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Quick ‘n’ Dirty: How to Burn a Simple DVD

Jan 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm in delivery, DVD by Smiley Katz · Leave a Comment »

Here’s a quick guide to getting that DVD from Compressor onto a menuless (?menu-less?) DVD video.

With the default DVD presets in Compressor, you will get these files- a .ac3 (dolby digital) file for the audio and a .m2v file which is short for Mpeg-2 video:

DVDs require elementary streams, which are separate video and audio only files, and will then be “mux-ed” to a DVD as .vob (video object) files. You can open the mpeg-2 video file with Quicktime Player or  [read more →]

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What brands of blank DVDs are the best?

May 19, 2008 at 4:47 pm in DVD by · 2 Comments »

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  [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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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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How can I make my DVDs work the way I want in both DVD players and computers?

Mar 10, 2006 at 10:17 am in DVD by · 9 Comments »

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 Player
  • TVs show cropped action safe area, computers show the whole picture
  • MPEG2 encoding that looks fine on a TV often looks bad on a computer… or vice versa  [read more →]
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Where can I find stock photos for use in video projects?

Oct 31, 2005 at 2:52 am in digital video news, post visuals by 22-02-1989 · 9 Comments »

When moving footage is not available, don’t forget about still photos! You can animate still photos with motion and scale, crop them, apply filters (like sepia, B & W, color tint) and sometimes stills can fill empty spots in your timeline as well or even better than a video clip. Also, many stock photos are automatically HD res!

http://tutorialblog.org/25-places-to-find-awesome-stock-photos-%E2%80%94-free-and-cheap/

Here is a monster list of sites with free photos:

Wikipedia Commons
Stock Exchange
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What are the capacities of blank writable discs ?

Sep 12, 2005 at 12:07 pm in DVD by · Leave a Comment »

A detailed answer can be found here.