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

Smiley Katz — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:10:41 +0000

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 →]

What brands of blank DVDs are the best?

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:47:52 +0000

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 →]

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

Fri, 04 May 2007 14:19:23 +0000

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

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

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:53:28 +0000

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 →]

Core Duo versus Core 2 Duo speed tests

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:32:23 +0000

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?

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:17:28 +0000

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 →]

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

22-02-1989 — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:52:51 +0000

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 Morguefile [read more →]

What are the capacities of blank writable discs ?

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:07:38 +0000

A detailed answer can be found here.