Hi, a question about video editor

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Hi. I need an app that can create some simple video animation. I am not a professional user so I need an easy to use and cheap app.
I prefear an app that can offers effects similar to the image editors app's effects (like Pixelmator) with masks, bledding effects and vectorial drawing and animation similar CSS or Flash. Is it possible?
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Ciao a tutti. Io avrei bisogno di un'app che possa craere animazioni video semplici. Non sono un utente proffessionista quindi ho bisogno di un'app economica e semplice da usare; e preferirei un'app che offra effetti simili a quelli di app come Pixelmator, con maschere, effetti bledding e magari il disegno vettoriale e animazioni simili a quelle di CSS o Flash. È possibile?

Your arithmetic looks good to me. As well as compression, I assume that only the differences from one frame to next are stored (as well as probably loads of other clever techniques that keep the video looking good, but if you view it frame by frame
may not be quite as good as you think - your eyes and brain fill in a lot of details and I bet this is all used to keep the bit rate as low as possible).
This may not be much data between most frames unless your images change a lot from one frame to the next. During periods of lots of action if your transfer rate isn't great enough you will get pixilation.

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Hi everyone, and sorry if I post this in the wrong area. I own a few computers, some are consider ancient and others are somewhat old but can run Windows XP just fine. I have a question about the computers in the stores today.
I am looking to invest in a new laptop, possibly a desktop in the near future depending on my budget. The question I have about video cards today is that, I enjoy a good MMO game now and then, I don't expect to play heavy intensive games, just maybe some more advance games. I notice that for one game that I want to play, it requires a video card to have (Shadow Rendering, Vertex and Pixle Shaders). Do the computers today have those as standard for thier video card? Or do I have to invest in a little bit more expensive laptop/desktop. I am willing to invest money for some more RAM, if I need to improve its preformance. The reason I ask is because I have a 4 year old Laptop with a broken keyboard, and I was thinking about just replacing the laptop with a newer one. it has some pretty good specs and runs everything fine, but it can not play certain games because of those missing video requirements. (Current laptop incase someone is curious: 1.5Ghz Celeron M, 1GB memory 64MB video (Shared) ) Thanks to anyone who has the answer to this question. (P.S sorry if everything is scrunched together. for some reason the formatting is wierd on Opera web browser

Graphics cards have all those standard today... or at least they should unless you get a really cheap Graphics card. The kind of graphics card and processor and other specs of the computer you want to get should depend on what you want to do with it. It also depends on the kind of games you want to play. If you're playing FPS [first person shooter] then you need a really good graphics card and processor. If you're playing something like Diablo 2 or something that's on the lower end of graphics then you just need decent specs. Graphics cards, I suggest something with aGeForce Nividia card... as of today, they are in the 9 series for high-end cards I believe. For processors... get something like Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 or T9600 or the Core 2 Quatros or Extremes. Extremes are intended for hardcore gaming and would be more expensive. For RAM you should have at least 2GB... you can always upgrade that later.
For laptops my suggestions are:
$3k+ get a customized alienware
$2-3 get a customized dell xps, or macbook pro [although if you're gaming i would suggest you dual boot with windows xp or vista]
$1-2k get a cheaper customized dell, or sony vaio
under $1k... well I don't know what to say... you can't really get a nice gaming computer for under that price.
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Newbie question about video quality in CS3

I'm new to Premiere CS3. I've been using iMovie but wanted to move up to an app with more features and finer grained tuning. However, I'm having trouble getting my imported clips to maintain their quality. Don't know if I've got PrCS3 set up incorrectly or if I don't know enough about video formats.
I'm running Premiere v3.2.0 (374) on a MacBook Pro, 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB memory, OSX 10.6.6
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I have a video clip with the following specs: .mov, 720 x 480, H.264, 30fps, bitrate 244 (see screen shot below). It was captured from my computer using Snapz Pro X.
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I thought the exported video might be better quality. I exported the sequence using the following settings:
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Hi,
capturing from your computer would give you square pixel aspect ratio....and you're using an aspect ratio for SD TV ( ntsc ), so it is stretching ....no longer a perfect "circle" in the paw print...
Your project setting should be made in custom / desktop ( dont use a preset )...and set it for 720x480 square pixels progressive ( no interleaving ), 29.97 fps... the codec choice for rendering when you set up the project could be dealt with later on if this solves your basic problem..
your export would then be the same as your project setting....720x480, progressive, square pixels, 29.97 or 30 fps ...should be good.
one note: h264 is already "compressed" quite a bit....its a "delivery" format...for viewing ...not really meant to be edited...know what I mean ? So you will lose some quality due to that stuff already being compressed...
but your pixel aspect ratio being "fixed" with the above should improve what you see quite a bit.
good luck

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The video playing was designed as something extra that it can do, but doesn't seemed to have been designed for the video heavy user.
I have tried many different formats but it doesn't appear that you can make the video any smaller, as the devices can't handle compressed video. (My daughter has a a Zen V Plus, I stick music videos on it for her and it works well for that.
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http://www.mirroroftheuniverse.com/Songs.html
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http://roddymckay.com/Satellite/JukeBox.html
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Hi claudiaricci-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards
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Hi,
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Many thanks as usual for all of your help!
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Captivate basically only likes to use the Flash Video FLV format for video.
You may find out more by visiting fellow Adobe Certified Instructor Joohn Daigle's Show Me the Demo site.
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hello all:
i have a question for the community that i would love to have answered.
i have some video files that i have converted from a dvd i own to m4v files. of the 280 total videos, i am having a problem transferring 14 of them. of these videos, the only real common thing i can find is that some of the videos are larger in 'height' than then the 640x480 pixel specifications, but does that really matter? i ask because most of the videos are 720 pixels in width which is larger then then the 640 pixel max resolution i've seen before, but they still copy and play. also, not all of the videos that are having the issue are over the max resolution specifications.
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http://handbrake.fr/

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Kristina, it might be worth checking to see if you're running afoul of this problem:
Videos labeled TV Shows in iTunes don't appear on iPod
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Edit: 2nd question has been answered. I had to mark them as "unread". And now they show up on my iPod. The first question is still unanswered, though.

answer to the first Question- The podcast isnt available for Dutch iTunes. beveryone can get the same podcasts from different iTunes stores, but some podcasts are oexclusive to some stores
hope it makes some sense
hope I answered ur question
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Hi, a question about video editor

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