TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has updated QuickTime 7.4.5 to 7.5 for both Mac and Windows OS. This update complies with several security issues. One vulnerability fix concerns the PICT file format. Another fix concerns the AAC audio compressor, according to the company.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We have found 10 websites hosted through Chinese country domains (.cn) distributing a Mac-targeting computer virus. Each of these websites comes with a few dozen subdomain websites. These websites pretend to host pornographic content. The index page says “This site contains explicit sexual material which may be offensive to some viewers. You must be at least 18 years of age…†If you click on a link that says ‘+18 Enter,’ the page content will switch and reference to an outside website hosted in San Francisco, California. Eventually, you will be forced to download a disk image (.dmg). This disk image contains a computer virus targeting Mac users. It’s designed to change DNS settings so that you will be forcibly redirected to malicious websites.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – VideoLAN has released an updated version of its open-source, cross-platform media player. According to the organization, new version 0.8.6h results from several bug and security vulnerability fixes.
VLC Media Player 0.8.6h is compatible with Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4 and 10.5.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We reported the existence of a fake PornTube website back in January. Since then, we’ve seen several other similar websites. And we found another one hosted with the domain of anykindclips.com. Actually, we first ran into a suspicious website hosted at another domain. It’s freese-x.net. If you access this website, you will be instantly redirected to the website at anykindclips.com with an affiliate ID of 4078. It’s a fake PornTube website obviously because the domain is not porntube.com. It’s a fake PornTube website because the clickable menu items (Sign Up, My Account, History…) at the top are intentionally disabled. And if you click on any of the video windows, you will be redirected to another website with the domain of anykindvids.com. That’s where you will be forced to download a Mac-OS-based disk image (.dmg) file containing a computer virus.
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Final Cut Pro 6 Video Tutorial – Editing Basics 09: Importing Video (6) – MP4
Over the next several days, we are going to release several or up to a dozen video tutorials for Apple’s Final Cut Pro 6. This series is intended for those who have just started using Final Cut Pro 6 without prior experience in digital video editing and need some guidance. We, MacHouse, edit more than 200 videos each year, using Apple Final Cut Pro. So we can help you.
This Final Cut Pro 6 video tutorial series is for offline editing. That is, we assume that all video clips are stored on a hard disk drive. So we don’t import videos from video cameras.
The most popular multimedia container for Mac is MOV. There are other media containers. One another popular video container is AVI. WMV is another one, which we covered in the last tutorial.
MP4 is also a multimedia format. This video container is exclusively supported by Apple, Inc. MP4 can contain MPEG-4-compressed (Part 2, Part 10) video and MPEG-4-compresed audio (AAC, Apple Lossless…).
In the 9th tutorial of the Final Cut Pro 6 Editing Basics video tutorials, we are going to deal with another video format. This time, it’s MP4. We are going to import an MP4-formatted video file to Final Cut Pro.
The original video comes from Internet Archive. The producer of this movie is shown as tertone prod. The rights of use is defined by Creative Commons and set to ‘No Rights Reserved.’
Keywords: AAC, MP4, MOV, Sequence Settings, MPEG-4 Video, Frame Size, Render All, Audio Continue reading