DV for Teachers

Aquafada sent me a press release touting their iDive:
“Connect your DV camcorder to your Mac, launch iDive, and a few clicks later, you will be starting to capture data directly from your camcorder into iDive’s database. iDive will control your camcorder via Firewire and scan tape after tape to build an index of your DV library. iDive detects the clip boundaries, extracts each clips’ metadata and takes sample images at intervals for each clip. iDive does not record the whole clip.”

I can’t recommend it as I haven’t tried it, but it seems like a great logging, archiving, cataloging, searching tool [”...but wait, there’s more!”] Lots of screen shots and explanations of features. I look forward to hearing what other editors say about it.——-

The need for immediate triage on the my system keeps me from retaining these open web pages:

Google Search: DVD PAL to NTSC Mac os x

MPEG Streamclip

Re: Pal DVD from NTSC program (Google cache of Apple list messages)

DV, DVD, and (XS)VCD on a Macintosh

PAL to NTSC Software: DVFilm Atlantis

May they be useful to you too.——-

Stephen Schleicher: “If you plan on exporting your Final Cut Pro HD project to DVD (and who isn’t these days), you’ll probably want to place Chapter Markers to help the user navigate easier. In this Final Cut Pro Quick Tip, we’ll go through the process and show how easy it is to do.”——-

So that’s what Match Frame does – Andrew Balis at kenstone.net:

“In this article we’ll look at Match Frame, Reveal Master Clip and the Find features to helping you find different clips or source material quickly.

When working with a Timeline version of a clip, you may often want a quick way to find the original Browser version of that clip. Match Frame finds that matching clip for us. Its one of those features that can make other jobs in FCP a bit easier.

One of the main reasons Match Frame is useful is it allows us to re-edit a clip quickly and easily. Here’s just a few times it can help:

• Finding a another section of the same clip to use elsewhere in the sequence
  * View alternate tracks of a clip (like you used only ch1 of audio, but now want to listen to and maybe use ch2)
  
• Replace “missing” tracks of audio or video
  
• Syncing a source clip to a clip in the Timeline
  

• Speeding up or slowing down clips without “rippling” the Timeline
  * Replacing an altered version of a clip with its original”

Behind on my posts, this is a welcome tip to get me back in action.——-

Oh my.

Until now, creating Windows Media files has been cumbersome for Mac users. It has required a multi-step, multi-system process. First, you had to export the file, then move it over to a PC, and finally encode it using another software application. Telestream’s Flip4Mac Codec using Windows Media Technologies for QuickTime is changing all of that.

Well, let’s see how that shakes out. Ben Waggoner, the leading light in video compression, commented at Creative Cow about this a few weeks ago.——-

If you use Macs and don’t yet use RSS, this site offers subscriptions to Apple’s discussion lists and links to two RSS programs – one for Windows – for reading them. A great way to keep up with discussions on almost anything having to do with Mac computers.——-

“Nvu is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla; it’s a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers. Its remarkable support of XML, CSS and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever.” And it’s free, and has (apparently stable) betas that run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It’s free, seems reputable, and worth checking out. May not be newbie friendly, though. Your Mileage May Vary.——-