Thursday, July 28, 2011

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.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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:

Monday, July 25, 2011

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?

Friday, July 22, 2011

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.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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.