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DV footage in iMovie 08 can be a little on the fatty fat fatty side, taking more than its fair share from my beloved hard drive. Sure, I only have a little DV video in my library, but still my collection of Quantum Leap Episodes takes up all the space I have to spare.

Well friends, behold a script that can clean up your DV mess for you. It will go in, convert the DV to H.264 (at a quality level you select) and even retain the originals for you archive (or not). good stuff, highly suggest you scope it out.

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Well, geekery spreads like envy on care package day at fat kids camp (…) amongst the newly Mac Faithful.
Witness Diana’s blog, Tomndianna. Check it out.

Could this be a trend of new sites amongst my people? Want help setting up your own?
Why don’t you meander over to blogger.com and get started. Let me know if you need anything.

A few gripes I had have already been addressed in a quick update by Apple. You can now import through drag and drop (which didn’t work at first), there is a cancel process button when importing (which makes sense), and the thing seems to run a little faster now.

Of course, these changes would have been nice before I spent 5 hours importing through the “Import Movie” interface.

Digging the youtube upload (the ease of doing this might be enough to totally migrate from my previous favorite Vimeo.

I wish there was a way to update the hosted video on youtube through iMovie without having to update your links though.

In a round of brilliant creative mutual ideation, we came up with some really promising ideas for TV shows.
Say hello to the next big family friendly classic, Au Bear.

iMovie ‘08 and I are still dating. Not quite ready to marry the little filly. You can ready a lot more indepth reviews elsewhere. Here is my take so far:

Good-Allows you to import the film into nice tidy bundles and sort them as events (a’ la iPhoto ‘08)
Bad-Eats processor cycles (my G5 iMac is pig with this stuff)
Good-No processing time on transitions, text, and effects
Bad-Transitions, text, and effects more limited than previous versions.
Good-Neat looking intertface tells you extra audio (music, voice-over) tracks are attached to clips
Bad-Hard to tweak how the audio matches up.

More to come on this later, as I play a bit more. All and all, promising, but not quite there yet.

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A few years ago, we had this Friday that seemed to stretch for eternity. For some reason, at some point during the day, this video was made.

“What is our FTP server setting?” is hardly the question I suspected from my wife, but lo, it has been questioned. Kate, being industry and artsy, threw together ryanandkate.net last night. She did it using iWeb and found it to be pretty easy. Today, she is dorking around creating a blog for it.

Currently, she has a furrowed brow and is lamenting how the page re-acts to link she put in. Could a Word Press powered version be far off? Oh, my heart flutters.

For time being check the site out for some photo albums, a movie review, and general Kate Weirdness.