Most, if not all, professional photographers use expensive DSLR cameras to take photos and videos. However, if you’re still a beginner looking to start your photography career, you don’t have to buy all this gear right away. Most of them are crazy expensive and are a huge investment. To start, you can use your iPhone […]
Best Video Compression Apps on macOS
Video conversion is a process used when transition between different container formats and codecs. Video codecs are the encoding algorithms for video and audio streams. Video codecs have the power to convert the video stream, but they require different audio codecs to encode sound. This means your video codec requires a kind of digital box; […]
Best Video Merging Apps and Splitting Apps for iOS and macOS
A video splitter app can break one clip into multiple pieces. Then, it can be uploaded to a video service in multiple files, or distributed in different ways. When you merge video clips with a video merger app, you’re combining them into a single video file. Then, the resulting file can be easily shared and […]
Creating Your First Video in Final Cut Pro X
Back in the day, Apple built professional-grade software for a variety of creative pursuits. Today, Final Cut Pro X is one of the few remaining. While professionals haven’t always been happy with Apple’s handling of Final Cut Pro X, Apple’s changes were all in the direction of making powerful software more accessible to novices. Features […]
Using the Video & Audio Encoder Tools in MacOS
Incorporated in Mac OS X 10.7 and later versions are media encoding capabilities that let you encode and convert video and audio files to a format of your choice on your Mac via the Finder window.
VideoProc: Process and Convert All Video Types
Video processing is something most folks don’t think about. Most video processing happens behind the scenes, before you view a YouTube video or Blu-Ray. The folks who make those videos, however, don’t have that luxury. That’s what tools like VideoProc are for: rapid, high-end processing of video from one codec or container file to another. […]
Why You Need To Get Started With Plex
Plex is all over the web, but what’s so great about Plex? It might be lauded as one of the best media streaming tools on the market, but what does Plex do? Does Plex work with Netflix or Hulu? Not quite. Here are some good reasons to get started with Plex on your Mac. What […]
Watching Media and Stream to iOS Devices with VLC Mobile
Mobile devices typically lack one crucial feature: storage. As a result, big media files like video get saved on big hard drives, typically attached to laptops and desktops. Yet mobile devices make excellent content consuming devices. The solution to this conundrum? Stream content from your computer to your iOS device. The following are several ways […]
Rip DVDs with VLC on Your Mac
VLC is a powerful and well-loved application. You’ve probably used it to play media files on your Mac for when QuickTime doesn’t work properly. However, few users realize it can do more than just play files. If needed, you can rip DVDs to your Mac with VLC. This allows you save non-copy protected DVDs to […]
Why is HEVC Better than H.264?
In High Sierra and iOS 11, Apple will be implementing a new video encoding process called High Efficiency Video Coding, or HEVC. It promises to shrink video size by a huge margin, supporting new high-resolution content while saving disk space. But what makes HEVC better than H.264, the video codec it plans to replace? HEVC, […]
