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Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[The Rambler] Mac Mini, One Week Later: Windows users may find it odd to have to open up the Finder to browse their Applications folder to start a program, as not all programs will fit on the Dock most likely, but it shouldn’t take too long to get used to(after all, all you find in the Applications folder are applications; not a bunch of config files and whatnot as well).

[bad news blog] Post-post-production...: However, I have just found a Quicktime MPEG4 encoding tool called 3ivx which may help. It costs about as much as Quicktime Pro, so provided the demo delivers the goods, a Quicktime version of the film might still be on the cards.

[Dragons Fandango] Death could be avoided by downloaded brains*: However, I have just found a Quicktime MPEG4 encoding tool called 3ivx which may help. It costs about as much as Quicktime Pro, so provided the demo delivers the goods, a Quicktime version of the film might still be on the cards.

[HD For Indies] HD For Indies Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Version 0.54: 2.) Use LumiereHD (which drops every 1000th frame, creating audio drift on long clips) or HDVxDV (which may have the same problem, don't know) to transcode to a codec you can edit with. LumiereHD has a workflow to let you link back to the source HDV for final, high quality rendering.

[Shapeofdays.com] The Shape of Days: A demonstration of H.264 encoding: I did my own comparison between Sorenson 3 Pro and H.264 the same day QT7 was available for download with uncompressed SD & HD footage I shot, and after about 10-15 different compression setting from each codec I concluded that H.264 is far superior in quality resulting is smaller file sizes and reduced bit rates to maintain this quality. Remember, for us who encode for a living we not only need to have QT7 to encode and view the video encoded with H.264, which means we need to make downloading QT7 a painless process for our audience.

[Badnewsfilm.blogspot.com] bad news blog: It costs about as much as Quicktime Pro, so provided the demo delivers the goods, a Quicktime version of the film might still be on the cards.

[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): I downloaded this and tried to install it (since I have iLife '05 installed) and it claimed I didn't have an Intermediate Codec on my computer for it to update. So how can it be recommended fro al users if you need FInal Cut Express HD?

[Lecollagiste.over-blog.com] K-LITE MEGA CODEC PACK 1.31 - LeCOLLAGISTE VJ:  Nouvelle mise à jour du K-LITE MEGA CODEC PACK 1.31, pack à encoder, décoder audio et vidéo, utile et trés complet, avec le célèbre Quicktime Aternative et le Real Alternative intégrer dans le MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC.

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