Get AVCHD M2TS and burn M2TS to DVD on the Mac By WIKI The .m2ts(AVCHD H.264,VC-1, MPEG-2 HD) file format is given to video/audio files created by certain Sony Camcorder models. How to Burn M2TS to dvd on Mac? ...Read More »

Love story: my parents' 25th anniversary DVD presentation By WIKI When I was a child, my family wasn't rich at all, but I just remembered that no matter how difficult it was, my father and mother loved each other very much. They worked hard to bring me up and give the best to me. Therefore, the happy scene will never fade from my memory. Now, next weekend is my parents' 25th silver anniversary. As their sweet heart, I plan to give a surprise to them with a silver anniversary DVD presentation. ...Read More »

Mac Workflow: Create a Blu-Ray disc with Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro By Heath McKnight It's very easy to create a basic Blu-ray Disc (BD) on a Mac with Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro and OWC's Mercury Pro BD/DVD/CD Burner. Last time, I explained how to do this with Adobe Encore CS4 and Apple Final Cut Pro 6 (FCP) with great results ...Read More »

Create and Burn Blu-ray Discs Using Final Cut Pro 6, Adobe Encore CS4 and OWC Mercury Pro BD/DVD/CD Burner By Heath McKnight One of the biggest complaints for Final Cut Pro (FCP) editors is the inability to create and burn Blu-ray Discs (BDs) with Macs. Windows apps seem to have all the fun with built-in BD creation/burning software (like Sony Vegas Pro and others). This article aims to help you create those BDs using FCP, Adobe Encore CS4 for Mac, and the excellent Other World Computing Mercury Pro BD/DVD/CD Burner. ...Read More »

Encoding to Blu ray from Final Cut Pro 6 By Heath McKnight Are you working with Blu-ray on an Apple, perhaps with Toast, or maybe you're using Adobe Encore CS4 for Mac, but you're editing high definition (HD) footage with Final Cut Pro 6.x. How do you encode it to Blu-ray? ...Read More »

125 Final Cut Pro Professional Training Tutorials We thought it would be useful to bring all our Final Cut Pro training tutorials (all so far that is!) into one place so you could have easy access. So here they are: 138 Final Cut Pro training clips, hands on tutorials and quick tips! Oh yes - they are free! ...Read More »

Final Cut Pro 6 Techniques: Editing with Canon's 24F By Heath McKnight When Canon introduced its professional HDV systems (the XLH1, XHG1 and XHA1), they featured three interesting frame rate features: 24f, 30f and the optional 25f. The f stands for full frame, and is very much like progressive-scan video (24p, 30p and 25p). This frame rate wasn't able to be cut on Final Cut Pro (FCP) until recently. There are two ways to cut Canon HDV footage running at this frame rate with FCP 6: ...Read More »

Working With Compressed HD In The Comfort Of Your Own Home By Kevin McAuliffe Much like vinyl, VHS and paper (movie, plane, concert, etc.) tickets, large post production houses are the way of the past. With the inception of Pro Res (Apple) and DNX (Avid), I (or my clients for that matter) don't need to spend excessive amounts of money to use a facility to edit HD content. I can do it in the comfort of my own home. In this article I'm going to break down the three main things you need to edit compressed HD from the comfort of your own home. ...Read More »

Achieving a Film Look with DV and HDV Cameras By Heath McKnight With so many budding filmmakers turning to digital video (DV) and high definition video (HDV), many are trying to emulate the look and feel of film. But there is much more to a film look than just shooting in native 24p or converting and delivering your movie in 24p. After years of practicing everything from dogme 95 (shooting with available light, stripped down sets and costumes, available sounds and music, etc.) to what I felt was standard filmmaking practices, I decided to research what goes into making a digital film look more like film. ...Read More »

Using HDV and 24p Video in Premiere Pro 2.0 In this video-based tutorial from the Premiere Pro 2 New Features video-based training series from Lynda.com, Jeff Schell demonstrates using HDV and 24p video in Premiere Pro 2.0 ...Read More »