Tutorial: Best Render Setup For Youtube

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January 5, 2015

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Used Template: Premium Business

Do you know what the best after effects render settings for youtube are?
Let me show you an easy setup that will not only make your videos look always sharp, but also the audio will never go out of sync once it’s uploaded to youtube.

On top of this, the file size will be 9 times smaller than a regular quicktime format. This way you won’t waste time uploading or sending huge video files.

Please keep in mind that the settings I’m going to show you apply to all versions of After Effects, with the exception of Adobe After Effects CC, which uses a different render method and engine. We’ll discuss that in the next tutorial.

So you’ve purchased a template and edit it, and now you’re ready to render it out.

With so many codecs and settings to choose from, it’s always a hassle to make a good technical decision.

Okay, so let’s prepare this project for rendering – by the way, this is the “Premium Business” template from the bluefx.net store.

Select “Composition – Add to render queue”.

Click next to the output module and choose “Format – H264″, then click on “Format Options”, select “Profile – High”, “Level – 5.1″, “Bitrate encoding – VBR”, which means “variable bit rate”, and set the target bitrate to 8 and the maximum bitrate to 10.

Hit “OK”, and if your project also has audio, don’t forget to check the audio output box as well.

Finally click next to “Output” to set up your file name and destination, and you’re ready to render.

Okay, so here’s our final full HD render – only 52 MB, and here’s another render of the same project but in a standard quicktime MOV format, which is 471 MB.

So, our MP4 video is 9 times smaller than the MOV video, without compromising the quality, and the image is sharp.

We’ll also be able up upload the file much faster to Youtube or any other video sharing website.

Thank you for watching, don’t forget to check out the next tutorials where we’ll discuss how to render in After Effects CC and we’ll also take a look at automating the rendering operation by creating a render template.

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Use Your Mac With Your iPad as a 2nd Display

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December 22, 2014

by Duet

Duet is the first app that allows you to use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac using the Lightning or 30-pin cable.  Duet is made by a team of ex-Apple engineers. The Mac software is free, though the iPad software to allow the dual Duet display is $9.99 via the Apple store.  But hey, for under $10, you gain a second monitor to increase your productivity and allow you more viewing real estate!

Fast.

Duet is built by ex-Apple engineers, delivering a retina display at 60 frames per second with no lag. Seriously.

Productive.

An additional display increases productivity by up to 48%.

Touch.

Interact with OS X like never before. The most advanced display for your Mac.

 

Compatibility

As long as you meet the requirements below, you should have no problem getting set up.

All Macs

10.9+

All iPads

iOS 6.0+

All iPhones

iOS 6.0+

SaveFrom.net Helper: Download Vids from Social Sites

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October 27, 2014

by SaveFrom.net…

…Helps you to download files from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, VK.com and more than 40 other just in one click.  Click on the above icon to download this cool Firefox ability.

***If you want to give it a test even before downloading, just type in “ss” before a youtube link to download:

“http://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=4EjOjJthwqA”

After the installation is complete you could:

Download from YouTube.com»

On the page, where you watch a video file, appears a “Download” button, which lets you save video in desired quality.

Try it once and you will agree that this is the most convenient YouTube downloader you ever used!

You can download videos directly from embedded YouTube players. Just hover a cursor on it and a “Download” button appears. Click to save a video in the desired quality.

more →

Download from Vimeo.com and Dailymotion.com»

On the page, where you watch a video file, appears the “Download” button, which lets you save video in desired quality.

Download from Facebook.com»

Download your favorite videos with a click.

From user pages, news feeds, or even comments. Move the mouse pointer over the link – a green arrow will appear. Click the arrow and choose the preferred video quality.

Download from VK»

SaveFrom.net helper adds a possibility to download mp3, video and albums with user photographs.

If you want to download all music tracks from a particular page, open the menu of the SaveFrom.net helper and use the following command: “Download all mp3 files”.

