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How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Mar 3, 2011 at 4:09 am in DVD, editing, web video by Josh Mellicker · 104 Comments »

How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Once you’re finished with your edit, how should you export?

Well, it depends. Here are three methods:

METHOD #1. Reference movie

If you want to export a temporary movie as quickly as possible, export a reference movie.

1. File > Export > Quicktime Movie

2. UNcheck “Make Self-Contained”

Pros:

  • Fastest export
  • The file size is small – it only contains audio and pointers to  [read more →]

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Adding a remote folder to DV Kitchen

Jan 12, 2010 at 12:06 am in digital video news by · 2 Comments »

This movie shows how to add a folder on your remote server to DV Kitchen, as well as showing some tips and shortcuts along the way.

For more info on DV Kitchen, click here.

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Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro $199!

Apr 19, 2009 at 3:14 pm in broadcast, editing products by Josh Mellicker · 103 Comments »

Want to view your project out to an HD monitor? Add the incredible quality of HDMI to your computer. Intensity features the latest HDMI technology for the highest quality capture and playback on Windows or Mac OS X computers. Now you can edit using big-screen HDMI televisions and video projectors, or capture uncompressed quality from HDV cameras. Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality

Intensity Pro is the first  [read more →]

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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!

Click here to find out all about it and watch the new movies!

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 – encoding to FLV and Jeroen's Player

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This movie shows how easy it is to encode to any size, any bitrate FLV movie, upload it, then have DV Kitchen create an entire HTML page for you with window title, page title, movie caption, and Jeroen’s FLV Player, the most popular on the web.

Watch it in Jeroen’s player here.

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Can DV Kitchen take a 3 hour job down to 12 seconds?

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dvcCast!’s integrated encoding and uploading saves three hours of waiting around. $845.23

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11 Billion Videos Viewed Online in The U.S. in April 2008

Jun 17, 2008 at 2:06 pm in broadcast, digital video news, web video by · 1 Comment »

18-34 Year Olds Viewed Nearly 5 Hours of Online Video per Person during the Month

RESTON, Va., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube.com accounting for more than 4 billion of that total.

More than 4 Billion Videos Viewed at Google Sites

In April, Google Sites once again ranked 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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Why does audio sound bad, or need to be rendered, in Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere or iMovie?

Apr 28, 2008 at 1:45 pm in editing, post audio by · 2 Comments »

Final Cut (and other editing apps) will accept many kinds and formats of audio for import into the Browser or Timeline.

However, just because they will, doesn’t mean you should!

If you import compressed audio, for example, in MP3 or AAC codecs, or audio in a different bit or sample rate than your Timeline (such as 44.1 KHz, 32 KHz or 12-bit), you will often hear clicks, pops, and audio dropouts while editing, which is distracting for your creative process,  [read more →]

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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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Where can I find older versions of Quicktime?

Apr 1, 2007 at 4:45 am in editing, web video by · Leave a Comment »

You can find older Quicktime versions on Apple’s site:QuickTime 7:
QuickTime 7.4.1 (Leopard)
QuickTime 7.4.1 (Tiger)
QuickTime 7.4.1 (Panther)
QuickTime 7.4 (Leopard)
QuickTime 7.4 (Tiger)
QuickTime 7.4 (Panther)
QuickTime 7.3.1 (Leopard)
QuickTime 7.3.1 (Tiger)
QuickTime 7.3.1 (Panther)
QuickTime 7.2
QuickTime 7.1.6

QuickTime 6:
QuickTime 6.5.3
QuickTime 6.5.2
QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller for QuickTime 7.0.1
QuickTime 6.4 reinstaller
QuickTime 6.3.1
QuickTime 6.3 reinstaller
QuickTime 6.0.3

QuickTime  [read more →]

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How do I batch convert audio in Windows XP for my editing software?

Jan 10, 2007 at 9:59 pm in editing, post audio by duncan · 2 Comments »

  1. Download iTunes from Apple
  2. Double click iTunes Setup.exe to install
  3. Launch iTunes
  4. Go to the Edit Menu > then click Preferences
  5. Click on the Advanced tab
  6. Then click on the Importing tab
  7. Now, in the “Import Using” dialog box, choose .WAV Encoder.
  8. Then in the “Setting” dialog box, choose “Custom”
  9. For “Sample Rate” choose 48 kHz.
  10. For “Sample Size” choose 16-bit.
  11. For “Channels” choose Stereo.
  12. Then click OK.
  13. Then OK again, to close the Preferences Box.Now your preferences are set up to convert audio files to an uncompressed file that will  [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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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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What is the best app to convert videos to iPod compatible format?

Mar 6, 2006 at 12:31 pm in Uncategorized by · Leave a Comment »

Our vote is:

http://www.dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/

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ffmpeg

Jan 24, 2006 at 11:18 pm in digital video news, DVD, web video by · 4 Comments »

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.

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    Blu-ray news and info

    Jan 5, 2006 at 1:01 am in DVD by · 4 Comments »

    What is Blue-ray?

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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 →]