Category Archives: Video tutorials (VTCs)

As of March 5, there are about 180 video tutorials.

Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 Basic Training – Part 1

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Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 Basic Training: Part 1 – Introduction

Soundtrack Pro is a relatively new audio editing application developed by Apple, Inc. It was first introduced in April, 2005. Apple integrated Soundtrack Pro into Final Cut Studio in April, 2007. It is no longer an independent application and is now only available as part of Final Cut Studio 2 or Logic Studio. The current version of Soundtrack Pro available is 2.0.2.

Soundtrack Pro is a revolutionary audio editing application. That’s not because it comes with thousands of royalty-free music loops. Soundtrack Pro supports a non-destructive editing feature, which goes beyond Adobe Photoshop‘s History. Photoshop can record each step you have taken in the History palette. The history of actions will be cleared once the document is closed. Soundtrack Pro is different. Each action is recorded in the Actions window. The history of actions will be kept, depending on how you save a project file.

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Screenshot from Apple Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2

The first video tutorial of the Soundtrack Pro Basic Training series goes over basic features of the audio editing application. After going over basic settings, the video tutorial shows how to work with multi-tracks, using Sound Effects loops.   Continue reading →

Using MPEG Streamclip for Mac #04 – Supplement

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Using MPEG Streamclip for Mac #04: Supplement

Last time, Using Squared 5‘s MPEG Streamclip, we converted an AVI video clip that was produced under Windows OS into a QuickTime movie with H.264. In this video tutorial, we will import this QuickTime movie and additional two video clips to Apple’s Final Cut Pro and to produce a final game play video. Depending on how raw video clips are compressed and how we set up export settings on Final Cut Pro, we could end up spending several hours exporting the final 22-minute game play video, which is shown in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin with Boot Camp – F.E.A.R. 2 Game Play Video Part 2- 22 Minutes. In the end, it took Final Cut Pro less than two hours to export a video clip. So let’s see how to save time in ending a video.   Continue reading →

Using MPEG Streamclip for Mac #04

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Using MPEG Streamclip for Mac #04: Keyframes

The version of the application used in previous MPEG Streamclip video tutorial series is 1.8. The current version of MPEG Streamclip for Mac is 1.9.2. In this video tutorial, we want to cover two export options that we didn’t talk about before.

There is nothing wrong with using the Export to QuickTime option when you want to re-compress a QuickTime movie with a different video compressor. MPEG Streamclip lets users set the video quantizer of their choice. The quality quantizer refers to intraframe compression. MPEG-4 also supports temporal compression. And how do we control the number of keyframes with MPEG Streamclip and why? We want to control the number of keyframes so that we can edit video clips with Final Cut Pro and then produce final movies with as little time as possible.

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For example, it took us about 105 minutes to export the final QuickTime movie of F.E.A.R. 2 Game Play Video Part 2. The movie duration is 22 minutes. Months ago, we would have spent three hours or longer exporting this QuickTime movie directly out of Final Cut Pro.

In this video tutorial, we will show simple steps to re-compress video clips with H.264 under MPEG Streamclip. And we will show what more steps we should take with Final Cut Pro to reduce compression time in an upcoming video tutorial.   Continue reading →

Video Tutorial: Making Desktop Video with ScreenFlow – 07

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Mac software Telestream ScreenFlow

Video Tutorial: Making Desktop Video with ScreenFlow – 07: Export

Our desktop video project is pretty much over. Now, we are ready to export the project as a QuickTime movie. And we want to compress the video with H.264. For those who are not so familiar with such terms as frame rate, key frame, single-pass, multi-pass and audio sampling rate, let’s go over QuickTime export settings with H.264 once again quickly.   Continue reading →

Video Tutorial: Making Desktop Video with ScreenFlow – 06

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Mac software Telestream ScreenFlow

Video Tutorial: Making Desktop Video with ScreenFlow – 06: Audio

Let’s see. Last time, we added an introduction movie to our desktop video project. We also added an audio clip for background music. This background music is a bit too noise. In this video tutorial, we want to reduce its volume entirely. Then we want to add a fade-out effect before the frame where the audio clip abruptly ends.   Continue reading →