Read more in the article How to download vkontakte music, videos and photos for free

Download from Odnoklassniki.ru»

This extension allows downloading music and video from odnoklassniki.ru website. On a page with music, when hovering over a track, a button for downloading and a short information about the file size and bitrate appear.

Read more in the article How to download music and videos from odnoklassniki.ru

A download button will appear next to the links, which SaveFrom.net is able to process.
Pressing that button you will get a direct link in 1 click. This link can be easily
grabbed by your download manager software or web browser.

Install SaveFrom.net helper and start enjoying
all the benefits right away!

INSTALL for  Mozilla Firefox

For other browsers»

• Windows (XP and later): download the web installer
• Google Chrome: version 35 and later (for older versions: helper_last.crx)
• Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Mobile (version 24.0 and later): install the extension
• User JS: install the script (Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey extension required)
• Yandex.Browser: install the extension
• Opera 11 – 12: install the extension
• Opera Next: install the extension
• Safari: install the extension
• Chromium: install the extension

8 Great Free Audio Plug-ins to Improve your Sound

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July 24, 2014

By Michele Yamazaki, Toolfarm

If you’re an audio professional, or just a dabbler, here are some freeware plug-ins to help you create some excellent effects, fix problems and create the sound you want.

Here are some tested quality free plug-ins that are worth downloading for Avid Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Apple Logic Pro and other host applications. Some may work in your video applications like Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas or Avid Media Composer if they are compatible with the format. For more information, take a look at In Depth: Audio Plug-ins and Formats for Video Professionals.

1. QuikQuak UpStereo

Description: A stereo enhancer that makes mixes bigger, allowing you to go from mono to wide, to help bring the stereo image out and toward the listener.

Compatibility: VST and RTAS compatible

Download: UpStereo

 

2. iZotope Vinyl

Description: Enhance your sound with the ultimate authentic lo-fi vinyl scratches, mechanical noise, warp, wear, dust and grit.

Compatibility: RTAS, VST, AU, D

Download: iZotope Vinyl

More from iZotope

Bonus Freebie: Through the end of July, download Food from the iZotope Iris Sound Library for free, if you buy or own Iris.

3. Avid Bomb Factory Studio Essentials for Pro Tools

Description: Bomb Factory BF76, BF Essentials Clip Remover, BF Essentials Correlation Meter, BF Essentials Meter Bridge, BF Essentials Noise Meter, BF Essentials Tuner and Funk Logic Mastererizer. You need an Avid account to download the tools.

Compatibility: A mix of RTAS, TDM, AU. Click the download link for specifics for each plug-in.

Download: Avid Bomb Factory Plug-ins

More audio tools from Avid

4. de la Mancha free plug-ins

Description: GTO and GTX are vintage “character compressors”.  QB3 is a 3-band EQ plug-in that gives a vintage-flavor. Clipstar is a soft clipper. Scylla is multi-layered synthesizer and includes oscillators and a sample player. They have several others on the site too, but these are the newest. Download and if you like them, consider making a donation to Cancer Research UK on their site.

Compatibility: VST

Download: de la Mancha freebies

 

5. Sinevibes Atom

Description: This multi-mode modulator filter has five different resonant types.

Compatibility: AU

Hosts: Logic, GarageBand, Live, ReNoise, Reaper, Studio One, Digital Performer and other software that supports Audio Unit effect plugins.

Download: Sinevibes Atom

 

6. vladg/sound Limiter No. 6

Description: Mastering modular limiter with 5 modules: RMS compressor, peak limiter, high-frequency limiter, clipper, true peak limiter.

Compatibility: VST Mac and Windows, AU

Download: Vladg/sound Limiter No. 6

7. Togu Audio Line TAL-NoiseMaker

Description: Fancy analog-modeling synth with 128 presets. 3 oscillators, lots more.

