labDV newsletter

Topics:

Manual: DVDShrink 2.0
Technique: Advanced use of Premiere
Manual: DVD to DivX with DrDivX
Review: Dazzle DVC 150 hardware encoder
Hardware: Adding front ports to your PC

September 20th, 2003

1. Manual DVDShrink 2.0

In our previous newsletter we already reported the release of this latest version of DVDShrink, which was developed with support of labDV. This tool has quickly become one of the most popular tools to backup DVD-Video to recordable DVD. And best of all it is freeware. The complete manual including a description of all functions and a step by step guide has now been published on labDV.

Get DVDShrink from our download page an read the manual here.

2. Technique: Advanced Use of Premiere

There are numerous consumer video editing tool on the market these days. Although Adobe Premiere is one of the highest priced tools it is definitely worth the money if you are looking for really advanced video editing. But since the possibilities are sheer endless it may be difficult to find how you can achieve certain effects. This new labDV article gives you some examples of great effects that you can create with Premiere and also explains how to create them in the easiest way. And it will also stimulate your creativity and help you to use Premiere in a more efficient way. A basic knowledge of Premiere is useful to read this article, but the article is also worth reading if you haven’t.

Download the example clip and go here to read how it was created.

3. Manual: DVD to DivX with DrDivX

The DivX organization (DivXNetworks Inc. San Diego, California, USA) has now set a stable standard and encoding profiles for consumer usage like HD-TV, Home Theatre, PC, Apple and Handheld )with the DivX Certified™ Program. Major companies such as Philips, Texas Instruments, ESST, Cirrus Logic, ALi Corporation and Sigma Designs have joined the certification program. The program DrDivX was designed to encode movies to comply with these standards. labDV published a manual how to rip DVD-Video and create a DivX using DrDivX.

Read the manual on labDV

4. Review: Dazzle DVC 150 hardware encoder

Dazzle has been around for a while with their products for video processing. In fact they were one of the first to produce an MPEG video capture product for the PC. They released the DVC150 already a couple of months ago a box using USB connection with a hardware encoder on board. We have reviewed USB devices to capture video in the past, but always ended up with mixed feelings, due to the barely sufficient throughput of USB 1.1. This all changes with USB2.0. So it's time to have a look at what this USB2.0 device can do... and it's killer!

Read the review right here.

5. Hardware: Adding front ports to your PC

Don't you just hate it , every time you want to plug in that firewire camera or hard disk, to have to reach to the back of the machine and 'find' the plug blind? Sure the most logical place for I/O port is on the back of the case ... for devices that are connected permanently. But what about removable devices ... like your camcorder or photo camera? This article goes into the details of the different options you have when you want to add ports to the front of your PC and shows you a couple of kits that are out there on the market.

Interested? Go here for the details.

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