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Posted in Editing, Technology on Sep 1st, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!On a current job the client wants the videofiles on an external harddisk in FAT32. One of the problems with FAT32 is of course that it doesn’t [...]
Posted in Cool Sites, Technology on Aug 25th, 2008
I always find it tedious to keep all my software updated. AppUpdate is a free widget that scans your harddisk for programes, and then checks the versions number against a list on Apple’s software directory, MacUpdate and Version Tracker. Once it is finished — and this goes surprizingly fast — you are presented with [...]
Posted in Editing, Film, Technology on Aug 7th, 2008
It is easy to lose track as to which version of Final Cut should go with the plethora of Quicktime and Mac OS versions. But help is at hand.
Jon Chapell at the Digital Rebellion has put together a nice recommendation of which Final Cut Studio/Final Cut Pro versions go best with which QT and Mac [...]
Posted in Life, Technology on Mar 1st, 2008
2 weeks ago I ordered a MacBook Air for my lovely wife. The estimated time before shipping was quoted as “1 - 2 weeks”. Having ordered from Apple before, I knew that the first figure can be safely ignored.
So yesterday, exactly 2 weeks after ordering it, the MacBook Air was shipped. But the surprise came [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology on Jan 25th, 2008
Just came across a one-page site by Jan E. Schotsman which offers a couple of video tools for the Mac, and at zero cost.
Fix your video
The JES Deinterlacer does a fine de-interlacing job, but despite its name, it does more. It lets you slow down the frame rate, interpolating the in-between frames. Click here for [...]
Posted in Editing on Nov 4th, 2007
When you are filming interviews, it helps a great deal in editing to have the interview written down on paper. For the Mac there is a lovely tool called Transcriva. It takes up the feel of iChat and uses the same approach for transcription. It also notes down the times - a great timesaver. $19.99 [...]