Compatibility: VST Mac and Windows, AU

Download: TAL-NoiseMaker

8. Blue Cat’s Chorus

Description: Modulation plug-in with gain, flanger, phaser, etc. Simple but super useful. Comes with presets.

Compatibility: VST Mac and Windows, AU, RTAS, AAX, DirectX

Download: BlueCat Freeware Bonus: lots of other Blue Cat’s plug-ins are available for free at this link!

How to FULLY Uninstall Creative Cloud or Creative Suite Trial Applications

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June 26, 2014

by Adobe

Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6

So– last month I had to download and install the trial version of Premiere and After Effects CC since thats what the client was using and they were handing their project off to me for completion.  I downloaded the uncompleted project and finished it with no problems.  Now, my trial is complete, yet that pesky reminder “Do you want to buy this Adobe Product” keeps popping up, AND the default is now for the Cloud version of my Adobe products to open rather than my tried and true CS version.  (Yes– I know there’s an easy fix).  On top of that– there’s the scattered harddrive space being taken up by the software, even if touching the cloud…

The Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Cleaner Tool helps resolve installation problems for Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Creative Suite (CS3-CS6) applications. The tool removes installation records for prerelease installations of Creative Cloud or Creative Suite applications. It does not affect existing installations of previous versions of Creative Cloud or Creative Suite applications.

Enterprise customer? See Run the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool in silent mode (Enterprise customers).

Mac OS

• In the Finder, navigate to Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers.

  

• Double-click the CC or CS product’s uninstaller.

• Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the uninstallation.

• Restart your computer.

   

  Windows

• Do one of the following:

  • Windows Vista/7: Choose Start > Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features.
  • Windows XP: Choose Start > Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs.

• Select the CC or CS product that you want to remove, and click Remove or Uninstall.

  

• Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the uninstallation.

• Restart your computer.

   

5 real-life problems OS X Yosemite solves, and Windows 8.1 screws up

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June 11, 2014

by Konrad Krawczyk

(Thanks to Guido Cassetta for posting!)

Image: Rego Korosi/Flickr

When Apple’s WWDC 2014 developer conference kicked off the first week of June, the world got its first look at OS X Yosemite. As Apple execs took to the stage and rattled off the operating system’s new features and tools, it became increasingly clear how wholeheartedly it was embracing desktop computer users, instead of pushing them to the side as Microsoft has done since Windows 8′s release in Fall 2012.

Though Microsoft has attempted to repair its relationship with desktop PC users by adding a pseudo-Start menu and a dedicated power button (among other tweaks) to the tiled Modern UI in post-release updates, many remain unimpressed, according to usage statistics. According to Net Marketshare, Windows 8 and 8.1 adoption stands at roughly 12.5 percent as of last month, which is about half of Windows XP’s share (25.27 percent) and a quarter of Windows 7′s (50.06 percent). PC owners have said it loud and clear: They just don’t like Windows 8.

Instead of pushing desktop lovers away, Apple has mode moves to make life easier for those who reside in the world of traditional computing, and their mobile compatriots.

5. Leaving your phone in another room is no longer a nuisance

Who among us hasn’t made the mistake of leaving our phones on the other side of our homes when venturing to our computer desks? I often emit a groan of annoyance, because when I’m using my PC at home, I’m usually gaming. And when you’re playing online, you can’t just hit “Pause” and run to grab the phone. You have to wait until the match is over, or risk the wrath of other gaming geeks should your momentary absence result in a catastrophic defeat.

OS X Yosemite will allow you to both pick up and make phone calls from your Mac computer. So if you’re tethered to your Mac for whatever reason and need to stay put, you won’t have to deal with that helpless feeling of “Getting to Level 30 … too important, must …  not get up to find phone!” You’ll be able to make phone calls from your Mac as well. Getting up is optional.

Forget baseball – the true great national pastime is laziness. OS X Yosemite realizes this.

4. With Spotlight, searching makes more sense

Some people are really good at keeping the stuff they have on their computers neat and organized. Not me. I’ve got photos in my documents folder, documents in my photos folder, and, well you get the point.

