Mar 11
Tap into your iPad’s true video-shooting potential with these apps and tricks.
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Dec 17
Replay is a new application that allows iPhone owners to create automatically compelling videos using the photos and the video clips stored in the gallery.
When Jeff Boudier, co-founder, Stupeflix, the company behind Replay, showed me a demo a month ago, I was amazed by the results and the speed of the application: within seconds, I could watch a short video of his vacations with a vintage filter and a soundtrack, made from a few clips and photos selected from his iPhone gallery. You can watch the demo in the video above.
Leveraging its technology that provides video capabilities for developers, Stupeflix and its team of imaging engineers, led by Nicolas Steegmann – Stupeflix CEO and cofounder, took advantage of the Apple A7 processor and its GPU computing capabilities to deliver Replay.
According to the company, on the iPhone 5s, it takes only one tenth of a second for Replay to process 50 photos and videos, perfectly edited and featuring a soundtrack. Although I did not measure the exact timing in our demo, I can tell that everything was done amazingly fast.
Basically, all your photos and videos are instantly edited into a movie leveraging the iPhone GPU, including music sync, video stabilized and trimmed to the best parts. Additionally, filters can be applied on the photos and videos, focus is made on detected faces, you have a choice of animated scenes and transitions and text effects.
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Mar 28
Open source video editing program needs help on Kickstarter, offers immortality in return
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Forget having kids. Forget mind-transfers. Real immortality lies in naming a video transition after yourself. No, seriously. To make eternity happen, you simply need to donate $500 to Jonathan Thomas’s Kickstarter project and in return he’ll let you create and name a transition effect in a new cross-platform version of his free, open source video editing program, called OpenShot. Currently Linux-only, it supports regular timeline-based video editing with layers and compositing, transitions, effects, titles and support for a wide range of AV formats courtesy of the usual open source codec libraries. If it reaches its $20k goal, Thomas will start work Windows and Mac OS editions alongside Linux, anticipating a beta release before the end of the year. Smaller donations will receive more minor possessions in the afterlife, such as your name in the credits. Bigger pledges — of up to $10,000 — will flip things around slightly and require Jonathan Thomas to sell you his soul. Go get it, Pharoah!
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Jan 08
With the volume of high-quality videos flooding every corner of social media these days, it’s easy for the less artistically inclined among us to feel a little left out. And sure, video-editing apps that streamline the process aren’t new, but nothing will drop a seamless end product into your digital lap quite as quickly and, more importantly, effortlessly as Directr. More »
Oct 23
Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with slew of new features, now available for download
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Amidst all the announcements made at the California Theatre earlier today, Apple very quietly pushed out a fresh version of its famed (and at times controversial) video editing software, Final Cut Pro. Inside v10.0.6 users can find an array of new additions and improvements that will most certainly be welcomed with open arms by the FCPX crowd, making this the most notable update since bundling in those multicam and broadcast monitoring features. Among these new traits are RED camera support for native REDCODE RAW editing, the ability to add freeze frames to the timeline with a simple keystroke, novel audio controls for use while tinkering with multicam clips and a revamped “Share” interface for exporting projects. The Final Cut Pro update can be downloaded now from the usual spot, and, of course, it comes at no extra cost for those who’ve already shelled out the $300. The full and hefty changelog can be found right after the break.
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Oct 17
We all pretty much know that pictures get retouched and photoshopped these days, right? What you think is real is most likely just a bag of tricks in post-production. But what about video? Apparently, you can retouch 4K video like if it was an ordinary photograph. Watch this. More »
Sep 24
Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11 with new filters, more beginner-friendly UI
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Earlier this year Adobe announced Photoshop CS6 with a new user interface, and now Elements, its line of beginner-level products, is getting a facelift too. The company just introduced Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11, and while the two apps include a handful of new photo- and video-editing features, the bigger story is that they’re designed to be less intimidating to newbies. Both have a more readable UI, for instance, as opposed to the old theme with the dark background and low-contrast icons. Things like preview thumbnails have been brought to the forefront so that they’re easier to find. Also, both pieces of software ship with a re-tooled image organizer that puts commonly used functions front and center, with lesser-used features like keyword tagging hidden in the menus. The organizer also now has Google Maps integration, so you can view your shots on a map. You can also for the first time view by event, or by the names of people tagged in photos.
