all articles tagged 'DVD Studio Pro'

What brands of blank DVDs are the best?

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 …



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

Have you ever found yourself changing the file names of a whole folder of clips, graphic or other files on your hard drive one by one? 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.

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 at about



Core Duo versus Core 2 Duo speed tests

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



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

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 sometimes!
  • DVD players play



Where can I find stock photos for use in video projects?

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!

Here is a monster list of sites with free photos:

Wikipedia Commons
Stock Exchange
Morguefile
Image After



What are the capacities of blank writable discs ?

A detailed answer can be found here.