Lost Video Island

I have had good success with unchecking "maintain aspect ratio" and then exporting the video out with the correct frame dimensions (and choosing square pixel aspect ratio). A few good custom ...

The MP4 container or MOV container with the H.264 codec ("compression" in drop-down menu in MPEG Streamclip) with a data rate or bitrate of 1500 or above should look pretty good. I once uplo ...

Well, there is a technically "wrong" way. Vegas isn't really meant to edit XviD. XviD is a delivery format, not an editing format, and no amount of "but I like it" will change that ...

No, you really shouldn't be editing in XviD in Vegas, or any other editor.

This link explains why XviD (also DivX, WMV, etc) editing can cause problems. I know I've experienced some of these issues ...

Oh, don't get me wrong, I love Handbrake! I especially like it when for whatever reason I need subtitles. I'll burn the subtitles right in there.

MPEG Streamclip (the free app that requires the $2 ...

Okay guys, I know I'm running the newer (nerfed) version of Apple iMovie, but I was wondering if someone could tell me where their versions (if their versions) had the play direction menu squirreled a ...

I know I'm a newbie here, but I do a lot of Mac vidding and I don't see a lot of tutorials here pertaining to Macs, so . . .

I'm linking to a few entries in my LJ. I hope this is okay.

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You should back up all your music files to DVD-R or CD-R anyway (as a precaution), but I agree with the others. iTunes will re-import your music.

Also, there's an XML and "iTunes Database" ...

The reason I do that with black bars is because if you uploaded a widescreen video to YT it would automatically make it fullscreen yuck and the completly wrong ratio.
Ah, yes. I see. I have only ...

There's no Vegas for the Mac! I use Vegas (the Windows version, the same as what everyone else uses) in [url=http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html]Bootcamp, which is part of the Mac OS. B ...

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I could not figure out why Vegas was screwing up the aspect ratio (especially when dealing with multiple aspect ratios, like when mixing 4:3 ...