Canon announced 3 new Powershots

2011 is not a quiet year for Canon, we just experienced Canon Vixia market storm in the hot Spring and now Canon brings its 3 new Powershots: the PowerShot SX150 IS, the PowerShot ELPH 510 HS (the world's thinnest digital camera with 12x optical zoom and a 28mm wide-angle lens1) and the PowerShot ELPH 310 HS. Here let's go close to its 3 colorful new models.

iPhone 5 release date around Oct while iPad 3 early 2012

How soon we will see the iPhone 5? And how long we need to wait for iPad 3?

IPhone 5 release date around Oct?
August is pasting from the calender, but expectation remains that iPhone 5 will come as early as possible. And the news by SlashGear reports a VP at AT&T told its staff to "expect things to get really, really busy in the next 35-50 days, so prepare your teams accordingly." Sources also said pre-orders for the iPhone 5 would likely start at the end of September. This may be the most useful and reasonable news for iPhone 5. And we all see such preparations by AT&T (and now Verizon) have become standard practice before an iPhone launch.

Speculation for the iPhone 5 suggests the new Apple Smartphone will have a dual GSM/CDMA chip that works on both Verizon and AT&T networks. Verizon's iPhone 4, unlike the AT&T version, using a CDMA chip that restricts multi-tasking and does not work with 4G networks like Verizon's new LTE coverage.

iPad 3 early 2012?
But iPad 3, from The Wall Street Journal that the company has ordered parts from its assembler in Asia to begin iPad 3 trial production in October.
"Apple's suppliers have already shipped small quantities of components for the sampling of the iPad 3. Suppliers said Apple has placed orders for a 9.7-inch screen device.
One component supplier to Apple said the company has already placed orders for parts for about 1.5 million iPad 3s in the fourth quarter."

The WSJ's source indicates that suppliers will increase production, trying to improve the yield rate for the new iPad in the fourth quarter, before it launches in early 2012.

So until early 2012, Apple will face competitors from Motorola, Samsung and Toshiba -- who all use Google's Android software -- by launching its next tablet computer as soon as possible, and recently Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone is doing a extremely good job to challenge iPhone 5, maybe there will be another "iPad 3 Killer appear when iPad 3's release early 2012"

Hard drive or flash memory, what is better? -----------AVCHD

Have you ever want to buy a high definition camcorder. But you don't want to use a tape. You are looking for a camera with memory. But what is the difference in a hard drive, and a flash memory?

Flash Is KingAbout Hard-Drive-Based Camcorders

Can FCPX import AVCHD files directly

Question:
"Can FCPX import AVCHD files directly, or do they still need to be converted first? I have MTS files from a Panasonic GH2 digital camera that are in AVCHD that are grayed out when I try to import them."
------------------from discussions.apple.com

The truth comes that: Final Cut Pro X will not import a stand-alone AVCHD video file. But it can import AVCHD with an access to the original AVCHD camcorder, or a valid Camera Archive disk structure.
In another word, we can't import .mts files directly from the Finder. If you navigate to them from the Import dialog, it will have them grayed out. FCPX doesn't work with them directly, you must import MTS files directly from the camera, from a memory card (with the original file structure in place), or from a camera archive.

And most of us may think archive is a stupid way, so another solution is just convert AVCHD .M2TS to FCPX compatible formats directly. The conversion is quick and easy and will 100% make sure to import AVCHD to FCPX with no problem. And no matter the AVCHD files are single .MTS files or directly from your camera, you can transfer it to FCPX compatible formats and directly import it to FCPX as well asimport AVCHD to iMovie

Free download here
(http://www.hdconverterformac.com/mac-avchd-video-converter.html )

Simple guide on import AVCHD .MTS to Final Cut Pro X:
1.Hit "Add File" to load AVCHD .MTS (single .MTS files or directly from your camera,) to AVCHD to FCPX Converter.

2. Set the FCPX output format, here I take MOV as example.
3. Start conversion from AVCHD to FCPX by press "Start" button.
4: Choose the "Import" and "Files" options from under the File command at the top of the Final Cut Pro X window.

Convert HD to SD before send video to After Effect

How to convert HD to SD in after effects?
"How do I know which format is the correct one? Will it deform the image if I choose the wrong one? I am uploading on YouTube and Facebook. Do I need to use the free software included with my camcorder to convert to SD before I send the video file to after effects? pls help... "
--------------------From Yahoo Answer

What mode of Camcorder is suitable for you?

The current camcorders market is flooding with all kinds of camcorders models and usually it will be a difficult thing to decide which one we should buy on earth. Today let's learn the main camcorders option and you will get the conclusion which model is right for you.

