One of my favorite video encoding tools just got updated — Handbrake. The biggest feature is the ability to transcode practically any video file, not just DVD videos. Also new is an official GTK graphical interface for Linux, the latest x264 binaries, better and faster deinterlacing, and no more internal DVD decryption (Handbrake now uses [...]

Check out Toshiba’s new ‘Timesculpture’ commercial that was shot using over 200 Toshiba Gigashot camcorders shooting over 20 Terabytes of video data totaling over 336 hours of footage. The camera rig measured 14m in diameter and weighed about half a tonne. All 200 cameras were triggered with a single remote. The Matrix’s “bullet time” [...]

The previous sample of HD footage from the Canon EOS 5D Mark II was impressive, but this second sample only confirms that the EOS 5D Mark II is capable of producing some beautiful HD video. Shop for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Western Digital has a new device called the WD TV HD Media Player that will connect to any USB drive and play the video files out to your HDTV via HDMI. This little device will only set you back about $130. Product Features * Compatible with My Passport portable hard drives and other [...]

Watch Jonathan Ive, Dan Riccio, and Bob Mansfield talk about the design of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. I was admittedly skeptical when I first heard the rumors that Apple would be able to make such a manufacturing process economically feasible. Looks like I was wrong.

The problem I was looking to solve was that of iPhones and iPod touches not being able to play most of the videos on my site, that is videos that utilized the flash video player. My thought to fix this was to create two separate divs that were toggled between based on the User Agent. First [...]

Limit Point Software announces AddMovie 1.5.2, a tool for combining multiple movies or images into a single movie and batch exporting movies to any format supported by QuickTime. When combining movies you have the option of creating movie chapters with customizable titles. Other functionality includes: extracting audio tracks to files, splitting movies, setting movie poster frames and saving movie frames as images.

Canon will begin shipping their new XL H1A HD camcorder in July. This new camera is aimed squarely new entrants to HD video with a price tag of $6,000. With the XL H1A this remarkable capability is available at a lower price than ever before, offering users who have come to rely on their XL1, XL1s [...]

Today Apple has begun shipping Final Cut Server, the software solution for cataloging, managing, and sharing your media assets. Content can be viewed, annotated, and approve from anywhere using a PC or a Mac. Final Cut Server automatically catalogs media and generates thumbnails, poster frames and low-resolution clip proxies for quick browsing in user specified formats. [...]

Sony is touting the HDR-TG1 as “the world’s smallest full HD camcorder”. Regarding the “small”, the HDR-TG1 weighs in at 10 ounces and sports a compact 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5-inch titanium chassis. The HDR-TG1 records at 1920×1080 to its included 4GB PRO Duo Mark2 media card. Audio is recorded in Dollby Digital 5.1 surround [...]