Six months ago, we took a sample of 146 movies that were listed at some of popular Torrent websites to see which video compression method was most widely used. 125 movies (85.6%) were compressed with Xvid. Surprisingly, DivX3 had the second place. Continue reading
LimeWire is an open-source, free P2P (peer-to-peer) client program which uses the Gnutella network. It’s been one of the most downloaded program at download.com for the Mac platform. It is developed by Lime Wire LLC. Lime Wire LLC also distributes an enhanced version of its P2P program, LimeWire Pro. Continue reading
Final Cut Basic Technique Series #4: Pleasantville effect (partial colors)
A 1998 movie ‘Pleasantville’ is somewhat phenomenal in video editing. In some parts of the movie, the screen is all black and white except selected characters. We want to revive this technique with Final Cut Pro. Continue reading
Final Cut Basic Technique Series #3: How to partially apply blurring effect
In this VTC, we show how to apply Gaussian Blur only on a small area of video, not in the entire clip. Continue reading
Final Cut Basic Technique Series #2: Dynamic drawing
In this VTC, we show how to draw an oval at a specific area of video. Instead of make it appear out of nowhere, we want to make it look like it is dynamically drawn. Continue reading