1.Pocket Camcorders ($80 to $250)

How to stream M2TS to iPhone

New trend on iPhone
This year, we can smell the sharp taste firecracker among portable devices market. IPhone is no more the unique dancer in the stage of Smartphones, but so far still many of us are waiting for the iPhone 5 and wonder whether it can continue its legend.

But the latest iPhone 5 trend is telling us, Apple is ready to continue its big iPhone size of issue.

Fast load MTS files to YouTube

Unlike iMovie and FCP, it's glad that YouTube can accept uploading MTS files directly for most AVCHD camcorders. Camcorder users are familiar that MTS files are ultra clear but with rather big size and if you hope to upload to YouTube are there anything you should note or adjust for loading these files to YouTube as quick as possible.

Does YouTube have a limitation of video length or size for input?
According to YouTube, a video file less than 15 minutes playing length and no more than 2GB size is allowed to be imported to it.

1.Make the accurate length.

Decorate your MTS files with clip, crop, merge function before editing on iMovie.

It's cool to have a professional camcorder for common guys like us and when record high definition MTS files the superior feeling can only be sensed by ourselves. In the clear and wide lens world, we shoot the thing moved us; fix the focus on the spot attracted us and shoot the beautiful image in a second. Any noisy, any sight, who care? I'm in my HD world now.

After take the shooting back home, we may begin the action to deal with the MTS files.

It's common to see footages shot by some camcorders May ends up interlaced. Juggled edges and ghosting occurs when we preview the M2TS files. So just get the interlaced a juggles edges out. If you have MTS decorate toolkit, it will be a little of case. I often use the MTS decorate tool to clip the unwanted edges by the camcorder, see the screen bellow.

Sometimes I need to crop the MTS files to several parts, i.e. I record a movie for 30 minutes long but the useful part in the middle ten minutes part, so I also use this to crop the original MTS file by setting starting time and ending time again. So the part I get is just the useful par I need.


Certainly, if you decide to merge the clips you record to a single one it also allows you do this because it has a merge function option. Highlight the clips you want and click the "Merge to One", then you get it.

Wondrously this toolkit also offer edit effect, if it is different from the iMovie editing function. May you have a try? It offer edit effect including brightness, contract, saturation and old film, emboss and gray image effect.

Soon iPhone 5 will be coming; will it be the Next Street Smartphone?

Street Smartphone?
Street Smartphone is one you can see everywhere, in a street, on a market, in a park and even a public lavatory. In the past one year, iPhone 4 has been successfully playing the role of Street Smartphone. Now the iPhone 5 is coming day after day, apart from the good performance iOS, the Android faction come forward many new Smartphone models, will the iPhone 5 continue its legend? That's a question!

Find the answer from the public opinion.
From a small scale (216 interviewee) research named "what is your current phone "comes from an analyzer in an investment company.
IPhone take the first place for 29%, the second the blackberry (28%), then the Android 17%.
And the key research "Which phone will you buy next?" the data shows there are 64% among the research interviewee show their intention to buy the next generation iPhone 5, and the Android own a 17% percentage and Black is 11%. Synthesis the data, the possibility of iPhone 5 to be the next one is relatively big.

About the HD configuration of iPhone 5
About the HD configuration, we still need to wait the real iPhone 5's coming. But what we can sure is it will take A5 processor and iOS 5 and whether the camera will be Sony produced 8M pixel Exmor is still pending. Still the word:"Let just wait to see the truth."

Import problem: load Panasonic HDC-TM700 MTS to Final Cut Pro X

Recently many people are caring whether the AVCHD MTS can be imported to Final Cut Pro X smoothly because they really want to purchase Final Cut Pro X and hope to confirm this issue.

The camcorder we choose today is Panasonic HDC-TM700 which record AVCHD 1080p60 video; so far it is the highest resolution criterion than many other consumer camcorders capture 1080p24, 1080p25, or 1080p30 video in 2011.

Offer you the solution to play AVCHD Lite on Mac

Know AVCHD Lite?
In January 2009, Panasonic released the first digital cameras to offer AVCHD-lite movie mode including DMC-ZS3/DMC-FT1/DMC-TZ7 digital cameras.
AVCHD Lite identifies a subset of AVCHD format, in which HD-recording is limited to 720p/30. The 720p/30 video is recorded in the AVCHD 720p/60 format by storing every other frame, and using a bitstream flag to tell the playback device to play each frame twice. And its resolution is 1280*720 which is lower than 1960*1080 so called "Lite".

