Browse Video Help and Tips

Browse Video Help and Tips

Speed-up iMovie clips
Here's the way to time-compress a very long video clip.
Create pause-zoom-pause effects in iMovie stills
Learn how to show a still image for some time in your iMovie project, then zoom/crop/move that image, and then pause on the final image again before moving on.
Sharing home movies with iWeb
The My Albums templates in iWeb aren’t just for pictures––they can hold videos, too. Here’s how to use them to organize your movies in one convenient place online.
Gain more control over QuickTime X playback speeds
Learn how to use more than just three (2x, 4x, 8x) playback speeds in QuickTime Player X.
Ripping your unprotected DVDs
We've had plenty of fun talking about ripping the commercial DVDs you own. But what about the discs you've created? Here are tips for extracting their video.
Organize Your iMovie Video Library
To deal with the glut of video that quickly accumulates in the Event Library, iMovie includes features for marking favorite footage and rejecting (and hiding) sections to reduce the clutter, and applying keywords to find related video.
Streaming large movies
No, if you can help it, you don't want to take a nearly 2GB movie and plunk it into a MobileMe Gallery. Here's how to help it.
Beyond HandBrake's defaults
HandBrake is a terrific tool for easily ripping DVDs but there may come times when you want to go beyond its preset settings. Here's a look beneath the surface for doing just that.
Working through the video-editing backlog
Got lots of video? Here's how to keep it manageable and fun.
Bugs & Fixes: Failure to launch bugs
Some high-profile software updates this week from Apple and Microsoft both exhibited similar bugs in which updated apps either failed to launch or couldn't open existing files. Ted Landau explains what's up.
Change color of BBEdit and TextWrangler 'invisibles' characters
Learn how to change the color of the special characters that BBEdit and TextWrangler use to display invisible characters, such as tabs and line breaks.
Bugs & Fixes: Fixes for iLife problems
Ted Landau looks at solutions to a pair of potential problems Apple has identified with the iLife suite.
Use QuickTime Player to create a video wall
You've seen video walls at trade shows and airports, perhaps -- those large banks of monitors showing single or multiple videos. Today's tip uses AppleScript to create a video wall showing multiple video clips on your own monitor
iMovie and the uncooperative camera
You've just purchased a spiffy new HD camcorder yet iMovie ’09 refuses to see its footage. Here are hints for finding and importing it.
Bugs & Fixes: Elgato's support solves EyeTV problems
Ted Landau finds a pair of instances where a brief search of Elgato's Web site helped find the answers to problems involving the company's EyeTV Hybrid product for watching live television on your Mac.
Exporting 720p from iMovie ’09
It's impossible to directly export deinterlaced 720p video from a 1080i source in iMovie ’09. Until Apple fixes it, here's how.
Add new locations to iMovie ’09
iMovie ’09 includes travel maps that let you specify starting and ending locations. However, its list of locations is limited. Learn how to add your own places with a bit of text file editing.
More on extracting audio from video
Readers have additional questions about extracting audio from video files. I have answers.
Extracting audio from movies with iLife
iLife's iMovie and GarageBand can help you pull audio files from your movies.
Batch rename the iLife video tutorials
Apple’s iLife ’09 video tutorials can be downloaded and saved locally. Their default filenames, though, leave much room for improvement. This hint explains how to use a simple Automator workflow to clean up the filenames.
iMovie photo management
No need to muck up your iPhoto library when building an iMovie project.
Change iDVD’s Apple logo watermark
Learn how to replace the Apple logo watermark with one of your own design.
Excerpt: MobileMe and iLife
An important aspect of MobileMe is the way Apple’s online service integrates with its iLife suite of digital lifestyle applications. iWeb, iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand become extra powerful when used in conjunction with a MobileMe subscription. In this excerpt from Take Control of MobileMe, Joe Kissell shows you some of the things you can do with iLife and MobileMe.
Digital Video: Create a DVD gift
Looking for a holiday gift with a personal touch? Jeff Carlson shows you how to make a custom DVD to send to family and friends.
Changing iMovie '08 movie dates
You have movies shot years ago that you've recently digitized. How do you make iMovie sort them by the date they were originally shot rather than when you imported them to your Mac? Like so.
Bugs & Fixes: OS X 10.5.5 causes hassles for some apps
While this month’s OS X 10.5.5 update fixes a number of bugs, it also introduces some new ones, such as third-party apps that have problems with the update. Ted Landau looks at two such instances.
Digital Video: Convert video for any device
The iTunes Store may be a great place to stock up on video content, but why spend extra money? With the right tools, you can untether from your Mac and convert videos to play on an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.
Avoiding lengthy iMovie letterboxing
Is iMovie automatically letterboxing your movies? You may have started your project on the wrong foot.
Control QuickTime Player playback via the keyboard
Learn about a very useful set of keys to control QuickTime Player's playback features.
Capturing crisper screenshots
Captured stills looking a little fuzzy in iMovie? This technique will help.