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Bridges Burned – Upgrade Complete

December 1, 2010 By
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As I complete the upgrade on my last MacBook today I realise that In will probably never run a digital storytelling workshop again using iMovieHD – my bridges have been burned

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iMovie ’11 – a worthy successor to iMovieHD

November 26, 2010 By
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I have fully tested the latest version of iMovie and I am confident that it can be used to create digital stories.

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Adobe Premiere Elements for Mac

September 21, 2010 By

I’m excited and doubtful about the arrival of Adobe Premiere Elements for Mac. Excited because it this could be a Mac solution for digital storytelling but dubious because it’s Adobe and my experience of their products and pricing is mixed.

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Quicktime upgrade wrecks iMovieHD function

July 26, 2010 By
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I’m delivering a workshop this week but when I opened my tutorial in iMovie HD it displayed a fault I thought was only found on Snow Leopard machines.

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If the bucket is already there – use it

June 17, 2010 By
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I can be very specific about the right kit to use for a digital storytelling project, but sometimes, in the name of inclusion, I have to remember it’s the story that’s important not the way it’s made.

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XO based digital storytelling

June 17, 2010 By

How do you give schoolchildren the tools to create digital stories on a $100 computer? You write the software yourself as they have in Uruguay.

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Improve Encoding Quality in iDVD

May 19, 2010 By

If you want to improve the quality of DVDs that you burn with Apple’s iDVD I’ve just discovered something really useful. I had always been under the impression that iDVD always used the best possible encoding unless you were trying to squeeze more onto a DVD, and then it started to sacrifice quality for quantity. [...]

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QuickTime 7 update – still no cure for iMovie HD

May 11, 2010 By

Apple has updated QuickTime 7 QuickTime Player 7.6.6 for Mac OS X v10.6.3 QuickTime Player 7 supports older media formats, such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime movies, and MIDI files on Snow Leopard I had hoped that it would improve the handling of stills in the timeline of iMovie HD projects under Snow Leopard. Alas, no. [...]

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Mars Edit 3

May 6, 2010 By

The latest update of Mars Edit blogging software is in the wild. I was very tempted to deploy it when version 2.3 emerged but I decided to stick with the web interface. I think the latest version is going to lift the dollars out of my pocket as I’m won over by the smarter features. [...]

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Upgrading website to WordPress CMS

April 23, 2010 By

The white cat (OSX10.6) broke my ancient Dreamweaver 2004 application. When I looked at the price of the latest version (too old to upgrade) I knew it was a really good time to abandon the static digistories website for something more dynamic. I wanted it to be based on WordPress. There seemed little point in [...]

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