That’s why, when using Windows 8.1, I often find myself using the Search Charm to find things. Though its placement in the Modern UI (yes, I’m aware you can access it via the desktop, that’s not the point) makes using it a bit of a head-spinning experience, that doesn’t stop me from using Search. Still, I’ve often wished that Microsoft would seamlessly bake the Search Charm into the traditional desktop environment, instead of forcing you to interact with the mobile-esque side of the OS.

Apple’s new version of Spotlight is a breath of fresh air. Unlike the Search Charm, which pops out from the right side of the Windows 8 screen like a pedestrian trying to flag down a cab, Yosemite places Spotlight front and center, smack dab in the middle of your desktop. You can’t miss it, and it’s a big part of the overall Yosemite experience.

Then there are the content previews that Spotlight presents to you in search results. If you search for an app, you’ll get a description, a review rating, and a “More” link that will take you to the app’s full page. Looking for directions? You’ll get a Map preview, and buttons for directions to and from home. Movie showtimes? Check. Wikipedia integration with a preview snippet and a link to the full page? Spotlight has it. The Windows 8 Search Charm does suggest search results, but doesn’t have built-in previews like Spotlight.

There’s no reason why Microsoft couldn’t have done something similar, instead of pushing the Search Charm off to the side and clouding it in an overly mobile interface. That just doesn’t speak to desktop users.

3. With Yosemite, switching devices to finish tasks is simpler

PC users are often at their desks. When moving from your Mac to an iOS device (or vice versa), you’ll be able to pick up whatever task you were doing right where you left off when you switch to your other gear. Writing an email on your Mac but you want to move to the couch with your iPad? You’ll get a message on your iPad that tells you about your unfinished note, and lets you finish it. Windows has no such feature.

2. 5GB email attachments? Yes please!

Sharing large files with people has gotten a lot easier with the advent of cloud services like Dropbox and OneDrive (which used to be SkyDrive), but even email giants like Outlook and Gmail only allow attachment sizes of 25MB. Megabytes? Come on, that was fine during the age when the term mega was still relevant in computing, but we do almost everything by giga and tera these days. Unfortunately, the world of email attachments is still largely bound by megabytes.

Thankfully, with the new version of Mail in OS X Yosemite, you’ll be able to send attachments up to 5GB of size. Being able to send up to 5GB worth of attachments without having to log into another service streamlines the desktop experience in Yosemite.

1. It’s still free!

Not that we were expecting Apple to hike the price of OS X Yosemite after making OS X Mavericks free in October 2013, but it’s still worth noting that Windows’ biggest competitor is free. Meanwhile, a copy of Windows 8 costs roughly $100 on Newegg. Even Windows 7, despite the fact that it’s approaching five years of age, is the same price. That’s unacceptable, and this is coming from a guy who uses Windows 7 at home, and has been using Windows since Windows for Workgroups 3.11. That’s for all of you getting ready to cry “Apple fanboy!”

The fact is this. I’m not a Microsoft apologist or an Apple acolyte. I’m simply a consumer that likes good products, whether they’re made by Microsoft, Apple, Acme, or Stratton Oakmont, just like you. In the case of OS X Yosemite, instead of trying to shove a mobile-ish OS down our throats as Microsoft did with Windows 8, Apple is aiming to make life easier for us desktop folk.

As someone who’s about to head home to a Windows 7 PC, how can I not like that?

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mac-os-x-yosemite-solves-problems-that-really-exist-unlike-windows-8/#ixzz34BmRH1wb

 

50 things you didn’t know you could do with Google…

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May 22, 2014

by Google

Did you see this posted yesterday when you used Google?  I guess I knew a lot of these, but it’s nice to have them all in one place.

Click here to see 50 things you didn’t know you could do with Google.