As for new features, Photoshop Elements is getting a series of new comic-inspired filters, including “Pen and Ink,” “Graphic Novel” and, yes, “Comic.” Photoshop Elements now allows European customers to upload photos to Cewe, while Premiere Elements supports Vimeo uploads. (Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly and SmugMug sharing were already built in.) Amateur videographers will also enjoy a series of new Hollywood-inspired filters, including Red Noir, a “Sin City”-esque effect with red accents, and “Pandora,” which is meant to evoke “Avatar.” Finally, you can use Time Remapping and Reverse Time to speed up footage or slow it down, respectively.
Fans of the software will notice the pricing hasn’t changed: the two apps cost $100 each, or $150 as a bundle. Folks who are upgrading will pay $80 a pop, or $120 for both. Look for both on Adobe’s site today, with the old-fashioned boxed software hitting retailers soon.
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Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11 with new filters, more beginner-friendly UI originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 06
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 now fully supports Retina MacBook Pro: both HiDPI and GPU compute
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Adobe’s video editing application is already a lovely thing on the Retina MacBook Pro, but not visually — only in terms of its raw performance on that Core i7 CPU. Until today’s update — 6.0.2 — the software hasn’t actually been able to make use of HiDPI itself, and neither has it been able to exploit the performance-boosting potential of GPU compute on the laptop’s NVIDIA GTX 650M graphics card. If you’re lucky enough to own this combo of hardware and software, Adobe’s official blog suggests that you go ahead and check for the update or apply it manually following the instructions at the source link below (it’s actually within Bridge that you should check for the update, with other Adobe titles closed). We’re hopefully about to apply it ourselves and will report back on its impact.
Update on the update: As expected, video thumbnails look sumptuous in the absence of pixelation, making this a worthy revision. That said, software encoding of a short timeline was still faster with the Mercury Engine set to software mode rather than GPU compute. A 2:30 clip took 2:02 to encode with OpenCL, 2:00 to encode with CUDA, but just 1:42 to encode in Software mode. No doubt people who do multi-cam editing or need to render complex effects in real-time may see a benefit — please, let us know if you do!
Update: Just had word from NVIDIA that may explain what’s happening with our encoding times. We’re told it’s only if we enable “Maximum Render Quality” that GPU compute will shine through in terms of performance, because enabling max quality in software mode would slow it down. So far we’ve only tried with default settings, so clearly there’s room here for more experimentation.
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Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 now fully supports Retina MacBook Pro: both HiDPI and GPU compute originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 04
Avid Studio for iPad gets renamed, free on the App Store for a limited period of time
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Avid Studio for iPad arrived back in February, priced to coax iPad filmmakers away from Apple’s in-house iMovie. Since then, however, the company sold its consumer business arm to Corel, leading it to re-brand the package as Pinnacle Studio for iPad. The editing app has gained a bunch of features that users were clamoring for, including 1080p support, integrated uploads to Box and a raft of stability tweaks. As part of the change, it’s being offered free for a limited time, so if you own an iPad (or plan on getting one in the future), we suggest you jump-cut to the App Store pretty quickly.
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Avid Studio for iPad gets renamed, free on the App Store for a limited period of time originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 09
YouTube video editing brings in real-time previews, trims UI down to the basics
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YouTube’s video editing suite is officially a toddler in human years, so it’s about time that it grew a little more beyond learning how to walk and talk. By far the most conspicuous sign of maturity is a new real-time preview that shows edits and filter options as you play — you’ll now know if that effects filter at 1:37 is festive or just gaudy. The overall interface is also a little more buttoned-down with a simpler interface that cuts back on unnecessary clutter. YouTube has been rolling out the editor update in recent hours and may have wrapped up by the time you’re reading this, which we’d take as a cue to start producing that streaming masterpiece.
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YouTube video editing brings in real-time previews, trims UI down to the basics originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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