Perian 1.1.1 to save the (QuickTime) day with lots o' fixes

Perian, the popular QuickTime plugin that lets you watch a plethora of video codecs on Apple's native player, has been updated to version 1.1.1, but don't let that measly version number fool you. This update has lots of fixes.Read More...

published on Monday, the 29. September 2008, ars-technica

Samsung intros H.264 vidcam with new noise reduction

Samsung unveiled the replacement for its SC-MX20 digital media camcorder, the VM-MX25E, which also uses the H.264 codec to encode videos, allowing them to be uploaded straight onto YouTube or Appleís portable devices, including the iPhone and video-capable iPods. The camera can record onto SD memory cards, with Samsung claiming 8 hours of 640x480-pixel, DVD quality video can fit on a 16GB memory c...

published on Monday, the 29. September 2008, macintosh-news-network

Apple adds ProRes codec support to QuickTime

Apple's native video player can now play back video files encoded with ProRes, a codec that is meant to bring HD video to you over SD data rates. The tool is available for both Mac and Windows. Read More...

published on Friday, the 29. August 2008, ars-technica

aTV Flash brings GUI installer, Apple TV 2.1 support

aTV Flash unlocks the Apple TV by bringing support for more video codecs and even external USB storage?as long as you aren't afraid of Unix and some Terminal scripts. A new update, however, brings a user-friendly GUI installer and a few more tricks to the table.Read More...

published on Friday, the 1. August 2008, ars-technica

OS X Snow Leopard Details

JD-1027 writes in to kick off a discussion of OS X Snow Leopard. Apple's stated goal: "Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard's enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality." The technologies: Grand Central to get better use of multiple processors and multicore chips, OpenCL to tap the power of the GPU, 64 bit so we can finally have our 16 TB of RAM, QuickTime X for optimized modern codec performance, and built in Exchange support in iCal, Address Book, and Apple Mail that most likely will help get Macs into corporate environments. We've previously discussed ZFS in the server version of Snow Leopard."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

published on Friday, the 13. June 2008, apple-slashdot

Victor-JVC develops dual codec LSI camera chip

Japan's Victor-JVC has developed a dual-codec video camera LSI (Large-Scale Integration) chip, the company announced on Monday. The HD Gigabrid chip allows recording of HD videos in the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format as well as the Internet- and YouTube-friendly MPEG-2 codec, both at the same time. The chip allows for Full HD (1920x1080p) recording, and i...

published on Monday, the 9. June 2008, macintosh-news-network

Create video clippings using Quicktime Player

Here's an easy way to create a video clip from a longer video in QuickTime. Open the longer video in QuickTime Player, then use the selection indicators to select a region of the video. Then click and drag the video area to the Finder, and drop. This will create a movie clipping (which can be opened in QuickTime Player) of the selected region. The clipping will retain the original video and audio content quality and codec formats. Multiple clippings to the same directory will be numbered sequentially. This works in the same way that you can take single frame grabs from Quick Look by pausing the video and dragging it to a Finder window, as explained in this hint.

published on Tuesday, the 20. May 2008, macosxhints

Apple updates Final Cut Pro 6.03, Compressor 3.03

Ahead of next week's NAB conference, Apple on Thursday released its updates to its professional video editing applications with Pro Applications Update 2008-01. The company said that the update, which includes the Apple HDV Codec v1.4 for 4:2:2 support in Final Cut Pro, improves reliability for Apple's professional applications; it is recommended f...

published on Thursday, the 10. April 2008, macintosh-news-network

Sorensen Squeeze 5 adds speed, codecs, more

Sorensen today unveiled Sorensen Squeeze 5, a major update to its video encoding tool that introduces several speed, quality and workflow enhancements. The new version increases both video and audio quality overall, and includes multi-processor support, allowing users to encode as many fines as they have processor cores. Sorensen Squeeze 5 is avail...

published on Monday, the 31. March 2008, macintosh-news-network

Music Man 2.7 enhances WMA support

Mireth Technology has released an update to its audio file converter, burner, and player software for Mac, Music Man 2.7. Music Man is completely integrated digital media application for ripping, burning, and playing CD tracks. This release adds a number of improvements including enhanced WMA support (WMA, WMA Pro, and WMA Lossless codecs), and the...

published on Monday, the 31. March 2008, macintosh-news-network