Quicktime 7.4 - Legacy Codecs -

Just a heads up. Apples latest Quicktime 7.4 update disables some ‘legacy’ codecs, specifically Sorenson and Sorenson 3. If you need to use these codecs, you must enable them within Quicktime Preferences, Advanced, Show Legacy Codecs. Cue “the more you know” music.

FixMyMovie Makes Youtube Look Less Terrible: Review on Dansdata -

Designed to enhance phone camera video, and optimized for YouTube, FixMyMovie.com could be very useful for visualists. Most of us don’t perform with particularly high-resolution footage, so the dimensions of YouTube clips aren’t too much of an issue, but the horrible compression is instantly recognizable, which I’m sure prevents plenty of VJs scavenging material from the biggest video repository on the planet. FixMyMovie might actually make some YouTube videos useable again. There’s a review with some examples on Dansdata.com:

The difference really is quite impressive. FixMyMovie has gotten rid of the prominent blocky compression artefacts in the original video, without noticeably blurring it. It’s not an amazing, incredible, action-movie-bulldust improvement, but it’s very worthwhile. Rapid camera movements - an acknowledged weakness of the enhancing technique - leave noticeable ghosts from previous frames. But they’re only noticeable if you’re trying hard to see something wrong with the video. The improvements far outweigh the problems.

I’m VJing a set for Lyrics Born on the weekend, and haven’t been able to find any reasonable quality filmclips online to cut up, so I might set FMM loose and see how it goes.

Output Multiple Files With a Single Render in After Effects -

I’m currently pumping out some renders of Time Lapse shoots for gigs I have over the weekend. I’m outputting 640×480 MJPEG AVIs for visual use, and also 320×240 H264 MOVs for sharing. After Effects is helping with its Multiple Output Module ability, letting me create several files with a single render. It’s quick and easy! Select the Render Item, click Composition > Output Module. Done!