It’s not on every clip, but YouTube is allowing file downloading. What you’ll get is the H.264, “High Quality” version (but not the HD version).
That’s pretty slick – how delightful to not have to worry about all of the semi-functional YouTube downloader apps.
Trent Reznor has released (sorry, some “mysterious shadow group” has released) 400 gigs of raw HDV footage from three concerts on a recent tour. They’re available as torrents from this page, so you can cut your very own concert dvd. It even includes Final Cut project files!
Talk about crowd sourcing…
JVC has announced a handheld HD camera that records directly to Quicktime files on SDHC cards. The GY-HM100 is a smaller form factor than the other JVC HDV cams, and seems to tick all the right boxes for what a small prosumer camera should be. In addition to recording HDV, they have a 35mbit full raster mode, similar to the XDCam EX. There’s also a GY-HM700 in the pipeline, which will look more like the rest of the JVC cams.
While it’s nice to see a device that does away with M2T, we’ll have to wait and see whether the rest of the camera can compete. I doubt many folks will pick a camera solely based on the wrapper format it lays to a memory card.
Yesterday at the NotSteveNote, Apple introduced a new iLife, along with new iWork and MacBook Pros. Not a ton of excitement overall, but the new iMovie has some interesting improvements.
Personally, I really liked iMovie 08 – I thought it was a perfect product for folks getting started in video. Not many people seemed to share that opinion though, so iMovie 09 brings back a lot of the feature that people missed from iMovie 06, while retaining the new new interface and editing style. Apple’s iMovie page gives the full rundown.
A few things they didn’t mention at the keynote: green-screening, flip minoHD support, and archiving of file-based media. Here’s hoping the Final Cut team is paying attention (assuming they still have jobs).
Canon has announced a load of new cameras – The HF S10, HFS100, HF20, HF200, HV40 and a half dozen more.
The HV40 retains the HV* tradition of tape-based HDV, plus the ability to record to memory cards. The rest of the line is AVCHD to a variety of recording mediums, but adding the 24mbps AVCHD mode that’s all the rage these days.
A nice bump across the line, and they’ve still got the mic input, which makes them loads cooler than anyone else. (Are you listening, everyone else?)
Our MxR cards recent arrived, so I grabbed some snaps of them, in use with some Transcend 16gig SDHC cards.
On the left, we have a total of 48gigs. $200 total – $105 for the MxR adapters, $95 for the SDHC cards. On the right, we have one 16gig SxS card, which run about $750 right now.
Unless you need to overcrank, you’d be insane not to order some MxR adapters right away. Awesome.
Compressor accepts annotations on the command line via a plist file. This lets you add things like keyword metadata, author, etc. But Apple has neglected to document the file format. Luckily it wasn’t too hard to reverse engineer by poking at the traffic the compressor GUI sends to qmaster.
Under the root node, just make keys named ‘com.apple.quicktime.keyword’ or .producer or whatever. Then populate the values as you wish.
Attached is a sample plist file with a producer and keyword field. You’ll probably need to ‘view source’ to actually see it in your browser. Merry Christmas.
This is a quick post just in case some poor soul finds it in a google query – it seems that the youtube api no longer accepts video/quicktime as an acceptable mime type for the Content-Type of the mime portion of the client upload payload.
Use video/mov and things will be peachy.
Yes, this was very obnoxious to troubleshoot.
Say you’re too cheap to buy the Calibrated codecs, but you want to play HDV quicktime files on a Mac without Final Cut Studio.
Well, if that’s you, I’ve made a patch for the current trunk of Perian to allow it to open Quicktime HDV files.
You’ll need to apply the patch in the terminal, and then build Perian in XCode.
Ubercaster, an all-in-one podcasting application, has been updated to 1.6, adding integrated support for Skype and a number of other nifty things.
I’ve played with Ubercaster a bit in the past, and although the learning curve is a bit steep if you want to really take advantage of it, for the Leo Laportes of the world I think it’s an amazing solution.
