DV for Teachers

If you need subtitling for QuickTime video on your Mac, you could try Fluffalope Factory’s Miyu.

MIYU: Your all-in-one solution for video subtitling and translation management on Mac OS X. Miyu provides you the tools for scripting, timing, typesetting, and export – in one compact software package. Whether your project is foreign language epics or just home movies, Miyu can get you there with a fully featured, intuitive user interface.

A Pro version offers more options. Untested. Via FreeMacWare.

This isn’t the first external video-to-USB adapter I’ve seen, but as reported in Consumer Electronics.net’s Creative’s Video Blaster Editor, it offers lots for formats and more than one editing package, including a full version of the estimable Premiere Elements 2.0.

Video editing can be a daunting task for those who are unfamiliar with the terminology and hardware that is required to capture video to the PC. And not all PCs come with a FireWire, composite, or S-video connection that enables the capture of video from a camcorder, VCR or other video device. But all PCs today ship with USB ports, and people know that plugging a device into a USB port enables them to do magical things. Creative’s Video Blaster Editor has turned what traditionally has been a “crack open the PC case solution” into a plug the USB cable into the PC solution, easing the way for people to capture and edit video.

For $199 retail, it’s worth a look.

I don’t have all the complaints these guys do, but their list of 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X is worthwhile reading, if only to get you thinking about how you use your computer and ways you can work more smoothly and intelligently. The idea is to get the computer out of your way; it should be transparent, unnoticeable between you and your work.

Since we highlighted 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista, it’s only fair to take a look at the little things in Tiger that users find equally annoying. With perhaps one or two exceptions, our list isn’t about making Apple’s operating system work like Windows. It’s about making the Mac all it can be.