1. All
2. On the go
3. At home
4. At the office

 

 

iWork for iCloud gains collaboration with up to 100 people, support for docs up to 1GB

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May 21, 2014

By AppleInsider Staff

Apple on Tuesday improved the browser-based versions of its Pages, Numbers and Keynote applications, also known as iWork for iCloud, with support for larger files and more collaborating users.

Those who log onto iCloud.com and access any of the three applications will be greeted with a new splash page announcing the changes. For all three applications, the updates include the ability to:

• Edit docs up to 1 gigabyte in size
• Collaborate with up to 100 people
• Create two-dimensional and interactive charts
• Utilize more color options
• Insert images up to 10 megabytes in size
• Chart formatting

In addition, Pages specifically has gained the ability to export files to the ePub format, object layering, and to insert and edit inline tables.

For Numbers, users can now have alternating row colors in tables, and files can be exported to the .CSV format. Finally, Keynote has the ability to show and hide slide numbers.

Apple has issued continuous improvements for its iWork for iCloud suite since the software debuted last year. The free service allows users to create and edit documents, then save, sync and share them directly from their browser on Macs, Windows PCs, and iOS devices.

 

Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 1 in 5 Macs vulnerable to attacks

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March 4, 2014

by Gregg Keizer, ComputerWorld

Apple last week made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system.

As Apple issued an update for Mavericks, or OS X 10.9, as well as for its two predecessors, Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7), Apple had nothing for Snow Leopard or its owners yesterday.

Apple provided Snow Leopard security updates for slightly more than four years, just four months shy of the record set by Tiger (OS X 10.4), which received its final fixes in September 2009.

Snow Leopard was also ignored in December, when Apple patched Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, but did not update Safari 5.1.10, the most-current Apple browser for the OS.

Apple delivered the final security update for Snow Leopard in September 2013.

Traditionally, Apple has patched only the OS X editions designated as “n” and “n-1″ — where “n” is the newest — and discarded support for “n-2″ either before the launch of “n” or immediately after. Under that plan, Snow Leopard was “n-2″ when Mountain Lion shipped in mid-2012, and by rights should have been retired around then.

But it wasn’t. Instead, Apple continued to ship security updates for Snow Leopard, and with Tuesday’s patches of Mountain Lion and Lion Tuesday, it now seems plain that Apple has shifted to supporting “n-2″ as well as “n” and “n-1.”

(In that scenario, Mavericks is now “n,” Mountain Lion is “n-1″ and Lion is “n-2.”)

The change was probably due to Apple’s accelerated development and release schedule for OS X, which now promises annual upgrades. The shorter span between editions meant that unless Apple extended its support lifecycle, Lion would have fallen off the list about two years after its July 2011 launch.

None of this would be noteworthy if Apple, like Microsoft and a host of other major software vendors, clearly spelled out its support policies. But Apple doesn’t, leaving users to guess about when their operating systems will fall off support.

“Let’s face it, Apple doesn’t go out of their way to ensure users are aware when products are going end of life,” said Andrew Storms, director of DevOps at security company CloudPassage, in a December interview.

To Apple, Snow Leopard increasingly looks like Windows XP does to Microsoft: an operating system that refuses to roll over and die. At the end of January, 19% of all Macs were running Snow Leopard, slightly more, in fact, than ran its successor, Lion, which accounted for 16%, and almost as much as Mountain Lion, whose user share plummeted once Mavericks arrived, according to Web analytic firm Net Applications.

With Snow Leopard’s retirement, 1 in 5 Macs are running an operating system that could be compromised because of unpatched vulnerabilities.

Snow Leopard users have given many reasons for hanging on, including some identical to those expressed by Windows XP customers: The OS still works fine for them; their Macs, while old, show no sign of quitting; and they dislike the path that Apple’s taken with OS X’s user interface (UI).

