Mpeg Streamclip

Mpeg Streamclip is a pretty awesome (and free!) product. As anyone who has ever tried to go back and forth from a Mac to a PC with their video will know, it's a major pain trying to deal with the different formats.

Mpeg Streamclip has a long list of formats that it will open and convert to. One particularly useful function of Mpeg Streamclip is stripping the content from DVD-video so that it is editable.

One drawback to this is that DVD-video codecs are lossy, meaning that some of the information is thrown away in compression. This further means that after it is edited and compressed again it will have lost more information, resulting in lower quality. Therefore, it is not recommended, but sometimes necessary, for instance, if the only source of a particular piece of video is DVD-video.


One problem I have found using Mpeg Streamclip is that it doesn't deal with interlaced video very well. When converting a file I have needed to deinterlace the video to avoid that annoying "combing" effect. Anyone else have this problem? How did you solve it?

taping your shots on record?

With constantly changing technology comes constantly changing terminology.

With a motion picture camera you film and on a mini DV camera you tape. So, what do you do with a HHD (hard drive) camera? Record? Maybe, but the term recording to me seems exclusive to dubbing, rather than initial capture of footage. Shoot? Possibly, but with the experience a friend of mine had with (then) Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton I say it's risky.

Does new technology warrant a new term? Or should we continue to use tape, shoot and film interchangeably?

Apples are my favorite fruit

It's kind of scary being a video editor.

When I entered college YouTube had not yet been created, social media hadn't discovered facebook, and I had to walk uphill (both ways) in the snow to my Mass Media class.

So the question is "with so many 16 year olds dabbling in the world of video, becoming international YouTube stars, and learning to edit on bootleg copies of Final Cut Pro and Avid, are those of us who were educated in the field wasting our time?"

As someone's grandpa probably said "Nothing beats a solid education".

My solid education taught me to write a blog post chock full of the most googled words in google history (which is more than 10 years).

Foliage/apple season is coming up somewhat soon. Both spectacular sights. I think I'll have to document it. Thoughts?