Aid and abet your editing workflow...
Alternatives to Apple's Compressor - which came with FCP4
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Video CueNEWISH
http://www.varasoftware.com/products/videocue/
 Working demo available. Designed as an iSight application, VideoCue is a teleprompter Videocue contains an ultra smooth scrolling teleprompter, can include a subtitle track overlay, as well as drag and drop of QuickTime files into presentations.
Mmm, looking at their sample movies, perhaps "the camera" is a little too close...
December 15, 2004
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iDiveNEWISH
http://www.aquafadas.com/
 Working demo available. Winner of an O'Reilly Mac Innovation Award 2004, iDive is an iTunes-style application for managing digital video (DV) clips and still images.
It features sequence image previews, customizable views, “drag & drop” attribute tagging and a timeline display all wrapped up in a friendly iLife style interface.
iDive's can also include offline and archived media.
December 07, 2004
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iStabilize
http://www.istabilize.de/
 iStabilize is a software video stabilizer that removes unwanted shaky motion and smooths the image path. It can separately smooth motion with respect to translation, rotation, and scaling (zooming), and it reads and writes many movie formats, including QuickTime, DV, MPEG4, and AVI.
iStabilize is for Mac OS X 10.2 and up with QuickTime 6.
October 18, 2004
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DV Catalog Dog
http://www.dogdv.com/catalogdog.html
DV Catalog Dog 1.2 creates catalogs of video content directly from digital video tapes. It works with almost all DV cameras and decks and offers timecode break detection, closed caption extraction, multiple report options (including XML, RTFD, and HTML), and other features. Its XML reports that are now compatible with Final Cut Pro. for Mac OS X 10.2.3 and up.
October 11, 2004
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DVrack
http://www.seriousmagic.com/dvrack.cfm
 Fully functional trial version available for download DV Rack runs on a Windows PC or laptop connected to a DV camera. It consists of ten monitoring, production and evaluation tools that let you instantly preview, record, review, and evaluate your shots.
The DV rack includes:
- Digital Video Recorder
- Professional Field Monitor
- DV WaveForm Monitor
- Vectorscope
- Automated Quality Monitor
- Audio Spectrum Analyzer
- Video Analyzer
- DV Grabber
- Timer/Clock Module
- Sureshot Module
October 11, 2004
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Belle Nuit Subtitler
http://www.belle-nuit.com/subtitler/index.html
A standalone program to edit and render subtitles for use in Final Cut Pro or Avid software. It offers customization of fonts, styles, position, opacity, and other attributes and can render antialiased titles with alpha channel in PAL, NTSC (nonsquare pixels), HD, 4:3, and 16:9 to TIFF and PICT formats.
They have also released TitleListConverter 1.6, a tool to convert cuefiles from a film subtitler facility for use with Belle Nuit Subtitler, the company's subtitle editing and rendering software. The new version can export the EDL with comments that allow Final Cut Pro to batch import the titles from within the timeline. TitleListConverter is free for Mac OS X and Classic Mac OS.
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CatDV Pro
http://www.squarebox.co.uk/catdv/
Working demo available.
the media manager for DV - a fully cross-platform media asset management system.
First up - it has built in scene detection for DV - either timecode based or visual. Capture a tape and it will separate every shot, as well as record the date, time, length of the shot, even the camera settings.
It will also create a thumbnail catalogue & Quicktime previews - about 250MB for a 60min tape. (In fact, it can do this for any QuickTime supported media files including still images, audio files and movies.) You can then review, rename & categorise all your footage and this results in a searchable catalogue which can be viewed & filtered by bin, by date, by any criteria you care to imagine.
You can also play a thumbnail version (with sound) of any shot. For logging tapes it is perfection. Once you have selected the shots you want you then export your "Go Shots" (amongst other formats) as an FCP batch list.
In FCP, you import the list and get FCP to capture it at your desired quality level... Wunderbar!.
Cat DV Pro also captures at FCP's Offline-JPEG resolution - so who needs FCP to recapture when you export the shots you want and simply tell it to reconnect... CATDV Pro maps also maps its catalogue fields to match FCP's.
Try it and then try and live without it.
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FootTrack
http://www.foottrack.com/
Imports and catalogs video tapes from iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, and other sources. It allows you to search the catalog, get information on clips and tapes, view clips, and save compressed versions of videos. Includes the ability to create groups of clips independent of any tape, smart groups (similar to smart playlists in iTunes), a table view for tapes and groups. For Mac OS X 10.2 and up.
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QiPo
http://www.control-click.com/qipo/
Working demo available.
Quicktime In - Preview out - a standalone app that grabs frames from any file Quicktime can handle - such as MPEG, some AVIs, and even QuickTime VR objects.
QiPo processes the QuickTime movie and creates an image containing sequential frames that are visual preview of the movie. Can also create HTML preview pages from your own customised templates.
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Echofire
http://www.synthetic-ap.com/
Working demo available.
Echo Fire for Macintosh:
Displays video previews via FireWire and other video output boards, handles 4:3, 16:9, and 14:9 aspect ratios, overlay waveform monitor, vectorscope, safe title and action areas, and test patterns on the video preview and drag and drop video playback to FireWire as well as screen previewer outputs Mac desktop to video. OS9 only features include DV exports (video and audio) to FireWire from QuickTime Player. Compatible with NTSC and PAL.
Makers of Color Finesse & Test Pattern Generator
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AlamDV
http://fxhome.com/
Working demo available.
It has a clunky name and a, well, a toy-like quality but these guys seem to offer everything a Junior George Lucas could want - from laserblasts, lightsabres to gunshot blasts and explosions.
The AlamDV program is a standalone program (outside FCP!).
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Stop-Motion-Studio
http://www.loudmotion.com/
Working Demo Available
Click. Push. Click. Push. Stop motion software. Capture images from your Digital Video camera - with onion skinning, time-lapse abilities and you can export to QuickTime or Flash(!).
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Discreet Cleaner 6 for Apple Macintosh
http://www.discreet.com/products/cleaner/cleaner6/
Working Demo Available
Crikey, what a mouthful - maybe they should have a go at compressing the name of their compression software.
Cleaner is the encoder of choice for many - whether that's compressing video for the web or readying it for DVD authoring. It exports to a stack of formats and boasts drag and drop simplicity.
An earlier version from a previous owner was included in FCP2.
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Hipflics
http://www.totallyhip.com/lo/
Working Demo Available
HipFlics take movies exported from FinalCut (and other apps) and prepares them for Internet delivery. File Sizes can be reduced over 50 times from straight DV. With a fast compression engine, drag and drop changing of codecs and batch processing and built-in watermarking.
REVIEW Review of Hipflics & Sorenson Squeeze by Clifford E. VanMeter (!) on the LAFCPUG site.
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Sorenson Video 3 Pro Codec
http://www.sorenson.com/
No Working Demo Available
Tell your movie to get stuffed - Sorenson's video compression supports alpha channel/chroma key layers, color watermarks, automatic keyframes through scene change detection, support for One-Pass and Two-Pass VBR compression.
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