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ReelDirector Updated For iPhone 4 HD

August 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Our favorite app by Nexvio called ReelDirector has been updated to support 720p video import and exports from iPhone 4. As well as importing music tracks from the iPhone library (iOS4) only.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with ReelDirector. It was the first full featured video editing app released for the iOS platform. It’s since become more feature rich, as well as iPad compatible.
You can import pictures, video, music tacks. And it supports full titles, transitions and video trim functions.



If you use your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 for shooting and editing video. This application is a must buy.

- Doug

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Elgato Turbo.264 HD – One Week Later

June 4, 2009 by 10 Comments

Last week I purchased the Turbo.264 HD from a local retailer. To read about why I purchased it, and why I am so “geeked-up” about it, click here. For those of you who like to watch unboxings, click here.

While I was impressed with the Tubo.264 HD in my initial testing phase, I was a little disappointed with the results I was getting when exporting from iMovie 09. What I discovered, and subsequently found others reporting a similar issue, was video that was exported from iMovie 09 looked very interlaced. See Images below.

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Elgato’s new Turbo.264 HD

May 28, 2009 by 1 Comment

In my endeavors, I do a ton of video editing. From home movies of the kiddos, to stuff for family and friends. As well as content for my YouTube channel to satisfy my addiction to technology & what not.
Those who know me, know that I love playing with and editing video. In fact, video and content creation had a lot to do with me switching from the PC to the Mac platforms.
picture-8Lately, I’ve been hearing great things about a new product that began shipping this past March from Elgato called the Turbo.264 HD. This is the successor for the original Turbo264 that was released a couple years ago. It is compatible with iMovie, EyeTV (which I use with my EyeTV Hybrid & Hauppauge HD PVR), and it also comes with software with drag and drop encoding support, direct upload to YouTube, as well as DVD to H.264 encoding from non copy protected DVD’s.
All video encoding that I do involves the H.264 codec (except when I am using mpeg2 for DVD’s) due to it’s superior quality to file size ratios. That being said, I just had to get my hands on the Turbo.264 HD because of claims were true, this little device that retails for a mere $149.99, has the potential to save me a ton of time.
See, video editing is one of those processes that takes as much RAM, and CPU processing that you can throw at it. And now days with AVCHD, and HD video in general, it can take hours to encode a single video.
I choose to shoot and edit in HD so I am well aware that I am asking a lot of my MacBook Pro with it’s 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 4GB of RAM. But, if this little device from Elgato can give me the 40%-60% faster encode times that I’ve read about, it will be worth it’s weight in gold.
So I am going to put it through it’s paces and see what it can do, and I will follow up this post in a week or so.

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