Any player or software support AVCHD Lite on Mac?
So far VLC is most common app to play AVCHD Lite on Mac, just download the VLC Mac version from its official site and run it, drag the AVCHD Lite to the program then it plays well.

And Sony Vegas Studio 9 platinum is the ready-made software supporting AVCHD Lite importing and editing.

How to play AVCHD Lite on Mac all-round?

Best VIXIA camcorders worth buying 2011

Among the large AVCHD camcorders market 2011, Canon is doing an excellent performance and especially its VIXIA series, it stands out by the features of perfect design, superb performance and lower price comparing to its strong opponents. Here list the most popular and outstanding types for you.

Share your Sony HandyCam HD video on YouTube

Sony Handycam video cameras provide professional-quality video shooting lenses and chips in a package which is designed to be affordable for home users and accessible to non-experts. For many friends expect to share HD videos on YouTube, Sony HandyCam HD series are a good choice.

The common Sony HandyCam HD series including:
HDR-CX110, HDR-CX150, HDR-XR550E, HDR-XR150E, HDR-XR100E, HDR-XR500E, HDR-SR10E, DCR-SR-HC32, DCR-SR68E/S, DCR-SR67E, DCR-SR87E.

To share the Sony HD camera videos on YouTube, we firstly should to know which format it is use,

AVCHD 1080i & 1080p, should you care?

AVCHD camera by Sony, Canon, Panasonic, JVC etc. is entering the market gradually to satisfy consumers' HD image quality demand. You may note that there exist both 1080i and Full HD 1080 p cameras circulating on the market. What's the difference between them? Which is better?

Top three Video Editors for editing AVCHD clips on Mac

After taking the clips by AVCHD camcorders our direct demand is to edit them then or sharing or appreciating. What type of editor should you use? Which can be given the most ideal editing function? Here let's see together.

Can't import movies from JVC MOD/TOD camcorder to iMovie?

So anyone who has purchased a JVC Everio HDD video camera has probably learned that they chose to use some god forsaken video format – the .MOD extension. Apparently this is some sort of MPEG2 encoding, however, most major video editing suites prefer not to accept this format, take iMovie as example, its common compatible formats including M4V, MPEG-4 or DV.

How to play Canon AVCHD, Canon MOD on QuickTime

Currently, Canon AVCHD, Canon MOD camcorders are dashing in the market for cheaper price than its competitors and good cost performance considering both price and image quality. More and more people would choose Canon AVCHD or MOD series, but the same time, this highly-regarded reputation camera also generates various problems like to connect Canon camera to Mac and play its movies on QuickTime. Before we solve the problem, let's take a brief learning about Canon AVCHD and Canon MOD.

How do i import my hd movies from my vixia to mac?

I have a Canon VIXIA HF 100 and may we call it "Antique" now because the latest VIXIA HF S11, VIXIA HF S10, VIXIA HF S100, VIXIA HF20, VIXIA HF200, VIXIA HG21, VIXIA HG20 have launched one after another. But I'm not ready to get a new one to substitute it because it has brought me very impressed memory.

I remembered one small segment clearly that one day one of my friend brought my camcorder for he is having a baby due any day now, and he want to get all this stuff working before he comes so he can get some footage when they come home from the hospital. Before he brought this he also required me demonstrate him how to import it to Mac because he hope to do some edit on iMovie if the video is ready.

At first, I think it should be easy to import Canon VIXIA to Mac (I usually directly import it to Sony Vegas for editing on Windows) and I do the follows:

MKV file format and how to play MKV on Mac OS

Many friends have the experience to download MKV files from Internet and found it is used for HD movies; today we will unveil its true colors and learn how to play it on Mac OS freely.

What is MKV?
MKV file format: or .MKV files, Generally Matroska files, as well those containing audio (movies) or video only. .MKV file is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles screams, allowing the user to store a complete movie with subtitles or CD in a single file.

Why MKV generated?
As a new video and audio container format similar to AVI, one of compression formats, but with several new features like support for OGG audio, Variable Framerate Video. It aims to become the standard of multimedia container formats and replace AVI in the future.

How to play MKV on Mac OS?
Here I recommend you use MPlayer OS X or VLC OSX, certainly they are both free.
Both of them are wonderful multimedia players can undertake many of video formats incompatible with Mac player QuickTime. Because they contain a decoder to decode the MKV files. Also they will play many of the formats you will find inside the .MKV file.

How to play MKV on Mac portable devices i.e. iPod, iPhone?

HD camera's good helper---------Sony Vegas

We often see "Sony Vegas" appeared on all kinds of digital forum or Yahoo answer! While some users are very familiar with it and others is strange to it. What is it on earth and how powerful function does it acts? Following we will unveil its mystery face yarn in a simple way.

