Tablet sales are expected to almost double in 2012, as a global demand for touch screen tablets spreads from established to emerging markets and from living rooms into the boardrooms of the corporate world. Among fierce competition to Android-based tablets, will Apple still dominate the tablet market?
Let’s look at the tablet market, back in 2010 the Apple iPad started of a new competition. Just months after the iPad, several failures were born. Motorola Xoom coughs. It’s not that they were all rubbish, it’s just they didn’t have the Apple touch, the Apple look or the Apple feel. Apple always seems to know what you want and when you want it, it doesn’t seem so for other brands.
There’s a survey conducted by IDG Connect Marketers, survey audience was marketing professionals, which represents a demographic beyond business executives and IT leaders– the typical audience for such studies.
Survey topic: which operating system do you think will become the preferred business tablet option over the next 12 months?
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I have a Panasonic G2 which supports 720p video using the AVCHD Lite codec instead of AVCHD. But what’s AVCHD Lite?
AVCHD = Advanced Video Codec for High Definition, file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video.
AVCHD Lite = exactly the same format as AVCHD but the lite is used to indicate 720p HD content.
Panasonic G2 shots 720p high definition videos using the AVCHD Lite format, with the extension .mts. As far as I know, AVCHD Lite can easily be edited in iMovie’9. But what frustrates me most is that my Mac installed Final Cut Pro 7 can’t recognize my G2 AVCHD Lite 720p videos.
How to make my Final Cut Pro 7 recognized my DMC-G2 AVCHD Lite clips? You may suggest me try some conversion tool to convert AVCHD Lite to FCP 7’s compatible format. But I don’t want to transcode my 720p high definition videos to low-res, I did try some AVCHD Converter, or Panasonic Converters, but they really disappoint me that the output was very choppy. Moreover, when I loaded the AVCHD Lite converted clips into FCP7, FCP always warns me of “The following media files are not optimized for Final Cut Pro.” That’s really embarrassing issue.
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“My panasonic Lumix recorded videos in AVCHD format, so I need to convert lumix MTS files to work in Final Cut. But now I’m meeting a huge problem working in Final Cut even with extra RAM – my files are too big to work with. I don’t know what other format to save them in than Apple Pro Res; I tried other formats, like QuickTime MOV and MP4, and they come out very grainy and low-resolution-looking: the quality is so terrible. I’d like smaller-sized files that don’t look like low-res. “
Indeed, Apple ProRes codecs provide an excellent solution for FCP editing, which maintain the highest quality and performance. However, known to all, ProRes files usually take a large size, we may encounter a huge problems working with editing ProRes in Final Cut Pro. Commonly, FCP editing makes big demands of CPU, RAM or even graphic cards.
About this issue on editing MTS in FCP 7, I recommend the two solutions: transcoding MTS to Apple ProRes 422 (LT), or transcoding MTS to AIC. Continue reading →
“Love it! This is the perfect solution to convert MTS/M2TS files to Apple ProRes for editing in Final Cut Pro X! I’ll most likely use it for other conversion types in the future since it is so easy to use.” A friend excitedly tells me that he found great software to help him finish editing Kenya recordings in Final Cut, the footages are made from Sony HDR-CX700V.
So what was the magic program that makes him fascinated by this piece of software? You may be interested in the below paragraphs if you happen to meet the issue to edit Sony AVCHD footage in FCP.
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When one of my customers shared travel experience, I acquired that he had en enviable job that can combine work and tourism. During our contact, he asked me for help of how to edit Panasonic AVCHD in iMovie. I wrote this article for sharing the solution of transfer Panasonic HS9 MTS to iMovie, since I think many photographers or editor may meet this problem.
Here’s my customer’s main issue:
“I used Panasonic HS9 a lot in Europe During September, 2011. Took about 30 GB videos on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam plus 2 weeks in the UK. Also, I occasionally help a local funeral home to video service for posterity to help overseas family, or someone who died so young that children need to see what happened. All the output tends to end up in iMovie ’08 for editing. “
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“I have a Panasonic HC-V700 AVCHD Progressive camcorder which shoots 1920×1080 video at 50 fps. I want to edit this footage in Apple iMovie ’11 on my Mac, but the Import window shows red “NO” signs on my progressive clips.”
When it refers to edit Panasonic 1080/50p MTS to iMovie’11, the premium preparation definitely comes to format conversion. Why? iMovie 11 supports AVCHD with at 1080p 24/25/30, 1080i 50/60, 720p 24/25/30/50/60, so the 1080 60p/50p MTS/M2TS is still incompatible with Mac iMovie 11.
How to make iMovie accepts Panasonic 1080 50p/60p AVCHD? There comes a professional Panasonic AVCHD Converter, aiming to deal with conversion from MTS to AIC/ ProRes/AVI/MOV/MP4, etc formats. Maybe we’re not sure iMovie’s acceptable formats, but the most obvious thing is that AIC is the most compatible for iMovie.
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“I tend to record family type video mainly – holidays, outings, Birthdays etc. and generally don’t wish to edit the results too much. I copy the footage to my PC, remove any unwanted scenes, and join the remaining scenes together. I prefer not to re-render this footage to preserve its quality and to save time so export as AVCHD M2ts. I then view the video on a PS3, either streamed over wifi, or directly using USB stick. “
A friend of mine asked me for help on the above matter. AVCHD Converters is able to cut MTS files or merge MTS to other standard formats, but they can’t do lossless merging AVCHD without rencoding. Commonly, AVCHD Converters only transcode MTS to MP4/AVI/MOV/MKV, etc, unable to preserve the original quality. Continue reading →
The Nokia 808 PureView launch date has been set to be around May 2012 in the UK with a launch price of about 450 Pounds. What’s interesting to watch is how the market would react to this Smartphone. It has been often indicated that this Smartphone would be the last of the Symbian phones in the market. Curious people willing to play with the camera would definitely get their hands on it. Many experts have stated their disappointment at the PureView not being a Windows phone. If it had been, it would have been a hot-seller.
It’s amazing how a smartphone can capture something at 41 MP but that’s what Nokia PureView 808 does. The smartphone has several other awesome features too.
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Samsung Galaxy S III will be launched on May 3rd. Many Samsung fans will rush into the crowds to purchase Galaxy S3 the first time. The release date in approaching closer and closer, you must have got bundles of videos at hand so that you can enjoy the mass movies on Galaxy S3 when you get Galaxy S3.
We all know that Samsung Galaxy S III can play MP4, 3GP, MPEG4, Divx, Xvid formats, but if we’re HD Cam users, then, how to tranfe HD videos from camera to Galaxy S3? Say, I have Panasonic TM-900; all of my recordings are in MTS format. Then, what if I want to play AVCHD/ MTS on Galaxy S III?
No worries, we can have a MTS to Samsung Galaxy S Converter, within this tool, we can convert MTS to MP4 for Galaxy S III. Besides, videos editing like add watermark, replace audio track, cutting as well as trimming is also supported.
This MTS to Samsung Galaxy S Converter is only $29 tool, you can enjoy any conversion from MTS to all key formats. So get ready to own this program to transfer MTS to Galaxy S III.
