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

Josh Mellicker — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:09:14 +0000

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 your video [read more →]

Adding a remote folder to DV Kitchen

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:06:25 +0000

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.

Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro $199!

Josh Mellicker — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:14:43 +0000

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 card [read more →]

What just happened to video on the web?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:00:40 +0000

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 few as [read more →]

DV Kitchen screencast – encoding to FLV and Jeroen's Player

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:28:11 +0000

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.

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

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:57:03 +0000

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

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

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:06:52 +0000

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 →]

DV Kitchen screencast: Bitrate Budget Calculator

Thu, 22 May 2008 06:30:49 +0000

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.

Why does audio sound bad, or need to be rendered, in Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere or iMovie?

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:10 +0000

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 →]

Adobe adds H.264 video support to Flash

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:59:44 +0000

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 →]