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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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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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Linked thoughts

May 19, 2010 By

Some thoughts on things I’ve seen for May 18th from 11:19 to 11:19: Aperture 3: The Ars Review – Not just a review but a good overview of most of the new features in Aperture 3 – which is my photo editor/organiser of choice.

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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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"iMovie" or "Photo to Movie"?

November 26, 2009 By

I’ve been evaluating Photo to Movie from LQ Graphics as a tool for digital storytelling. My favourite application is iMovie HD. It’s not perfect but better the devil you know – and I know iMovie pretty well now and still discover tricks that make me think “how clever”. When Apple rewrote iMovie for iLife 08 it [...]

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Get iMovie HD while you can

January 27, 2009 By

iLife ’09 was released today. It was also the day that the free download page for iMovie HD 6 was removed. Apple allowed users to download the earlier version because iMovie 08 was such a radical change  that many users were left without some essential functions – timeline editing to name just one. I can [...]

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Aperture – Aperture BorderFX

April 22, 2008 By

Apple – Downloads – Aperture – Aperture BorderFX An Aperture export plug-in that allows you to add borders to images as you export them.  If you are an Aperture user this free plugin is just brilliant. Add borders, text, and watermarks with a wide range of options. How did I live without it?

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