A word to it.
A tool lets the user edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs.

Introduction of the members of MacBook family

The MacBook family is a range of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple Inc. that merged the PowerBook and iBook lines during the Apple–Intel transition. The first model released under this family was the MacBook Pro, which was announced on 10 January 2006 at the Macworld Expo. The consumer-focused MacBook was released on May 16, 2006, and the MacBook Air was revealed on January 15, 2008.

To make you have a overall knowledge about this hi-tech notebook family, below are three pictures which tell the timeline of BookMac family and the specifications of the three members MacBook Pro, MacBook and MacBook Air.
Tips: Double Click the images to see the original images

Preview Full HD camcorder development tendency from JVC 3D Full HD Camera

What is Full HD?
Full HD is the grammalogue of Full High Definition which typically refers to the capability to accept 1080p signal and display it with native resolution of at least 1080 lines, as well as the capability to upscale lower-resolution material to 1080p.

Currently the Full HDTV has sold on the market and Panasonic is in the preparing of developing the Blu-ray Full HD formats. Naturally, the camcorder producer won't fall behind this good business opportunity.

3D Full HD camera launched:
In 2011 JVC at the CES show unveiled one of the world’s first full High Definition 3 dimension camcorders.

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Panasonic top 3 AVCHD camcorders in Amazon

Since Panasonic released the first professional AVCHD camcorder in autumn of 2008, then followed by Sony in the first quarter of 2010 and later Canon, JVC and Hitachi also stepped into the AVCHD market. Relatively speaking, Panasonic is the first one also currently the best one in doing this job, so it's worth our efforts to have a review of its top 3 models from Amazon market.

HD format and its application in our daily life

We know that DVD brought a revolution in video and audio experience compare with VCD times, but with the technology developed with each passing day and people's increasing demand; we need screen wider and image quality higher, so the HD generated.

What's HD format?
HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280*720 pixels (720p) or 1,920*1,080 pixels (1080i/1080p).

How to play and edit JVC Everio MOD on Mac OSX?

A friend of me newly purchased a JVC Everio camcorder and enjoy the fun form going out for shooting with this digital product. The first day, after he got abundant of footages, he attempted to transfer the JVC videos to his MacBook for playing and editing, but fail to play the.mod files with QuickTime and iMovie, even his VLC Media Play could do nothing about those shootings.

She stated his issue to me for help. Of course she got the right person and finally solve her problems.

About MOD video and the way to play it on Mac

What is MOD video? (Compare MOD to TOD)
When mention to MOD, we also think of TOD. MOD and TOD are informal names of tapeless video formats used by JVC (MOD and TOD), Panasonic (MOD only) and Canon (MOD only) in some models of digital camcorders. MOD is used exclusively for standard definition video files, while TOD is used for high definition files. MOD and TOD are comparable to XDCAM EX, HDV and AVCHD.

Welcome iPhone 5 in September

Almost half of the summer has gone, and no news about the launch of iPhone 4 from Apple.

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple will release the next iPhone in September, having pushed back the fifth model “to coincide with the release of the new iOS 5” which was just previewed at WWDC 2011 earlier this month.

It is said new iPhone 4 has strong clips for processing data, a high resolution screen, as well as advanced camers. According to two people familiar with Apple’s plans, a beefier processor and 8MP camera are a lock for the new model, which is said to “closely resemble” the existing iPhone 4.

News about iOS 5: iOS 5 Beta 3 Released on July 11th 2011

Apple released the latest beta version of iOS 5 as well as the latest version of iTunes 10.5 to developers yesterday on July 11th 2011. The iOS 5 beta 3 release today came with a list of known issues, as developers and Apple continue to work out the bugs. However, iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is slated to be released, in its final shining glory and over 200 new features, to users this fall.

Mac OS X Lion is around the corner

Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) is set to be the eighth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Lion is set to be released in July 2011 by Apple. However a third of this month already behind us without the launch of OS X Lion. It is said by Mac Life according to a variety of leaked retail plans, Apple seems to give official release for Lion this week! Just look forward to the good news.
In this article, we will preview the Mac OS X Lion.

AVCHD camcorders and play M2TS/MTS from AVCHD camcorders on Windows and Mac

AVCHD has become regular topic to whose who have AVCHD camcorder for shooting videos. An AVCHD camcorder is a digital camcorder that record and export video files in AVCHD format with a .mts or .m2ts file extension.Sony and Panasonic released the first AVCHD camcorders in autumn of 2006, followed by Canon and JVC.