Category Archives: Final Cut Studio (english)

Screencast dos and don’ts

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Sybren

Screencasts are in hot demand. They are easily made and seem to solve a problem. Handy, nice looking videos for any site. But there is a catch. Having a screencast is like saying: my product is difficult. And when used … Continue reading →

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Webcasting from your mobile phone

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Sybren

Ever since I got my Nokia 5800 touchscreen smartphone I have been playing with it’s videocamera. It’s fun to have a camera with you all the time. The 5800′s image quality (640 x 480, mp4) is okay for a phone and … Continue reading →

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Mini-review Canon EOS 5D Mark II HD video capabilities

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Sybren

Yesterday I had the pleasure of testing the HD video capabilities of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera. My good friend and photographer Marlon Mendonça Dias (pixelsatwork.nl) came over for diner and he brought his new camera. Can a … Continue reading →

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MP4, WordPress and the Flash Video Player plugin

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Sybren

In recent posts I have been promoting H.264 as the best video codec for Flash video players. But I have to admit that I couldn’t get H.264 .mp4 files to play in my WordPress blog! It just loaded, and loaded, … Continue reading →

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Great .mp4 with Compressor and Quicktime

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Sybren

Apple’s video compression application Compressor is great, but sometimes limited. One of it’s major limits is the ability to produce decent mp4 video files. I tried, and tried, and tried .. and failed. Damn. But then I found this neat little trick … Continue reading →

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Why .flv Flash Video sucks

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Sybren

Many of my clients ask for Flash video. And they know that .flv files are the way to go. It’s YouTube, it looks good and it works. And that is all very understandable, but wrong! Here is why: .flv is an old … Continue reading →

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Google loves video!

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Sybren

Everybody wants to be on the first page of Google’s search results. That makes Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) a thriving industry. You can do a lot with well written text, clever page titles and smart keywords. But there is another interesting option: … Continue reading →

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Ripping video from YouTube & the likes

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Sybren

I edit a lot of news items for websites and quite often I need to use a videoclip. Record labels are always late with delivering the DVD so I use online videoclips. I found some recources en tools to do … Continue reading →

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