive/simple). * Change field dominance (for PAL films with fake interlace). * Reinterlace from one or two movies. * Standards conversion (PAL< ->NTSC or custom). * Inverse telecine. * Trim, shift, simple color correction, noise reduction. * Change encoding (RGB gamma, video range/full range). * Fix jagged edges. * Pitch preserving sound track for half speed. * Change movie speed, reverse movie. * Interlaced in/out, progressive in/out. * Includes utility to view and  [read more →]

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Why is motion in my DVDs so "jittery" and "stroby"?

Aug 3, 2005 at 4:07 am in DVD by · 6 Comments »

This seems like a popular question lately, here is a likely culprit:

In Compressor 2.0, all Apple’s supplied presets seem to have Field Dominance set to "Top First" (aka "Upper Field First"), as you can see here. I went through a few and they were all set this way.

Since DV camcorders capture video lower field first, FCP capture presets and sequence presets are lower field first, as they should be, so interlaced fields proceed in order. However, when encoding video  [read more →]