Also in play is the fact that Snow Leopard was the last version of OS X able to run applications designed for the PowerPC processor, the Apple/IBM/Motorola-crafted CPU used by Apple before it switched to Intel in 2006. Snow Leopard, while requiring a Mac with an Intel processor, was the latest edition able to run the Rosetta translation utility, and thus launch PowerPC software.

Additionally, Snow Leopard was the final version able to run on Macs equipped with 32-bit Intel processors, making it impossible for owners of some older machines to upgrade beyond OS X 10.6.

The one comfort in Tuesday’s updates was that it looked like Apple will continue to support Lion and Mountain Lion a while longer, even though it has offered those users a free upgrade to Mavericks. Yesterday’s security updates patched 21 vulnerabilities in Lion, 26 in Mountain Lion.

In December, Storms bet that Lion and Mountain Lion had been retired when Apple did not issue security updates for those two editions, even as it fixed a handful of flaws in Mavericks. But he gave himself an out at the time, noting that Apple’s silence — it has long declined to comment on almost any question related to security — on those editions may be temporary.

For parts of Apple’s customer base, the free-OS X strategy seems to be working: By Net Applications’ tally, Mavericks accounted for 42% of all versions of OS X used in January. Mavericks’ continued gains, however, have come mostly at the expense of Mountain Lion — which lost 6 percentage points in the last two months — and Lion, which dropped by 2 points in the same period. Yet Snow Leopard has been largely unaffected. Since October, when Mavericks appeared, OS X 10.6 has dropped less each month than either its 6- or 12-month average.

Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg’s RSS feed . His email address is gkeizer@computerworld.com..

Fix OS X Error “Application Can’t Be Opened Because It Is from an Unidentified Developer”

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February 13, 2014

by Filip Truta, Softpedia

Since the introduction of the Mac App Store, Apple has been very cautious as to what types of applications are allowed to go on a Mac. At the end of the day, it’s still the user’s call, but OS X includes default settings that prevent the installation of certain types of apps. Here’s how to fix all that.
The Mac is, by all means, one of the most secure computing platforms out there. This, in part, has to do with Apple’s efforts of keeping rogue apps off your system by forcing developers to sign their binaries so that OS X recognizes them as safe.

But some developers – who create a small utility and then pick up a different hobby, like sky diving – aren’t so inclined to purchase a certificate to make sure their app is always recognized by Apple as secure.

One such example is Phil Harvey’s ExifTool, a freeware utility for Mac users looking to read and write meta information in image files.

It’s a heck of an app, but it’s unsigned, and if you have the OS X default settings on, you’ll get the error “ExifTool can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer,” as shown in the screenshot below.
Well, as it turns out, there’s a very easy workaround to this problem.

Step 1

Launch System Preferences and locate the “Security and Privacy Module,” as highlighted below.

Step 2

Once inside the Security module, make sure you have the General tab selected. Here, look down to the bottom left-hand side and click that Lock icon to identify yourself as the administrator of the computer.


Step 3

Once you’ve entered your administrator’s password, locate the area where it says “Allows apps downloaded from:” followed by three options: Mac App Store, Mac App Store and Identified developers, and Anywhere. To solve your problem, simply tick the box in front of Anywhere.


Apple will warn you that “choosing ‘Anywhere’ makes your Mac less secure,” which is very true, but if you’re sure that the app you’re trying to install doesn’t contain malware, go ahead and click “Allow Anywhere.”

You should now be able to install any application without problems.

As Softpedia fans already know, downloading apps from our Mac software section will keep you safe, since we test each application before it is listed.

As an alternate solution, instead of selecting Anywhere as your default option, you can install individual applications in the future by control-clicking the installer and selecting Open.

This means you can leave the default setting on in your Security panel (Mac App Store), but still be able to make exceptions in the future for certain apps that you know are secure.

Now, a word of advice. Use the steps outlined in this guide only when you are absolutely sure you’re not installing a fishy app. If you have any reason to believe the app isn’t safe, it’s best to follow Apple’s advice and leave your default settings untouched.