Category Archives: Video

Backing-Up and Transferring iMovie Projects

Anyone involved with groups of people doing movie projects in schools with students and teachers will tell you the transition off iMovie HD aka iMovie 6 has been a tough one for everyone to get used to. It happened many … Continue reading

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More On FFMPEG Settings That Work For Me

After more and more testing off HD video, I am finding the best bang for the download speed buck is sticking with qscale 10 and chopping the frames to 15 while sizing the image size down to hd480. Here is … Continue reading

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Using VLC as a workaround for DVD Region Codes

Despite industry efforts to enforce DVD region limits, there are a lot of legitimate times for using DVDs coded for other regions in the in the US. A great example of this is in schools. Most international DVDs that are … Continue reading

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Last 5 mins from World Cup 2006, Italy vs. Germany Semifinals

Watching the first few matches of the 2010 World Cup made me think about the 2006 World Cup and that Italy v. Germany match. This was a great game. It was into double-overtime and it was just a marathon in … Continue reading

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Install and Run Handbrake on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

I have been backing-up our DVDs to file recently and been using Handbrake a lot. Handbrake is a great tool and runs great on Windows and Mac OS X, but it also runs on Ubuntu. After encoding a few movies … Continue reading

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